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11  Senator Brown-Waite moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 2, between lines 28 and 29,

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17         Section 3.  Paragraph (z) is added to subsection (4) of

18  section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, to read:

19         320.08056  Specialty license plates.--

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

21  be collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:

22         (z)  Choose Clothes license plate, $20.

23         Section 4.  Subsection (26) is added to section

24  320.08058, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, to read:

25         320.08058  Specialty license plates.--

26         (26)  CHOOSE CLOTHES LICENSE PLATES.--

27         (a)  The department shall develop a Choose Clothes

28  license plate as provided in this section. The word "Florida"

29  must appear at the bottom of the plate, and the words "Choose

30  Clothes" must appear at the top of the plate.

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

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

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

 3  plates within the state. Each county shall distribute the

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

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

 6  meeting the physical needs of pregnant women who are committed

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

 8  distributed to any agency that is involved or associated with

 9  abortion activities, including counseling for or referrals to

10  abortion clinics, providing medical abortion-related

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

12  distributed to any agency that charges women for services

13  received.

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

15  70 percent of the funds to provide for the material needs of

16  pregnant women who are committed to placing their children for

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

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

19  on infants awaiting placement with adoptive parents.

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

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

22  administrative expenses, legal expenses, or capital

23  expenditures.

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

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

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

27  lieu of the annual audit. The Office of Program Policy

28  Analysis and Government Accountability shall review the

29  expenditure of funds every 3 years to ensure that funds are

30  expended in accordance with this subsection. Any unused funds

31  that exceed 10 percent of the funds received by an agency

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 1  during its fiscal year must be returned to the county, which

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 8  And the title is amended as follows:

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12         amending ss. 320.08056 and 320.08058, F.S.;

13         creating a Choose Clothes license plate;

14         providing for the distribution of annual use

15         fees received from the sale of such plates;

16         providing certain limitations on the use of

17         such funds;

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