Bill Text: FL S0140 | 2014 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Driver Licenses
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)
Status: (Failed) 2014-05-02 - Died in Appropriations, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 7015 (Ch. 2014-1) [S0140 Detail]
Download: Florida-2014-S0140-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Driver Licenses
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)
Status: (Failed) 2014-05-02 - Died in Appropriations, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 7015 (Ch. 2014-1) [S0140 Detail]
Download: Florida-2014-S0140-Comm_Sub.html
Florida Senate - 2014 CS for SB 140
By the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and
Domestic Security; and Senator Bradley
583-00465-14 2014140c1
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to driver licenses; amending s.
3 322.031, F.S.; providing that the spouse of a member
4 of the United States Armed Forces is not required to
5 obtain a Florida driver license because he or she
6 enters his or her children in public school in this
7 state under certain circumstances; providing that a
8 dependent child of a member of the United States Armed
9 Forces is not required to obtain a Florida driver
10 license under certain circumstances; updating
11 terminology; amending s. 322.121, F.S.; providing that
12 the spouse of a member of the United States Armed
13 Forces is granted an automatic extension for the
14 expiration of a certain class of driver license under
15 certain circumstances; providing an effective date.
16
17 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
18
19 Section 1. Section 322.031, Florida Statutes, is amended to
20 read:
21 322.031 Nonresident; when license required.—
22 (1) In each every case in which a nonresident, except a
23 nonresident migrant or seasonal farm worker as defined in s.
24 316.003(61), accepts employment or engages in any trade,
25 profession, or occupation in this state or enters his or her
26 children to be educated in the public schools of this state,
27 such nonresident shall, within 30 days after the commencement of
28 such employment or education, be required to obtain a Florida
29 driver driver’s license if such nonresident operates a motor
30 vehicle on the highways of this state. The spouse or dependent
31 child of such nonresident shall also be required to obtain a
32 Florida driver driver’s license within that 30-day period before
33 prior to operating a motor vehicle on the highways of this
34 state.
35 (2) A member of the United States Armed Forces on active
36 duty in this state or his or her spouse is shall not be required
37 to obtain a Florida driver driver’s license under this section
38 solely because he or she enters his or her children to be
39 educated in the public schools of this state if he or she has a
40 valid military driving permit or a valid driver driver’s license
41 issued by another state. If a member of the United States Armed
42 Forces on active duty in this state or his or her spouse is not
43 required to obtain a Florida driver license under this
44 subsection, his or her dependent child is not required to obtain
45 a Florida driver license if the dependent child has a valid
46 driver license issued by another state, unless the dependent
47 child accepts employment or engages in any trade, profession, or
48 occupation in this state.
49 (3) A nonresident who is domiciled in another state and who
50 commutes into this state in order to work is shall not be
51 required to obtain a Florida driver driver’s license under this
52 section solely because he or she has accepted employment or
53 engages in any trade, profession, or occupation in this state if
54 he or she has a valid driver driver’s license issued by another
55 state. Further, a any person who is enrolled as a student in a
56 college or university and who is a nonresident but is in this
57 state for a period of up to 6 months engaged in a work-study
58 program for which academic credits are earned from a college
59 whose credits or degrees are accepted for credit by at least
60 three accredited institutions of higher learning, as defined in
61 s. 1005.02, is shall not be required to obtain a Florida driver
62 driver’s license for the duration of the work-study program if
63 such person has a valid driver driver’s license issued by
64 another state. A Any nonresident who is enrolled as a full-time
65 student in any such institution of higher learning is also
66 exempt from the requirement of obtaining a Florida driver
67 driver’s license for the duration of such enrollment.
68 (4) A nonresident who is at least 21 years of age and who
69 has in his or her immediate possession a valid commercial driver
70 driver’s license issued in substantial compliance with the
71 Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 may operate a motor
72 vehicle of the type permitted by his or her license to be
73 operated in this state.
74 Section 2. Subsection (5) of section 322.121, Florida
75 Statutes, is amended to read:
76 322.121 Periodic reexamination of all drivers.—
77 (5) A member Members of the United States Armed Forces, his
78 or her spouse, or a dependent their dependents residing with him
79 or her them, shall be granted an automatic extension for the
80 expiration of his or her their Class E license licenses without
81 reexamination while the member of the United States Armed Forces
82 is serving on active duty outside this state. This extension is
83 valid for 90 days after the member of the United States Armed
84 Forces is either discharged or returns to this state to live.
85 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.
