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        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to honor | 
      
        |  | recipients of the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and the | 
      
        |  | Meritorious Service Medal. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Section 504.315, Transportation Code, is amended | 
      
        |  | by adding Subsections (j) and (k) to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (j)  The department shall issue specialty license plates for | 
      
        |  | recipients of the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.  License | 
      
        |  | plates issued under this subsection must include the Defense | 
      
        |  | Meritorious Service Medal emblem and must include the words | 
      
        |  | "Defense Meritorious Service Medal" at the bottom of each plate. | 
      
        |  | (k)  The department shall issue specialty license plates for | 
      
        |  | recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal.  License plates issued | 
      
        |  | under this subsection must include the Meritorious Service Medal | 
      
        |  | emblem and must include the words "Meritorious Service Medal" at | 
      
        |  | the bottom of each plate. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2016. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 1364 was passed by the House on May | 
      
        |  | 12, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not | 
      
        |  | voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | 
      
        |  | No. 1364 on May 27, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 0, | 
      
        |  | 2 present, not voting. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Chief Clerk of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 1364 was passed by the Senate, with | 
      
        |  | amendments, on May 25, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays | 
      
        |  | 0. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Secretary of the Senate | 
      
        |  | APPROVED: __________________ | 
      
        |  | Date | 
      
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        |  | __________________ | 
      
        |  | Governor |