Senate Bill sb1698

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1698

    By Senator Posey





    24-911-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to specialty license plates;

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

  4         renaming the Challenger license plate as the

  5         Challenger/Columbia license plate; providing an

  6         effective date.

  7

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

  9

10         Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section

11  320.08056, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

12         320.08056  Specialty license plates.--

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

14  be collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:

15         (b)  Challenger/Columbia Challenger license plate, $25,

16  except that a person that purchases 1,000 or more of such

17  Challenger license plates shall pay an annual use fee of $15

18  per plate.

19         Section 2.  Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) of

20  section 320.08058, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

21         320.08058  Specialty license plates.--

22         (2)  CHALLENGER/COLUMBIA CHALLENGER LICENSE PLATES.--

23         (a)  The department shall develop a Challenger/Columbia

24  Challenger license plate to commemorate the seven astronauts

25  who died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded on liftoff

26  in 1986 and the seven astronauts who died when the Columbia

27  exploded on reentry in 2003. The word "Florida" shall appear

28  at the top of the plate, and the words "Challenger/Columbia"

29  word "Challenger" must appear at the bottom of the plate, both

30  words in small letters.

31

                                  1

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1698
    24-911-03




  1         (b)  Fifty percent of the Challenger/Columbia

  2  Challenger license plate annual use fee must be distributed to

  3  the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, Inc., to support the

  4  operations of the Center for Space Education and the Education

  5  Technology Institute. Funds received by the Astronauts

  6  Memorial Foundation, Inc., may be used for administrative

  7  costs directly associated with the operation of the center and

  8  the institute. These funds must be used for the maintenance

  9  and support of the operations of the Center for Space

10  Education and the Education Technology Institute operated by

11  the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, Inc. These operations must

12  include preservice and inservice training in the use of

13  technology for the state's instructional personnel in a manner

14  consistent with state training programs and approved by the

15  Department of Education.  Up to 20 percent of funds received

16  by the Center for Space Education and the Education Technology

17  Institute may be expended for administrative costs directly

18  associated with the operation of the center and the institute.

19         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

20

21            *****************************************

22                          SENATE SUMMARY

23    Renames the Challenger license plate as the
      Challenger/Columbia license plate.
24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

                                  2

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.