Florida Senate - 2016                                     SB 896
       
       
        
       By Senator Flores
       
       
       
       
       
       37-00442A-16                                           2016896__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to specialty license plates; amending
    3         ss. 320.08056 and 320.08058, F.S.; providing an annual
    4         use fee for a Team Hammy license plate; directing the
    5         Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to
    6         develop the Team Hammy license plate; providing for
    7         the distribution of annual use fees received from the
    8         sale of such plates; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Paragraph (ffff) is added to subsection (4) of
   13  section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read:
   14         320.08056 Specialty license plates.—
   15         (4) The following license plate annual use fees shall be
   16  collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:
   17         (ffff) Team Hammy license plate, $25.
   18         Section 2. Subsection (84) is added to section 320.08058,
   19  Florida Statutes, to read:
   20         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   21         (84) TEAM HAMMY LICENSE PLATES.—
   22         (a) The department shall develop a Team Hammy license plate
   23  as provided in this section and s. 320.08053. Team Hammy license
   24  plates must bear the colors and design approved by the
   25  department. The word “Florida” must appear at the top of the
   26  plate, and the words “Team Hammy” must appear at the bottom of
   27  the plate.
   28         (b) The department shall retain all license plate annual
   29  use fees until all startup costs for developing and issuing the
   30  plates have been recovered. Thereafter, the license plate annual
   31  use fees shall be distributed to Team Hammy, Inc., a Florida
   32  not-for-profit corporation, which may use up to 10 percent of
   33  such fees for administrative costs and marketing of the plate.
   34  The balance of the fees shall be used by Team Hammy, Inc., to
   35  grant wishes to families living with amyotrophic lateral
   36  sclerosis (ALS), to provide continuing education on ALS to
   37  caregivers and physicians, and to increase awareness of ALS in
   38  the community.
   39         Section 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2016.