Senate File 2112 - Introduced SENATE FILE 2112 BY COSTELLO A BILL FOR An Act relating to full-color special registration plates. 1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 2 TLSB 6006XS (3) 88 mo/ns

S.F. 2112 Section 1. Section 321.34, subsection 11C, Code 2020, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 11C. Blackout Full-color plates. 3 a. Upon application and payment of the proper fees, the 4 director may issue blackout full-color plates to the owner of a 5 motor vehicle subject to registration under section 321.109, 6 subsection 1 , autocycle, motor truck, motor home, multipurpose 7 vehicle, motorcycle, trailer, or travel trailer. 8 b. Blackout Full-color plates shall be designed by the 9 department. A blackout plate’s background shall be black, and 10 the plate’s letters and numbers shall be white. A full-color 11 plate’s background shall be one color, and the plate’s letters 12 and numbers shall be one color different from and distinctly 13 in contrast with the color of the plate’s background. The 14 department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to 15 establish acceptable colors and color combinations for a 16 full-color plate’s background, letters, and numbers. The 17 department’s rules shall allow full-color plates with a black 18 background and white letters and numbers. 19 c. The special blackout full-color fee for letter-number 20 designated blackout full-color plates is thirty-five dollars. 21 An applicant may obtain personalized blackout full-color plates 22 upon payment of the fee for personalized plates as provided 23 in subsection 5 , which is in addition to the special blackout 24 full-color fee. The fees collected by the director under this 25 subsection shall be paid monthly to the treasurer of state and 26 deposited in the road use tax fund. 27 d. Upon receipt of the special registration plates, the 28 applicant shall surrender the current registration plates to 29 the county treasurer. The county treasurer shall validate 30 the special registration plates in the same manner as regular 31 registration plates are validated under this section . The 32 annual special blackout full-color fee for letter-number 33 designated plates is ten dollars which shall be paid in 34 addition to the regular annual registration fee. The annual 35 -1- LSB 6006XS (3) 88 mo/ns 1/ 3

S.F. 2112 fee for personalized blackout full-color plates is five dollars 1 which shall be paid in addition to the annual special blackout 2 full-color fee and the regular annual registration fee. The 3 annual special blackout full-color fee shall be credited as 4 provided under paragraph “c” . 5 e. The department shall not condition the issuance of 6 blackout full-color plates on the receipt of any number of 7 orders for blackout full-color plates. 8 Sec. 2. Section 321.166, subsection 9, Code 2020, is amended 9 to read as follows: 10 9. Special registration plates issued pursuant to section 11 321.34 , other than gold star, medal of honor, collegiate, 12 fire fighter, natural resources, and blackout full-color 13 registration plates, shall be consistent with the design and 14 color of regular registration plates but shall provide a 15 space on a portion of the plate for the purpose of allowing 16 the placement of a distinguishing processed emblem or an 17 organization decal. Special registration plates shall also 18 comply with the requirements for regular registration plates 19 as provided in this section to the extent the requirements are 20 consistent with the section authorizing a particular special 21 vehicle registration plate. 22 EXPLANATION 23 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 24 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 25 This bill replaces blackout special registration plates with 26 full-color special registration plates. The bill authorizes 27 the department of transportation (DOT) to design and issue 28 the full-color plates. The bill requires that a full-color 29 plate’s background be one color and the plate’s letters and 30 numbers be one color different from and distinctly in contrast 31 with the color of the plate’s background. The DOT is required 32 to establish acceptable colors and color combinations for a 33 full-color plate’s background, letters, and numbers. The 34 department’s rules must allow full-color plates with a black 35 -2- LSB 6006XS (3) 88 mo/ns 2/ 3

S.F. 2112 background and white letters and numbers. 1 The bill does not otherwise alter the process to obtain the 2 plates or the fees for the plates, which are deposited in the 3 road use tax fund. 4 -3- LSB 6006XS (3) 88 mo/ns 3/ 3