Florida Senate - 2014 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 860
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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03/06/2014 .
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following:
1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (936674) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Between lines 819 and 820
5 insert:
6 Section 24. Section 322.031, Florida Statutes, is amended
7 to read:
8 322.031 Nonresident; when license required.—
9 (1) In each every case in which a nonresident, except a
10 nonresident migrant or seasonal farm worker as defined in s.
11 316.003(61), accepts employment or engages in a any trade,
12 profession, or occupation in this state or enters his or her
13 children to be educated in the public schools of this state,
14 such nonresident shall, within 30 days after beginning the
15 commencement of such employment or education, be required to
16 obtain a Florida driver driver’s license if such nonresident
17 operates a motor vehicle on the highways of this state. The
18 spouse or dependent child of such nonresident shall also be
19 required to obtain a Florida driver driver’s license within that
20 30-day period before prior to operating a motor vehicle on the
21 highways of this state.
22 (2) A member of the United States Armed Forces on active
23 duty in this state, his or her spouse, or a dependent residing
24 with him or her, is shall not be required to obtain or display a
25 Florida driver driver’s license if he or she is in possession of
26 a valid military identification card and either a valid driver
27 license or learner’s permit issued by another state, or a valid
28 military driving permit. Such a person is not required to obtain
29 or display a Florida driver license under this section solely
30 because he or she enters his or her children to be educated in
31 the public schools of this state or because he or she accepts
32 employment or engages in a trade, profession, or occupation in
33 this state if he or she has a valid military driving permit or a
34 valid driver’s license issued by another state.
35 (3) A nonresident who is domiciled in another state and who
36 commutes into this state in order to work is shall not be
37 required to obtain a Florida driver driver’s license under this
38 section solely because he or she has accepted employment or
39 engages in a any trade, profession, or occupation in this state
40 if he or she has a valid driver driver’s license issued by
41 another state. Further, a any person who is enrolled as a
42 student in a college or university and who is a nonresident but
43 is in this state for a period of up to 6 months engaged in a
44 work-study program for which academic credits are earned from a
45 college whose credits or degrees are accepted for credit by at
46 least three accredited institutions of higher learning, as
47 defined in s. 1005.02, is shall not be required to obtain a
48 Florida driver driver’s license for the duration of the work
49 study program if such person has a valid driver driver’s license
50 issued by another state. A Any nonresident who is enrolled as a
51 full-time student in any such institution of higher learning is
52 also exempt from the requirement of obtaining a Florida driver
53 driver’s license for the duration of such enrollment.
54 (4) A nonresident who is at least 21 years of age and who
55 has in his or her immediate possession a valid commercial driver
56 driver’s license issued in substantial compliance with the
57 Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 may operate a motor
58 vehicle of the type permitted by his or her license to be
59 operated in this state.
60 Section 25. Subsection (5) of section 322.121, Florida
61 Statutes, is amended to read:
62 322.121 Periodic reexamination of all drivers.—
63 (5) A member Members of the United States Armed Forces, his
64 or her spouse, or a dependent their dependents residing with him
65 or her them, shall be granted an automatic extension for the
66 expiration of his or her their Class E license licenses without
67 reexamination while the member of the United States Armed Forces
68 is serving on active duty outside this state. This extension is
69 valid for 90 days after the member of the United States Armed
70 Forces is either discharged or returns to this state to live.
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73 And the title is amended as follows:
74 Delete line 1082
75 and insert:
76 state veterans’ nursing home; amending s. 322.031,
77 F.S.; providing conditions under which the spouses and
78 dependents of servicemembers are exempt from obtaining
79 or displaying a driver license or learner’s permit;
80 amending s. 322.121, F.S.; granting an automatic
81 extension for the expiration of a driver license to
82 the spouse and dependents of servicemembers; amending
83 s. 455.213,