HB 403: Establish the Toledo Mud Hens license plate
The bill establishes a specialty license plate for the Toledo Mud Hens, a minor league baseball team. The license plate will display the team's logo and words selected by the team, and will include county identification stickers. The owner or lessee of a vehicle can apply for the license plate, which will be issued upon payment of the regular license tax, additional fees, and a $10 administrative fee. The registrar will also collect a $10 contribution for each application, which will be deposited into the state treasury to fund the "Toledo Mud Hens" license plate contribution fund. The funds will be used to support breast cancer programs and education in Ohio.
| Nov. 05, 2025 | Reported: Transportation |
| Sep. 15, 2025 | Referred to committee: Transportation |
| Jul. 30, 2025 | Introduced |
As Reported by the House Transportation Committee
136th General Assembly
Regular Session
H. B. No. 403
2025-2026
Representative Grim
Cosponsors: Representatives Synenberg, Williams, Rader, Brennan, Lett, Click, Hoops, Newman, White, E., Klopfenstein, Willis
To amend section 4501.21 and to enact section 14503.599 of the Revised Code to establish the 2"Toledo Mud Hens" license plate. 3
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 4501.21 be amended and section 4503.599 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
6Sec. 4501.21. (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the license plate contribution fund. The fund shall consist of all contributions for specialty license plates paid by motor vehicle registrants and collected by the registrar of motor vehicles pursuant to the Revised Code sections referenced in division (B) of this section.
12(B) The registrar shall pay the contributions the registrar collects in the fund as follows:
14The registrar shall pay the contributions received pursuant to section 4503.491 of the Revised Code to the breast cancer fund of Ohio, which shall use that money only to pay for programs that provide assistance and education to Ohio breast cancer patients and that improve access for such patients to quality health care and clinical trials and shall not use any of the money for abortion information, counseling, services, or other abortion-related activities.
21The registrar shall pay the contributions the registrar receives pursuant to section 4503.492 of the Revised Code to the organization cancer support community central Ohio, which shall deposit the money into the Sheryl L. Kraner Fund of that organization. Cancer support community central Ohio shall expend the money it receives pursuant to this division only in the same manner and for the same purposes as that organization expends other money in that fund.
1327Sec. 4503.599. (A) The owner or lessee of any passenger car, noncommercial motor vehicle, recreational vehicle, or other vehicle of a class approved by the registrar of motor vehicles may apply to the registrar for the registration of the vehicle and issuance of "Toledo Mud Hens" license plates. The application may be combined with a request for a special reserved license plate under section 4503.40 or 4503.42 of the Revised Code. Upon receipt of the completed application and compliance by the applicant with divisions (B) and (C) of this section, the registrar shall issue to the applicant the appropriate vehicle registration and a set of "Toledo Mud Hens" license plates and a validation sticker, or a validation sticker alone when required by section 4503.191 of the Revised Code. In addition to the letters and numbers ordinarily inscribed on the license plates, "Toledo Mud Hens" license plates shall display an appropriate logo and words that are selected by representatives of the Toledo mud hens and approved by the registrar. "Toledo Mud Hens" license plates shall display county identification stickers that identify the county of registration as required under section 4503.19 of the Revised Code.
1348(B) "Toledo Mud Hens" license plates and a validation sticker, or validation sticker alone, shall be issued upon receipt of an application for registration of a motor vehicle under this section; payment of the regular license tax as prescribed under section 4503.04 of the Revised Code, any applicable motor vehicle license tax levied under Chapter 4504. of the Revised Code, any applicable additional fee prescribed by section 4503.40 or 4503.42 of the Revised Code, an additional administrative fee of ten dollars, and a contribution as provided in division (C) (1) of this section; and compliance with all other applicable laws relating to the registration of motor vehicles.
1360(C) (1) For each application for registration and registration renewal notice the registrar receives under this section, the registrar shall collect a contribution of ten dollars. The registrar shall deposit this contribution into the state treasury to the credit of the license plate contribution fund created in section 4501.21 of the Revised Code.
1366(2) The registrar shall deposit the administrative fee of ten dollars, the purpose of which is to compensate the bureau of motor vehicles for additional services required in the issuing of "Toledo Mud Hens" license plates, into the state treasury to the credit of the public safety - highway purposes fund created in section 4501.06 of the Revised Code.
1372Section 2. That existing section 4501.21 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.
1374Section 3. Section 4501.21 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both H.B. 315 and S.B. 163 of the 135th General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in this act.