SESSION OF 2002

SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON HOUSE BILL NO. 2656

As Recommended by House Committee on

Transportation

Brief

       HB 2656 would amend KSA 8-1,147 to add Pearl Harbor Survivor license plates to the list of distinctive plates which surviving spouses or other family members may retain upon the death of persons to whom such plates were issued.

Background

       Representative Stone appeared as the bill’s principal proponent.

       Other proponents included Kathryn Kayser, whose late father’s picture once appeared in the Emporia Gazette alongside his Pearl Harbor plate, and Cameron Strebal, the decedent’s great grandson.

       The Committee recommended that the bill be placed on the consent calendar.