Report Title:

Special number plates; disabled American veterans

Description:

Provides for a special number plate for Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.(HB142 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

142

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 249-9.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) The design of the plates for:

(1) Purple heart recipients shall include the words "COMBAT WOUNDED";

(2) Veterans shall include the word "VETERAN";

(3) Pearl Harbor survivors shall include the words "PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR";

(4) Former prisoners of war shall include the words "FORMER PRISONER OF WAR";

(5) Combat veterans shall include the words "COMBAT VETERAN";

(6) Veterans of the Vietnam conflict shall include the words "VIETNAM VETERAN";

(7) Veterans of the Korean conflict shall include the words "KOREA VETERAN";

(8) Veterans of World War II shall include the words "WORLD WAR II VETERAN"; [and]

(9) Veterans of the Persian Gulf conflict shall include the words "PERSIAN GULF VETERAN"[.]; and

(10) Congressional Medal of Honor recipients shall include the words "MEDAL OF HONOR".

These designations shall be imprinted on the left side of the license plates in a manner similar to congressional and honorary consul license plates."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.