No. SB 1352
Filed under Transportation.
Motor Vehicles; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to establish and maintain a secure online license and registration portal for verifying, recording, and processing the seizure or confiscation of license plates; providing that a disabled veteran may retain a certain license plate designation upon reissuance, renewal, or transfer of the plate; prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or affixing to any registration license plate certain covers, films, or overlays that obscure or alter the registration license plate in a specified manner, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDManufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or attaching a cover, film, or overlay that obscures or alters a license plate's legibility, color, or design becomes illegal, regardless of whether the material is transparent, tinted, or opaque.
A new secure online portal will let DHSMV, tax collectors, and authorized law enforcement agencies verify, record, and process license plate seizures and confiscations, checked before any plate is reissued.
Tax collectors gain new duties: they can now take disabled-parking plate applications and issue plates immediately on demand, and must fulfill driver license and ID renewals ordered through the online portal, earning a service fee for doing so.
Disabled veterans can keep their plate's unique alphanumeric designation when they renew, reissue, or transfer it to another vehicle they own, and can now choose "DV" letters instead of, or alongside, the wheelchair symbol.
AIDHSMV must build and maintain a secure online portal that tax collectors and law enforcement use to verify, record, and process license plate seizures or confiscations, with immediate status updates, and any reissuance of a plate must be checked against it first.
AIIt becomes illegal to manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or attach any cover, film, or overlay to a license plate if it obscures or alters the plate's legibility, color, or design, whether the material is transparent, tinted, or opaque.
AIRenewal or replacement driver licenses and ID cards ordered through the department's online portal must be fulfilled by the applicant's county tax collector, who may mail the card or let the applicant pick it up, and the department must pay that tax collector a service fee for each one.
AIApplications for disabled-parking license plates may now go to a tax collector instead of only the department, and the tax collector may issue the plate immediately on demand. Applicants may also choose a wheelchair symbol or "DV" letters, and may add either mark in addition to, rather than only instead of, the plate's serial number.
AIA disabled veteran who holds a permanent disabled-veteran license plate may keep that plate's unique alphanumeric designation when the plate is reissued, renewed, or transferred to another vehicle the veteran owns.