Florida Senate - 2025                              CS for SB 824
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Pizzo
       
       
       
       
       
       596-02598-25                                           2025824c1
    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
    5         Supporting FHP Troopers license plate; providing for
    6         distribution and use of fees collected from the sale
    7         of the plate; 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 (136) is added to section 320.08058,
   12  Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   14         (136) SUPPORTING FHP TROOPERS LICENSE PLATES.—
   15         (a) The department shall develop a Supporting FHP Troopers
   16  license plate as provided in this section and s. 320.08053. The
   17  plate must bear the colors and design approved by the
   18  department. The word “Florida” must appear at the top of the
   19  plate, and the words “Supporting FHP Troopers” must appear at
   20  the bottom of the plate.
   21         (b) The annual use fees from the sale of the plate must be
   22  distributed to the Florida Highway Patrol Advisory Council,
   23  Inc., a nonprofit organization under s. 501(c)(3) of the
   24  Internal Revenue Code, which may use up to 10 percent of the
   25  fees for administrative costs and marketing of the plate. The
   26  Florida Highway Patrol Advisory Council, Inc., must use the
   27  remaining fees to fund scholarships, based on the council’s
   28  established criteria, for current members of the Florida Highway
   29  Patrol and their family members who are attending a vocational
   30  school, technical school, college, or university. For purposes
   31  of this paragraph, the term “family member” means a spouse,
   32  child, stepchild, or legally adopted child of the Florida
   33  Highway Patrol member or a child raised in the home and claimed
   34  by the Florida Highway Patrol member as a dependent under the
   35  federal income tax code before the child’s 18th birthday.
   36         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2025.