H-8138

   Amend House File 2639 as follows:
   1.  Page 2, after line 20 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 321.34, Code 2024, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  11F.  Rescue dogs plates.
   a.  Upon application and payment of the proper fees, the director may issue rescue dogs plates to the owner of a motor vehicle subject to registration under section 321.109, subsection 1, autocycle, motor truck, motor home, multipurpose vehicle, motorcycle, trailer, or travel trailer.
   b.  Rescue dogs plates shall be designed by the department. The background shall be yellow and the plate’s numbers and letters shall be brown. The left side of the plate shall depict an image of a golden retriever. The phrase “Rescue Me” shall appear at the bottom of the plate.
   c.  The special rescue dogs fee for letter-number designated rescue dogs plates is thirty-five dollars. An applicant may obtain personalized rescue dogs plates upon payment of the fee for personalized plates as provided in subsection 5, which is in addition to the special rescue dogs fee.
   d.  The fees collected by the director under this subsection 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 general fund of the state the amount of the special fees collected in the previous month for rescue dogs plates. Such moneys are appropriated to the department of agriculture and land stewardship to distribute in the form of grants to organizations supporting rescuing and rehoming dogs. In the awarding of grants, the department of agriculture and land stewardship shall give first consideration to any official state association of the humane society of the United States and similar nonprofit organizations. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated under this subsection shall not revert to the general fund of the state.
   e.  Upon receipt of the special registration plates, the applicant shall surrender the current registration plates to the county treasurer. The county treasurer shall validate the special registration plates in the same manner as regular registration plates are validated under this section. The annual special rescue dogs fee for letter-number designated plates is ten dollars which shall be paid in addition to the regular annual registration fee. The annual fee for personalized rescue dogs plates is five dollars which shall be paid in addition to the annual special rescue dogs fee and the regular annual registration fee. The annual special rescue dogs fee shall be credited as provided under paragraph “d”.
   f.  The department shall not condition the issuance of rescue dogs plates on the receipt of any number of orders for rescue dogs plates.>
   2.  Page 3, line 3, by striking <and Gadsden flag> and inserting <Gadsden flag, and rescue dogs>
   3.  Page 3, line 10, by striking <and Gadsden flag> and inserting <Gadsden flag, and rescue dogs>
   4.  Title page, lines 2 and 3, by striking <special registration plates> and inserting <and rescue dogs special registration plates, and making appropriations>
   5.  By renumbering as necessary.

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JACOBY of Johnson