Senate Bill sb0310

    Florida Senate - 2003                                   SB 310

    By Senator Smith





    14-260-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to license plates; amending ss.

  3         320.08056, 320.08058, F.S.; creating a Child

  4         Abuse Prevention and Intervention license

  5         plate; providing for the distribution of annual

  6         use fees received from the sale of such plates;

  7         providing a contingent effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (mm) 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         (mm)  Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention license

17  plate, $25.

18         Section 2.  Subsection (39) is added to section

19  320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read:

20         320.08058  Specialty license plates.--

21         (39)  CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION LICENSE

22  PLATES.--

23         (a)  The department shall develop a Child Abuse

24  Prevention and Intervention license plate as provided in this

25  section.  The word "Florida" must appear at the top of the

26  plate, and the words "Stop Child Abuse" must appear at the

27  bottom of the plate.

28         (b)  The annual use fees shall be distributed to the

29  Children's Home Society and the Florida Network of Child

30  Advocacy Centers as follows: The first $90,000 in annual use

31  fees shall be equally divided between the two organizations,

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                   SB 310
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  1  to be used to pay start-up costs, including costs incurred in

  2  developing and issuing the plates. Thereafter, 50 percent of

  3  the proceeds shall be distributed to the Children's Home

  4  Society of Florida, which must distribute the funds

  5  proportionately to each of its divisions, to be used for child

  6  abuse prevention programs. The other 50 percent of the

  7  proceeds shall be distributed proportionately among the

  8  members of the Florida Network of Child Advocacy Centers to

  9  fund child abuse intervention programs.

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

11  but it shall not take effect unless it is enacted by at least

12  a three-fifths vote of the membership of each house of the

13  Legislature.

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16                          SENATE SUMMARY

17    Creates a Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention license
      plate and provides for the distribution of annual use
18    fees to the Children's Home Society and the Florida
      Network of Child Advocacy Centers to fund child abuse
19    prevention and intervention programs.

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