By: Estes S.B. No. 896
(In the Senate - Filed February 23, 2011; March 1, 2011,
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and
Homeland Security; April 12, 2011, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 12, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to certain
family members of a person who dies while serving in the United
States armed forces.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 504.408, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 504.408. GOLD STAR MOTHER, FATHER, SPOUSE, OR FAMILY
MEMBER.
SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 504.408, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall issue a specialty license plate for
the mother, father, or surviving spouse[,] or an immediate family
member of a person who died while serving in the United States armed
forces. License plates issued under this section must include the
words "Gold Star Mother," "Gold Star Father," "Gold Star Spouse,"
or "Gold Star Family" and a gold star. A person may not be issued
more than one set of the license plates at a time.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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