Florida Senate - 2009 CS for SB 1100
By the Committees on Transportation and Transportation
596-02166-09 20091100c1
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the Department of Highway Safety
3 and Motor Vehicles; reenacting and amending s. 20.24,
4 F.S., relating to the establishment of the department;
5 eliminating an obsolete reference to the Bureau of
6 Motor Vehicle Inspection; providing for implementation
7 of a litigation settlement; providing eligibility and
8 procedures to collect the credit provided pursuant to
9 such settlement; providing for expiration of the
10 provision; providing an effective date.
11
12 WHEREAS, ss. 11.901-11.920, Florida Statutes, the Florida
13 Government Accountability Act, subjects the Department of
14 Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and its respective advisory
15 committees to a sunset review process in order to determine
16 whether the agency should be retained, modified, or abolished,
17 and
18 WHEREAS, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
19 Vehicles produced a report providing specific information, as
20 enumerated in s. 11.906, Florida Statutes, and
21 WHEREAS, upon receipt of the report, the Joint Legislative
22 Sunset Committee and committees of the Senate and the House of
23 Representatives assigned to act as sunset review committees
24 reviewed the report and requested studies by the Office of
25 Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, and
26 WHEREAS, based on the department's report, studies of the
27 Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability,
28 and public input, the Joint Legislative Sunset Committee and
29 legislative sunset review committees made recommendations on the
30 abolition, continuation, or reorganization of the Department of
31 Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and its advisory committees;
32 on the need for the functions performed by the agency and its
33 advisory committees; and on the consolidation, transfer, or
34 reorganization of programs within the Department of Highway
35 Safety and Motor Vehicles, and
36 WHEREAS, this Legislature wishes to retain the Department
37 of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and continue the Florida
38 Highway Patrol Advisory Council, the Automobile Dealer Advisory
39 Board, the DUI Programs Review Board, and the Medical Advisory
40 Board, NOW, THEREFORE,
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42 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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44 Section 1. Section 20.24, Florida Statutes, is reenacted
45 and amended to read:
46 20.24 Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
47 There is created a Department of Highway Safety and Motor
48 Vehicles.
49 (1) The head of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
50 Vehicles is the Governor and Cabinet.
51 (2) The following divisions, and bureaus within the
52 divisions, of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
53 Vehicles are established:
54 (a) Division of the Florida Highway Patrol.
55 (b) Division of Driver Licenses.
56 (c) Division of Motor Vehicles.
57 1. Bureau of Motor Vehicle Inspection.
58 Section 2. Implementation of litigation settlement
59 provisions of Collier v. Dickinson.—
60 (1) Any person who held a driver's license, identification
61 card, or motor vehicle registration that was valid between June
62 1, 2000, and September 30, 2004, is eligible to receive a single
63 $1 credit on a new or renewed motor vehicle registration between
64 July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010.
65 (2) The revenue generated by s. 320.08046, Florida
66 Statutes, and deposited into the General Revenue Fund shall fund
67 the $1 credit.
68 (3) This section expires July 1, 2011.
69 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.