# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-07-09T21:34:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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Fans of Venus flytraps and specialty license plates can rejoice. After years of being in the works, North Carolina will now see a new design featuring the unique plant added to their Rolodex plate options.

With Governor Roy Cooper signing a transportation bill that encompasses many DMV changes on Wednesday, one inclusion was the remnants of a bill proposed to add a ‘Home of the Venus Flytrap’ license plate – and its origins stem from Chapel Hill.

The North Carolina Botanical Garden’s advocacy nonprofit teamed up with the Friends of Plant Conservation in Raleigh in 2019 to create a specialty license plate about the carnivorous plant, which is native only to the state’s southeastern coasts. The goal of the plate is to raise money to help with the botanical garden’s research and conservation of Venus flytraps, with $20 of the annual $30 fee for drivers with the plate going toward its nonprofit.

But the bill has had a long journey. After receiving hundreds of pre-orders from DMV customers and being introduced to the N.C. House by District 56 Rep. Verla Insko in 2020, it was grouped in with other specialty plates and failed to gain traction.
After Allen Buansi was elected to the district, which serves Chapel Hill and Carrboro, he came across the effort while researching which measures Insko was a sponsor for.

The bill passed the House unanimously in 2023. But it stalled out in the Senate, which Buansi says has a reputation for not voting on specialty license plate additions. But he said through much cooperation and collaboration, it was included with the other DMV changes in the latest bill.

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#northcarolina #dmv #venusflytrap

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