Bill Text: TX HB657 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to honorary license plates for certain disabled veterans.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-07 - Left pending in committee [HB657 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB657-Introduced.html
| 82R4021 VOO-D | ||
| By: Lewis | H.B. No. 657 | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to honorary license plates for certain disabled veterans. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 504.202, Transportation | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 504.202. VETERANS WITH CERTAIN DISABILITIES. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 504, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 504.2021 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 504.2021. HONORARY LICENSE PLATES FOR VETERANS WITH | ||
| DISABILITIES. (a) The department shall issue specialty license | ||
| plates for a veteran of the United States Armed Forces who has | ||
| suffered, as a result of military service, a service-connected | ||
| disability that does not meet the requirements of Section | ||
| 504.202(b)(1). | ||
| (b) License plates issued under this section must include | ||
| the words "Disabled Veteran" and "U.S. Armed Forces" and must be | ||
| clearly distinguishable from license plates issued under Section | ||
| 504.202. | ||
| (c) A person entitled to specialty license plates under this | ||
| section may register, for the person's own use, one vehicle without | ||
| payment of any fee other than the fee for the license plates under | ||
| Subsection (d). Registration under this section is valid for one | ||
| year. | ||
| (d) The fee for the first set of license plates is $3. There | ||
| is no fee for each additional set of license plates. If a license | ||
| plate is lost, stolen, or mutilated, on payment of a $1 fee the | ||
| department shall issue a set of replacement plates. | ||
| (e) Eligibility to receive a license plate under this | ||
| section does not qualify a person to receive a disabled parking | ||
| placard under Section 681.004 unless the person otherwise qualifies | ||
| for a placard under that section. | ||
| (f) A person entitled to license plates under this section | ||
| may elect to receive license plates issued under Chapter 502 under | ||
| the same conditions for the issuance of license plates under this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
