Radio Iowa You are here: Home Bill would ditch Iowa’s requirement for front bumper license plates Two Republican senators are working on a bill that would end the requirement that Iowa license plates be attached to the front as well as the rear of passenger vehicles. The owners of sports cars and vehicles with large front grills complain that license plates ruin the appearance of the vehicle. “All of brackets that you see on people’s front bumpers are aftermarket, usually done by the dealer, hopefully, done by the dealer,” Brad Epperly, a lobbyist for the Iowa Automobile Dealers Association, said during a Senate subcommittee hearing. “That’s the other part of this which is there is a growing amount of technology in the bumpers themselves. We do have do-it-yourselfers out there. Mounting a bracket does potentially jeopardize the technology that’s in the bumper.”