Bill targets front license plate

Twin Falls Sen. Jim Patrick wants Idaho to do away with the requirement for a front license plate on cars. “There’s 19 other states that do this,” he said. Idaho already doesn’t require front plates on ATVs, old-timer classic cars and some other types of vehicles, he said. “I decided rather than identify another class of cars, it’s simpler to just say, ‘Let’s just take ‘em off the front of all cars.’” Patrick told the Senate Transportation Committee, “There’s a lot of support for it, and there’s people that don’t like it, of course”/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

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