State lawmakers voted Friday to ban telltale rental car license tags in an effort to protect tourists, but backed off a proposal to remove county names from all Florida license plates. Under the bill, Florida's 620,000 rental cars could no longer carry tags beginning with Y or Z or containing the word "lease," which criminals often use to target tourists for robbery or other crimes. "Let's take away that bull's-eye from a tourist that says, "I'm a tourist. I'm a great target,'" said Sen. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Miami. The move follows the violent deaths of seven tourists in Florida this past season and a wave of worldwide negative publicity about crime in Florida. Several anti-crime commissions have recommended removing the license plates. Gov. Lawton Chiles previously suspended a law requiring rental cars to carry identifying plates and encouraged companies to exchange them for new tags. About 220,000 of the vehicles already have new plates. The bill, which passed the House 105-0 and the Senate 37-0 in the last minutes of a special session on prisons early Friday, also prohibits rental car companies from attaching "conspicuous identifying letters or phrases" such as advertising bumper stickers to the vehicles. "Hopefully, this is going to save lives," said Sen. Howard Forman, D-Pembroke Pines. At one point, lawmakers had voted to remove all county names from Florida license plates in favor of the statewide label "The Sunshine State." But that change was removed by a House amendment, leaving the county labels intact. The House added an amendment leaving a bar code sticker on rental cars, which Sen. Ken Jenne, D-Fort Lauderdale, said would still enable criminals to easily target tourists. "We haven't eliminated the danger to the tourists who are coming to the state of Florida," Jenne said. "We will still have deaths." Rental car companies complained they need the stickers to track inventory and that removing them would cost too much money. Sen. John Grant, R-Tampa, said the bar codes are not the problem. "It's the Mickey Mouse hats in the back and the kids _ you don't have to be too bright to figure out who's rented a car to go to Disney World," Grant said. "This is an intrusion into the free enterprise system."