Florida Senate - 2025                             CS for SB 1024
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Burgess
       
       
       
       
       
       596-02597-25                                          20251024c1
    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 United
    5         States Naval Academy license plate and a United States
    6         Military Academy license plate; providing for
    7         distribution and use of fees collected from the sale
    8         of the plates; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Subsections (136) and (137) are added to section
   13  320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read:
   14         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   15         (136) UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY LICENSE PLATES.—
   16         (a) The department shall develop a United States Naval
   17  Academy license plate as provided in this section and s.
   18  320.08053. The plate must bear the colors and design approved by
   19  the department. The word “Florida” must appear at the top of the
   20  plate, and the words “Go Navy, Beat Army!” must appear at the
   21  bottom of the plate.
   22         (b) The annual use fees from the sale of the plate shall be
   23  distributed to the Blue Angels Foundation, Inc., which may use
   24  up to 10 percent of the fees for administrative costs related to
   25  the promotion and marketing of the plate. The balance of the
   26  fees must be used by the Blue Angels Foundation, Inc., to
   27  provide funding to wounded veterans for critical services, with
   28  a focus on transitional housing, posttraumatic stress disorder
   29  treatment, and suicide prevention.
   30         (137) UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY LICENSE PLATES.—
   31         (a) The department shall develop a United States Military
   32  Academy license plate as provided in this section and s.
   33  320.08053. The plate must bear the colors and design approved by
   34  the department. The word “Florida” must appear at the top of the
   35  plate, and the words “Go Army, Beat Navy!” must appear at the
   36  bottom of the plate.
   37         (b) The annual use fees from the sale of the plate must be
   38  distributed to the Home Base Florida Foundation, which may use
   39  up to 10 percent of the fees for administrative costs related to
   40  promotion and marketing of the plate. The balance of the fees
   41  must be used by the Home Base Florida Foundation to assist in
   42  world-class clinical care, wellness, education, and research for
   43  veterans, service members, and their family members who need
   44  more complex care.
   45         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2025.