Florida Senate - 2016                                     SB 718
       
       
        
       By Senator Sobel
       
       
       
       
       
       33-00898-16                                            2016718__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to identification cards; amending s.
    3         322.051, F.S.; requiring the Department of Highway
    4         Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue an identification
    5         card exhibiting a special designation for a person who
    6         has a developmental disability under certain
    7         circumstances; requiring payment of an additional fee
    8         and proof of diagnosis by a licensed physician;
    9         requiring the fee to be deposited into the Agency for
   10         Persons with Disabilities Operations and Maintenance
   11         Trust Fund; authorizing issuance of a replacement
   12         identification card that includes the special
   13         designation without payment of a specified fee;
   14         requiring the department to develop rules to
   15         facilitate the issuance, requirements, and oversight
   16         of developmental disability identification cards;
   17         providing an effective date.
   18          
   19  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   21         Section 1. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (8) of
   22  section 322.051, Florida Statutes, to read:
   23         322.051 Identification cards.—
   24         (8)
   25         (c)1. Upon request by a person who has a developmental
   26  disability, or by a parent or guardian of a child or ward who
   27  has a developmental disability, the department shall issue an
   28  identification card exhibiting a capital “D” for the person,
   29  child, or ward if the person or the parent or guardian of the
   30  child or ward submits:
   31         a. Payment of an additional $10 fee; and
   32         b. Proof acceptable to the department of a diagnosis by a
   33  licensed physician of a developmental disability as defined in
   34  s. 393.063.
   35         2. The department shall deposit the additional $10 fee into
   36  the Agency for Persons with Disabilities Operations and
   37  Maintenance Trust Fund under s. 20.1971(2).
   38         3. A replacement identification card that includes the
   39  designation may be issued without payment of the fee required
   40  under s. 322.21(1)(f).
   41         4. The department shall develop rules to facilitate the
   42  issuance, requirements, and oversight of developmental
   43  disability identification cards under this section.
   44         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2016.