Bill Text: TX HB2485 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to Air Medal and Air Medal with Valor specialty license plates.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2485 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2485-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2485 | ||
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| relating to Air Medal and Air Medal with Valor specialty license | ||
| plates. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 504.315, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) The department shall issue specialty license plates | ||
| for recipients of the Air Medal and Air Medal with Valor. License | ||
| plates issued under this subsection must include the Air Medal | ||
| emblem and must include the words "Air Medal" at the bottom of each | ||
| plate. License plates issued under this subsection to recipients | ||
| of the Air Medal with Valor that are not personalized must also | ||
| include the letter "V" as a prefix or suffix to the numerals on each | ||
| plate. Section 504.702 does not apply to license plates authorized | ||
| by this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 681.008(b), Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) A vehicle on which license plates described by | ||
| Subsection (a)(2) or issued under Section 504.202, 504.315, or | ||
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| 504.316 are displayed is exempt from the payment of a parking fee | ||
| collected through a parking meter charged by a governmental | ||
| authority other than a branch of the federal government, when being | ||
| operated by or for the transportation of: | ||
| (1) the person who registered the vehicle under | ||
| Section 504.202(a), 504.315, or [ |
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| (2) a person described in Section 504.202(b) if the | ||
| vehicle is registered under that subsection; or | ||
| (3) the owner or operator of a vehicle displaying | ||
| license plates described by Subsection (a)(2). | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2485 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2485 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
