Florida SB 470: Law Enforcement and Correctional Officers

Bill Text

470 
Fraternal Order of Police License Plate 
2025-11-12T11:11:06Z 
Deleting a restriction on who may be issued the Fraternal Order of Police license plate; revising the distribution and use of annual use fees collected from sales of the Fraternal Order of Police license plate, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-10-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 470 

 By Senator Wright 

 8-00441-26 2026470__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to the Fraternal Order of Police 
 3 license plate; amending s. 320.08058, F.S.; deleting a 
 4 restriction on who may be issued the Fraternal Order 
 5 of Police license plate; revising the distribution and 
 6 use of annual use fees collected from sales of the 
 7 Fraternal Order of Police license plate; providing an 
 8 effective date. 
 9 
 10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 11 
 12 Section 1. Subsection (67) of section 320.08058, Florida 
 13 Statutes, is amended to read: 
 14 320.08058 Specialty license plates.— 
 15 (67) FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LICENSE PLATES.— 
 16 (a)1. The department shall develop a Fraternal Order of 
 17 Police license plate as provided in this section. The plate must 
 18 bear the colors and design approved by the department. The word 
 19 “Florida” must appear at the top of the plate, and the words 
 20 “Fraternal Order of Police” must appear at the bottom of the 
 21 plate. 
 22 2. The department may issue the plate only to an applicant 
 23 who submits a notarized letter from the Florida State Lodge of 
 24 the Fraternal Order of Police stating that the applicant is a 
 25 member of the lodge in good standing or a member of a lodge 
 26 member’s family, together with other fees and documents required 
 27 for a specialty plate. 
 28 (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to the Florida 
 29 State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police Memorial 
 30 Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit corporation under s. 501(c)(3) of 
 31 the Internal Revenue Code. The which shall retain all proceeds 
 32 until the startup costs to develop and establish the plate have 
 33 been recovered. Thereafter, the proceeds shall be distributed to 
 34 the Florida State Lodge Memorial foundation shall distribute the 
 35 proceeds for use according to the foundation’s articles of 
 36 incorporation of the Fraternal Order of Police and used as 
 37 follows: 
 38 1. A maximum of 10 percent of the proceeds may be used to 
 39 promote and market the plate, to administer the license plate 
 40 program, and to pay administrative costs directly associated 
 41 with the state Fraternal Order of Police Law Enforcement 
 42 Memorial. 
 43 2. The remaining proceeds shall be used by the foundation 
 44 to fund projects, programs, or events related to the memorial or 
 45 to fund improvements, maintenance, or other support for the 
 46 memorial. 
 47 Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2026.