Senate Bill 1430

    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1430

    By Senators Lee, Bronson, Clary, Grant, Horne, Dudley, Cowin,
    Diaz-Balart and Ostalkiewicz




    23-234A-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to license plates; amending ss.

  3         320.08056, 320.08058, F.S.; creating a Choose

  4         Life license plate; providing for the

  5         distribution of annual use fees received from

  6         the sale of such plates; providing a contingent

  7         effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (t) is added to subsection (4) of

12  section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read:

13         320.08056  Specialty license plates.--

14         (4)  The following license plate annual use fees shall

15  be collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:

16         (t)  Choose Life license plate, $20.

17         Section 2.  Subsection (20) is added to section

18  320.08058, Florida Statutes, 1996 Supplement, to read:

19         320.08058  Specialty license plates.--

20         (20)  CHOOSE LIFE LICENSE PLATES.--

21         (a)  The department shall develop a Choose Life license

22  plate as provided in this section. The word "Florida" must

23  appear at the top of the plate, and the words "Choose Life"

24  must appear at the bottom of the plate.

25         (b)  The annual use fees shall be distributed quarterly

26  to each county in the ratio that the annual use fees collected

27  by each county bears to the total fees collected for the

28  plates within the state. Each county shall distribute the

29  funds to nongovernmental agencies within the county, which

30  agencies' services are limited to counseling and meeting the

31  physical needs of pregnant women who are committed to placing

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  1  their children for adoption. Funds may not be distributed to

  2  any agency that is involved or associated with abortion

  3  activities, including counseling for or referrals to abortion

  4  clinics, providing medical abortion-related procedures, or

  5  pro-abortion advertising.

  6         1.  Agencies that receive the funds must use at least

  7  70 percent of the funds to provide for the material needs of

  8  pregnant women who are committed to placing their children for

  9  adoption, including clothing, housing, medical care, food,

10  utilities, and transportation. Such funds may also be expended

11  on infants awaiting placement with adoptive parents.

12         2.  The remaining funds may be used for adoption,

13  counseling, training, or advertising, but may not be used for

14  administrative expenses or capital expenditures.

15         3.  Each agency that receives such funds must submit an

16  annual audit, prepared by a certified public accountant, to

17  the county. Any unused funds that exceed 10 percent of the

18  funds received by an agency during its fiscal year must be

19  returned to the county, which shall distribute them to other

20  qualified agencies.

21         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998,

22  but it shall not take effect unless it is enacted by at least

23  a three-fifths vote of the membership of each house of the

24  Legislature.

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27                          SENATE SUMMARY

28    Creates a Choose Life license plate and provides for the
      distribution of annual use fees.
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