Florida Senate - 2009 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 642 Barcode 303282 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: 8/AD/2R . 04/24/2009 02:32 PM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Siplin moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Between lines 135 and 136 4 insert: 5 Section 3. Paragraphs (sss), (ttt), and (uuu) are added to 6 subsection (4) of section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read: 7 320.08056 Specialty license plates.— 8 (4) The following license plate annual use fees shall be 9 collected for the appropriate specialty license plates: 10 (sss) Florida Biodiversity Foundation license plate, $25. 11 (ttt) Preserving the Past license plate, $25. 12 (uuu) Trinity license plate, $25. 13 Section 4. Subsections (71),(72), and (73) are added to 14 section 320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read: 15 320.08058 Specialty license plates.— 16 (71) FLORIDA BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION LICENSE PLATES.— 17 (a) The department shall develop a Florida Biodiversity 18 Foundation license plate as provided in this section. Florida 19 Biodiversity Foundation license plates must bear the colors and 20 design approved by the department. The word “Florida” must 21 appear at the top of the plate, and the words “Save Wild 22 Florida” must appear at the bottom of the plate. 23 (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to the Florida 24 Biodiversity Foundation, Inc., which shall retain 50 percent of 25 the proceeds until the startup costs to develop and establish 26 the plates have been recovered. Thereafter, the proceeds shall 27 be used as follows: 28 1. A maximum of 25 percent of the proceeds may be used to 29 fund the administrative, promotion, and marketing costs of the 30 license plate program and the foundation. 31 2. The remaining fees shall be used by the foundation to 32 fund research, education, and scientific study of the diversity 33 of animals and plants and to aid in the preservation, study, 34 conservation, and recovery of imperiled organisms. 35 (72) PRESERVING THE PAST LICENSE PLATES.— 36 (a) The department shall develop a Preserving the Past 37 license plate as provided in this section. The plate must bear 38 the colors and design approved by the department. The word 39 “Florida” must appear at the top of the plate, and the words 40 “Preserving the Past” must appear at the bottom of the plate. 41 (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to the Toomey 42 Foundation for the Natural Sciences, Inc., which shall retain 50 43 percent of the proceeds until the startup costs to develop and 44 establish the plates have been recovered. Thereafter, the 45 proceeds shall be used as follows: 46 1. A maximum of 25 percent of the proceeds may be used to 47 fund the administrative, promotion, and marketing costs of the 48 license plate program and the foundation. 49 2. The remaining fees shall be used by the foundation to 50 acquire, manage, and preserve properties that are of scientific 51 importance to paleontologists, archeologists, or geologists for 52 the purposes of research and education, and to promote and 53 protect the unique natural sciences of this state. 54 (73) TRINITY LICENSE PLATES.— 55 (a) The department shall develop a Trinity license plate as 56 provided in this section. The plate must bear the colors and 57 design approved by the department. The word “Florida” must 58 appear at the top of the plate and the words “Sunshine State” 59 must appear at the bottom of the plate. 60 (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to the Toomey 61 Foundation for the Natural Sciences, Inc., which shall retain 50 62 percent of the proceeds until the startup costs to develop and 63 establish the plates have been recovered. Thereafter, the 64 proceeds shall be used as follows: 65 1. A maximum of 25 percent of the proceeds may be used to 66 fund the administrative, promotion, and marketing costs of the 67 license plate program and the foundation. 68 2. The remaining fees shall be used by the foundation to 69 support educational, research, and scientific activities in this 70 state, including the distribution of funds to qualified entities 71 in furtherance of the stated purposes of the foundation. 72 73 74 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 75 And the title is amended as follows: 76 Delete line 9 77 and insert: 78 creating a Florida Biodiversity Foundation license 79 plate, a Preserving the Past license plate, and a 80 Trinity license plate; establishing an annual use fee 81 for the plates; providing for the distribution of use 82 fees received