Arizona lawmakers want to create a special license plate benefiting public school educators.
The so-called "extraordinary educators" special plate would raise money for educators who oversee activities, projects or lessons for students in kindergarten and grades one through eight. County school superintendents would help oversee the distribution of the money.
A Senate committee is slated to vote on a bill establishing the plate Tuesday. The House of Representatives already passed the measure in a 50-6 vote.
There are now 53 special license plates that cost $25 each. The state keeps $8 for administrative costs and the rest goes to the charity associated with the plate.
It costs $32,000 to issue a new special plate. Proponents of the educators' license plate would have until 2016 to raise the $32,000.
samkat posted at 5:44 pm on Tue, Mar 19, 2013.
We need less, not more specialized license plates.
Tookie88 posted at 9:42 pm on Tue, Mar 19, 2013.
As cool as this plate sounds to an educator, I agree that our license plates need to be simple and we don't need all of these different styles. It is hard enough to tell which states are which anymore!
DataMan posted at 5:46 am on Wed, Mar 20, 2013.
Has anyone ever seen one of the "Tea Party Plates" allowed last year? That seems to have been a waste of taxpayer money. We need FEWER special plates, and not more!
randymanaz posted at 12:26 pm on Wed, Mar 20, 2013.
Have you seen the new Obama plates? They're handing em' out for free all over the country. If you don't have a car to slap it on----no worries----those are free too!