2021 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 78
BY SENATORS BOUIE, ABRAHAM, BARROW, BERNARD, BOUDREAUX,
CARTER, CATHEY, CONNICK, CORTEZ, FESI, FIELDS, HARRIS,
HENRY, HENSGENS, HEWITT, JACKSON, LAMBERT, LUNEAU,
MCMATH, MILLIGAN, ROBERT MILLS, MORRIS, PEACOCK,
POPE, PRICE, REESE, SMITH AND WARD AND
REPRESENTATIVES BRASS, ROBBY CARTER, WILFORD
CARTER, COX, DUPLESSIS, FREEMAN, FREIBERG, GADBERRY,
GREEN, HORTON, HUGHES, LYONS, MARCELLE, DUSTIN
MILLER, MOORE, NEWELL, ROBERT OWEN, PIERRE, RISER,
SCHAMERHORN, SELDERS, THOMPSON, WILLARD AND
WRIGHT
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 47:490.3(A) and (D), relative to military honor license plates;
3 to provide for eligibility for members who have been honorably discharged from the
4 Louisiana National Guard; to provide relative to renewal of military honor plates;
5 and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 47:490.3(A) and (D) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as
8 follows:
9 ยง490.3. Military honor license plates for members of the Louisiana National Guard
10 A. The secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall
11 establish military honor license plates for passenger cars, pickup trucks, vans,
12 motorcycles, recreational vehicles, and motor homes that may be issued to any active
13 member of the Louisiana National Guard or any member who has been honorably
14 discharged from the Louisiana National Guard upon such member's application.
15 The license plate shall bear either the official emblem of the guard or the letters
16 "LANG" followed by such numbers as the secretary finds expedient, and he shall
17 establish such rules and regulations as are necessary.
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1 D. The adjutant general is authorized to recognize not more than one hundred
2 personal staff members, battalion commanders, directors of various facilities, full
3 colonels and above, and others by designating the issue of military honor license
4 plates numbered "1" through "100". The adjutant general is responsible for
5 furnishing the secretary necessary information to effect issue of the plates. The
6 secretary shall issue replacement plates for those military honor license plates so
7 surrendered. Upon termination of status as a member of the Louisiana National
8 Guard, a member with less than twenty years of service shall surrender the military
9 honor plates provided for herein to the secretary. A Any current or former member
10 with twenty years or more of service in good standing shall continue to have the
11 option to renew his military honor plates annually.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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