Senate Bill sb1342

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1342

    By Senator Bennett





    21-977-06                                           See HB 573

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to disabled veterans; amending

  3         s. 295.16, F.S.; expanding an exemption from

  4         certain fees relating to structural

  5         improvements to a disabled veteran's residence;

  6         providing an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Section 295.16, Florida Statutes, is

11  amended to read:

12         295.16  Disabled veterans exempt from certain license

13  or permit fee.--No totally and permanently disabled veteran

14  who is a resident of Florida and honorably discharged from the

15  Armed Forces, who has been issued a valid identification card

16  by the Department of Veterans' Affairs in accordance with s.

17  295.17 or has been determined by the United States Department

18  of Veterans Affairs or its predecessor to have a

19  service-connected 100-percent disability rating for

20  compensation, or who has been determined to have a

21  service-connected disability rating of 100 percent and is in

22  receipt of disability retirement pay from any branch of the

23  uniformed armed services, shall be required to pay any license

24  or permit fee, by whatever name known, to any county or

25  municipality in order to make improvements upon a dwelling

26  mobile home owned by the veteran which is used as the

27  veteran's residence, provided such improvements are limited to

28  ramps, widening of doors, and similar improvements for the

29  purpose of making the dwelling mobile home habitable for

30  veterans confined to wheelchairs.

31         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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