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HB1176 Relative to the display of license plates on vehicles.

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Relative to the display of license plates on vehicles.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

5

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

5
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Your Wallet

Tabled by massive margin. No change to current plate display requirements.

5
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Your Community

No change to vehicle registration or plate display rules.

5
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Your Freedom

Status quo maintained on license plate requirements.

Status

Lay HB1176 on Table (Rep. S. Smith): Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 321-27 02/12/2026 House Journal 4 P. 68

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Jeanine Notter (R)

The Short Version

Addresses license plate display requirements on vehicles. Tabled by an overwhelming 321-27 vote, indicating the legislature wanted to shelve this issue rather than act on it.

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Roll Call Detail (1 vote)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 1 recorded vote on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans opposed it ( 10 for , 181 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 17 for , 140 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Table 2026-02-12
Passed

YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.

181R + 140D
Voted to Kill the Bill (321)
10R + 17D
Voted to Keep It Alive (27)
27
Absent
19
Not voting
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Voted Yea (321)

Republicans (181)
Democrats (140)
Absent (27)

Beth Richards (D) , Brian Cole (R) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Charles Foote (R) , David Meuse (D) , Dillon Dumont (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Harry Bean (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , John MacDonald (R) , John Suiter (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Louis Juris (D) , Mark MacKenzie (D) , Mary Murphy (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Mike Bordes (R) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Sayra Devito (R) , Sean Durkin (R) , Susan Vandecasteele (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tim Mannion (R) , William Dolan (D)

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