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SB 1060

An Act amending the act of July 19, 1979 (P.L.130, No.48), known as the Health Care Facilities Act, in licensing of health care facilities, providing for veteran status screening of new patients.

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Lisa Baker and 11 co-sponsors

The bill restricts personalized license plates to avoid profanity, explicit content, illegal themes, hate, or hindering law enforcement, while preserving existing issuance rules.

Referred to Health & Human Services
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Bill Summary · SB 1060

SB 1060 — Vehicles: Personalized Registration Plates (MCL 257.803b) — Summary

Status: Introduced (Feb 3, 2025); referred to Committee on Transportation, Mobility and Infrastructure
Subject: Vehicles — registration plates; restrictions on certain personalized plate configurations
Statute amended: Section 803b of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.803b)

Main purpose

To codify limits on the letters/numbers combinations allowed on personalized (and certain special-organization) vehicle registration plates by prohibiting configurations that are offensive, sexually explicit, promote illicit activity, impede law enforcement identification, or otherwise conflict with the regular plate numbering system.

Key provisions / changes

  • Adds explicit statutory prohibitions on personalized plate configurations. A personalized plate must not:
    • Conflict with the regular license plate numbering system.
    • Carry a profane or obscene connotation or be a swear word (or depiction of one).
    • Be sexually explicit or graphic, excretory-related, or used to describe intimate body parts/genitals.
    • Reference alcohol, alcohol use, drugs, drug culture, or drug use.
    • Describe an illegal activity or illegal substance.
    • Substantially interfere with law‑enforcement plate identification.
    • Disparage, promote, or condone hate or violence directed at any business, group, or person.
    • Be a foreign word that is substantially similar to any of the prohibited configurations above.
  • Retains existing administrative mechanics for personalized plates:
    • Applicants submit through Secretary of State per section 217.
    • Fees: original application service fee structure (as in bill text: $8 for first month + $2 per additional month of registration period) and renewal service fee ($15) in addition to regular registration fees; option for duplicate plate with an extra $5 fee.
    • Temporary permit may be issued (no fee) for up to 60 days while a personalized plate is processed.
    • Secretary of State may issue tabs for expiration; sequences are not reassigned while in active use.
  • Tie-bar / contingency: The amendatory act includes an enacting provision that the act does not take effect unless companion Senate Bill 1061 is enacted.

Who is affected

  • Individuals who apply for or hold personalized license plates in Michigan.
  • Secretary of State (responsible for review, issuance, denial, fee collection and plate sequence management).
  • Law enforcement (plate-identification protections intended to assist enforcement).
  • Organizations that obtain special-organization plates (subject to same content restrictions where applicable).

Fiscal and administrative impact

  • Nonpartisan legislative analysis (Senate Fiscal Agency) indicates no fiscal impact on state or local government.
  • Implementation primarily affects review/approval practices of the Secretary of State; enforcement is administrative (denial/refusal to issue).

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Introduced 02/03/2025 and referred to the Transportation, Mobility and Infrastructure Committee.
  • The bill is tie-barred to SB 1061 and includes an enactment condition tied to that companion bill; it would take effect upon becoming law (subject to the tie-bar condition).
  • If enacted, the Secretary of State would apply the statutory prohibitions when reviewing personalized plate requests.

Prepared to expand on potential legal, administrative, or enforcement implications (e.g., free-speech or procedural challenges, impacts on SOS review workload) if you’d like additional analysis.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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