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License plate design and approval procedures in Utah would see substantial changes under this bill. An earlier version of this bill created a temporary three-member board appointed by the governor, House Speaker, and Senate President to review each new plate design proposal, and required a sponsoring organization to gather 500 preorders before launching a new specialty "special group" plate. The current substitute instead creates a standing design review board — which would also have to approve driver license and state ID card designs — and replaces the preorder requirement with a set of fees, totaling $20,000, that a sponsoring organization must pay to initiate, implement, and design a new specialty plate. Beyond that structural change, the bill still allows the Motor Vehicle Division to offer up to four standard plate designs at a time and lets either the division or the public propose new standard designs, which must go through the Department of Cultural and Community Engagement, the Tax Commission, and the design review board before adoption; it tightens plate display rules by barring any license plate frame (not just ones that obscure the plate) and by requiring drivers to replace plates that have faded, peeled, or become illegible, with a presumption that fading on plates five years or older is not a manufacturing defect and therefore requires the owner to pay a replacement fee; and it caps at $500,000 per year, starting July 1, 2026, the amount of contribution revenue a state agency can receive from its "support" specialty plate, sending any additional funds to the state's transportation investment fund instead.