Florida Senate - 2023                              CS for SB 634
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Yarborough
       
       
       
       
       
       596-03096-23                                           2023634c1
    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.
    8          
    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 annual use fees from the sale of the plate must be
   21  distributed equally to the following organizations:
   22         1.The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation;
   23         2.The Northern Florida Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes
   24  Research Foundation;
   25         3.The Southern Florida Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes
   26  Research Foundation; and
   27         4.The University of Florida Diabetes Institute.
   28         (c)Each organization may use up to 10 percent of the
   29  proceeds received by the organization to promote and market the
   30  plate. All remaining proceeds must be used for the purpose of
   31  funding research to cure Type 1 diabetes.
   32         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2023.