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Committee approves women veterans license plate; amendment adds House sponsor
Summary
Senate Bill 45 would create a women veterans specialty license plate and replace the Pearl Harbor survivor plate; the committee approved an amendment to add Rep. Stetson Painter as a House sponsor and recommended the bill pass as amended.
Representative Penney presented Senate Bill 45 to the House Public Transportation Committee as a proposal to create a specialty license plate recognizing women veterans and to retire the Pearl Harbor survivor plate.
“Unfortunately, we are no longer a producer of Pearl Harbor survivors. There's only 16 of them left in the entire United States,” Penney said, noting Arkansas has roughly 20,000 women veterans. The bill…
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