Senate Bill sb0310e1

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  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         placing limitations on the use of sale

  8         proceeds; providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Paragraph (mm) is added to subsection (4)

13  of section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read:

14         320.08056  Specialty license plates.--

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

16  be collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:

17         (mm)  Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention license

18  plate, $25.

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

20  320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read:

21         320.08058  Specialty license plates.--

22         (39)  CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION LICENSE

23  PLATES.--

24         (a)  The department shall develop a Child Abuse

25  Prevention and Intervention license plate as provided in this

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

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

28  bottom of the plate.

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

30  Children's Home Society of Florida and the Florida Network of

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


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    CS for CS for CS for SB 310                    First Engrossed



 1  annual use fees shall be equally divided between the two

 2  organizations, to be used to pay start-up costs, including

 3  costs incurred in developing and issuing the plates.

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

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

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

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

 8  the  proceeds shall be distributed to the board of directors

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

10  who shall develop funding criteria and an allocation

11  methodology that ensures an equitable distribution of those

12  funds among network participant centers that meet the

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

14  methodologies shall take into account factors that include,

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

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

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

18  by the children's advocacy center.

19         (c)  For the first 5 years in which the plate is

20  issued, a maximum of 20 percent of the fees collected may be

21  used for administrative costs directly associated with the

22  operation of the marketing and promotion of the plate. Ten

23  percent of the fees shall be allocated to the Children's Home

24  Society of Florida and 10 percent shall be allocated to the

25  Florida Network of Children's Advocacy Centers, Inc. Five

26  years after the date the first license plate is issued,

27  revenues from plate sales may not be used for marketing or

28  promoting the license plate.

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

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