Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 754
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/25/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Transportation (Diaz) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) and subsection
    6  (5) of section 320.03, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         320.03 Registration; duties of tax collectors;
    8  International Registration Plan.—
    9         (4)(a) Each tax collector, third party contracted with a
   10  tax collector, or license tag agent who has online computer
   11  access to the department’s systems or department data center or
   12  other reasonable access thereto shall enter into a memorandum of
   13  understanding with the department and shall, except when the
   14  department has issued a registration renewal notice, upon
   15  receipt of an application for the registration of any motor
   16  vehicle, determine from the driver file of the applicant whether
   17  the applicant’s driver license has been canceled, suspended, or
   18  revoked and, if so, whether the applicant has surrendered his or
   19  her license to the department as required by s. 322.251. If the
   20  applicant has not surrendered his or her license in accordance
   21  with the provisions of that section, the tax collector must
   22  shall refuse to register the vehicle until such time as the
   23  applicant surrenders his or her driver license to the
   24  department.
   25         (5)(a) In addition to the fees required under s. 320.08, a
   26  fee of 50 cents must shall be charged on every license
   27  registration sold to cover the costs of the Florida Real Time
   28  Vehicle Information System. The fees collected must shall be
   29  deposited into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund to be
   30  used exclusively to fund the system. The fee may only be used to
   31  fund the system equipment, software, personnel associated with
   32  the maintenance and programming of the system, and networks used
   33  in the offices of the county tax collectors as agents of the
   34  department and the ancillary technology necessary to integrate
   35  the system with other tax collection systems. The department
   36  shall administer this program upon consultation with the Florida
   37  Tax Collectors, Inc., to ensure that each county tax collector’s
   38  office is technologically equipped and functional for the
   39  operation of the Florida Real Time Vehicle Information System
   40  and to ensure that all ancillary technology and other tax
   41  collection systems used by tax collectors protect customer
   42  privacy and data. Any designated revenue collected to support
   43  functions of the county tax collectors and not used in a given
   44  year must remain exclusively in the trust fund as a carryover to
   45  the following year.
   46         (b)Upon a tax collector’s request, the department is
   47  authorized to provide ancillary technology to integrate other
   48  tax collection systems used by tax collectors in order to
   49  provide tax collectors with data access and uniform interface
   50  functionalities for registration renewal transactions performed
   51  at a tax collector’s office or online through a tax collector’s
   52  website. The department shall prescribe the best manner of
   53  delivering the data access and uniform interface functionalities
   54  to tax collectors for the purpose of processing registration
   55  renewal transactions and shall provide the ability to record and
   56  process registration renewal transactions in the state system in
   57  real time and bulk data reporting for vehicle registrations,
   58  including each applicant’s electronic mail address collected
   59  pursuant to s. 320.95. Such data and functionalities may be used
   60  only for purposes of fulfilling the tax collector’s statutory
   61  duties pursuant to this chapter, chapter 319, chapter 322, or
   62  chapter 328 and may not be resold or used for any other purpose.
   63  Such data access and uniform interface functionalities must be
   64  developed no later than July 1, 2023. For the purposes of this
   65  paragraph, the term “registration renewal transactions” means
   66  issuance of motor vehicle, mobile home, and trailer registration
   67  certificates, registration license plates, and validation
   68  stickers.
   69         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 328.73, Florida
   70  Statutes, is amended to read:
   71         328.73 Registration; duties of tax collectors.—
   72         (1)(a) The tax collectors in the counties of the state, as
   73  authorized agents of the department, shall issue registration
   74  certificates and vessel numbers and decals to applicants,
   75  subject to the requirements of law and in accordance with rules
   76  of the department.
   77         (b)Upon a tax collector’s request, the department is
   78  authorized to provide ancillary technology to integrate other
   79  tax collection systems used by tax collectors in order to
   80  provide tax collectors with data access and uniform interface
   81  functionalities for registration renewal transactions performed
   82  at a tax collector’s office or online through a tax collector’s
   83  website. The department shall prescribe the best manner of
   84  delivering the data access and uniform interface functionalities
   85  to tax collectors for the purpose of processing registration
   86  renewal transactions and shall provide the ability to record and
   87  process registration renewal transactions in the state system in
   88  real time and bulk data reporting for vessel registrations,
   89  including each applicant’s electronic mail address collected
   90  pursuant to s. 320.95. Such data and functionalities may be used
   91  only for purposes of fulfilling the tax collector’s statutory
   92  duties pursuant to this chapter, chapter 319, chapter 320, or
   93  chapter 322 and may not be resold or used for any other purpose.
   94  Such data access and uniform interface functionalities must be
   95  developed no later than July 1, 2023. For the purposes of this
   96  paragraph, the term “registration renewal transactions” means
   97  issuance of vessel registration certificates, vessel numbers,
   98  and decals.
   99         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.
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  101  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
  102  And the title is amended as follows:
  103         Delete everything before the enacting clause
  104  and insert:
  105                        A bill to be entitled                      
  106         An act relating to motor vehicle and vessel
  107         registration data; amending s. 320.03, F.S.; requiring
  108         tax collectors, third parties contracted with tax
  109         collectors, and license tag agents to enter into a
  110         memorandum of understanding with the Department of
  111         Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and make certain
  112         determinations regarding registration applicants;
  113         requiring the department to ensure that certain
  114         technology used by tax collectors protects customer
  115         privacy and data; authorizing the department to
  116         provide certain technology to tax collectors, upon
  117         request, in order to provide data access and uniform
  118         interface functionalities for registration renewal
  119         transactions; providing requirements for the
  120         department; authorizing use of such data and
  121         functionalities for certain purposes; requiring
  122         development of data access and uniform interface
  123         functionalities by a certain date; defining the term
  124         “registration renewal transactions”; amending s.
  125         328.73, F.S.; authorizing the department to provide
  126         certain technology to tax collectors, upon request, in
  127         order to provide data access and uniform interface
  128         functionalities for registration renewal transactions;
  129         providing requirements for the department; authorizing
  130         use of such data and functionalities for certain
  131         purposes; requiring development of data access and
  132         uniform interface functionalities by a certain date;
  133         defining the term “registration renewal transactions”;
  134         providing an effective date.