SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1840, 1st Eng.
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11 Senator Diaz de la Portilla moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 1. Paragraph (mm) is added to subsection (4)
19 of section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read:
20 320.08056 Specialty license plates.--
21 (4) The following license plate annual use fees shall
22 be collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:
23 (mm) Stop Heart Disease license plate, $25.
24 Section 2. Subsection (39) is added to section
25 320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read:
26 320.08058 Specialty license plates.--
27 (39) STOP HEART DISEASE LICENSE PLATES.--
28 (a) The department shall develop a Stop Heart Disease
29 license plate as provided in this section. Stop Heart Disease
30 license plates must bear the colors and design approved by the
31 department. The plate shall be designed to include a red,
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1 white, and blue background with a slanted heart shape in the
2 middle of the plate. The word "Florida" shall appear at the
3 top of the plate in yellow outlined in black, and the words
4 "Stop Heart Disease" shall appear at the bottom of the plate
5 in yellow.
6 (b) The department shall remit the proceeds of the
7 annual use fee to the Florida Heart Research Foundation, Inc.
8 The first $80,000 of the use fee given to the Florida Heart
9 Research Foundation, Inc., shall be used to pay startup costs,
10 including costs incurred developing and issuing the
11 plates. Thereafter, the Florida Heart Research Foundation,
12 Inc., shall provide for a peer review grant solicitation and
13 award process to distribute fees for cardiovascular disease
14 research, education, and prevention within the state and shall
15 make the funds available for any one or more of the following:
16 1. Quality research to pursue top quality
17 cardiovascular research that will further understanding of
18 heart disease and its cause, treatment, cure, and prevention.
19 Accepted projects must conform to the highest standards of
20 scientific research, be efficiently organized, and report
21 updates continually to ensure research credibility and
22 excellence.
23 2. Heart disease prevention programs to provide
24 cardiovascular screenings to state residents.
25 3. Educational programs to offer educational programs,
26 literature, seminars, or speakers for both clinicians and lay
27 people so that the latest risk factors, technologies,
28 treatments, methodologies, protocols, and preventive measures
29 are well known and used in the state.
30 (c) In the first year in which the plate is issued, no
31 more than 25 percent of the fees collected may be used for
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1 administrative costs directly associated with the operation of
2 the Florida Heart Research Foundation, Inc., and marketing and
3 promotion of the Stop Heart Disease license plate. In the
4 second and subsequent years in which the plate is sold, no
5 more than 20 percent of the fees collected may be used for
6 administrative costs directly associated with the operation of
7 the Florida Heart Research Foundation, Inc., and marketing and
8 promotion of the Stop Heart Disease license plate.
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12 And the title is amended as follows:
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17 creating the Stop Heart Disease license plate;
18 providing for distribution to the Florida Heart
19 Research Foundation, Inc., of annual use fees
20 received from the sale of such plates;
21 providing an effective date.
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23 WHEREAS, heart disease is the leading cause of death
24 and disability in this country and in the State of Florida,
25 claiming the lives of more than 2,600 Americans every day, an
26 average of one death every 33 seconds, and cardiovascular
27 disease accounts for over 40 percent of all deaths, claiming
28 more lives each year than the next seven leading causes of
29 death combined, and
30 WHEREAS, more than 61 million Americans suffer from
31 cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure,
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1 coronary heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, and
2 other conditions, and
3 WHEREAS, 25 percent of males and 38 percent of females
4 who experience a heart attack die within 1 year, and
5 WHEREAS, 50 percent of men and 63 percent of women who
6 die of sudden cardiac death experience no previous symptoms of
7 coronary heart disease, and
8 WHEREAS, cardiovascular disease takes an astonishing
9 toll on the economy through health care costs, lost work days,
10 and lowered productivity, which costs are estimated to reach
11 $330 billion in 2003, and
12 WHEREAS, almost 20 percent of all Social Security
13 disability payments are made to disabled Americans with heart
14 disease, and
15 WHEREAS, men and women are at equal risk for
16 cardiovascular disease and are also affected as husbands,
17 wives, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, and
18 friends of people suffering from cardiovascular disease, and
19 WHEREAS, in Florida, there will be over 65,000 deaths
20 per year from cardiovascular disease, and hospitalization
21 costs to care for Floridians with cardiovascular disease will
22 top $4.4 billion per year, and
23 WHEREAS, the only hope of ending this disease is
24 through research aimed at discovering its cause, its cure,
25 and, most importantly, its prevention, and
26 WHEREAS, the Florida Heart Research Foundation, Inc.,
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