Senate Bill sb0310c3

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    Florida Senate - 2003              CS for CS for CS for SB 310

    By the Committees on Finance and Taxation; Children and
    Families; Transportation; and Senators Smith, Lynn and Peaden




    314-1981-03

  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 an effective date.

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

10  

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 of Florida and the Florida Network of

30  Children's Advocacy Centers as follows: The first $90,000 in

31  annual use fees shall be equally divided between the two

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    Florida Senate - 2003              CS for CS for CS for SB 310
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 1  organizations, to be used to pay start-up costs, including

 2  costs incurred in developing and issuing the plates.

 3  Thereafter, 50 percent of the proceeds shall be distributed to

 4  the Children's Home Society of Florida, which must distribute

 5  the funds proportionately to each of its divisions, to be used

 6  for child abuse prevention programs. The other 50 percent of

 7  the  proceeds shall be distributed to the board of directors

 8  of the Florida Network of Children's Advocacy Centers, Inc.,

 9  who shall develop funding criteria and an allocation

10  methodology that ensures an equitable distribution of those

11  funds among network participant centers that meet the

12  standards set forth in s. 39.3035.  The criteria and

13  methodologies shall take into account factors that include,

14  but need not be limited to, the center's accreditation status

15  with respect to the National Children's Alliance, the number

16  of clients served, and the population of the area being served

17  by the children's advocacy center.

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

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20          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
21                           CS/CS/SB 310

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23  The Committee Substitute changed the distribution of the 50
    percent of the Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention license
24  plate user fee originally going to the Florida Network of
    Children's Advocacy Centers. That 50 percent distribution is
25  now to be distributed to the Board of Directors of the Florida
    Network of Children's Advocacy Centers, Inc., who shall
26  develop funding criteria and an allocation methodology that
    ensures an equitable distribution of those funds among network
27  participant centers that meet the standards as set forth in s.
    39.3035, F.S. The criteria and methodologies must take into
28  account factors that include, but are not limited to, the
    center's accreditation status with respect to the National
29  Children's Alliance, the number of clients served, and the
    population of the area being served by the children's advocacy
30  center.

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