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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 1139
BY REPRESENTATIVE BURRELL
MTR VEHICLE/OFFICE: Provides for a reduced convenience fee for mobility impaired
persons at public license tag agents
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 47:532.1(C), relative to public license tax agents; to provide a2
reduced convenience fee for mobility impaired persons at public license tag agents;3
to provide for the definition of mobility impaired; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 47:532.1(C) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:6
ยง532.1. Public license tag agents; auto title companies; rules and regulations; surety7
bonds; fees8
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C.(1) Public license tag agents shall be authorized to collect a convenience10
fee in addition to the registration license tax. The convenience fee shall not exceed11
eighteen dollars per license. However, the public license tag agents shall collect and12
retain the full amount of the convenience fee. The seller is authorized to charge the13
convenience fee authorized by this Subsection in connection with any retail sale, in14
addition to the fees authorized in Chapter 10-B of Title 6 of the Louisiana Revised15
Statutes of 1950.16
(2) The convenience fee for those persons who are mobility impaired shall17
not exceed nine dollars per license. For purposes of this Section, the term "mobility18
impaired person" includes any person who is impaired because of any of the19
following conditions:20 HLS 14RS-2164 ORIGINAL
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(a) Unable to walk two hundred feet without stopping to rest.1
(b) Unable to walk without the assistance of another person, walker, cane,2
crutches, braces, prosthetic device, or wheelchair, including individuals who are3
blind or have such a visual impairment that the assistance of another person is4
necessary to walk.5
(c) Restricted by a lung disease to such an extent that the person's forced6
expiratory volume for one second is less than one liter, or the arterial oxygen tension7
is less than sixty mm/hg on room air at rest.8
(d) Uses portable oxygen.9
(e) A cardiac condition to the extent that the person's functional limitations10
are classified in severity as Class III or Class IV according to standards set by the11
American Heart Association.12
(f) A diagnosed disease or disorder, including a severe arthritic, neurological,13
or orthopedic impairment, which creates a severe mobility limitation.14
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Burrell HB No. 1139
Abstract: Provides for a reduced convenience fee for mobility impaired persons at public
license tag agents.
Proposed law provides that the convenience fee charged by public license tag agents shall
not exceed $9 for those persons who are mobility impaired.
Proposed law defines "mobility impaired person" as a person impaired by any of the
following conditions:
(1)Unable to walk 200 feet without stopping to rest.
(2)Unable to walk without the assistance of another person, walker, cane, crutches,
braces, prosthetic device, or wheelchair, including individuals who are blind or so
visually impaired that the assistance of another person is necessary to walk.
(3)Restricted by a lung disease to such an extent that the person's forced expiratory
volume for one second is less than one liter, or the arterial oxygen tension is less than
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(4)Uses portable oxygen.
(5)A cardiac condition to the extent that the person's functional limitations are classified
in severity as Class III or Class IV according to standards set by the American Heart
Association.
(6)A diagnosed disease or disorder, including a severe arthritic, neurological, or
orthopedic impairment, which creates a severe mobility limitation.
(Amends R.S. 47:532.1(C))