Florida Senate - 2011 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 196
Barcode 397918
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: FAV .
03/17/2011 .
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The Committee on Transportation (Storms) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
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6 Section 1. Subsection (29) of section 320.08058, Florida
7 Statutes, is amended to read:
8 320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
9 (29) CHOOSE LIFE LICENSE PLATES.—
10 (a) The department shall develop a Choose Life license
11 plate as provided in this section. The word “Florida” must
12 appear at the bottom of the plate, and the words “Choose Life”
13 must appear at the top of the plate.
14 (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed annually to
15 Choose Life, Inc., along with a report that specifies each
16 county in the ratio that the annual use fees collected by each
17 county bear bears to the total fees collected for the plates
18 within the state. Choose Life, Inc., Each county shall
19 distribute the funds to nongovernmental, not-for-profit agencies
20 that assist within the county, which agencies’ services are
21 limited to counseling and meeting the physical needs of pregnant
22 women who are making an adoption plan for their children
23 committed to placing their children for adoption. Funds may not
24 be distributed to any agency that is involved or associated with
25 abortion activities, including counseling for or referrals to
26 abortion clinics, providing medical abortion-related procedures,
27 or proabortion advertising, and funds may not be distributed to
28 any agency that charges women for services received.
29 1. Agencies that receive the funds must use at least 70
30 percent of the funds to provide for the material needs of
31 pregnant women who are making an adoption plan for their
32 children committed to placing their children for adoption,
33 including, but not limited to, clothing, housing, medical care,
34 food, utilities, and transportation. Such funds may also be
35 expended on birth mothers for 60 days after delivery and on
36 infants awaiting placement with adoptive parents.
37 2. The remaining Funds may also be used for adoption
38 related adoption, counseling, training, or advertising, but may
39 not be used for administrative expenses, legal expenses, or
40 capital expenditures. However, a maximum of 20 percent of the
41 total funds received annually may be used by Choose Life, Inc.,
42 for the administration and promotion of the Choose Life license
43 plate program.
44 3. Each agency that receives such funds must submit an
45 annual attestation to Choose Life, Inc. the county. Any unused
46 funds that exceed 10 percent of the funds received by an agency
47 each during its fiscal year must be returned to Choose Life,
48 Inc. the county, which shall distribute the funds them to other
49 qualified agencies.
50 (c) By October 1, 2011, the department and each county
51 shall transfer all of its Choose Life license plate funds to
52 Choose Life, Inc.
53 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.
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55 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
56 And the title is amended as follows:
57 Delete everything before the enacting clause
58 and insert:
59 A bill to be entitled
60 An act relating to Choose Life license plates;
61 amending s. 320.08058, F.S.; providing for the annual
62 use fees to be distributed to Choose Life, Inc.,
63 rather than the counties; providing for Choose Life,
64 Inc., to redistribute a portion of such funds to
65 nongovernmental, not-for-profit agencies that assist
66 certain pregnant women; authorizing Choose Life, Inc.,
67 to use a portion of the funds to administer and
68 promote the Choose Life license plate program;
69 providing an effective date.