Florida Senate - 2020                             CS for SB 1692
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Infrastructure and Security; and Senator
       Flores
       
       
       
       
       596-03408-20                                          20201692c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to driver licenses; amending s.
    3         322.14, F.S.; authorizing a person with specified
    4         disabilities to have the capital letter “D” exhibited
    5         on his or her driver license under certain
    6         circumstances; providing requirements for the
    7         placement of such letter on a person’s driver license;
    8         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 (f) is added to subsection (1) of
   13  section 322.14, Florida Statutes, to read:
   14         322.14 Licenses issued to drivers.—
   15         (1)
   16         (f)1. Upon request by a person who has a developmental
   17  disability, or by a parent or guardian of a child or ward who
   18  has a developmental disability, the capital letter “D” shall be
   19  exhibited on the driver license of a person who has a
   20  developmental disability, as defined in s. 393.063, if the
   21  person, or his or her parent or legal guardian, presents
   22  sufficient proof that the person has been diagnosed with a
   23  developmental disability by a physician licensed under chapter
   24  458 as determined by the department.
   25         2. Until a person’s driver license is next renewed, the
   26  person, or his or her parent or legal guardian, may have the
   27  capital letter “D” added to his or her license upon the
   28  surrender of his or her current license and presentation of
   29  sufficient proof that the person has been diagnosed with a
   30  developmental disability by a physician licensed under chapter
   31  458 as determined by the department. If the applicant is not
   32  conducting any other transaction affecting the driver license, a
   33  replacement license may be issued with the capital letter “D”
   34  without payment of the fee required in s. 322.21(1)(e).
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.