Bill Text: FL S1162 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Driver Licenses

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2015-05-01 - Died in Transportation [S1162 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S1162-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                                    SB 1162
       
       
        
       By Senator Sachs
       
       
       
       
       
       34-00946-15                                           20151162__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to driver licenses; amending s.
    3         322.21, F.S.; decreasing the fee for the renewal or
    4         extension of a Class E driver license or a license
    5         restricted to motorcycle use; decreasing the
    6         replacement fee for a driver license; revising the
    7         allocation of such fee; providing that any veteran
    8         honorably discharged from the Armed Forces who has
    9         served at least 1 day during a wartime period and who
   10         is qualified to obtain a driver license under this
   11         chapter is exempt from all fees required by this
   12         section; providing an effective date.
   13          
   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Paragraphs (c) and (e) of subsection (1) and
   17  subsection (7) of section 322.21, Florida Statutes, are amended
   18  to read:
   19         322.21 License fees; procedure for handling and collecting
   20  fees.—
   21         (1) Except as otherwise provided herein, the fee for:
   22         (c) The renewal or extension of a Class E driver license or
   23  of a license restricted to motorcycle use only is $25 $48,
   24  except that a delinquent fee of $15 shall be added for a renewal
   25  or extension made within 12 months after the license expiration
   26  date. The fee provided in this paragraph includes the fee for
   27  driver education provided by s. 1003.48.
   28         (e) A replacement driver license issued pursuant to s.
   29  322.17 is $10 $25. Of this amount $3 $7 shall be deposited into
   30  the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund and $7 $18 shall be
   31  deposited into the General Revenue Fund. Beginning July 1, 2015,
   32  or upon completion of the transition of driver license issuance
   33  services, if the replacement driver license is issued by the tax
   34  collector, the tax collector shall retain the $3 $7 that would
   35  otherwise be deposited into the Highway Safety Operating Trust
   36  Fund and the remaining revenues shall be deposited into the
   37  General Revenue Fund.
   38         (7) Any veteran honorably discharged from the Armed Forces
   39  who has served at least 1 day during a wartime period who has
   40  been issued a valid identification card by the Department of
   41  Veterans’ Affairs in accordance with s. 295.17, has been
   42  determined by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
   43  or its predecessor to have a 100-percent total and permanent
   44  service-connected disability rating for compensation, or has
   45  been determined to have a service-connected total and permanent
   46  disability rating of 100 percent, is in receipt of disability
   47  retirement pay from any branch of the United States Armed
   48  Services, and who is qualified to obtain a driver license under
   49  this chapter is exempt from all fees required by this section.
   50         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.