← Back to bills and search results
2025 · Regular session · Senate bill
SB1227
SB1227 removes the $3 specialty-plate issuance fee for Pearl Harbor Survivor and Purple Heart plates.
Official caption: Relating to fees for the issuance of certain military specialty license plates.
Official report lists Senate author(s): Flores. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
Bill explanation published · Version and amendment review scope is stated below · Individual amendment records may not be separately annotated.
Bill highlights
Selected points from the published explanation. Follow each point to its source-linked context; conditions and limits may matter.
- SB1227 removes the $3 specialty-plate issuance fee for Pearl Harbor Survivor and Purple Heart plates.
- This does not eliminate ordinary vehicle-registration fees for every military plate.
- The act changes fees, not the service or award qualifications for these plates.
What does it do?
SB1227 removes the $3 specialty-plate issuance fee for Pearl Harbor Survivor and Purple Heart plates. It replaces that special charge with the general rule that military specialty plates have no additional plate fee, except where the same subchapter provides otherwise. Signed May 29, 2025, the act took effect September 1, 2025. Final law; Plate categories, subsections (d) and (g); Official history.
This does not eliminate ordinary vehicle-registration fees for every military plate. The amended statute still requires Chapter 502 registration fees unless a listed one-set exemption applies. The existing exemptions remain for Distinguished Flying Cross plates, Army of Occupation Medal plates, most extraordinary-service plates and Defense Superior Service Medal plates. Within the extraordinary-service section, Commendation Medal and Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal plates remain excluded from that particular registration-fee exemption. Final law, section 1; Distinguished Flying Cross; Army of Occupation Medal; Extraordinary-service categories; Defense Superior Service Medal.
The act changes fees, not the service or award qualifications for these plates. It does not create a new plate design or provide a general refund of fees already paid. Final law.
What changed along the way?
The former fee section required a $3 issuance fee for one set of plates under subsections 504.315(d) and (g)—Pearl Harbor Survivor and Purple Heart. SB1227 deletes that charge and the accompanying reference to an applicable special-plate fee. It retains the distinction between an additional plate fee and the underlying registration fee, including the existing one-set registration exemptions. Former fee provision; Final law.
The introduced, Senate committee, Senate-passed, House committee and enrolled versions have the same substantive provisions. Both committees reported without amendments, and the official amendment index lists no amendments. No unadopted proposal is being presented as part of the fee change. Five text versions; Amendment index.
For the full amendment record, open the official amendment index.
Official bill versions
Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.
Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
Applicants who would have owed the specific $3 charge no longer pay it. The bill offers a small, defined fee reduction rather than a broad waiver of all vehicle-related charges. It also reduces the revenue collected from that particular fee. Final law.
The March 25 fiscal note anticipates no significant state fiscal impact, assuming any revenue effect is insignificant, and no local-government fiscal impact. It does not state how many sets will be issued or provide an aggregate dollar estimate. The act makes no new appropriation. Fiscal note.
Official sources
- Bill history and latest recorded action
- Bill versions, analyses and fiscal notes
- Action history and votes
- Amendment index
Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.
