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Senate committee approves ban on law-enforcement specialty plates for registrants under Offender Registration Act
Summary
The Senate committee approved SB 107, which prohibits issuance or renewal of special license plates supporting law enforcement to people required to register under the Offender Registration Act of 1997; committee members said the change targets only law-enforcement-support plates and approved the measure by voice vote.
Senator Urban introduced Senate Bill 107 and said probation officers brought the proposal after encountering cases in which people required to register under the Offender Registration Act of 1997 received special license plates supporting law enforcement. "You cannot may not issue or renew a special license plate ... to a person required to register as a *** offender under the *** Offender Registration Act of 1997," he said.
The bill narrows the restriction to specialty plates that explicitly support law enforcement, Senator Urban said. Senator Hammer asked whether the bill would affect other specialty plates; Urban replied it applies only to law-enforcement-support plates. "So if it's a — it's a special license plate that is in support of law enforcement," Urban said, "it wouldn't affect any other specialty plates, just that a registered *** offender can't have supporting a law enforcement plate."
Committee members raised no additional substantive objections. The committee approved the bill by voice vote; the motion was "due passed" by Senator Hammer and seconded by Senator Pitch. The committee did not record a roll-call tally in the transcript; the approval was announced as a voice vote.
The action moves the bill forward in the legislative process; the transcript does not record further procedural steps or an implementation timeline.
