Amendment H-8125 to HF 2639
Relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates
Withdrawn · March 6, 2024
Filed March 5, 2024 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment adds a provision that allows the Department of Transportation to issue special rainbow license plates. The money collected from these plates would be used to fund grants for the Iowa civil rights commission to provide education and training regarding discriminatory practices.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 2, after line 20 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 321.34, Code 2024, is amended by adding the following new subsection: NEW SUBSECTION . 11F. Rainbow plates. a. Upon application and payment of the proper fees, the director may issue rainbow plates to the owner of a motor vehicle subject to registration under section 321.109, subsection 1, autocycle, motor truck, motor home, multipurpose vehicle, motorcycle, trailer, or travel trailer. b. Rainbow plates shall be designed by the department. The background shall be white and feature a rainbow. The plate’s numbers and letters shall be black. c. The special rainbow fee for letter-number designated rainbow plates is thirty-five dollars. An applicant may obtain personalized rainbow plates upon payment of the fee for personalized plates as provided in subsection 5, which is in addition to the special rainbow fee. d. The fees collected by the director under this subsection shall be paid monthly to the treasurer of state and deposited in the road use tax fund. The treasurer of state shall transfer monthly from the statutory allocations fund created under section 321.145, subsection 2, to the general fund of the state the amount of the special fees collected in the previous month for rainbow plates. Such moneys are appropriated to the Iowa civil rights commission to distribute in the form of grants to provide education and training regarding unfair or discriminatory practices and ways to deter such practices. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated under this subsection shall not revert to the general fund of the state. e. Upon receipt of the special registration plates, the applicant shall surrender the current registration plates to the county treasurer. The county treasurer shall validate the special registration plates in the same manner as regular registration plates are validated under this section. The annual special rainbow plate fee for letter-number designated plates is ten dollars which shall be paid in addition to the regular annual registration fee. The annual fee for personalized rainbow plates is five dollars which shall be paid in addition to the annual special rainbow fee and the regular annual registration fee. The annual special rainbow fee shall be credited as provided under paragraph “d” . f. The department shall not condition the issuance of rainbow plates on the receipt of any number of orders for rainbow plates.”
- Page 3, line 3, by striking “and Gadsden flag” and inserting “Gadsden flag, and rainbow”
- Page 3, line 10, by striking “and Gadsden flag” and inserting “Gadsden flag, and rainbow”
- Title page, lines 2 and 3, by striking “special registration plates” and inserting “and rainbow special registration plates, and making appropriations”
- By renumbering as necessary.