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Committee approves ‘Appeal to Heaven’ specialty plate; ITD says 1,000 sales threshold required
Summary
The committee advanced a license-plate bill to create a specialty plate featuring the historic "Appeal to Heaven" design; Idaho Transportation Department staff said 1,000 sales are required to sustain a specialty plate program.
The House Transportation and Defense Committee voted to send House Bill 235 — a proposal to create an “Appeal to Heaven” specialty license plate — to the floor with a do-pass recommendation.
Representative Sib Tanner presented the bill, describing the design as an early American flag associated with George Washington and a New England pine-tree motif. Tanner said the plate references a John Locke phrase about appealing to a higher power when all other remedies are exhausted and described the pine tree as an independence symbol from New England.
Committee members asked operational questions. Representative Handy asked about the minimum number of plates that must sell to keep a specialty plate active. CJ Kendrick, identified in the hearing as an Idaho Transportation Department deputy administrator, told the committee that 1,000 plates would be the threshold for reordering and maintaining the specialty plate program.
Representative Shepherd asked whether fees from the plate would be deposited into a special account or to ITD’s roads account; Kendrick said the funds go to roads. No additional financial breakdown or beneficiary organization was presented in the hearing.
No members of the public testified. Representative Shepherd moved to send House Bill 235 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation, and the committee approved the motion by voice vote; no opposition was recorded.
Votes at a glance: The committee approved sending House Bill 235 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation by voice vote; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.
