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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to specialty license plates; amending 2
s. 320.08058, F.S.; directing the Department of 3
Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a 4
Supporting FHP Troopers license plate; providing for 5
distribution and use of fees collected from the sale 6
of the plate; amending ss. 320.08053 and 320.08056, 7
F.S.; exempting the plate from minimum presale voucher 8
requirements and minimum valid registration 9
requirements, respectively; providing an effective 10
date. 11
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 13
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Section 1. Subsection (136) is added to section 320.08058, 15
Florida Statutes, to read: 16
320.08058 Specialty license plates. — 17
(136) SUPPORTING FHP TROOPERS LICENSE PLATES. — 18
(a) The department shall develop a Supporting FHP Troopers 19
license plate as provided in this section and s. 320.08053. The 20
plate must bear the colors and design approved by the 21
department. The word "Florida" must appear a t the top of the 22
plate, and the words "Supporting FHP Troopers" must appear at 23
the bottom of the plate. 24
(b) The annual use fees from the sale of the plate must be 25
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distributed to the Florida Highway Patrol Advisory Council, 26
Inc., a nonprofit organization under s. 501(c)(3) of the 27
Internal Revenue Code, which may use up to 10 percent of the 28
fees for administrative costs and marketing of the plate. The 29
Florida Highway Patrol Advisory Council, Inc., must use the 30
remaining fees to fund scholarships, based on t he council's 31
established criteria, for current members of the Florida Highway 32
Patrol and their family members who are attending a vocational 33
school, technical school, college, or university. For purposes 34
of this paragraph, the term "family member" means a spouse, 35
child, stepchild, legally adopted child, or child raised in the 36
home and claimed by the Florida Highway Patrol member as a 37
dependent under the federal income tax code before the child's 38
18th birthday. 39
Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 40
320.08053, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 41
320.08053 Establishment of specialty license plates. — 42
(2) 43
(b) Within 24 months after the presale specialty license 44
plate voucher is established, the approved specialty license 45
plate organization must record with the department a minimum of 46
3,000 voucher sales before manufacture of the license plate may 47
commence. The department shall extend this presale period by an 48
additional 24 months for an approved specialty license plate 49
organization that, as of June 15, 2022, is in the presale period 50
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but has not recorded at least 3,000 voucher sales. If, at the 51
conclusion of the presale period, the minimum sales requirement 52
has not been met, the specialty plate is deauthorized, and the 53
department shall dis continue development of the plate and 54
discontinue issuance of the presale vouchers. Upon 55
deauthorization of the license plate or if the plate has met the 56
presale requirement but has not been issued, a purchaser of the 57
license plate voucher may use the annu al use fee collected as a 58
credit towards any other specialty license plate or apply for a 59
refund on a form prescribed by the department. This paragraph 60
does not apply to the Supporting FHP Troopers license plate 61
established under s. 320.08058(136). 62
Section 3. Paragraph (a) of subsection (8) of section 63
320.08056, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 64
320.08056 Specialty license plates. — 65
(8)(a) The department must discontinue the issuance of an 66
approved specialty license plate if the number of valid 67
specialty plate registrations falls below 3,000, or in the case 68
of an out-of-state college or university license plate, 4,000, 69
for at least 12 consecutive months. The department shall mail a 70
warning letter to the sponsoring organization following the 71
first month in which the total number of valid specialty plate 72
registrations is below 3,000, or in the case of an out -of-state 73
college or university license plate, 4,000. This paragraph does 74
not apply to: 75
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1. In-state collegiate license plates established under s. 76
320.08058(3)., 77
2. License plates of institutions in and entities of the 78
State University System ., 79
3. Specialty license plates that have statutory 80
eligibility limitations for purchase ., 81
4. Specialty license plates for which annual use fees are 82
distributed by a foundation for student and teacher leadership 83
programs and teacher recruitment and retention ., or 84
5. Florida Professional Sports Team license plates 85
established under s. 320.08058(9). 86
6. The Supporting FHP Troopers license plate established 87
under s. 320.08058(136). 88
Section 4. This act shall take effect October 1, 2025. 89