Bill Text: FL S0752 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Specialty License Plates/Childhood Cancer Awareness

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2018-03-10 - Died in Messages [S0752 Detail]

Download: Florida-2018-S0752-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2018                                     SB 752
       
       
        
       By Senator Mayfield
       
       
       
       
       
       17-00418A-18                                           2018752__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to specialty license plates; amending
    3         s. 320.08056, F.S.; establishing an annual use fee for
    4         the Childhood Cancer Awareness license plate; amending
    5         s. 320.08058, F.S.; requiring the Department of
    6         Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a
    7         Childhood Cancer Awareness license plate; providing
    8         for distribution and use of fees collected from the
    9         sale of the plates; providing an effective date.
   10          
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Paragraph (ffff) is added to subsection (4) of
   14  section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read:
   15         320.08056 Specialty license plates.—
   16         (4) The following license plate annual use fees shall be
   17  collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:
   18         (ffff) Childhood Cancer Awareness license plate, $25.
   19         Section 2. Subsection (84) is added to section 320.08058,
   20  Florida Statutes, to read:
   21         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   22         (84) CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS LICENSE PLATES.—
   23         (a) The department shall develop a Childhood Cancer
   24  Awareness license plate as provided in this section and s.
   25  320.08053. The Childhood Cancer Awareness license plates must
   26  bear the colors and design approved by the department. The word
   27  “Florida” must appear at the top of the plate, and the words
   28  “Cure Childhood Cancer” must appear at the bottom of the plate.
   29         (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to No Kid
   30  Should Know Cancer, Inc., a nonprofit corporation under s.
   31  501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which may use up to 10
   32  percent of the proceeds for administrative costs and for the
   33  marketing of the plate. The balance of the fees shall be used by
   34  No Kid Should Know Cancer, Inc., to:
   35         1. Support families who have a child recently diagnosed
   36  with cancer, in the form of gift cards to help with food, tolls,
   37  and gas;
   38         2. Hold events that raise awareness about childhood cancer;
   39  and
   40         3. Support clinical trials that work to provide better
   41  treatment plans for children diagnosed with cancer and,
   42  ultimately, a better prognosis.
   43         Section 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2018.