Florida Senate - 2016 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. PCS (726940) for CS for SB 1394
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Bean) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 522 and 523
4 insert:
5 Section 10. Effective July 1, 2016, section 320.08053,
6 Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
7 320.08053 Establishment of Requirements for requests to
8 establish specialty license plates.—
9 (1) If a specialty license plate requested by an
10 organization is approved by law, the organization must submit
11 the proposed art design for the specialty license plate to the
12 department, in a medium prescribed by the department, as soon as
13 practicable, but no later than 60 days after the act approving
14 the specialty license plate becomes a law.
15 (2)(a) Within 120 days following the specialty license
16 plate becoming law, the department shall establish a method to
17 issue a specialty license plate voucher to allow for the presale
18 of the specialty license plate. The processing fee as prescribed
19 in s. 320.08056, the service charge and branch fee as prescribed
20 in s. 320.04, and the annual use fee as prescribed in s.
21 320.08056 shall be charged for the voucher. All other applicable
22 fees shall be charged at the time of issuance of the license
23 plates.
24 (b) Within 24 months after the presale specialty license
25 plate voucher is established, the approved specialty license
26 plate organization must record with the department a minimum of
27 4,000 1,000 voucher sales before manufacture of the license
28 plate may begin commence. If, at the conclusion of the 24-month
29 presale period, the minimum sales requirement has requirements
30 have not been met, the specialty plate is deauthorized and the
31 department shall discontinue development of the plate and
32 discontinue issuance of the presale vouchers. Upon
33 deauthorization of the license plate, a purchaser of the license
34 plate voucher may use the annual use fee collected as a credit
35 towards any other specialty license plate or apply for a refund
36 on a form prescribed by the department.
37 Section 11. Effective July 1, 2018, paragraph (a) of
38 subsection (8) of section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, is
39 amended to read:
40 320.08056 Specialty license plates.—
41 (8)(a) The department must discontinue the issuance of an
42 approved specialty license plate if the number of valid
43 specialty plate registrations falls below 4,000 1,000 plates for
44 at least 12 consecutive months. A warning letter shall be mailed
45 to the sponsoring organization following the first month in
46 which the total number of valid specialty plate registrations is
47 below 4,000 1,000 plates. This paragraph does not apply to
48 collegiate license plates established under s. 320.08058(3) or
49 specialty license plates that have statutory eligibility
50 limitations for purchase.
51 Delete line 987
52 and insert:
53 Section 21. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this
54 act, and except for this section, which shall take effect July
55 1, 2016, this act shall take effect on October 1, 2016.
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57 And the title is amended as follows:
58 Delete line 50
59 and insert:
60 date; amending s. 320.08053, F.S.; revising presale
61 requirements for issuance of a specialty plate;
62 amending s. 320.08056, F.S.; revising conditions for
63 discontinuing issuance of a specialty plate; providing
64 an exception to the minimum requirements for certain
65 specialty plates; amending s. 320.64, F.S.; revising
66 provisions
67 Delete lines 117 - 118
68 and insert:
69 a report to the Governor and Legislature; providing
70 effective dates.