House Bill hb0079c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001               CS/HB 79

        By the Committee on Transportation and Representatives
    Greenstein, Bucher, Gannon and McGriff





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the transportation

  3         disadvantaged; amending s. 320.03, F.S.;

  4         imposing a fee for the registration of certain

  5         trucks, trailers, and motorcycles and for tag

  6         transfers and temporary tags to be deposited

  7         into the Transportation Disadvantaged Trust

  8         Fund; 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 (9) of section 320.03, Florida

13  Statutes, is amended to read:

14         320.03  Registration; duties of tax collectors;

15  International Registration Plan.--

16         (9)  A nonrefundable fee of $1.50 shall be charged on

17  the initial and renewal registration of each automobile for

18  private use, and on the initial and renewal registration of

19  each truck, regardless of having a net weight, except those

20  taxed under ss. 320.0715 and 320.08(4); each trailer, except

21  those taxed under s. 320.08(5)(a) and (b); and each motorcycle

22  and for each tag transfer and each temporary tag of 5,000

23  pounds or less. Such fees shall be deposited in the

24  Transportation Disadvantaged Trust Fund created in part I of

25  chapter 427 and shall be used as provided therein, except that

26  priority shall be given to the transportation needs of those

27  who, because of age or physical and mental disability, are

28  unable to transport themselves and are dependent upon others

29  to obtain access to health care, employment, education,

30  shopping, or other life-sustaining activities.

31         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001               CS/HB 79

    198-355-01






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      Imposes a nonrefundable fee for the initial and renewal
  4    registration of trucks, trailers, and motorcycles and for
      tag transfers and temporary tags to be deposited into the
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