Florida SB 488: Emergency Medical Services

Bill Text

488 
Transportation 
2026-03-12T07:28:08Z 
Requiring licensing, rather than registration, of motor carriers; revising reporting periods and due dates for motor fuel use tax returns; revising the apparent amount of property damage that requires the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash to notify law enforcement of the crash; defining the term “REAL ID driver license or identification card”; providing that the use of a license plate frame or decorative border device is not prohibited under specified conditions, etc. 
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 2026 Legislature SB 488, 2nd Engrossed 

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 2 An act relating to transportation; amending s. 
 3 207.001, F.S.; revising a short title; amending s. 
 4 207.002, F.S.; providing and revising definitions; 
 5 amending s. 207.004, F.S.; requiring licensing, rather 
 6 than registration, of motor carriers; requiring fuel 
 7 tax decals, rather than identifying devices, for motor 
 8 carriers; requiring a copy of the license to be 
 9 carried in each qualified motor vehicle or made 
 10 available electronically; specifying how fuel tax 
 11 decals are to be displayed on qualified motor 
 12 vehicles; requiring the Department of Highway Safety 
 13 and Motor Vehicles or its authorized agent to issue 
 14 licenses and fuel tax decals; requiring fuel tax decal 
 15 renewal orders to be submitted electronically 
 16 beginning on a specified date; revising required 
 17 contents of temporary fuel-use permits; removing 
 18 provisions relating to driveaway permits; amending s. 
 19 207.005, F.S.; revising reporting periods and due 
 20 dates for motor fuel use tax returns; requiring such 
 21 tax returns to be submitted electronically beginning 
 22 on a specified date; amending s. 207.007, F.S.; 
 23 revising requirements for calculation of interest due 
 24 for delinquent tax; providing penalties for any person 
 25 who counterfeits, alters, manufactures, or sells fuel 
 26 tax licenses, fuel tax decals, or temporary fuel-use 
 27 permits except under certain circumstances; amending 
 28 s. 207.019, F.S.; requiring motor carriers to destroy 
 29 fuel tax decals under certain circumstances and notify 
 30 the department; amending s. 316.065, F.S.; revising 
 31 the apparent amount of property damage that requires 
 32 the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash to notify 
 33 law enforcement of the crash; amending s. 320.02, 
 34 F.S.; providing an exemption from certain vehicle 
 35 registration requirements for certain active duty 
 36 military members; requiring applicants to provide 
 37 proof of address; revising requirements for 
 38 documenting an applicant’s address and proof of legal 
 39 presence; defining the term “REAL ID driver license or 
 40 identification card”; removing certain requirements 
 41 for business applicants; amending s. 320.061, F.S.; 
 42 revising a prohibition on obscuring a license plate; 
 43 providing that the use of a license plate frame or 
 44 decorative border is not prohibited under specified 
 45 conditions; amending s. 320.084, F.S.; providing that 
 46 a disabled veteran may retain a certain license plate 
 47 designation upon reissuance, renewal, or transfer of 
 48 the plate; amending s. 320.0843, F.S.; authorizing 
 49 applications for certain license plates to be made to 
 50 the tax collector; providing that such license plates 
 51 may be stamped with specified letters at the option of 
 52 the applicant; authorizing the tax collector to issue 
 53 such plates immediately on demand; amending s. 
 54 320.262, F.S.; revising the definition of the term 
 55 “license plate obscuring device”; providing that the 
 56 use of a license plate frame or decorative border 
 57 device is not prohibited under specified conditions; 
 58 amending s. 320.64, F.S.; authorizing licensees to 
 59 reject the succession to interest in a franchise 
 60 agreement of a motor vehicle dealer under certain 
 61 circumstances; clarifying the motor vehicles for which 
 62 a licensee must pay certain costs to a motor vehicle 
 63 dealer under certain circumstances; prohibiting a 
 64 licensee from distributing more than a specified 
 65 percentage of a specified number of motor vehicles of 
 66 a particular line-make during a certain period to one 
 67 motor vehicle dealer or dealers that share common 
 68 ownership or control; providing applicability; 
 69 amending s. 320.643, F.S.; authorizing a licensee to 
 70 reject a sale, transfer, alienation, or other 
 71 disposition of a franchise agreement or an equity 
 72 interest in a motor vehicle dealer under certain 
 73 circumstances; amending s. 320.95, F.S.; authorizing 
 74 the department to use e-mail as a method of 
 75 notification; amending s. 322.01, F.S.; revising the 
 76 definition of the term “tank vehicle”; amending ss. 
 77 322.051 and 322.17, F.S.; requiring an e-mail address 
 78 to be included on an identification card application