Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 302
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/14/2017           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
       (Brandes) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 529 - 556
    4  and insert:
    5         (6) Notwithstanding any other law, a person’s driver
    6  license may not be suspended solely for a failure to pay a
    7  penalty if the person requests a hearing and demonstrates to the
    8  court, after notice of the penalty and before the suspension
    9  takes place, that the person is unable to pay the penalty.
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   11  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   12  And the title is amended as follows:
   13         Delete lines 52 - 59
   14  and insert:
   15         322.245, F.S.; prohibiting the suspension of a
   16         person’s driver license solely for a failure to pay a
   17         penalty if the person requests a hearing and
   18         demonstrates to the court, after notice of the penalty
   19         and before the suspension takes place, that the person
   20         is unable to pay the penalty; repealing s. 322.251(7),