Florida Senate - 2025                             CS for SB 1246
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       596-02861-25                                          20251246c1
    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 Save
    5         Coastal Wildlife license plate; specifying design
    6         elements for the plate; providing for distribution and
    7         use of fees collected from the sale of the plates;
    8         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. Subsection (136) is added to section 320.08058,
   13  Florida Statutes, to read:
   14         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   15         (136) SAVE COASTAL WILDLIFE LICENSE PLATES.—
   16         (a) The department shall develop a Save Coastal Wildlife
   17  license plate as provided in this section and s. 320.08053. The
   18  plate must bear the colors and design approved by the
   19  department. The word “Florida” must appear at the top of the
   20  plate, and the words “Save Coastal Wildlife” must appear at the
   21  bottom of the plate. The plate must include the image of an
   22  American flamingo.
   23         (b) The annual use fees from the sale of the plate must be
   24  distributed to the Zoo Miami Foundation, a nonprofit
   25  organization under s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code,
   26  for conservation of imperiled coastal wildlife and ecosystems in
   27  this state through field conservation and mission-focused
   28  research. Up to 10 percent of the annual use fees may be used
   29  for costs associated with the design and creation of the license
   30  plate, annual administrative costs directly associated with the
   31  administration of the Save Coastal Wildlife program, and
   32  marketing of the license plate. Of the remaining funds:
   33         1. Eighty-five percent must be used to maintain programs at
   34  the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Institute at Zoo Miami which
   35  conserve imperiled coastal wildlife and ecosystems.
   36         2. Fifteen percent must be distributed to eligible Florida
   37  based nonprofit organizations to conserve native imperiled
   38  coastal wildlife and ecosystems.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2025.