Bill Text: TX HB559 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to Bronze Star Medal and Bronze Star Medal with Valor specialty license plates.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB559 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB559-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 559 | ||
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| relating to Bronze Star Medal and Bronze Star 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) to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The department shall issue specialty license plates for | ||
| recipients of the Bronze Star Medal and Bronze Star Medal with | ||
| Valor. License plates issued under this subsection must include | ||
| the Bronze Star Medal emblem and must include the words "Bronze Star | ||
| Medal" at the bottom of each plate. License plates issued under | ||
| this subsection to recipients of the Bronze Star 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, as | ||
| amended by Chapters 115 (H.B. 2020) and 319 (H.B. 618), Acts of the | ||
| 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted and amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) A vehicle on which license plates described by | ||
| Subsection (a)(2) or issued under Section 504.202, Section | ||
| 504.315(a), (c) [ |
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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), Section 504.315(a), (c) [ |
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| (e), (f), or (g), or Section 504.316; | ||
| (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, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 559 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 559 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
