H223 - Special Plates/Handicapped Placard Renewal. (SL 2018-77)

Overview: S.L 2018-77 makes the following changes to the law as it relates to special registration plates:

• Authorizes the Division of Motor Vehicles (Division) to issue a 100% Disabled Veteran motorcycle plate and a Partially Disabled Veteran motorcycle plate, and authorizes the Division to issue free of charge, upon request, a single 100% Disabled Veteran motorcycle plate.
• Authorizes the Division to produce new Alpha Phi Alpha and Order of the Eastern Star special registration plates.
• Reduces the number of applications required, from 300 to 100, before the Division develops a collegiate insignia plate for a public military college or university.
• Provides that handicap placards that expire after a person has reached 80 years of age do not have to be renewed and remain valid.
• Authorizes Secretaries of participating Departments to delegate budgetary decisions under a certain dollar threshold to their Chief Information Officers for the purpose of State information technology consolidation under the Department of Information Technology.

The new Alpha Phi Alpha and Order of the Eastern Star Prince Hall Affiliated plates will become effective February 1, 2019. The authorization for Department Secretaries to delegate certain budgetary decisions became effective July 1, 2018. The remainder of the act became effective June 25, 2018.