period 1/1/1977 - 2/29/2024

Official, Boards/Commissions and Military

Veteran's may retain old plate as a memento [1/13/1987 SB75]

single plate to former Senate President Pro Tempore, Rembert C. Dennis [12/13/1989 HB3593]

Special-Purpose District Commissioners [12/13/1989 HB3694, 2/9/1995 HB3569, 3/16/1999 SB612]

Civil Air Patrol [1/8/1991 SB21, 4/6/1993 SB640, 4/9/1996 SB1344]

General William C. Westmoreland [1/21/1992 SB1173]

Selective Service Board [5/21/1992 HB4297, 1/13/1994 HB3098]

Pilotage Commission [5/3/1994 SB1254; 3/25/1995 SB288; 1/14/2003 SB11]

regional Tourism Commissioners [1/19/1995 HB3322]

Coast Guard Auxiliary [3/28/1995 SB524, 3/28/2023 HB4186]

Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities board members [4/22/1997 HB4050]

Violence Prevention Authority [1/20/1999 HB3309, 3/9/2000 SB145, 2/1/2001 HB3431]

GLEAMNS Human Resources [6/1/2006 HB 4515, 4/25/2007 HB3995

Storm Eye Institute (directors and staff only) [4/28/2008 SB773]

Afghanistan War Veteran [1/24/2023 HB3171, 4/9/2024 SB1243]

Military Veteran Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [1/31/2023 HB3342]

Standard Plates

slogan on standard plates "Nothing Could Be Finer" [2/5/1985 HB2322] (this would become the slogan on Personalized in 1991)

front and rear (pairs) [12/6/1976 HB2013, 3/8/1977 HB2599, 5/8/1985 SB623, 1/12/1988 HB3301, 2/23/1989 SB433, 3/3/1993 HB3602]

American Red Cross owned-vehicles [5/5/1988 SB1494]

require Legislative approval of design [2/27/1990 HB4739]

require County names [12/13/1989 HB3513, 3/22/1994 HB4317]

slogan on standard plates "The Motor State" [4/1/1997 HB3796]

change to single-year registration [4/6/2021 HB4151, SB727, 3/15/2023 SB635, 1/24/2024 HB4938]

Specialty

High School or College/University booster clubs [5/17/1983 SB153]

county or region specific [4/28/1994 SB649]

out-of-state Colleges and Universities [4/28/1994 SB855, 2/8/1995 SB473, 5/20/1999 SB846] *superseded by non-profit organization provision

Organ Transplant recipients [1/9/1996 SB965 and HB4314, 3/6/1996 SB1227]

Girl Scouts [1/10/1996 SB999, 1/23/1996 HB4481]

Coastal Improvement Fund [3/13/1996 SB1249]

Lake Murray [3/4/1997 HB3589]

Animal Abuse Prevention [3/22/2001 HB3782]

Sertoma International [6/7/2001 HB3920]

"Project Pet" [1/15/2002 SB743] *later became "No More Homeless Pets"

Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Fund [3/5/2002 HB1088, 4/2/2003 SB545]

Law Enforcement Supporter [4/2/2003 SB551]

Harley Davidson Owners [4/16/2003 SB623]

Choose Death; "Choose Life"/"Choose Abortion"; "Choose Life" and "Pro Choice" [1/14/2003 HB3285, 1/26/2005 SB350, 1/26/2005 HB3382, 1/25/2005 SB329]

"School Choice - The Right Choice" [1/25/2005 SB330]

State Museum [1/30/2008 HB4610]

Delta Waterfowl [4/29/2015 HB3549]

NFL teams [5/6/2015 HB4137, 1/10/2017 HB3267]

Motorcycle Awareness [1/27/2016 SB1031]

United States Submarine Veterans, Inc [2/2/2016 HB4796]

Fallen Officer [1/14/2020 HB4742] 

alter Sons of Confederate Veterans to remove logo [1/12/2021 HB3091, 1/10/2023 HB3377]

"Emanuel 9" [1/11/2022 HB4619]

Officials

County Sheriff and County Coroner [5/25/1999 SB859, 1/10/2001 SB109]

County Coroner, County Auditor and County Treasurer [6/1/1999 HB4202]

Types

School Bus not to contain more than 3 characters [1/21/1982 HB3443, 4/5/1983 HB2803, 3/24/1987 HB2506, 2/21/1989 HB3308, 2/26/1991 HB3454, 4/14/1993 HB4096]

car rental companies [1/17/1989 HB3231]

Repair Test-Driving [4/30/2008 SB1344]

Medium Speed Vehicle [2/12/2009 SB419]

Utility Terrain Vehicle [3/10/2022 HB3600]

Trucks >26,000 lbs replaced annually [1/9/2024 HB4671]