Bill Text: FL S0140 | 2014 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

Florida Senate Bill 140 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Driver Licenses

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2014-05-02 - Died in Appropriations, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 7015 (Ch. 2014-1) [S0140 Detail]

Download: Florida-2014-S0140-Comm_Sub.html

       Florida Senate - 2014                       CS for CS for SB 140
       
       
        
       By the Committees on Transportation; and Military and Veterans
       Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; and Senator Bradley
       
       
       
       
       596-00651A-14                                          2014140c2
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to driver licenses; amending s.
    3         322.031, F.S.; providing that the spouse of a member
    4         of the United States Armed Forces is not required to
    5         obtain a Florida driver license because he or she
    6         enters his or her children in public school in this
    7         state under certain circumstances; providing that a
    8         dependent of a member of the United States Armed
    9         Forces is not required to obtain a Florida driver
   10         license under certain circumstances; updating
   11         terminology; amending s. 322.121, F.S.; providing that
   12         the spouse of a member of the United States Armed
   13         Forces is granted an automatic extension for the
   14         expiration of a certain class of driver license under
   15         certain circumstances; providing an effective date.
   16          
   17  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   18  
   19         Section 1. Section 322.031, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   20  read:
   21         322.031 Nonresident; when license required.—
   22         (1) In each every case in which a nonresident, except a
   23  nonresident migrant or seasonal farm worker as defined in s.
   24  316.003(61), accepts employment or engages in any trade,
   25  profession, or occupation in this state or enters his or her
   26  children to be educated in the public schools of this state,
   27  such nonresident shall, within 30 days after the commencement of
   28  such employment or education, be required to obtain a Florida
   29  driver driver’s license if such nonresident operates a motor
   30  vehicle on the highways of this state. The spouse or dependent
   31  child of such nonresident shall also be required to obtain a
   32  Florida driver driver’s license within that 30-day period before
   33  prior to operating a motor vehicle on the highways of this
   34  state.
   35         (2) A member of the United States Armed Forces on active
   36  duty in this state, his or her spouse, or a dependent residing
   37  with him or her, is shall not be required to obtain or display a
   38  Florida driver driver’s license if he or she is in possession of
   39  a valid military identification card and either a valid driver
   40  license or learner’s permit issued by another state, or a valid
   41  military driving permit. Such a person is not required to obtain
   42  or display a Florida driver license under this section solely
   43  because he or she enters his or her children to be educated in
   44  the public schools of this state or accepts employment or
   45  engages in any trade, profession, or occupation in this state if
   46  he or she has a valid military driving permit or a valid
   47  driver’s license issued by another state.
   48         (3) A nonresident who is domiciled in another state and who
   49  commutes into this state in order to work is shall not be
   50  required to obtain a Florida driver driver’s license under this
   51  section solely because he or she has accepted employment or
   52  engages in any trade, profession, or occupation in this state if
   53  he or she has a valid driver driver’s license issued by another
   54  state. Further, a any person who is enrolled as a student in a
   55  college or university and who is a nonresident but is in this
   56  state for a period of up to 6 months engaged in a work-study
   57  program for which academic credits are earned from a college
   58  whose credits or degrees are accepted for credit by at least
   59  three accredited institutions of higher learning, as defined in
   60  s. 1005.02, is shall not be required to obtain a Florida driver
   61  driver’s license for the duration of the work-study program if
   62  such person has a valid driver driver’s license issued by
   63  another state. A Any nonresident who is enrolled as a full-time
   64  student in any such institution of higher learning is also
   65  exempt from the requirement of obtaining a Florida driver
   66  driver’s license for the duration of such enrollment.
   67         (4) A nonresident who is at least 21 years of age and who
   68  has in his or her immediate possession a valid commercial driver
   69  driver’s license issued in substantial compliance with the
   70  Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 may operate a motor
   71  vehicle of the type permitted by his or her license to be
   72  operated in this state.
   73         Section 2. Subsection (5) of section 322.121, Florida
   74  Statutes, is amended to read:
   75         322.121 Periodic reexamination of all drivers.—
   76         (5) A member Members of the United States Armed Forces, his
   77  or her spouse, or a dependent their dependents residing with him
   78  or her them, shall be granted an automatic extension for the
   79  expiration of his or her their Class E license licenses without
   80  reexamination while the member of the United States Armed Forces
   81  is serving on active duty outside this state. This extension is
   82  valid for 90 days after the member of the United States Armed
   83  Forces is either discharged or returns to this state to live.
   84         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.