Florida Senate - 2015                              CS for SB 256
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Sobel
       
       
       
       
       
       596-02566-15                                           2015256c1
    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; requiring the department to develop
   12         rules to facilitate the issuance, requirements, and
   13         oversight of developmental identification cards;
   14         providing an effective date.
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   16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   18         Section 1. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (8) of
   19  section 322.051, Florida Statutes, to read:
   20         322.051 Identification cards.—
   21         (8)
   22         (c) Upon request by a person who has a developmental
   23  disability, or by a parent or guardian of a child or ward who
   24  has a developmental disability, and submission of payment and
   25  required proof, the department shall issue an identification
   26  card exhibiting a capital “D” for a person who has been
   27  diagnosed by a licensed physician as having a developmental
   28  disability as defined in s. 393.063. Such card shall be issued
   29  upon payment of an additional $10 fee, deposited into the Agency
   30  for Persons with Disabilities Operations and Maintenance Trust
   31  Fund under s. 20.1971(2), and submission of proof acceptable to
   32  the department of diagnosis of the developmental disability by a
   33  licensed physician. A replacement identification card that
   34  includes the designation may be issued without payment of the
   35  fee required in s. 322.21(1)(f). The Department of Highway
   36  Safety and Motor Vehicles shall develop rules to facilitate the
   37  issuance, requirements, and oversight of developmental
   38  identification cards pursuant to this section.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2015.