Florida Senate - 2016 SB 1180 By Senator Soto 14-01088A-16 20161180__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to specialty license plates; amending 3 s. 320.08056, F.S.; establishing an annual use fee for 4 the Support the Constitution license plate; amending 5 s. 320.08058, F.S.; requiring the Department of 6 Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to create a Support 7 the Constitution license plate; providing for the 8 distribution of use fees received from the sale of 9 such plates; providing an effective date. 10 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 12 13 Section 1. Paragraph (ffff) is added to subsection (4) of 14 section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read: 15 320.08056 Specialty license plates.— 16 (4) The following license plate annual use fees shall be 17 collected for the appropriate specialty license plates: 18 (ffff) Support the Constitution license plate, $25. 19 Section 2. Subsection (84) is added to section 320.08058, 20 Florida Statutes, to read: 21 320.08058 Specialty license plates.— 22 (84) SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION LICENSE PLATE.— 23 (a) The department shall develop a Support the Constitution 24 license plate as provided in this section and s. 320.08053. 25 Support the Constitution license plates must bear the colors and 26 design approved by the department. The word “Florida” must 27 appear at the top of the plate, and the words “Support the 28 Constitution” must appear at the bottom of the plate. 29 (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to The 30 Constitution Foundation, Inc., which may retain all proceeds 31 from the annual use fees until the startup costs for developing 32 and issuing the license plates have been recovered. Thereafter, 33 The Constitution Foundation, Inc., shall use the proceeds as 34 follows: 35 1. A maximum of 15 percent may be used for administrative 36 costs of the organization. 37 2. A maximum of 10 percent may be used for promotion and 38 the marketing costs of the license plate. 39 3. The remainder shall be used to fund the activities, 40 programs, projects, and mission of The Constitution Foundation, 41 Inc., to increase awareness and understanding of the United 42 States Constitution in Florida’s public schools, recruit and 43 train school leaders to make presentations in each school 44 district, and provide to each student, at no charge, learning 45 materials and a pocket Constitution. 46 Section 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2016.