2005-2006 Bill 3382: Choose Life, Choose Abortion License Plates - South Carolina Legislature

1 South Carolina General Assembly 2 116th Session, 2005-2006 3 4 H. 3382 5 6 STATUS INFORMATION 7 8 General Bill 9 Sponsors: Reps. Altman and Viers 10 Document Path: l:\council\bills\swb\6255cm05.doc 11 Companion/Similar bill(s): 329, 350 12 13 Introduced in the House on January 26, 2005 14 Currently residing in the House Committee on Education and Public Works 15 16 Summary: Choose Life, Choose Abortion license plates 17 18 19 HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 20 21 Date Body Action Description with journal page number 22 1/26/2005 House Introduced and read first time HJ-9 23 1/26/2005 House Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works HJ-9 24 2/2/2005 House Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Viers 25 26 27 VERSIONS OF THIS BILL 28 29 1/26/2005 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A BILL 10 11 TO AMEND CHAPTER 3, TITLE 56, CODE OF LAWS OF 12 SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE 13 REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF MOTOR VEHICLES, 14 BY ADDING ARTICLES 79 AND 80, SO AS TO PROVIDE 15 FOR THE ISSUANCE OF “CHOOSE LIFE” SPECIAL LICENSE 16 PLATES AND “CHOOSE ABORTION” SPECIAL LICENSE 17 PLATES. 18 19 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South 20 Carolina: 21 22 SECTION 1. Chapter 3, Title 56 of the 1976 Code is amended by 23 adding: 24 25 “Article 79 26 27 ‘Choose Life’ Special License Plates 28 29 Section 56-3-7950. (A) The Department of Motor Vehicles 30 shall issue special motor vehicle license plates to owners of private 31 passenger carrying motor vehicles or light pickups having an 32 empty weight of seven thousand pounds or less and a gross weight 33 of nine thousand pounds or less registered in their names which 34 shall have imprinted on the plate the words ‘Choose Life’. The fee 35 for this special license plate is seventy-five dollars every two years 36 in addition to the regular motor vehicle license fee set forth in 37 Article 5. This special license plate must be of the same size and 38 general design of regular motor vehicle license plates. The special 39 license plates must be issued or revalidated for a biennial period 40 which expires twenty-four months from the month they are issued. 41 (B) The fees collected pursuant to this section, after the costs to 42 produce and administer the distribution of this special license

1 [3382] 1 1 plate, must be deposited in a special account, separate and apart 2 from the general fund, designated for use by the Department of 3 Health and Environmental Control to be used to support research 4 for the prevention and cure of breast cancer. 5 (C) Before the Department of Motor Vehicles produces and 6 distributes a special license plate pursuant to this section, it must 7 receive four hundred prepaid applications for the special license 8 plate or a deposit of four thousand dollars from the individual or 9 organization seeking issuance of the license plate. If a deposit of 10 four thousand dollars is made by an individual or organization 11 pursuant to this section, the department must refund the four 12 thousand dollars once an equivalent amount of license plate fees is 13 collected for that organization’s license plate. If the equivalent 14 amount is not collected within four years of the first issuance of 15 the license plate, the department shall retain the deposit. 16 (D) If the department receives less than three hundred biennial 17 applications and renewals for the ‘Choose Life’ special license 18 plate, it may not produce additional special license plates in that 19 series. However, the department shall continue to issue special 20 license plates of that series until the existing inventory is 21 exhausted.” 22 23 SECTION 2. Chapter 3, Title 56 of the 1976 Code is amended by 24 adding: 25 26 “Article 80 27 28 ‘Choose Abortion’ Special License Plates 29 30 Section 56-3-7970. (A) The Department of Motor Vehicles 31 shall issue special motor vehicle license plates to owners of private 32 passenger carrying motor vehicles or light pickups having an 33 empty weight of seven thousand pounds or less and a gross weight 34 of nine thousand pounds or less registered in their names which 35 shall have imprinted on the plate the words ‘Choose Abortion’. 36 The fee for this special license plate is seventy-five dollars every 37 two years in addition to the regular motor vehicle license fee set 38 forth in Article 5. This special license plate must be of the same 39 size and general design of regular motor vehicle license plates. The 40 special license plates must be issued or revalidated for a biennial 41 period which expires twenty-four months from the month they are 42 issued.

1 [3382] 2 1 (B) The fees collected pursuant to this section, after the costs to 2 produce and administer the distribution of this special license 3 plate, must be deposited in a special account, separate and apart 4 from the general fund, designated for use by the Department of 5 Health and Environmental Control to be used to support research 6 for the prevention and cure of breast cancer. 7 (C) Before the Department of Motor Vehicles produces and 8 distributes a special license plate pursuant to this section, it must 9 receive four hundred prepaid applications for the special license 10 plate or a deposit of four thousand dollars from the individual or 11 organization seeking issuance of the license plate. If a deposit of 12 four thousand dollars is made by an individual or organization 13 pursuant to this section, the department must refund the four 14 thousand dollars once an equivalent amount of license plate fees is 15 collected for that organization’s license plate. If the equivalent 16 amount is not collected within four years of the first issuance of 17 the license plate, the department shall retain the deposit. 18 (D) If the department receives less than three hundred biennial 19 applications and renewals for the ‘Choose Abortion’ special 20 license plate, it may not produce additional special license plates in 21 that series. However, the department shall continue to issue special 22 license plates of that series until the existing inventory is 23 exhausted.” 24 25 SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the 26 Governor. 27 ----XX---- 28

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