According to the 'Nevada Current', The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed Thursday that an anti-abortion specialty license plate has been discontinued after failing to prove its demand.
The “Values Life” specialty license plate debuted in July 2018 and had until Dec. 31, 2019 to receive 3,000 active registrations. It fell short of that quota.
According to a DMV spokesperson, 2,005 of the specialty were plates were registered by the midnight deadline.
The plate was a fundraising project of the Women’s Resource Medical Centers of Southern Nevada, which describes its mission as helping “save the lives of unborn children by sharing the love of Jesus Christ through spiritual, physical, emotional and educational support to our clients.” The center explicitly states it does not recommend, provide or refer for abortions.
Those Nevadans who signed up for the “Values Life” license plate will be able to keep them and re-register them, with $20 of the renewal fee going to WRMCSN.
Nevada has some of the least restrictive abortion laws in the country.
Also discontinued for failing to garner enough support is the “Heritage of Sparks” specialty license plate, which featured Last Chance Joe and supports the Sparks Heritage Museum and Cultural Center.

​Source:April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current
Original article: https://www.nevadacurrent.com/blog/nevadas-anti-abortion-license-plate-discontinued-after-lack-of-support/

RENO, Nev. — Commissioners accepted a 2018 Nevada State Emergency Response Commission, United We Stand grant on Tuesday, September 11. 
“We find it very fitting that Commissioners approved this grant that fights Acts of Terrorism on the seventeenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks,” says John Slaughter, Washoe County Manager. “While you can never fully anticipate these attacks, Washoe County is always working to ensure our preparedness and we will forever remember 9/11.”
The source of this funding comes from fees collected from the sale and annual renewal of the United We Stand specialty license plates.
The grant provides funding to the Washoe County Local Emergency Planning Committee for Planning, Training and Equipment purchases.
The grant funding is allocated to improve state and local government planning, training and response capabilities to react to Acts of Terrorism.
The total funding of over $25,000 will be distributed, based on the Sub-Grant Agreements between Washoe County and local partners, to the Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority, Reno Police Department, and the Washoe County School District.

​Michael Towner

Nevada's Department of Motor Vehicles has released a new specialty license plate that is aimed at increasing motorists' awareness of the safety of other road users. The plate will feature a “Share the Road” message, along with images of a bicycle and a pedestrian.

It will cost $61 to purchase one of these plates, and $30 to renew it. A significant portion of these fees will go toward supporting safety campaigns run by the Nevada Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board.

“This license plate will not only bring awareness of how important it is for us all to share the road, it will also help fund safe bicycle and walking programs and projects,” Nevada Transportation Department Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager Bill Story said.

With dramatic advancements in printing technology and the use of “flat plates” instead of the embossed plates that require special and now obsolete printing presses, more states — including Nevada — are able to offer a much wider variety of license plates for those who want to support a given cause.

Nevada currently has a total of 46 different specialty license plates in its inventory. But per state law, DMV only offers 25-30 of them at any one time. To be on that list of offerings, each plate must have at least 1,000 active plates.

The state began offering the “Nevada 150” Sesquicentennial plates in July, 2013 as the governor and others urged vehicle owners to show their pride in Nevada’s 150th birthday as a state. There are now nearly 11,000 Nevada Sesquicentennial license plates on the road, making the plate honoring the state’s 150th anniversary of statehood one of the most popular in DMV’s inventory. The dark blue plate with a full-color state seal has proven extremely popular.

But according to the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, that plate has a long way to go to become the most popular designer plate among Nevada drivers. Far and away the most popular specialty plate is the Las Vegas commemorative plate. A total of 85,700 Nevadans have chosen to put that plate on their car, truck or motorcycle. That’s almost eight times the number of dark blue “Nevada 150” plates, which currently adorn 10,795 vehicles.

Second to Las Vegas is the Lake Tahoe plate, which is sported by 17,389 vehicles, including 91 motorcycles.

Third is the “United We Stand” plate on 16,768 vehicles.