| |
| |
| |
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the design and issuance of license plates for United |
|
|
States paratroopers. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 504.307, Transportation Code, is amended |
|
|
to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 504.307. UNITED STATES PARATROOPERS [AIRBORNE
|
|
|
PARACHUTISTS]. (a) The department shall issue specialty license |
|
|
plates for [persons] active and former members of the United States |
|
|
armed services who have: |
|
|
(1) satisfactorily completed the prescribed |
|
|
proficiency tests while assigned or attached to an airborne unit or |
|
|
the Airborne Department of the United States Army Infantry School; |
|
|
or |
|
|
(2) participated in at least one combat parachute |
|
|
jump. |
|
|
(b) The license plates must include: |
|
|
(1) a likeness of the parachutist badge authorized by |
|
|
the Department of the Army; and |
|
|
(2) the words "U.S. Paratrooper." |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
______________________________ |
______________________________ |
| |
President of the Senate |
Speaker of the House |
| |
|
|
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 461 passed the Senate on |
|
|
March 22, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. |
|
|
|
| |
| |
______________________________ |
| |
Secretary of the Senate |
| |
|
|
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 461 passed the House on |
|
|
May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, one |
|
|
present not voting. |
|
|
|
| |
| |
______________________________ |
| |
Chief Clerk of the House |
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Approved: |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Date |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Governor |