Florida SB 246: Public Construction

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Specialty License Plates 
2026-03-12T06:07:06Z 
Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; revising provisions relating to the issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of Police license plates; directing the department to develop specified specialty license plates, etc. 
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 2 An act relating to specialty license plates; amending 
 3 s. 320.08053, F.S.; requiring certain organizations 
 4 that have an approved specialty license plate to 
 5 submit within a specified timeframe certain financial 
 6 information to the Department of Highway Safety and 
 7 Motor Vehicles; providing for the deauthorization of 
 8 certain specialty license plates if the organization 
 9 receiving the annual use fees does not submit the 
 10 required financial information to the department 
 11 within the specified timeframe; requiring the 
 12 department to submit an annual report to the Governor 
 13 and Legislature by a specified date; amending s. 
 14 320.08056, F.S.; prohibiting specialty license plate 
 15 annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from 
 16 being distributed to certain entities; amending s. 
 17 320.08058, F.S.; requiring the department to develop 
 18 an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; 
 19 specifying a design requirement for the plate; 
 20 requiring that the number of valid Endless Summer 
 21 motor vehicle and motorcycle specialty license plates 
 22 be added together for purposes of a certain 
 23 determination; revising provisions relating to the 
 24 issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of 
 25 Police license plates; directing the department to 
 26 develop specified specialty license plates; providing 
 27 for distribution and use of fees collected from the 
 28 sale of the plates; amending s. 320.08062, F.S.; 
 29 conforming provisions to changes made by the act; 
 30 providing an effective date. 
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 32 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 34 Section 1. Subsections (2), (3), and (4) of section 
 35 320.08053, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (4), 
 36 (5), and (6), respectively, subsection (1) is amended, and new 
 37 subsections (2) and (3) are added to that section, to read: 
 38 320.08053 Establishment of specialty license plates.— 
 39 (1) If a specialty license plate requested by an 
 40 organization is approved by law, the organization must submit 
 41 the proposed art design for the specialty license plate to the 
 42 department, as soon as practicable but no later than 60 days 
 43 after the act approving the specialty license plate becomes a 
 44 law: 
 45 (a) The proposed art design for the specialty license 
 46 plate. 
 47 (b) A 5-year financial projection that: 
 48 1. Outlines anticipated revenues and planned expenditures 
 49 of the revenues to be derived from the sale of the requested 
 50 specialty license plate. 
 51 2. Provides a list of administrative expenses that the 
 52 approved specialty license plate organization anticipates, if 
 53 such expenses are authorized by s. 320.08058. 
 54 3. Provides a list of third parties to which the approved 
 55 specialty license plate organization plans to transfer, convey, 
 56 or otherwise distribute the specialty license plate annual use 
 57 fees in a medium prescribed by the department, as soon as 
 58 practicable, but no later than 60 days after the act approving 
 59 the specialty license plate becomes a law. 
 60 (2) If the financial projection required in paragraph 
 61 (1)(b) is not received by the department from the approved 
 62 specialty license plate organization within the timeframe 
 63 specified in subsection (1), then the specialty license plate is 
 64 deauthorized. 
 65 (3) By December 31 of each year, the department must submit 
 66 a report to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the 
 67 Speaker of the House of Representatives summarizing the 
 68 financial projections submitted to the department pursuant to 
 69 paragraph (1)(b). The report must also include the department’s 
 70 notification regarding the status of organizations whose 
 71 revenues have been withheld as provided in s. 320.08062(2)(d). 
 72 Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (10) and subsection 
 73 (12) of section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, are amended to 
 74 read: 
 75 320.08056 Specialty license plates.— 
 76 (10)(a) A specialty license plate annual use fee collected 
 77 and distributed under this chapter, or any interest