SB927

SB927 requires the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to issue specialty license plates for recipients of the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. Each plate must show that medal’s emblem and the words “Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal” at the bottom. This is a specific award-recipient plate, not a plate for everyone who served in those branches, and is distinct from the existing Navy and Marine Corps Medal plate. Section 1; Full extraordinary-service plate list, (o) and (s).

The surrounding military-plate law still applies. Unless the subchapter or a department rule expressly provides otherwise, a person discharged under conditions less than honorable is ineligible. The vehicle must be for the qualifying applicant’s use. An unmarried surviving spouse may register one vehicle under the applicable extraordinary-service section, with proof of the deceased spouse’s eligibility and the required unmarried statement. The applicable fee law provides one set under section 504.315(s) without the Chapter 502 registration fee and generally no additional military specialty-plate fee; it is not an unlimited exemption for every vehicle or every possible charge. General eligibility; Applicant-use requirement, (i); Surviving spouses; Fee provisions.

Signed May 30, 2025, the act took effect September 1, 2025. It adds this plate to the existing framework; it does not rewrite the general eligibility or fee provisions. History; Section 2.