Bill Text: FL S1238 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Specialty License Plates/Florida Bay Forever

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2015-05-01 - Died in Transportation [S1238 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S1238-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                                    SB 1238
       
       
        
       By Senator Bullard
       
       
       
       
       
       39-01034-15                                           20151238__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to specialty license plates; amending
    3         ss. 320.08056 and 320.08058, F.S.; requiring the
    4         Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to
    5         create a Florida Bay Forever license plate;
    6         establishing an annual use fee for the plate;
    7         providing for the distribution of use fees received
    8         from the sale of such plates; providing an effective
    9         date.
   10          
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Paragraph (iiii) is added to subsection (4) of
   14  section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read:
   15         320.08056 Specialty license plates.—
   16         (4) The following license plate annual use fees shall be
   17  collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:
   18         (iiii) Florida Bay Forever license plate, $25.
   19         Section 2. Subsection (87) is added to section 320.08058,
   20  Florida Statutes, to read:
   21         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   22         (87) FLORIDA BAY FOREVER LICENSE PLATES.—
   23         (a) Notwithstanding s. 45 of chapter 2008-176, Laws of
   24  Florida, as amended by s. 45 of chapter 2014-216, Laws of
   25  Florida, and s. 320.08053(1), the department shall develop a
   26  Florida Bay Forever license plate as provided in s. 320.08053(2)
   27  and (3) and this section. The word “Florida” must appear at the
   28  top of the plate and the words “Florida Bay Forever” must appear
   29  at the bottom of the plate.
   30         (b) The department shall retain all annual use fees from
   31  the sale of such plates until all startup costs for developing
   32  and issuing the plates have been recovered. Thereafter, the
   33  annual use fees shall be distributed to the Florida National
   34  Park Association, Inc., which may use up to 10 percent of such
   35  fees for administrative costs and marketing of the plate. The
   36  balance of the fees shall be used to supplement the Everglades
   37  National Park service’s budgets and to support educational,
   38  interpretive, historical, and scientific research relating to
   39  the Everglades National Park.
   40         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.