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Florida Senate - 2001 SB 2116
By Senator Clary
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to motor vehicles; amending s.
3 320.084, F.S.; allowing certain disabled
4 veterans to purchase additional disabled
5 veterans license plates; amending s. 320.0848,
6 F.S.; authorizing certain additional health
7 care professionals to issue certifications of
8 disability; providing an 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. Subsection (6) is added to section 320.084,
13 Florida Statutes, to read:
14 320.084 Free motor vehicle license plate to certain
15 disabled veterans.--
16 (6) A disabled veteran who has received a free license
17 plate under this section may purchase additional disabled
18 veterans license plates. The cost for additional plates may
19 not exceed the cost provided in s. 320.06(1)(b).
20 Section 2. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of
21 section 320.0848, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
22 320.0848 Persons who have disabilities; issuance of
23 disabled parking permits; temporary permits; permits for
24 certain providers of transportation services to persons who
25 have disabilities.--
26 (1)(a) The Department of Highway Safety and Motor
27 Vehicles or its authorized agents shall, upon application and
28 receipt of the fee, issue a disabled parking permit for a
29 period of up to 4 years, which period ends on the applicant's
30 birthday, to any person who has long-term mobility impairment,
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1 or a temporary disabled parking permit not to exceed 1 year to
2 any person who has a temporary mobility impairment.
3 (b)1. The person must be currently certified as being
4 legally blind or as having any of the following disabilities
5 that render him or her unable to walk 200 feet without
6 stopping to rest:
7 a. Inability to walk without the use of or assistance
8 from a brace, cane, crutch, prosthetic device, or other
9 assistive device, or without the assistance of another person.
10 If the assistive device significantly restores the person's
11 ability to walk to the extent that the person can walk without
12 severe limitation, the person is not eligible for the
13 exemption parking permit.
14 b. The need to permanently use a wheelchair.
15 c. Restriction by lung disease to the extent that the
16 person's forced (respiratory) expiratory volume for 1 second,
17 when measured by spirometry, is less than 1 liter, or the
18 person's arterial oxygen is less than 60 mm/hg on room air at
19 rest.
20 d. Use of portable oxygen.
21 e. Restriction by cardiac condition to the extent that
22 the person's functional limitations are classified in severity
23 as Class III or Class IV according to standards set by the
24 American Heart Association.
25 f. Severe limitation in the person's ability to walk
26 due to an arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic condition.
27 2. The certification of disability which is required
28 under subparagraph 1. must be provided by a physician licensed
29 under chapter 458, chapter 459, or chapter 460, by a podiatric
30 physician licensed under chapter 461, by an optometrist
31 licensed under chapter 463, by the Adjudication Office of the
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1 United States Department of Veterans Affairs or its
2 predecessor, or by a similarly licensed physician from another
3 state if the application is accompanied by documentation of
4 the physician's licensure in the other state and a form signed
5 by the out-of-state physician verifying his or her knowledge
6 of this state's eligibility guidelines, by an advanced
7 registered nurse practitioner licensed under chapter 464 in a
8 facility operated by the United States Department of Veterans
9 Affairs under the protocol of a licensed physician, or by a
10 physician assistant licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459
11 in a facility operated by the United States Department of
12 Veterans Affairs.
13 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
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16 SENATE SUMMARY
17 Provides for certain disabled veterans to purchase
additional disabled license plates. Provides for advanced
18 nurse practitioners and physician assistants employed by
the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to
19 certify disabilities.
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