House File 2079 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2079 BY HANUSA , SIECK , McCONKEY , MAXWELL , GERHOLD , BRECKENRIDGE , JENEARY , B. MEYER , A. MEYER , JACOBSEN , HAGENOW , GASSMAN , BACON , OURTH , HINSON , KACENA , McKEAN , KERR , OSMUNDSON , WHEELER , KAUFMANN , RUNNING-MARQUARDT , and MOORE A BILL FOR An Act relating to flying our colors special registration 1 plates. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5105YH (6) 88 mo/ns

H.F. 2079 Section 1. Section 321.34, Code 2020, is amended by adding 1 the following new subsection: 2 NEW SUBSECTION . 11D. Flying our colors plates. 3 a. Upon application and payment of the proper fees, the 4 director may issue flying our colors plates to the owner of a 5 motor vehicle subject to registration under section 321.109, 6 subsection 1, autocycle, motor truck, motor home, multipurpose 7 vehicle, motorcycle, trailer, or travel trailer. 8 b. Flying our colors plates shall be designed by the 9 department. Flying our colors plates shall be navy along the 10 top and red along the bottom, and contain a white space in the 11 middle of the plate which shall include the plate’s letters and 12 numbers in black and a gray image of a bald eagle behind the 13 plate’s letters and numbers. 14 c. (1) The special flying our colors fee for letter-number 15 designated flying our colors plates is thirty-five dollars. 16 An applicant may obtain personalized flying our colors plates 17 upon payment of the fee for personalized plates as provided in 18 subsection 5, which is in addition to the special fee. The 19 fees collected by the director under this subsection shall be 20 paid monthly to the treasurer of state and deposited in the 21 road use tax fund. 22 (2) The treasurer of state shall credit monthly from the 23 statutory allocations fund created under section 321.145, 24 subsection 2, to the flood mitigation fund created under 25 section 418.10, the amount of the special fees collected in the 26 previous month for flying our colors plates. This subparagraph 27 is repealed July 1, 2023. 28 d. Upon receipt of the special registration plates, the 29 applicant shall surrender the current registration plates to 30 the county treasurer. The county treasurer shall validate 31 the special registration plates in the same manner as regular 32 registration plates are validated under this section. The 33 annual special flying our colors fee for letter-number 34 designated flying our colors plates is ten dollars which 35 -1- LSB 5105YH (6) 88 mo/ns 1/ 3

H.F. 2079 shall be paid in addition to the regular annual registration 1 fee. The annual fee for personalized flying our colors 2 plates is five dollars which shall be paid in addition to the 3 annual special flying our colors fee and the regular annual 4 registration fee. The annual special flying our colors fee 5 shall be credited as provided under paragraph “c” . 6 Sec. 2. Section 321.166, subsection 9, Code 2020, is amended 7 to read as follows: 8 9. Special registration plates issued pursuant to section 9 321.34 , other than gold star, medal of honor, collegiate, 10 fire fighter, natural resources, and blackout , and flying 11 our colors registration plates, shall be consistent with the 12 design and color of regular registration plates but shall 13 provide a space on a portion of the plate for the purpose of 14 allowing the placement of a distinguishing processed emblem or 15 an organization decal. Special registration plates shall also 16 comply with the requirements for regular registration plates 17 as provided in this section to the extent the requirements are 18 consistent with the section authorizing a particular special 19 vehicle registration plate. 20 EXPLANATION 21 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 22 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 23 This bill authorizes the department of transportation 24 (DOT) to issue flying our colors special registration plates. 25 The bill requires that the flying our colors plate is to be 26 designed with navy along the top, red along the bottom, and 27 contain a white space in the middle of the plate which must 28 include the plate’s letters and numbers in black and an image 29 of a bald eagle behind the plate’s letters and numbers. 30 The bill provides that a special flying our colors fee for 31 letter-number designated flying our colors plates is $35 and 32 that an applicant may obtain personalized flying our colors 33 plates upon the payment of the $25 fee for personalized plates 34 set forth under current law, which is in addition to the 35 -2- LSB 5105YH (6) 88 mo/ns 2/ 3

H.F. 2079 special flying our colors fee. The bill requires the fees 1 collected by the DOT for the flying our colors plates to be 2 paid monthly to the treasurer of state and deposited in the 3 road use tax fund. 4 Until July 1, 2023, the treasurer of state must credit 5 monthly from the statutory allocations fund to the flood 6 mitigation fund the amount of special fees for flying our 7 colors plates collected in the previous month. 8 Upon receipt of the special registration plates, the 9 applicant must surrender the current registration plates to 10 the county treasurer. The county treasurer must validate the 11 special registration plates in the same manner as regular 12 registration plates are validated. The annual special flying 13 our colors fee for letter-number designated plates is $10, 14 which is in addition to the regular annual registration fee. 15 The annual fee for personalized flying our colors plates is $5, 16 which is in addition to the annual special flying our colors 17 fee and the regular annual registration fee. The bill requires 18 the annual special flying our colors fee to be credited in the 19 same way as the special flying our colors fee. 20 -3- LSB 5105YH (6) 88 mo/ns 3/ 3