H-8144

   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.  Ping pong plates.
   a.  Upon application and payment of the proper fees, the director may issue ping pong 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.  Ping pong plates shall be designed by the department. The background shall be white and the plate’s numbers and letters shall be black. The left side of the plate shall depict an image of two crossed ping pong paddles.
   c.  The special ping pong fee for letter-number designated ping pong plates is thirty-five dollars. An applicant may obtain personalized ping pong plates upon payment of the fee for personalized plates as provided in subsection 5, which is in addition to the special ping pong fee. Personalized plates authorized by this subsection shall be limited to no more than five numerals, letters, or combinations of numerals and letters.
   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 ping pong plates. Such moneys are appropriated to the department of education to distribute in the form of grants to the amateur athletics union to support and promote paddle sports. 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 ping pong 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 ping pong plates is five dollars which shall be paid in addition to the annual special ping pong fee and the regular annual registration fee. The annual special ping pong fee shall be credited as provided under paragraph “d”.
   f.  The department shall not condition the issuance of ping pong plates on the receipt of any number of orders for ping pong plates.>
   2.  Page 3, line 3, by striking <and Gadsden flag> and inserting <Gadsden flag, and ping pong>
   3.  Page 3, line 10, by striking <and Gadsden flag> and inserting <Gadsden flag, and ping pong>
   4.  Title page, lines 2 and 3, by striking <special registration plates> and inserting <and ping pong special registration plates, and making appropriations>
   5.  By renumbering as necessary.

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BAETH of Polk