Bill Text: FL S0314 | 2020 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Specialty License Plates/Toastmasters

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2020-03-14 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development [S0314 Detail]

Download: Florida-2020-S0314-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2020                              CS for SB 314
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Infrastructure and Security; and Senator
       Stewart
       
       
       
       
       596-03041-20                                           2020314c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to specialty license plates; amending
    3         s. 320.08058, F.S.; directing the Department of
    4         Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a
    5         Toastmasters license plate; providing for the
    6         distribution and use of fees collected from the sale
    7         of such plates; providing a contingent effective date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (85) is added to section 320.08058,
   12  Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   14         (85) TOASTMASTERS LICENSE PLATES.—
   15         (a) The department shall develop a Toastmasters license
   16  plate as provided in this section and s. 320.08053. The plate
   17  must bear the colors and design approved by the department. The
   18  word “Florida” must appear at the top of the plate, and the
   19  words “www.Toastmasters.org” must appear at the bottom of the
   20  plate.
   21         (b) The annual use fees from the sale of the plate shall be
   22  distributed to the Ralph C. Smedley Memorial Fund of
   23  Toastmasters International, a s. 501(c)(3) nonprofit
   24  organization, of which:
   25         1. Twenty-five percent shall be used to develop charitable
   26  and educational programs for the indigent, homeless, visually
   27  and hearing disabled, incarcerated, and youth populations that
   28  are unable to afford or to participate in established
   29  Toastmasters programs. Up to five percent of this distribution
   30  may be used for administrative expenses.
   31         2. Seventy-five percent shall be proportionally
   32  redistributed to the divisions of Districts 47, 48, 77, and 84
   33  of Toastmasters International which reside in this state. Up to
   34  five percent of this distribution may be used for marketing of
   35  the plate, and the remainder shall be used for educators,
   36  nonprofits, governmental organizations, scholarships, materials,
   37  and computers and other equipment for the purpose of
   38  implementing the charitable and educational programs for the
   39  indigent, homeless, visually and hearing disabled, incarcerated,
   40  and youth populations that are unable to afford or to
   41  participate in the established Toastmasters programs.
   42         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2020, but
   43  only if SB 316 or similar legislation takes effect, if such
   44  legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an
   45  extension thereof and becomes a law.