| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2025; March 24, 2025, read |
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| 3 | | - | first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; |
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| 4 | | - | April 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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| 5 | | - | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 14, 2025, |
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| 6 | | - | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 8 | | - | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2141 By: Hinojosa of Hidalgo |
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| 18 | | - | SECTION 1. Section 504.403, Transportation Code, as amended |
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| 19 | | - | by Chapter 1296 (H.B. 2357), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular |
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| 20 | | - | Session, 2011, and repealed by Chapter 1290 (H.B. 2017), Acts of the |
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| 21 | | - | 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, is reenacted and amended |
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| 22 | | - | to read as follows: |
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| 23 | | - | Sec. 504.403. STATE AND FEDERAL JUDGES. (a) The department |
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| 24 | | - | shall issue specialty license plates for a current or visiting |
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| 25 | | - | state or federal judge. Except as provided by Subsection (b), the |
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| 26 | | - | [The] license plates must include the words "State Judge" or "U.S. |
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| 27 | | - | Judge," as appropriate. |
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| 28 | | - | (b) A person entitled to license plates under this section |
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| 29 | | - | may elect to receive license plates that do not include the words |
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| 30 | | - | "State Judge" or "U.S. Judge." |
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| 31 | | - | (c) [(d)] In this section, "state[: |
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| 32 | | - | [(2) "State] judge" means: |
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| 33 | | - | (1) [(A)] a justice of the supreme court; |
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| 34 | | - | (2) [(B)] a judge of the court of criminal appeals; |
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| 35 | | - | (3) [(C)] a judge of a court of appeals of this state; |
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| 36 | | - | (4) [(D)] a district court judge; |
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| 37 | | - | (5) [(E)] a presiding judge of an administrative |
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| 38 | | - | judicial district; or |
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| 39 | | - | (6) [(F)] a statutory county court judge. |
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| 11 | + | SECTION 1. Section 504.403(a), Transportation Code, is |
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| 12 | + | amended to read as follows: |
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| 13 | + | (a) The department shall issue specialty license plates for |
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| 14 | + | a current or visiting state of federal judge. The license plates |
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| 15 | + | may [must] include the words "State Judge" or "U.S. Judge," as |
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| 16 | + | appropriate. |
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