This bill creates a legislative task force to review the special license plate process, requires the task force to report findings and recommendations to legislative committees by December 1, 2025, and sets the task force sections to expire December 1, 2026. It directs joint funding for task force expenses with expenditures subject to approval by specified legislative committees, authorizes legislative member travel reimbursement under RCW 44.04.120, and limits reimbursement for nonlegislative members under chapter 43.03 RCW; nonlegislative members who are elected officials or serving on behalf of an employer or governmental entity are not entitled to travel reimbursement. The bill amends RCW 46.18.060 to pause approval of new special license plate applications until June 30, 2029, except for plates created in House Bill No. 1368, Laws of 2025. It imposes new procedural duties on the agency that reviews special plate applications: review and accept or reject applications, review annual financial reports from sponsoring organizations, issue approval or rejection letters within seven days to sponsoring organizations, the joint transportation committee executive committee, and legislative sponsors, report annually to the joint transportation committee on applications considered, and annually review sales for plate series created after January 1, 2003 with authority to recommend discontinuation of a series. The act is contingent on enactment of House Bill No. 1368, Laws of 2025: if HB 1368 is not enacted by June 30, 2025, this act is null and void, and the act takes effect when HB 1368 is enacted. The text does not provide the chapter number or substantive text of HB 1368, and the statutory identity of "the department" is not explicitly stated in the provided material, so those specifics cannot be confirmed from the extracted facts.

If enacted, organizations that sponsor special license plates will effectively be blocked from getting any new plate approvals until June 30, 2029 (with an unspecified exception for plates tied to House Bill 1368), so groups planning new plates will need to pause those efforts and fundraising tied to new plate launches. The agency that reviews plates (implicitly the Department of Licensing) will have clearer, faster administrative duties: it must issue approval or rejection letters within seven days, review sponsors’ annual financial reports, track sales for plates created after 2003 and can recommend discontinuing underperforming series, which raises the likelihood some existing specialty plates could be phased out if sales are low. The legislature will fund and run a temporary task force to review the special plate process and report recommendations by December 1, 2025, with its expenses paid jointly by the senate and house and subject to committee approval; legislators on the task force can get travel reimbursement while most nonlegislative members will not unless their employer pays or state rules allow it. Key uncertainties remain because the text depends on the content and enactment of HB 1368 and does not explicitly name the reviewing agency, so the exact scope of the 2029 exception and who executes these duties cannot be fully determined from the provided facts.