Florida Senate - 2015                                     SB 256
       
       
        
       By Senator Sobel
       
       
       
       
       
       33-00495-15                                            2015256__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to identification cards; amending s.
    3         322.051, F.S.; requiring the Department of Highway
    4         Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue an identification
    5         card exhibiting a special designation for a person who
    6         is diagnosed by a licensed physician as having a
    7         developmental disability; requiring payment of an
    8         additional fee and proof of diagnosis; authorizing
    9         issuance of a replacement identification card that
   10         includes the special designation without payment of a
   11         specified fee; providing an effective date.
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   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (8) of
   16  section 322.051, Florida Statutes, to read:
   17         322.051 Identification cards.—
   18         (8)
   19         (c) Upon request by a person who has a developmental
   20  disability, or by a parent or guardian of a child or ward who
   21  has a developmental disability, and submission of payment and
   22  required proof, the department shall issue an identification
   23  card exhibiting a capital “D” for a person who has been
   24  diagnosed by a licensed physician as having a developmental
   25  disability as defined in s. 393.063. Such card shall be issued
   26  upon payment of an additional $10 fee and submission of proof
   27  acceptable to the department of diagnosis of the developmental
   28  disability by a licensed physician. A replacement identification
   29  card that includes the designation may be issued without payment
   30  of the fee required in s. 322.21(1)(f).
   31         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.