Senate Bill 1430c1

    Florida Senate - 1998                           CS for SB 1430

    By the Committee on Transportation and Senators Lee, Bronson,
    Clary, Grant, Horne, Dudley, Cowin, Diaz-Balart, Ostalkiewicz
    and Williams



    306-1957-98

  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 certain

  7         limitations on the use of such funds; providing

  8         a contingent effective date.

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

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

13  section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read:

14         320.08056  Specialty license plates.--

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

16  be collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:

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

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

19  320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read:

20         320.08058  Specialty license plates.--

21         (20)  CHOOSE LIFE LICENSE PLATES.--

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

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

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

25  must appear at the bottom of the plate.

26         (b)  The annual use fees shall be distributed annually

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

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

29  plates within the state. Each county shall distribute the

30  funds to nongovernmental, not-for-profit agencies within the

31  county, which agencies' services are limited to counseling and

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  1  meeting the physical needs of pregnant women who are committed

  2  to placing their children for adoption. Funds may not be

  3  distributed to any agency that is involved or associated with

  4  abortion activities, including counseling for or referrals to

  5  abortion clinics, providing medical abortion-related

  6  procedures, or pro-abortion advertising, and funds may not be

  7  distributed to any agency that charges women for services

  8  received.

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

10  70 percent of the funds to provide for the material needs of

11  pregnant women who are committed to placing their children for

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

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

14  on infants awaiting placement with adoptive parents.

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

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

17  administrative expenses, legal expenses, or capital

18  expenditures.

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

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

21  the county. The county may conduct a consolidated audit in

22  lieu of the annual audit. The Office of Policy Analysis and

23  Governmental Accountability shall review the expenditure of

24  funds every 3 years to ensure that funds are expended in

25  accordance with this subsection. Any unused funds that exceed

26  10 percent of the funds received by an agency during its

27  fiscal year must be returned to the county, which shall

28  distribute them to other qualified agencies.

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

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

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

  2  Legislature.

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  4          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  5                             SB 1430

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  7  Revises frequency of audits and permits counties to conduct
    consolidated audits. Provides for review of expenditures every
  8  3 years by the Office of Policy Analysis and Governmental
    Accountability.
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    Prohibits use of funds for legal services and receipt of funds
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