2003 Senate Bill 785 ↩

Senate Roll Call 557: Passed

To revise the fund-raising specialty license plate program for nonprofit organizations. The bill would require, among other things, an organization wanting to sponsor a plate to make a nonrefundable upfront payment of $15,000 to cover programming, layout and other startup costs. This would require the sale of 720 plates to break even. The bill would also require minimum sales levels of 2,000 plates in the first year, and 500 new plates (not renewals) in the next five years, or production of the plate would be dropped. The bill would codify a proposal made by Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land. It also would exempt trailer coaches attached to a motor vehicle from an existing $2.25 regulatory fee and $5.75 service fee, and repeal a provision in current law requiring a monthly fee for an Olympic Education-training Center fund-raising plate.