Florida Senate - 2026                                     SB 470
       
       
        
       By Senator Wright
       
       
       
       
       
       8-00441-26                                             2026470__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Fraternal Order of Police
    3         license plate; amending s. 320.08058, F.S.; deleting a
    4         restriction on who may be issued the Fraternal Order
    5         of Police license plate; revising the distribution and
    6         use of annual use fees collected from sales of the
    7         Fraternal Order of Police license plate; providing an
    8         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 (67) of section 320.08058, Florida
   13  Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   15         (67) FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LICENSE PLATES.—
   16         (a)1. The department shall develop a Fraternal Order of
   17  Police license plate as provided in this section. The plate must
   18  bear the colors and design approved by the department. The word
   19  “Florida” must appear at the top of the plate, and the words
   20  “Fraternal Order of Police” must appear at the bottom of the
   21  plate.
   22         2. The department may issue the plate only to an applicant
   23  who submits a notarized letter from the Florida State Lodge of
   24  the Fraternal Order of Police stating that the applicant is a
   25  member of the lodge in good standing or a member of a lodge
   26  member’s family, together with other fees and documents required
   27  for a specialty plate.
   28         (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to the Florida
   29  State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police Memorial
   30  Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit corporation under s. 501(c)(3) of
   31  the Internal Revenue Code. The which shall retain all proceeds
   32  until the startup costs to develop and establish the plate have
   33  been recovered. Thereafter, the proceeds shall be distributed to
   34  the Florida State Lodge Memorial foundation shall distribute the
   35  proceeds for use according to the foundation’s articles of
   36  incorporation of the Fraternal Order of Police and used as
   37  follows:
   38         1. A maximum of 10 percent of the proceeds may be used to
   39  promote and market the plate, to administer the license plate
   40  program, and to pay administrative costs directly associated
   41  with the state Fraternal Order of Police Law Enforcement
   42  Memorial.
   43         2. The remaining proceeds shall be used by the foundation
   44  to fund projects, programs, or events related to the memorial or
   45  to fund improvements, maintenance, or other support for the
   46  memorial.
   47         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2026.