Florida Senate - 2023                              CS for SB 386
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Bradley
       
       
       
       
       
       596-02531-23                                           2023386c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to specialty license plates; amending
    3         s. 320.08058, F.S.; directing the Department of
    4         Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a United
    5         Service Organizations license plate; providing for
    6         distribution of fees collected from the sale of the
    7         plate; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (127) is added to section 320.08058,
   12  Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   14         (127) UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS LICENSE PLATES.—
   15         (a) The department shall develop a United Service
   16  Organizations license plate as provided in this section and s.
   17  320.08053. The plate must bear the colors and design approved by
   18  the department. The word “Florida” must appear at the top of the
   19  plate, and the words “United Service Organizations” must appear
   20  at the bottom of the plate.
   21         (b) The annual use fees from the sale of the plate must be
   22  distributed to United Service Organizations, a nonprofit
   23  corporation under s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code,
   24  which may use up to 10 percent of such fees for administrative
   25  costs and marketing of the plate. The balance of the fees shall
   26  be used by United Service Organizations for the organization’s
   27  operations, activities, programs, or projects.
   28         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2023.