New year, new license plate? 8 more special Kansas designs will be available in 2025
Eight new license plate designs are expected to become available for Kansas drivers in 2025 after the passing of a Kansas Senate bill in April.
The new designs pay tribute to the Kansas City Chiefs, the Sedgwick County Zoo, the Kansas City Royals, among other Kansas and KC institutions. They will all be available starting Jan. 1 or shortly after, the Kansas Department of Revenue told The Eagle.
While the designs still need to go through the approval process, once they’re approved drivers will be able to see them on KDOR’s website.
These new designs come after the state rolled out a new standardized license plate design, which replaced any outdated standard carved plates. That design was unveiled December 2023 but didn’t begin to be issued until August 2024. The state also recently changed its personalized license plate design to one voted on by Kansas drivers.
Drivers purchasing distinctive plates can expect to pay a $48.50 specialty plate fee as well as a royalty fee to the requesting organization, which can vary.
The new designs are just eight out of more than 60 distinctive plate designs that the state offers, which can all be found online. The KDOR reports the most popular plate design outside of the standard plate is the “Powering the Future” personalized plate.
Other distinctive license plate options include a Wichita State University design, a Friends University design, an antique design and more.
Kansas’ new license plate designs
Here’s a list of all the new distinctive license plate designs you can expect to see starting in 2025:
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Sedgwick County Zoo
- Kansas City Royals
- Sporting Kansas City
- Kansas City Current
- First City of Kansas (commemorating the city of Leavenworth)
- Topeka Zoo
- Support the Troops
