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               AN ACT
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            relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to honor  | 
         
         
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            recipients of the Presidential Service Badge. | 
         
         
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                   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 1.  Section 504.202(e-1), Transportation Code, is  | 
         
         
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            amended to read as follows: | 
         
         
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                   (e-1)  Other than license plates issued under Subsection  | 
         
         
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            (h), license plates issued under this section may include, on  | 
         
         
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            request: | 
         
         
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                         (1)  the emblem of the veteran's branch of service; or | 
         
         
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                         (2)  one emblem from another license plate to which the  | 
         
         
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            person is entitled under Section 504.308, 504.309, 504.310(b),  | 
         
         
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            504.311, 504.312, 504.313, 504.3135, 504.314, 504.315, 504.316,  | 
         
         
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            504.3161, 504.318, 504.319, 504.320, 504.323, [as added by Chapter  | 
         
         
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            1085 (H.B. 3567), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session,  | 
         
         
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            2017, or] 504.325, or 504.327. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 2.  Subchapter D, Chapter 504, Transportation Code,  | 
         
         
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            is amended by adding Section 504.327 to read as follows: | 
         
         
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                   Sec. 504.327.  PRESIDENTIAL SERVICE BADGE.  The department  | 
         
         
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            shall issue specialty license plates for persons awarded the  | 
         
         
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            Presidential Service Badge.  The license plates must include: | 
         
         
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                         (1)  the words "Presidential Service Badge"; and | 
         
         
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                         (2)  a depiction of the Presidential Service Badge. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | 
         
         
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               President of the Senate | 
            Speaker of the House      | 
         
         
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                   I certify that H.B. No. 1081 was passed by the House on April  | 
         
         
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            9, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not  | 
         
         
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            voting. | 
         
         
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            Chief Clerk of the House    | 
         
         
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                   I certify that H.B. No. 1081 was passed by the Senate on April  | 
         
         
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            29, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
         
         
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            Secretary of the Senate     | 
         
         
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                             Governor        |