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Senators circle specialty-plate measures and request sales data after plate debates
Summary
Following close consideration of specialty license-plate bills, senators circled one plate bill to obtain sales and fiscal data and agreed to hold a substitute plate bill for 24 hours to allow follow-up reporting to the chamber.
After floor debate about specialty motor-vehicle plates, the Senate moved to obtain additional information before final action on related bills.
Senators discussed Senate Bill 24 and the fee schedule that would route portions of revenue into the Centennial Highway Fund and the Highway Fund. Floor discussion cited an administrative/fiscal note estimating $9,000 in start-up costs (the dye and initial plate distribution) and described a typical customer fee structure discussed on the floor as $55 for a first-time specialty plate and $4 for annual renewal. Senators asked for the Tax Commission to provide sales figures and the number of existing specialty plates distributed to inform break-even calculations. Senator Holmgren offered to gather information and senators voted to circle the bill to allow the sponsor to obtain those data.
Separately, Senator McAllister moved that the substitute Senate Bill 97 be held for 24 hours, and the motion passed. Sponsors and critics indicated that sales data for existing specialty plates would be useful to determine whether new plates were warranted or how many purchasers would be needed to cover start-up costs.
Clerks and senators agreed to follow up with the Tax Commission and to return with sales data for the committee or floor to review.
