HB 1155 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to specialty license plates; amending ss.
3	320.08056, 320.08058, F.S.; renaming the Challenger
4	license plate as the Challenger/Columbia license plate;
5	providing an effective date.
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7	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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9	Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section
10	320.08056, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
11	320.08056 Specialty license plates.--
12	(4) The following license plate annual use fees shall be
13	collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:
14	(b) Challenger/ColumbiaChallengerlicense plate, $25,
15	except that a person that purchases 1,000 or more of such
16	Challengerlicense plates shall pay an annual use fee of $15 per
17	plate.
18	Section 2. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) of
19	section 320.08058, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
20	320.08058 Specialty license plates.--
21	(2) CHALLENGER/COLUMBIACHALLENGERLICENSE PLATES.--
22	(a) The department shall develop a Challenger/Columbia
23	Challengerlicense plate to commemorate the seven astronauts who
24	died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded on liftoff in
25	1986 and the seven astronauts who died when the Columbia
26	exploded on reentry in 2003. The word "Florida" shall appear at
27	the top of the plate, and the words "Challenger/Columbia"word
28	"Challenger" must appear at the bottom of the plate, both words
29	in small letters.
30	(b) Fifty percent of the Challenger/ColumbiaChallenger
31	license plate annual use fee must be distributed to the
32	Astronauts Memorial Foundation, Inc., to support the operations
33	of the Center for Space Education and the Education Technology
34	Institute. Funds received by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation,
35	Inc., may be used for administrative costs directly associated
36	with the operation of the center and the institute. These funds
37	must be used for the maintenance and support of the operations
38	of the Center for Space Education and the Education Technology
39	Institute operated by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, Inc.
40	These operations must include preservice and inservice training
41	in the use of technology for the state's instructional personnel
42	in a manner consistent with state training programs and approved
43	by the Department of Education. Up to 20 percent of funds
44	received by the Center for Space Education and the Education
45	Technology Institute may be expended for administrative costs
46	directly associated with the operation of the center and the
47	institute.
48	Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.