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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                 HB 441

        By Representative Cantens






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to specialty license plates;

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

  4         providing for a Breast Cancer Research license

  5         plate; providing for a use fee; directing the

  6         Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles

  7         to develop a Breast Cancer Research license

  8         plate; providing for the distribution and use

  9         of fees; providing an effective date.

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11         WHEREAS, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer

12  death for all women between the ages of 20 and 59, with a

13  woman being diagnosed every 2 minutes or succumbing to the

14  disease every 13 minutes, and

15         WHEREAS, in Florida, over 12,000 women are diagnosed

16  with the disease annually and approximately 3,000 women in the

17  state die annually, and breast cancer is the leading cause of

18  cancer death for women in Florida between the ages of 20 and

19  59, with a woman being diagnosed every 2 minutes or succumbing

20  to the disease every 13 minutes, and

21         WHEREAS, men are at risk of breast cancer and are also

22  affected as husbands, fathers, brothers, and friends of women

23  with the disease, and

24         WHEREAS, each year, thousands of children are

25  traumatized when their mothers or fathers are diagnosed with

26  or die of breast cancer, and

27         WHEREAS, breast cancer takes an astonishing toll on the

28  economy through health care costs, lost work days, and lowered

29  productivity, both for those in treatment and for their

30  caregivers, and

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  1         WHEREAS, the only hope of ending this epidemic disease

  2  is through research aimed at discovering its cause, its cure,

  3  and, most importantly, its prevention, and

  4         WHEREAS, the Florida Breast Cancer Coalition was

  5  founded in 1995 to ensure funding for breast cancer research

  6  and to develop resources for research into this deadly disease

  7  and its cure, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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

12  of 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         (ff)  Breast Cancer Research license plate, $25.

17         Section 2.  Subsection (32) is added to section

18  320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read:

19         320.08058  Specialty license plates.--

20         (32)  BREAST CANCER RESEARCH LICENSE PLATES.--

21         (a)  The Department of Highway Safety and Motor

22  Vehicles shall develop a Breast Cancer Research license plate

23  as provided in this section. The plate shall be designed to

24  include a figure on the left side of the plate with a pink

25  ribbon on the chest, along with a pink banner displaying the

26  Florida Breast Cancer Coalition (FBCC) website. The background

27  shall be blue and the words "End Breast Cancer" shall appear

28  at the top of the plate. The word "Florida" must appear at the

29  bottom of the plate.

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  1         (b)  The department shall distribute the Breast Cancer

  2  Research license plate annual use fee to the Florida Breast

  3  Cancer Coalition Research Foundation to be used as follows:

  4         1.  All fees collected shall be forwarded quarterly to

  5  the Florida Breast Cancer Coalition Research Foundation.

  6         2.  The foundation shall provide for a peer review

  7  grant solicitation and award process to distribute fees for

  8  breast cancer research and education in the State of Florida.

  9  Research funding shall be made available for:

10         a.  Basic, clinical, and translational breast cancer

11  research.

12         b.  Epidemiological studies of breast cancer.

13         c.  Research on possible links between breast cancer

14  and the environment.

15         d.  Psychoimmunological research.

16         e.  Innovative awards and idea grants.

17         (c)1.  In the first year that the plate is issued, no

18  more than 25 percent of the fees collected may be used for

19  administrative costs directly associated with the operation of

20  the Florida Breast Cancer Coalition Research Foundation and

21  marketing and promotion of the Florida breast cancer research

22  concept and license plate.

23         2.  In the second and subsequent years that the plate

24  is sold, no more then 20 percent of the fees collected may be

25  used for administrative costs directly associated with the

26  operation of the Florida Breast Cancer Coalition Research

27  Foundation and marketing and promotion of the Florida breast

28  cancer research concept and license plate.

29         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

30  law.

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  4    Vehicles to develop a Breast Cancer Research license
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