As Amended by House Committee
Session of 2025
HOUSE BILL No. 2168
By Committee on Transportation
Requested by Zach Denney on behalf of the Department of Revenue
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AN ACT concerning motor vehicles; relating to license plates; providing
for the blackout distinctive license plate; creating the license plate
replacement fund to be administered by the secretary of revenue;
depositing the fees from the blackout license plate into such fund for
purposes of replacing exhausted license plates.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) On and after January 1, 2026, any owner or lessee of
one or more passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of
20,000 pounds or less, who is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with
the provisions of this section, may be issued one blackout license plate for
each such passenger vehicle or truck. Such license plate shall be issued for
the same period of time as other license plates upon proper registration and
payment of the regular license fee as provided in K.S.A. 8-143, and
amendments thereto.
(b) Any applicant or renewal of registration for a blackout license
plate authorized by this section shall pay an annual fee of $50 to the
county treasurer for each such license plate to be issued. Any new blackout
license plate shall be subject to the fee prescribed in K.S.A 8-1,141(a)(1),
and amendments thereto. A blackout license plate may be a personalized
license plate and subject to the personalized license plate fee pursuant to
K.S.A. 8-1,141(a)(2), and amendments thereto.
(c) Any applicant for a license plate authorized by this section may
make application for such license plate on a form prescribed and furnished
by the director of vehicles. Application for registration of a passenger
vehicle or truck and issuance of the license plate under this section shall be
made by the owner or lessee in a manner prescribed by the director of
vehicles upon forms furnished by the director.
(d) No registration or license plate issued under this section shall be
transferable to any other person.
(e) The director of vehicles may transfer a blackout license plate from
a leased vehicle to a purchased vehicle.
(f) Renewals of registration under this section shall be made annually,
upon payment of the fee prescribed in K.S.A. 8-143, and amendments
thereto, and in the manner prescribed in K.S.A. 8-132, and amendments
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thereto. No renewal of registration shall be made to any applicant until
such applicant has paid the fee provided in subsection (b). If such fee is
not paid, such applicant shall be required to comply with K.S.A. 8-143,
and amendments thereto, and return the license plate to the county
treasurer of such applicant's residence.
(g) The blackout license plate shall have a background design, an
emblem or colors that designate the license plate as a blackout license
plate.
(h) There is hereby established in the state treasury the license plate
replacement fund. The license plate replacement fund shall be
administered by the secretary of revenue. Annual blackout license plate
fees collected by county treasurers pursuant to this section shall be
remitted to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of
K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such
remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the
state treasury to the credit of the license plate replacement fund. All
expenditures from such fund shall be for the costs associated with
replacing license plates when the lifespan of such license plates has been
exhausted as determined by the director of vehicles. All expenditures from
such fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon
warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to
vouchers approved by the secretary of revenue or the secretary's designee.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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