Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 860
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/06/2014           .                                
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       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (936674) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 819 and 820
    5  insert:
    6         Section 24. Section 322.031, Florida Statutes, is amended
    7  to read:
    8         322.031 Nonresident; when license required.—
    9         (1) In each every case in which a nonresident, except a
   10  nonresident migrant or seasonal farm worker as defined in s.
   11  316.003(61), accepts employment or engages in a any trade,
   12  profession, or occupation in this state or enters his or her
   13  children to be educated in the public schools of this state,
   14  such nonresident shall, within 30 days after beginning the
   15  commencement of such employment or education, be required to
   16  obtain a Florida driver driver’s license if such nonresident
   17  operates a motor vehicle on the highways of this state. The
   18  spouse or dependent child of such nonresident shall also be
   19  required to obtain a Florida driver driver’s license within that
   20  30-day period before prior to operating a motor vehicle on the
   21  highways of this state.
   22         (2) A member of the United States Armed Forces on active
   23  duty in this state, his or her spouse, or a dependent residing
   24  with him or her, is shall not be required to obtain or display a
   25  Florida driver driver’s license if he or she is in possession of
   26  a valid military identification card and either a valid driver
   27  license or learner’s permit issued by another state, or a valid
   28  military driving permit. Such a person is not required to obtain
   29  or display a Florida driver license under this section solely
   30  because he or she enters his or her children to be educated in
   31  the public schools of this state or because he or she accepts
   32  employment or engages in a trade, profession, or occupation in
   33  this state if he or she has a valid military driving permit or a
   34  valid driver’s license issued by another state.
   35         (3) A nonresident who is domiciled in another state and who
   36  commutes into this state in order to work is shall not be
   37  required to obtain a Florida driver driver’s license under this
   38  section solely because he or she has accepted employment or
   39  engages in a any trade, profession, or occupation in this state
   40  if he or she has a valid driver driver’s license issued by
   41  another state. Further, a any person who is enrolled as a
   42  student in a college or university and who is a nonresident but
   43  is in this state for a period of up to 6 months engaged in a
   44  work-study program for which academic credits are earned from a
   45  college whose credits or degrees are accepted for credit by at
   46  least three accredited institutions of higher learning, as
   47  defined in s. 1005.02, is shall not be required to obtain a
   48  Florida driver driver’s license for the duration of the work
   49  study program if such person has a valid driver driver’s license
   50  issued by another state. A Any nonresident who is enrolled as a
   51  full-time student in any such institution of higher learning is
   52  also exempt from the requirement of obtaining a Florida driver
   53  driver’s license for the duration of such enrollment.
   54         (4) A nonresident who is at least 21 years of age and who
   55  has in his or her immediate possession a valid commercial driver
   56  driver’s license issued in substantial compliance with the
   57  Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 may operate a motor
   58  vehicle of the type permitted by his or her license to be
   59  operated in this state.
   60         Section 25. Subsection (5) of section 322.121, Florida
   61  Statutes, is amended to read:
   62         322.121 Periodic reexamination of all drivers.—
   63         (5) A member Members of the United States Armed Forces, his
   64  or her spouse, or a dependent their dependents residing with him
   65  or her them, shall be granted an automatic extension for the
   66  expiration of his or her their Class E license licenses without
   67  reexamination while the member of the United States Armed Forces
   68  is serving on active duty outside this state. This extension is
   69  valid for 90 days after the member of the United States Armed
   70  Forces is either discharged or returns to this state to live.
   71  
   72  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   73  And the title is amended as follows:
   74         Delete line 1082
   75  and insert:
   76         state veterans’ nursing home; amending s. 322.031,
   77         F.S.; providing conditions under which the spouses and
   78         dependents of servicemembers are exempt from obtaining
   79         or displaying a driver license or learner’s permit;
   80         amending s. 322.121, F.S.; granting an automatic
   81         extension for the expiration of a driver license to
   82         the spouse and dependents of servicemembers; amending
   83         s. 455.213,