The Florida Senate

320.073  Impact fee refunds.--

(1)  The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is directed to establish a program for refund of the $295 impact fee upon the initial application for registration of a motor vehicle imposed pursuant to ¹s. 320.072(1)(b), as created by chapter 90-132, Laws of Florida, during the period July 1, 1990, through June 30, 1991, and to make such refunds from the General Revenue Fund in a timely manner.

(2)  It is the responsibility of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide the appropriate state agencies with a list of persons eligible for a refund of the impact fee. Within 30 days after receiving the list, the agencies shall notify the Comptroller of any claimant owing an outstanding debt to the state or who is delinquent in any court-ordered child support obligation. If the claimant owes multiple debts subject to offset under this subsection and the refund is insufficient to cover all such debts, the amount of the refund shall be applied to those debts in the following manner: the amount of the refund shall first be applied to any delinquent court-ordered child support obligation; the remainder, if any, shall then be applied to any outstanding debts to the state that are the result of a felony conviction, as provided in s. 960.17, during the period July 1, 1990, through June 30, 1996; and if the remaining portion of the refund is insufficient to cover all further debts subject to offset under this subsection, it shall be applied on a pro rata basis by the Comptroller. The pro rata allocation shall be based on the percentage of each debt owed of the total amount of all outstanding remaining debts owed. The Comptroller shall withhold the refund due to any such claimant and shall transmit such amount withheld to the respective agency.

(3)  All persons eligible for a refund of the $295 impact fee shall file an appropriate application for the refund with the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles within 1 year of May 28, 1996, or shall otherwise forfeit such eligibility for a refund.

History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 96-243.

¹Note.--Repealed by s. 10, ch. 91-82.