CS/HB 289

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to specialty license plates; amending ss.
3	320.08056 and 320.08058, F.S.; revising authorized uses of
4	revenue received from the sale of the Sea Turtle license
5	plate; creating the Fraternal Order of Police license
6	plate; establishing an annual use fee for the plate;
7	providing for the distribution of use fees received from
8	the sale of such plates; 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 (rrr) is added to subsection (4) of
13	section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read:
14	320.08056  Specialty license plates.-
15	(4)  The following license plate annual use fees shall be
16	collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:
17	(rrr)  Fraternal Order of Police license plate, $25.
18	Section 2.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (18) of section
19	320.08058, Florida Statutes, is amended, and subsection (70) is
20	added to that section, to read:
21	320.08058  Specialty license plates.-
22	(18)  SEA TURTLE LICENSE PLATES.-
23	(b)  The first $500,000 of annual use fees shall be
24	deposited in the Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund in the
25	Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and shall be used by
26	the Florida Marine Turtle Protection Program to conduct sea
27	turtle protection, research, and recovery programs. The next
28	$215,000 in annual use fees shall be distributed to the
29	Caribbean Conservation Corporation to fund sea turtle research
30	and education programs. The Caribbean Conservation Corporation
31	shall annually distribute assigned funds through a Sea Turtle
32	Grants Program that supports sea turtle research and education
33	activities of Florida-based nonprofit groups, education and
34	research institutions, and coastal counties in this state. The
35	Caribbean Conservation Corporation shall write and publish
36	procedures for submitting grant applications and criteria for
37	allocating available funds, and shall appoint a technical
38	advisory committee, composed of at least five members, including
39	two representatives from the Fish and Wildlife Conservation
40	Commission, to establish funding priorities and select grant
41	recipients from proposals submitted by eligible entities. Two of
42	the members shall be selected from the Fish and Wildlife
43	Conservation Commission; one member shall be selected on a
44	rotating biennial basis from a county bordering on the Atlantic
45	Coast with sea turtle nesting sites; one member shall be
46	selected on a rotating biennial basis from a county bordering on
47	the Gulf Coast with sea turtle nesting sites; one member shall
48	be the executive director of the Caribbean Conservation
49	Corporation; and two members shall be selected at large. Any
50	additional annual revenue shall be distributed as follows: 70
51	percent shall be deposited in the Marine Resources Conservation
52	Trust Fund and used by the Florida Marine Turtle Protection
53	Program for sea turtle conservation activities and 30 percent
54	shall be assigned to the Caribbean Conservation Corporation for
55	distribution through the Sea Turtle Grants Program. From the
56	funds distributed to the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, an
57	amount not to exceed 10 percent of the total annual revenue from
58	the sale of the plate may be used for marketing the Sea Turtle
59	license plate and for administrative costs directly associated
60	with the grants program. A maximum of 15 percent of the funds
61	distributed to the Caribbean Conservation Corporation may be
62	expended for administrative costs directly associated with the
63	grants program, and a maximum of 10 percent may be used to
64	promote and market the Sea Turtle license plate. Funds received
65	by the Caribbean Conservation Corporation from the Sea Turtle
66	license plate or the Sea Turtle Grants Program and funds
67	received by any grant recipient of the Sea Turtle Grants Program
68	may not be used for litigation.
69	(70)  FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LICENSE PLATES.-
70	(a)1.  The department shall develop a Fraternal Order of
71	Police license plate as provided in this section. The plate must
72	bear the colors and design approved by the department. The word
73	"Florida" must appear at the top of the plate, and the words
74	"Fraternal Order of Police" must appear at the bottom of the
75	plate.
76	2.  The department may issue the plate only to an applicant
77	who submits a notarized letter from the Florida State Lodge of
78	the Fraternal Order of Police stating that the applicant is a
79	member of the lodge in good standing or a member of a lodge
80	member's family, together with other fees and documents required
81	for a specialty plate.
82	(b)  The annual use fees shall be distributed to the
83	Florida State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, which
84	shall retain all proceeds until the startup costs to develop and
85	establish the plate have been recovered. Thereafter, the
86	proceeds shall be distributed to the Florida State Lodge
87	Memorial Foundation of the Fraternal Order of Police and used as
88	follows:
89	1.  A maximum of 10 percent of the proceeds may be used to
90	promote and market the plate, to administer the license plate
91	program, and to pay administrative costs directly associated
92	with the state Fraternal Order of Police Law Enforcement
93	Memorial.
94	2.  The remaining proceeds shall be used by the foundation
95	to fund projects, programs, or events related to the memorial or
96	to fund improvements, maintenance, or other support for the
97	memorial.
98	Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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