POLK COUNTY (Bay News 9) -- Bill Stephens, who runs Life Choice Care Center in Inverness, is looking to open Citrus County's first adoption agency.

The effort started because of yellow specialty license plates.

Citrus County has more $60,000 from the "Choose Life" specialty plate in an account, but right now they don't have any groups they can give it to.

State law will only allow the money to go agencies that help with adoption, and Life Care Center doesn't do that.

"When you get those funds you spend 30 on this and 70 on that, and we're really not in a position where we're spending the other 70," Stephens said.

The Life Choice Care Center helps women cope with unexpected and sometimes unwanted pregnancies. Years ago Stephens says he was a client of a similar center.

"I and my college girlfriend went to there and got a pregnancy test that was positive," Stephens said.

Stephens eventually married his college sweetheart, and they have four kids. He says he still thinks about the first pregnancy they ultimately decided to terminate the pregnancy rather than adopt out.

"It was definitely something we never considered," Stephens said.

According to Choose Life Inc., the specialty plates have raised more than $5 million in Florida with more than 40,000 vehicles driving around with the plates.

Each county receives a portion of the money from the plates purchased there.