HB 255 GADSDEN FLAG GUN SAFETY LICENSE PLATE

Rep John Block

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Scheduled: Not Scheduled

 SB 255 requires the Motor Vehicle Division to create a Gadson Flag Gun Safety Awareness license plate. Fees for the plate are to be distributed between production cost and hunting and gun safety training provided by the Department of Game and Fish.  

 Synopsis: House Bill 255 (HB 255) relates to motor vehicles by enacting a new section of the motor vehicle code to establish a special Gadsden Flag Gun Safety Awareness vehicle registration plate and making an appropriation. 
Analysis: House Bill 255 (HB255) The division shall issue a standardized Gadsden flag gun safety awareness special registration plate indicating that the recipient supports gun safety awareness. The plate shall have a logo designed pursuant to Section 66-3-424 NMSA 1978 that includes: (1) a Gadsden flag with a coiled timber rattlesnake poised to strike on a yellow field; (2) the words "Gun Safety Awareness" in red lettering at the top; and (3) in capital letters "DON'T TREAD ON ME" in red lettering beneath the rattlesnake.
A first-time fee of $50 is required followed by a $20 renewal fee each year thereafter. Twelve dollars of the first fifty dollars will be used for production costs and the thirty-eight dollars will go to hunter training classes. Of the twenty dollars for renewals, the entire amount will go for hunter and gun safety training classes. The classes are to be provided by the Department of Game and Fish.
Beginning on July 1, 2027, and on July 1 of each subsequent year, the Department shall compare the number of the Gadsden flag gun safety awareness special registration plates issued, or registration renewals for those plates in the previous fiscal year, with the average of the number of such plates issued in fiscal years 2025 and 2026.
By September 1 of a fiscal year in which the department determines that the number of Gadsden flag gun safety awareness special registration plates issued and registration renewals for those plates in the previous fiscal year is less than fifty percent of the average number of such plates issued in fiscal years 2025 and 2026, the department shall stop issuing the Gadsden flag gun safety awareness special registration plates.
The effective date of this Act is July 1, 2024.