Florida Senate - 2023                                     SB 634
       
       
        
       By Senator Yarborough
       
       
       
       
       
       4-01688-23                                             2023634__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to specialty license plates; amending
    3         s. 320.08058, F.S.; directing the Department of
    4         Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Cure
    5         Diabetes license plate; providing for distribution and
    6         use of fees collected from the sale of the plate;
    7         providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (127) is added to section 320.08058,
   12  Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   14         (127) CURE DIABETES LICENSE PLATES.—
   15         (a) The department shall develop a Cure Diabetes license
   16  plate as provided in this section and s. 320.08053. The plate
   17  must bear the colors and design approved by the department. The
   18  word “Florida” must appear at the top of the plate, and the
   19  words “Cure Diabetes” must appear at the bottom of the plate.
   20         (b) The department shall retain all annual use fees from
   21  the sale of the plate until all startup costs for developing and
   22  issuing the plate have been recovered. Thereafter, the annual
   23  use fees shall be distributed for the purpose of funding
   24  research to cure Type 1 diabetes as follows:
   25         1. To one of the following organizations as selected by the
   26  purchaser of the plate:
   27         a. The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation;
   28         b. The Northern Florida Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes
   29  Research Foundation;
   30         c. The Southern Florida Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes
   31  Research Foundation; or
   32         d. The University of Florida Diabetes Institute; or
   33         2. If the purchaser of the plate does not select one of the
   34  organizations provided in subparagraph 1., equally among all
   35  such organizations.
   36         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2023.