Legislative Background for KENTUCKY
State Senator Jack Westwood (R-Crescent Springs) sponsored a bill to authorize a Choose Life license plate in 2003 and 2004. It passed each time in the Senate, but died in the House. However, in 2005, the legislature passed a bill allowing statewide, non-profit organizations to pre-sell 900 proposed plates and meet certain other criteria to get a specialty plate.
In 2006, Sen. Westwood sponsored and passed SB 115, a bill that added an additional, but optional, $10 fee to all Choose Life License Plates. The extra $10 fee is to be distributed to area pregnancy care centers under the direction of the Family Trust Foundation of Kentucky, Inc.
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For information on the NATIONAL level and the state-by-state effort to introduce these plates, contact Russ Amerling, National Publicity Coordinator of the Choose Life license plate at russ@choose-life.org or call him toll free at (877)454-1203. You can also gather more information about the NATIONAL Choose Life license plate effort at www.choose-life.org/newsletter.html.