Amend House File 651, as passed by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 

<DIVISION I

CIVIL WAR SESQUICENTENNIAL PLATES>
   2.  Page 1, after line 28 by inserting: 

<DIVISION ___

MILITARY COMBAT PLATES
   Sec. ___.  Section 35A.11, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  8A.  Combat infantryman badge, combat action badge, combat action ribbon, and combat medical badge plates issued pursuant to section 321.34, subsection 20C.
   Sec. ___.  Section 321.34, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  20C.  Combat infantryman badge, combat action badge, combat action ribbon, and combat medical badge plates.
   a.  An owner referred to in subsection 12 who was awarded a combat infantryman badge, combat action badge, combat action ribbon, or combat medical badge by the United States government may, upon written application to the department and presentation of satisfactory proof of the award, order special registration plates with a combat infantryman badge, combat action badge, combat action ribbon, or combat medical badge processed emblem. The emblems shall be designed by the department in consultation with the adjutant general. The special plate fees collected by the director under subsection 12, paragraphs“a”and “c”, from the issuance and annual validation of letter-number designated and personalized combat infantryman badge, combat action badge, combat action ribbon, and combat medical badge plates shall be paid monthly to the treasurer of state and deposited in the road use tax fund. The treasurer of state shall transfer monthly from the statutory allocations fund created under section 321.145, subsection 2, to the veterans license fee fund created in section 35A.11 the amount of the special fees collected under subsection 12, paragraph “a”, in the previous month for combat infantryman badge, combat action badge, combat action ribbon, and combat medical badge plates.
   b.  The surviving spouse of a person who was issued special plates under this subsection may continue to use or apply for and use the special plates subject to registration of the special plates in the surviving spouse’s name and upon payment of the annual five-dollar special plate fee and the regular annual registration fee for the vehicle. If the surviving spouse remarries, the surviving spouse shall return the special plates to the department and the department shall issue regular registration plates to the surviving spouse.
   Sec. ___.  Section 321.145, subsection 2, paragraph b, subparagraph (3), Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   (3)  The amounts required to be transferred pursuant to section 321.34 from revenues available under this subsection shall be transferred and credited as provided in section 321.34, subsections 7, 10, 10A, 11, 11A, 11B, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 20A, 20B, 20C, 21, 22, 23, and 24 for the various purposes specified in those subsections.
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This division of this Act takes effect January 1, 2012.>
   3.  Title page, line 2 and 3, by striking<plate, establishing fees, and making an appropriation> and inserting <plate and special military combat plates, establishing fees, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions>
   4.  By renumbering as necessary.

______________________________
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

ROBERT E. DVORSKY, CHAIRPERSON