Kansas Senate tackles challenge of bill authorizing license plate honoring KC Chiefs
Kansas Senate tackles challenge of bill authorizing license plate honoring KC Chiefs
Members of the Kansas Senate thought it was such a great idea to create a commemorative license plate for the Kansas City Chiefs that they continued to pile on.
Before the dust cleared Tuesday on the Senate floor, special plates for the Chiefs, Kansas City Royals, Sporting Kansas City,
Kansas City Current, and Sedgwick County Zoo were tentatively approved under Senate Bill 359.
Sen. Kellie Warren, a Republican from Leawood, said a friend who worked for the Chiefs urged her to introduce legislation establishing a special license plate for the NFL franchise in Kansas City,
Missouri. The process started long before quarterback Patrick Mahomes, tight end Travis Kelce, and their teammates beat the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl on February 11.
The Senate Transportation Committee’s bill would designate the Hunt Family Foundation as the beneficiary of proceeds from Kansas residents who purchase a Chiefs license plate for use on passenger automobiles and trucks.
The committee changed Warren’s strategy by inserting a plate for the professional soccer club Sporting Kansas City,
with proceeds benefiting the Kansas City Soccer Foundation’s Victory Project. The committee also approved a special plate to benefit the Sedgwick County Zoo.
Sen. Rob Olson, an Olathe Republican, stated during Senate discussion on the bill that he had been a Chiefs fan his entire life and would most certainly purchase one of the new plates for his own vehicle.
But he didn’t want to overlook the other occupant of Truman Sports Complex.
He proposed an amendment permitting a plate honoring the Kansas City Royals, which was approved by the Senate.
“Right now there are a lot of Chiefs fans,” he stated, “but at the right periods it seems like there is a lot of Royals fans, too.”
Sen. John Doll, a Garden City Republican, said he was not interested in showering Missouri with cross-border adoration.
“It hard to support just one Missouri team. “Supporting two people hurts,” he remarked.
Sen. Dinah Sykes, D-Lenexa, obtained approval for an amendment establishing a license plate for the Kansas City Current, a member of the National Women’s Soccer League.
The bill requires supporters of each license plate to get promises for a minimum of 250 plates, while sponsors must pay up to $5,000 for production costs.
Although license plates could not be moved from one person to another, the Kansas Department of Revenue could provide authority to transfer a plate from a leased to a purchased vehicle.
Members of the Senate did not pay attention to the Feb. 14 shooting at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade and rally, which killed one and injured two dozen others.
Police reported that the victims varied in age from 8 to 47.
On Tuesday, Governor Laura Kelly ordered that flags in Kansas be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset Saturday in remembrance of Elizabeth “Lisa” Lopez-Galvan of Johnson County,
who was slain outside the city’s historic Union Station when shots were fired into the crowd.
“Kansans and the entire Kansas City community are mourning the death of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a DJ and mother of two from Shawnee.”
“I’m grieving for her family, as well as all the victims and their loved ones.” Kelly said.
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