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Amendment H-8140 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Withdrawn · March 6, 2024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 option for purple mental health special registration plates that feature the letters "NAMI." The fees collected from these plates would be used to provide grants to organizations that support mental health.1

Read the amendment’s wording
  1. Page 2, after line 20 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 321.34, Code 2024, is amended by adding the following new subsection: NEW SUBSECTION . 11F. Mental health plates. a. Upon application and payment of the proper fees, the director may issue mental health 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. Mental health plates shall be designed by the department. The background shall be purple and the plate’s numbers and letters shall be white. The left side of the plate shall include the letters “NAMI” printed vertically. c. The special mental health fee for letter-number designated mental health plates is thirty-five dollars. An applicant may obtain personalized mental health plates upon payment of the fee for personalized plates as provided in subsection 5, which is in addition to the special mental health fee. Personalized plates authorized by this subsection shall be limited to no more than five numerals, letters, or combinations of numerals and letters. 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 mental health plates. Such moneys are appropriated to the department of health and human services to distribute in the form of grants to organizations supporting mental health. In the awarding of grants, the department of health and human services shall give first consideration to any official state association of the national alliance on mental health and similar nonprofit organizations. 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 mental health 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 mental health plates is five dollars which shall be paid in addition to the annual special mental health fee and the regular annual registration fee. The annual special mental health fee shall be credited as provided under paragraph “d” . f. The department shall not condition the issuance of mental health plates on the receipt of any number of orders for mental health plates.”
  2. Page 3, line 3, by striking “and Gadsden flag” and inserting “Gadsden flag, and mental health”
  3. Page 3, line 10, by striking “and Gadsden flag” and inserting “Gadsden flag, and mental health”
  4. Title page, lines 2 and 3, by striking “special registration plates” and inserting “and mental health special registration plates, and making appropriations”
  5. By renumbering as necessary.

Official amendment (PDF) · In the Bill Book