Amendment H-8132 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Withdrawn · March 6, 2024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 new "Black is Beautiful" special license plate option featuring a light brown background and an image of a person with afro-style hair. It also establishes specific fees for these plates and directs the collected money to the department of health and human services to fund grants for organizations that promote equity and civil rights for Black people and persons of color.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. Black is beautiful plates. a. Upon application and payment of the proper fees, the director may issue black is beautiful 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. Black is beautiful plates shall be designed by the department. The background shall be light brown and the plate’s numbers and letters shall be dark brown. The center of the plate shall depict an image of a person’s face and neck with large, circular afro-style hair. c. The special black is beautiful fee for letter-number designated black is beautiful plates is thirty-five dollars. An applicant may obtain personalized black is beautiful plates upon payment of the fee for personalized plates as provided in subsection 5, which is in addition to the special black is beautiful 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 black is beautiful plates. Such moneys are appropriated to the department of health and human services to distribute in the form of grants to organizations that promote equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of black people and all persons of color. In awarding the grants, the department of health and human services shall give first consideration to any state association of the national association for the advancement of colored people. 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 black is beautiful 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 black is beautiful plates is five dollars which shall be paid in addition to the annual special black is beautiful fee and the regular annual registration fee. The annual special black is beautiful fee shall be credited as provided under paragraph “d” . f. The department shall not condition the issuance of black is beautiful plates on the receipt of any number of orders for black is beautiful plates.”
- Page 3, line 3, by striking “and Gadsden flag” and inserting “Gadsden flag, and black is beautiful”
- Page 3, line 10, by striking “and Gadsden flag” and inserting “Gadsden flag, and black is beautiful”
- Title page, lines 2 and 3, by striking “special registration plates” and inserting “and black is beautiful special registration plates, and making appropriations”
- By renumbering as necessary.