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Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2554
By Committee on Transportation
Requested by Representative VanHouden
1-27
AN ACT concerning motor vehicles; relating to distinctive license plates;
providing for the pheasants forever and quail forever license plates.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) On and after July 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 license plate authorized
by pheasants forever, inc., and established pursuant to this section for each
such passenger vehicle or truck. Such license plate shall be issued for the
same 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, and the payment to the county treasurer of the logo use royalty
payment.
(b) Pheasants forever, inc., may authorize the use of the organization's
logos to be affixed on license plates as provided by this section. Any motor
vehicle owner or lessee shall pay an amount of not less than $25 nor more
than $100, as determined by pheasants forever, inc., as a logo use royalty
payment for each such license plate to be issued. The logo use royalty
payment shall be paid to the county treasurer.
(c) Subject to the approval of the director of vehicles, pheasants
forever, inc., is authorized to establish two new distinctive license plates.
Each such plate shall be subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,141, and
amendment thereto. The plates are intended to promote:
(1) Pheasants forever; and
(2) quail forever.
(d) Any applicant for a license plate authorized by this section may
make application for such license plate not less than 60 days prior to such
person's renewal of registration date, on a form prescribed and furnished
by the director of vehicles, and any applicant for such license plate shall
pay to the county treasurer the logo use royalty payment. 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.
(e) No registration or license plate issued under this section shall be
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transferable to any other person.
(f) The director of vehicles may transfer a pheasants forever inc.,
authorized license plate from a leased vehicle to a purchased vehicle.
(g) 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(b), and
amendments thereto. No renewal of registration shall be made to any
applicant until such applicant provides to the county treasurer the annual
royalty payment. If such annual royalty payment is not made to the county
treasurer, the applicant shall be required to comply with the provisions of
K.S.A. 8-143, and amendments thereto, and return the license plate to the
county treasurer of such person's residence.
(h) Pheasants forever, inc., with the approval of the director of
vehicles, shall design the plates to be issued under the provisions of this
section.
(i) As a condition of receiving the pheasants forever license inc.,
authorized license plate and any subsequent registration renewal of such
license plate, the applicant shall consent to the division authorizing the
division's release of motor vehicle record information, including the
applicant's name, address, royalty payment amount, plate number and
vehicle type to pheasants forever, inc., and the state treasurer.
(j) The collection and remittance of annual royalty payments by the
county treasurer shall be subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 8-1,141(h),
and amendments thereto.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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