SB1850ham001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Robert W. Pritchard

Filed: 5/29/2008

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1850

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1850 on page 1, line 5, by replacing "Sections 3-680" with "Sections 3-609.01, 3-680,"; and

on page 1, immediately below line 5, by inserting the following:

"(625 ILCS 5/3-609.01)

Sec. 3-609.01. Handicapped Veterans' plates.

(a) Any disabled veteran whose degree of disability has been declared to be less than 100% by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and whose disability is service-related and who has been or declared eligible for funds for the purchase of a motor vehicle of the first division or for a motor vehicle of the second division weighing not more than 8,000 pounds by the United States Federal Government because of his or her disability, may make application for the registration of one motor vehicle of the first division or one motor vehicle of the second division weighing not more than 8,000 pounds of those vehicles, to the Secretary of State without the payment of any registration fee. Registration shall be for a multi-year period and may be issued staggered registration.

(b) (Blank). Any disabled veteran of World War I, of World War II, of the National Emergency between June 25, 1950 and January 31, 1955 or of the period beginning February 1, 1955 and ending on the day before the first day thereafter in which individuals (other than individuals liable for induction by reason of prior deferment) are no longer liable for induction for training and service into the armed forces under the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, or of any armed conflict involving the armed forces of the United States, who has a service-connected disability of such a nature that it would, if it had been incurred in World War II, have entitled him to be awarded an automobile by the United States Federal Government, or who is receiving compensation from the Veterans Administration for total service-connected disability, may make application to the Secretary of State for the registration of one motor vehicle of the first division without accompanying his or her application with the payment of any fee.

(c) Renewal of this registration must be accompanied with documentation for eligibility of registration without fee unless the applicant has a permanent qualifying disability, and these registration plates may not be issued to any person not eligible to receive them.

(d) The Illinois Veterans Commission may assist in providing the documentation of disability.

(Source: P.A. 95-167, eff. 1-1-08.)".