Title: Specialty License Plates/Down Syndrome Awareness

Summary: Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Down Syndrome Awareness license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.

Full Text:
An act relating to specialty license plates; amending s. 320.08058, F.S.; directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Down Syndrome Awareness license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (119) is added to section 320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read: 320.08058 Specialty license plates.  (119)   DOWN SYNDROME AWARENESS LICENSE PLATES.  (a)   The department shall develop a Down Syndrome Awareness license plate as provided in this section and s. 320.08053. The plate must bear the colors and design approved by the department. The word  Florida  must appear at the top of the plate, and the words  Down Syndrome Awareness  must appear at the bottom of the plate. (b)   The annual use fees from the sale of the plate shall be distributed to Our City Beautiful, Inc., a Florida nonprofit corporation. Up to percent of the fees may be used for administrative costs and marketing of the plate. Of the remaining fees: 1.   Fifty percent shall be used to build and maintain HOLLAND, an affordable housing project for independent living for persons with Down syndrome or other intellectual disability. 2.   Fifteen percent shall be dedicated to Our City Beautiful World Changer scholarships for Florida residents years of age or older with Down syndrome who wish to further their education at postsecondary educational institutions located in this state. 3.   Thirty-five percent shall be used for grants to other nonprofit organizations within this state to support housing, educational scholarships, and employment assistance programs for persons with Down syndrome or other intellectual disability. Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2022.