Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1104
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Infrastructure and Security (Hutson)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Delete lines 457 - 476
    4  and insert:
    5         (19) PROTECT WILD DOLPHINS LICENSE PLATES.—
    6         (a) The department shall develop a Protect Wild Dolphins
    7  license plate as provided in this section. The word “Florida”
    8  must appear at the top of the plate, and the words “Protect Wild
    9  Dolphins” may appear at the bottom of the plate.
   10         (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to, and
   11  administered by, the One Ocean One Health Research and
   12  Conservation Institute the Harbor Branch Oceanographic
   13  Institution, Inc., to fund wild dolphins related research. The
   14  One Ocean One Health Research and Conservation Institute Harbor
   15  Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc., shall distribute
   16  available resources for statewide research on of the wild
   17  Florida bottlenose Dolphin dolphins. Up to 10 15 percent of the
   18  funds received by the One Ocean One Health Research and
   19  Conservation Institute Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution,
   20  Inc., may be expended for administrative costs directly
   21  associated with the management of specialty license plate funds
   22  and operations of the institute institution. Up to 10 percent of
   23  the funds distributed may be used by the One Ocean One Health
   24  Research and Conservation Institute Harbor Branch Oceanographic
   25  Institution, Inc., for continuing promotion and marketing of the
   26  license plate. The One Ocean One Health Research and
   27  Conservation Institute shall distribute a minimum of 35 percent
   28  of the funds to organizations in this state which are authorized
   29  to respond to marine mammal events and to conduct population
   30  studies of Florida dolphins. The remainder of the funds must be
   31  used by the One Ocean One Health Research and Conservation
   32  Institute to collect, analyze, and archive scientific data
   33  regarding the wild dolphin population in Florida waters; provide
   34  care and assistance to stranded wild dolphins; distribute
   35  information to the scientific community, federal, state, and
   36  local government agencies, educational institutions, and the
   37  public for the purpose of protecting and preserving wild
   38  dolphins; individually identify wild dolphins through a
   39  photographic identification program; and advance the research
   40  technology associated with tracking and categorizing wild
   41  dolphins including support for the Gulf of Mexico Dolphin
   42  Identification System.
   43         (c) The Auditor General may examine any records of the One
   44  Ocean One Health Research and Conservation Institute Harbor
   45  Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc., and any other
   46  organization that receives funds from the sale of this plate, to
   47  determine compliance with law.
   48         (31) AMERICAN RED CROSS LICENSE PLATES.—
   49         (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 320.08053, the
   50  department shall develop an American Red Cross license plate as
   51  provided in this section. The word “Florida” must appear at the
   52  top of the plate, and the words “American Red Cross” must appear
   53  at the bottom of the plate.
   54         (b) The department shall retain all revenues from the sale
   55  of such plates until all startup costs for developing and
   56  issuing the plates have been recovered. Thereafter, 50 percent
   57  of the annual use fees shall be distributed to the American Red
   58  Cross Chapter of Central Florida, with statistics on sales of
   59  license plates, which are tabulated by county. The American Red
   60  Cross Chapter of Central Florida must distribute to each of the
   61  chapters in this state the moneys received from sales in the
   62  counties covered by the respective chapters, which moneys must
   63  be used for education and disaster relief in Florida. Fifty
   64  percent of the annual use fees shall be distributed
   65  proportionately to the three statewide approved poison control
   66  centers for purposes of combating bioterrorism and other poison
   67  related purposes.
   68         (33)(34) PROTECT FLORIDA WHALES LICENSE PLATES.—
   69         (a) The department shall develop a Protect Florida Whales
   70  license plate as provided in this section. The word “Florida”
   71  shall appear at the top of the plate, and the words “Protect
   72  Florida Whales” shall appear at the bottom of the plate.
   73         (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to the One
   74  Ocean One Health Research and Conservation Institute Harbor
   75  Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc., to fund statewide whale
   76  research, rehabilitation, conservation, and education programs.
   77  Up to 10 15 percent of the funds received by the institute
   78  institution may be used for administrative costs directly
   79  associated with the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution’s
   80  Marine Mammal Research and Conservation program and operation of
   81  the institute and the management of this specialty license plate
   82  funds funding. Up to 10 percent of the funds may be used for
   83  continuing promotion and marketing of the license plate. The One
   84  Ocean One Health Research and Conservation Institute shall
   85  distribute 35 percent of the funds to organizations in this
   86  state which are authorized to respond to marine mammal stranding
   87  events and conduct population and acoustic studies of Florida’s
   88  critically endangered North Atlantic Right whales. Ten percent
   89  of the funds shall be distributed to the Wyland Foundation,
   90  Inc., and used specifically to conduct educational programs in
   91  this state which promote conservation of Florida marine mammals.
   92  The remainder of the funds shall be used by the One Ocean One
   93  Health Research and Conservation Institute to collect, analyze,
   94  and archive scientific data regarding whale populations that
   95  inhabit, utilize, or migrate in state waters; provide care and
   96  assistance to stranded whales; construct and maintain a Harbor
   97  Branch-based teaching marine mammal hospital; train veterinary
   98  students in the rescue, medical and rehabilitation treatment,
   99  and release and postrelease monitoring of stranded whales;
  100  distribute information for the purpose of protecting and
  101  preserving whales; identify whale populations; conduct
  102  scientific research through genetic, telemetry, bioacoustical,
  103  and photographic identification research programs; advance the
  104  research technology associated with tracking, monitoring, and
  105  categorizing whales; develop methods of monitoring whale
  106  movements; or and provide for methods of early-warning detection
  107  systems and advance notification that will help prevent
  108  accidental boat strikes in state waters.
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  110  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
  111  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
  112         Delete lines 429 - 430
  113  and insert:
  114         Section 7. Subsections (7), (19), and (31), present
  115  subsections (34), (48), (57), and (65), paragraph (b) of present
  116  subsection (66),
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  118  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
  119  And the title is amended as follows:
  120         Delete lines 35 - 37
  121  and insert:
  122         the Special Olympics Florida license plate; revising
  123         requirements for the distribution and use of proceeds
  124         from the sale of the Protect Wild Dolphins license
  125         plate; deleting provisions requiring the department to
  126         develop the American Red Cross license plate; revising
  127         requirements for the distribution and use of proceeds
  128         from the sale of the Protect Florida Whales license
  129         plate; revising the