Bill Text: FL S0978 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: License Plates/Fraternal Order of Police [CPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-30 - Placed on Special Order Calendar; Read 2nd time -SJ 01141; Amendment(s) adopted (753998) -SJ 01141; Substituted CS/HB 289 -SJ 01141; Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 289 (Ch. 2010-216) -SJ 01141 [S0978 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0978-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 978 
 
By Senator Fasano 
11-00871-10                                            2010978__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to specialty license plates; amending 
3         ss. 320.08056 and 320.08058, F.S.; creating a 
4         Fraternal Order of Police license plate; establishing 
5         an annual use fee for the plate; providing for the 
6         distribution of use fees received from the sale of the 
7         plate; providing an effective date. 
8 
9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
10 
11         Section 1. Paragraph (rrr) is added to subsection (4) of 
12  section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read: 
13         320.08056 Specialty license plates.— 
14         (4) The following license plate annual use fees shall be 
15  collected for the appropriate specialty license plates: 
16         (rrr) Fraternal Order of Police license plate, $25. 
17         Section 2. Subsection (70) is added to section 320.08058, 
18  Florida Statutes, to read: 
19         320.08058 Specialty license plates.— 
20         (70) FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LICENSE PLATES.— 
21         (a)1. The department shall develop a Fraternal Order of 
22  Police license plate as provided in this section. The plate must 
23  bear the colors and design approved by the department. The word 
24  “Florida” must appear at the top of the plate and the words 
25  “Fraternal Order of Police” must appear at the bottom of the 
26  plate. 
27         2. The department may issue the plate only to an applicant 
28  who submits a notarized letter from the Florida State Lodge of 
29  the Fraternal Order of Police stating that the applicant is a 
30  member of the lodge in good standing or a member of a lodge 
31  member’s family, together with other fees and documents required 
32  for a specialty plate. 
33         (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to the Florida 
34  State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, which shall retain 
35  all proceeds until the startup costs to develop and establish 
36  the plate have been recovered. Thereafter, the proceeds shall be 
37  distributed to the Florida State Lodge Memorial Foundation of 
38  the Fraternal Order of Police and used as follows: 
39         1. A maximum of 25 percent of the proceeds may be used to 
40  promote and market the plate, to administer the license plate 
41  program, and to pay administrative costs directly associated 
42  with the state Fraternal Order of Police Law Enforcement 
43  Memorial. 
44         2. The remaining fees shall be used by the foundation to 
45  fund projects, programs, or events related to the memorial or to 
46  fund improvements, maintenance, or other support for the 
47  memorial. 
48         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.