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Committee advances bill to allow $5 decals for five veterans license plates
Summary
A Senate committee voted to send Senate File 36 to the floor after approving a measure that would let the Department of Transportation issue $5 decal versions of five special veterans license plates and refund prior applicants who could not meet minimum order thresholds.
A Senate committee voted to advance Senate File 36 to the floor Thursday, approving a proposal that lets the Department of Transportation offer $5 decals for five special veterans license plates instead of requiring a minimum production order.
The change aims to address applications pending since 2011 for plates that the DOT has been unable to issue because the minimum order requirement was not met. The committee voted to move the bill forward as a committee bill after a short-form request and voice vote.
Senator Salmon, who opened the discussion, said the state has applications for five special veteran-type plates that cannot be issued because they have not met the required minimum order. He told the committee the bill would allow the DOT to work with the National Guard to design decals for the Combat Infantryman Badge plate, Combat Action Badge plate, Combat Action Ribbon plate, Air Force Combat Action Metal plate and Combat Medical Badge plate.
Under the measure discussed, the DOT would create decal versions of those badge plates; a $5 fee would be charged for each decal and the revenue would go into the veterans license plate fund. The DOT would also seek to refund applicants who had applied for the five special plates and offer the decal option instead. The bill adds veterans organizations to the groups authorized to approve and issue decals for those license plate designs.
Senator Dodson, who said he had worked on the bill alongside Salmon, described the measure as long-standing: “I think this is going on our third year. We passed it out of the Senate last year, and the House didn't take it up because of shortage of time,” he said, and said he supported final passage. After a short-form request the committee approved the bill by voice vote; the record shows a voice "aye" and the chair declared the motion carried.
The committee did not provide a roll-call tally in the transcript; the action was recorded as a voice vote and the chair announced that Senate File 36 would move forward to the floor as a committee bill.
No statutes or specific legal citations were referenced during the discussion in the provided transcript.
The bill now moves to the full Senate floor for further consideration.
