By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2141
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2025; March 24, 2025, read
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
April 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 14, 2025,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2141 By: Hinojosa of Hidalgo
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to state and
federal judges.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 504.403, Transportation Code, as amended
by Chapter 1296 (H.B. 2357), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular
Session, 2011, and repealed by Chapter 1290 (H.B. 2017), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, is reenacted and amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 504.403. STATE AND FEDERAL JUDGES. (a) The department
shall issue specialty license plates for a current or visiting
state or federal judge. Except as provided by Subsection (b), the
[The] license plates must include the words "State Judge" or "U.S.
Judge," as appropriate.
(b) A person entitled to license plates under this section
may elect to receive license plates that do not include the words
"State Judge" or "U.S. Judge."
(c) [(d)] In this section, "state[:
[(2) "State] judge" means:
(1) [(A)] a justice of the supreme court;
(2) [(B)] a judge of the court of criminal appeals;
(3) [(C)] a judge of a court of appeals of this state;
(4) [(D)] a district court judge;
(5) [(E)] a presiding judge of an administrative
judicial district; or
(6) [(F)] a statutory county court judge.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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