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Missouri House Looks To Block Jayhawk On License Plates

Missouri license plates won’t be sporting Kansas Jayhawks logos anytime soon if the Missouri House has its way.

The House approved an amendment to a higher education bill Tuesday allowing only Missouri schools to be featured on license plates.

An effort to create a University of Kansas specialty plate in Missouri began a year ago, well before the University of Missouri bolted the Big 12 Conference for the SEC. The move ends the historic Jayhawk-Tigers rivalry.

The amendment’s sponsor, Democrat Stephen Webber, says he’ll remove his amendment or seek to repeal it if Kansas challenges Missouri to a football or basketball game next school year.

Missouri recently approved its first specialty plate for an out-of-state school — Pittsburg State University, in southeastern Kansas. It wasn’t clear Tuesday what Webber’s amendment means for that plate.

 

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