SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Lawmakers in Utah have advanced a tighter ban on personalized license plates that have disparaging words or messages after a plate spelling out deport them sparked debate on social media.

The state Senate Transportation Committee voted Thursday to forward a bill for full Senate consideration that would further restrict what can be said on vanity license plates, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday.

The bill would ban plates that disparage anyone based on race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship status or a physical or mental disability, officials said.

The current ban prohibits plates that are offensive to good taste and decency, which the state Division of Motor Vehicles considers on its website any plate that expresses contempt, ridicule or superiority of a race, religion, deity, ethnic heritage, gender or political affiliation, lawmakers said.

Republican committee chairman Wayne Harper was the only dissenting vote, arguing “someone could take offense at anything put on a personalized plate. By doing this, you are almost saying we need to get rid of personalized plate, period.”

The plate spelling out deport them has been in use since 2015 and had received at least three previous complaints to the state, officials said. The owner of the plate was notified that it was revoked, beginning a 30-period for appeal, the state Tax Commission said.