Florida Senate - 2014                                     SB 168
       
       
        
       By Senator Joyner
       
       
       
       
       
       19-00014A-14                                           2014168__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to disabled parking permits; amending
    3         s. 320.0848, F.S.; prohibiting the Department of
    4         Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles from requiring an
    5         applicant who has been previously certified as
    6         permanently disabled to resubmit a certificate of
    7         disability for renewal of a disabled parking permit;
    8         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 (d) of subsection (1) of section
   13  320.0848, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         320.0848 Persons who have disabilities; issuance of
   15  disabled parking permits; temporary permits; permits for certain
   16  providers of transportation services to persons who have
   17  disabilities.—
   18         (1)
   19         (d) Beginning October 1, 2012, The department shall renew
   20  the disabled parking permit of any person certified as
   21  permanently disabled on the application. The department may not
   22  require an applicant who has been previously certified as
   23  permanently disabled to resubmit a certificate of disability in
   24  order to renew his or her disabled parking permit if the person
   25  provides a certificate of disability issued within the last 12
   26  months pursuant to this subsection.
   27         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.