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Florida Senate - 2004 CS for SB 2580
By the Committee on Military and Veterans' Affairs, Base
Protection, and Spaceports; and Senator Diaz de la Portilla
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to license plates; amending ss.
3 320.08056 and 320.08058, F.S.; creating an
4 Adopt A Best Friend license plate and a Florida
5 National Guard license plate; providing for the
6 distribution of annual use fees received from
7 the sale of such plates; providing an effective
8 date.
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10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12 Section 1. Paragraphs (ss) and (tt) are added to
13 subsection (4) of section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to
14 read:
15 320.08056 Specialty license plates.--
16 (4) The following license plate annual use fees shall
17 be collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:
18 (ss) Adopt A Best Friend license plate, $25.
19 (tt) Florida National Guard license plate, $25.
20 Section 2. Subsections (45) and (46) are added to
21 section 320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read:
22 320.08058 Specialty license plates.--
23 (45) ADOPT A BEST FRIEND LICENSE PLATES.--
24 (a) Notwithstanding s. 320.08053, the department shall
25 develop an Adopt A Best Friend license plate as provided in
26 this section. The word "Florida" must appear at the top of the
27 plate, and the words "Adopt A Best Friend" must appear at the
28 bottom of the plate.
29 (b) The department shall retain initial annual use fee
30 proceeds sufficient to cover its costs related to the
31 development and issuance of the Adopt A Best Friend license
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1 plate, not to exceed $60,000. Thereafter, the proceeds of the
2 annual use fees shall be distributed to the Florida No More
3 Homeless Pets Association, Inc., to help make Florida a no
4 more homeless pets state. Twenty-five percent of the funds
5 received by the Florida No More Homeless Pets Association,
6 Inc., shall be expended for promotion, marketing, and
7 administration of the license plate.
8 (46) FLORIDA NATIONAL GUARD LICENSE PLATES.--
9 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 320.08053,
10 the department shall develop a Florida National Guard license
11 plate as provided in this section. The word "Florida" must
12 appear at the top of the plate, and the words "National Guard"
13 must appear at the bottom of the plate.
14 (b) The department shall retain all annual use fee
15 revenues from the sale of such plates until all startup costs
16 for developing and issuing the plates are recovered, not to
17 exceed $60,000. Thereafter the annual use fees shall be
18 distributed to the Florida National Guard Foundation.
19 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.
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21 STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
22 Senate Bill 2580
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24 The CS adds the creation of an Adopt A Best Friend specialty
license plate to the bill and provides for a $25 annual use
25 fee with the proceeds distributed to the Florida No More
Homeless Pets Association, Inc., to address the problem of
26 homeless pets in Florida.
27 The CS revises the distribution of proceeds from the Florida
National Guard specialty license plate to provide that all
28 funds must be distributed to the Florida National Guard
Foundation.
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The CS also provides that DHSMV shall retain initial proceeds
30 from the sale of the Florida National Guard license plate
until all startup costs for developing and issuing the plates
31 are recovered, not to exceed $60,000.
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