Total revenue for specialty license plates for April 2019 was $2,647.323.00, an increase of 0.3%  from $2,563,777.00 in April, 2018. The sale of standard Florida plates decreased 1.8% to 1,250,321 plates in April, 2019, from 1,273,636 in April, 2018.
For April, 2019, Endless Summer was the highest grossing plate at $155,600.00, followed by University of Florida at $155,500.00, closely followed by Helping Sea Turtles at $147,729.00.
Miami Heat showed the biggest overall percentage revenue increase compared to April, 2018, at  17.5% bringing in $92,275.00, compared to $78,550.00 in April, 2018. 
Endless Summer sold the most new plates for April 2019, 1,579, with Helping Sea Turtles selling 1,011. Miami Heat came in third selling 975, compared to 411 in April, 2018, an increase of 137%. Probably driven by the introduction of the new Miami Heat Vice Nights design.
Stop Heart Disease showed a significant increase in new plate sales of 53%  from 76 in April, 2018, to 116 in April, 2019.
So far this year, through April 30, University of Florida has sold 702,925 plates, Endless Summer 632,625, Helping Sea Turtles 591,123 and Florida State University 555,500.

​Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Steve Gleason, the New Orleans Saints legend whose off-the-field work for those stricken with ALS earned him the Congressional Gold Medal this year, may soon be honored with a Team Gleason specialty license plate.
Members of the House Transportation Committee unanimously approved a bill by Rep. Walt Leger to create the specialty plate.
Proceeds from the plate would benefit the Team Gleason Foundation, which funds research for assistive technology for those rendered immobile from neuromuscular diseases like Gleason himself.
Gleason will always be remembered for his blocked punt on the night the New Orleans Superdome reopened for the first time after Hurricane Katrina against arch rival Atlanta.

​Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation, Inc., a direct support organization of Florida Atlantic University, that now has five specialty license plates under its belt, mobilized 8 lobbyists in this year's legislative session to fend off a challenge from the Florida marine mammal stranding network members, spearheaded by One Ocean One Health Research and Conservation Institute, based in Marineland. Amendments were filed to attempt to take the ​Protect Wild Dolphins and Protect Florida Whales specialty plates from Harbor Branch, claiming that research and funding was being limited to FAU staff and employees and that over $2 million was being withheld by the DSO as a "reserve". Source

​The 'Blue Angels' specialty license plate managed to jump off the train and soar above onto SB 620, after the bill had passed all of its committees, sponsored by Doug Broxson, R-Pensacola (and the Rules and Military and Veterans Affairs and Space Committees). The Blue Angels is the first specialty license plate to be approved in Florida for many, many years and not for want of trying.
​The 2018 license plate bill in the House (HB 505) was once again sponsored by James ‘JW’ Grant, R- Tampa, a 36 year old entrepreneur who attended Auburn University and Stetson College of Law. He is a member of Ducks Unlimited, Tampa Bay 100 Chapter, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Children's Home Sporting Clays Classic, and the National Rifle Association. It has been a number of years now that Rep Grant has took the helm to lead the charge for new specialty plate rules and new specialty plates and failed. Among the over 30 proposed license plates that were contained in HB 505 and SB 1104 were plates that have been trying to gain legislative approval for over five years. Lobbyists for Orlando City Soccer Club, Coastal
Conservation Association, Lauren's Kids, the Independent Colleges & Universities, Moffitt Cancer Center, Rotary's Camps, Tampa Bay Lightning, Orlando Magic, Florida Off Road Foundation, Donate Life, American Legion, Veteran's of Foreign Wars, Ducks Unlimited, Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions, Florida Beekeepers Research Foundation, Dan Marino Foundation, Inc., New College Foundation, Broward County, Florida Municipal Electric Association, Florida Tax Collectors, Inc. and numerous tech companies all lined up on either side of the bill with conflicting opinions on language, as well as the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles own paid lobbyist, Kevin Jacobs.
In 2008, a year when 4 more specialty plates were approved, (Florida Tennis, Lighthouse Association, In God We Trust and Horse Country) the Florida Legislature imposed a moratorium on the creation of new plates, which was extended during the 2014 Legislative Session to July 1, 2016. This bill also revised the requirements for requesting the approval of a specialty license plate by replacing the scientific sample survey of 30,000 Florida motor vehicle owners and an application fee of $60,000.00 with a pre-sale voucher, requiring the pre-sale of 1,000 vouchers at $30.00, after legislative approval.
During the moratorium, the Legislature proceeded to create 17 more specialty license plates, 15 of which were able to complete the pre-sell process.
The last 4 plates to be created by the legislature became effective on 10/1/2014: Fallen Law Enforcement Officers, Florida Sheriff's Association, Kaiser University and Moffitt Cancer Center. 
In 2018 there were a total of 122 specialty license plates. Fallen Law Enforcement Officers (ranked 52) sold 9,414, Florida Sheriff's Association (ranked 68) sold 5,356, Moffitt Cancer Center (ranked 103) sold 1,374 and Kaiser University (ranked 116) sold 276. 
1,561,215 specialty license plates were sold in 2018 - compared to 1,521,472 in 2017.
American Red Cross, Clearwater Christian College, Donate Organs, Pass it On, Hispanic Achievers and St. John's River specialty license plates have been de-listed for lack of sales in 2015/2016. Support Soccer has been de-listed in 2018 due to the sponsoring charity dissolving. Protect Wild Dolphins, Protect Florida Whales, Save our Seas and Aquaculture are now managed by Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation, Inc., a direct support organization (DSO) of Florida Atlantic University.

​Hawai’i Pacific Parks Association announced that it, along with its national park partners, has won an Honorable Mention Award in the Outstanding Public Engagement category at the Public Lands Alliance Convention and Trade Show in Denver.
This honor was awarded to the association’s Hawaii National Park Specialty License Plate Program to benefit Haleakala and Hawaii Volcanoes National Parks.
These awards celebrate the best in public lands partnerships and honor individuals, organizations, publications, products, programs and services that embody leading-edge achievements in the preservation of public lands and the enrichment of the visitors’ experiences.
The first specialty license plates in Hawaii became available from local DMV offices on Aug. 1, 2017, the 101st anniversary of the establishment of the two parks, originally known as Hawaii National Park. Designed by Ian Ryan of Sae Design, the plates feature colorful, iconic scenes, such as Kilauea Volcano erupting, and the nene, the revered Hawaiian state bird and a conservation success story. The program was authorized by a 2015 state law to raise funds for resource protection and education projects at Haleakala and Hawaii Volcanoes national parks.
The specialty license plates program is doubly beneficial because plate purchases and annual renewal fees mean an ongoing income stream for park programs. Because HPPA understands that nonresident park visitors still want to support the parks, it created merchandise items including a keychain spinner showing both national park plates and, for Haleakala National Park, a line that includes travel mugs, stickers, postcards and plate replicas.
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