DIGEST
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CONFERENCE COMMI TTEE REPORT DIGEST
House Bill No. 1237 by Representative Woodruff
Keyword and oneliner of the instrument as it left the House
MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates a prestige license plate for Saint Katharine Drexel
Preparatory School
Report rejects Senate amendments which would have:
1. Made technical corrections and changed the minimum amount of applicants required
from 100 to 1,000.
Report amends the bill to:
1. Amend and reenact R.S. 47:463.73, which provides for special prestige license plates for
Louisiana high schools and adds Saint Katharine Drexel Preparatory School and the
Academy of the Sacred Heart to that statute.
Digest of the bill as proposed by the Conference Committee
Present laws provides that the secretary of the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections shall
establish a special prestige license plate for Louisiana public and private high schools which have
a minimum of one hundred applicants for such plate.
Proposed law adds parochial high schools to present law.
Present law provides that a royalty fee of twenty-five dollars for the use of the institution's design
by the department shall be paid to the institution for each license plate issued as provided in this
Section. At the option of any Louisiana public or private high school, this royalty fee shall be
collected annually by the department.
Proposed law adds parochial high schools to present law.
Present law provides that the secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall
establish special prestige license plates for Archbishop Hannan High School and Jesuit High School. Proposed law adds the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Saint Katharine Drexel Preparatory
High School and any other parochial, public or private Louisiana high school to the list of high
schools for which a prestige license plate shall be established.
(Amends and reenacts R.S. 47:463.73(A), (C)(2), and (G))