An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in registration of vehicles, further providing for veteran plates and placard.

PRINTER'S NO. 183
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 230
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY KUTZ, COOK, M. MACKENZIE AND ROWE,
JANUARY 22, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 22, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in registration of vehicles, further providing for
veteran plates and placard.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1342(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 1342. Veteran plates and placard.
(a) Severely disabled veteran plate.--
(1) On the application of a veteran whose service-
connected disability is certified at 100% by the service unit
of the armed forces in which the veteran served or by the
United States Veterans' Administration or who has a service-
connected disability of the type enumerated in section 1338
(relating to person with disability plate and placard), the
department shall issue a special registration plate
designating the vehicle as belonging to a severely disabled
veteran. The registration plate shall have a white
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background, shall have blue numbers or letters as the
department may determine, shall have the words "disabled
veteran" in at least ten-point bold type inscribed in red at
the bottom of the plate and shall include the international
symbol for access for persons with disabilities. A special
registration plate issued to a veteran under this [section]
subsection may be used only on a passenger car or truck with
a registered gross weight of not more than 14,000 pounds. In
the case of a motorcycle, the department shall issue a decal
containing the international symbol for access for persons
with disabilities and the words "disabled veteran" for
display on the registration plate.
(2) The department shall provide, at no additional cost,
the option for a veteran to whom a special registration plate
or decal is issued under this subsection to a vehicle or
motorcycle, as applicable, to request a second special
registration plate or decal under this subsection to be
affixed to the front of the same vehicle or motorcycle.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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