Title: Specialty License Plates/Support Our Constitution

Summary: Directs DHSMV to create Support Our Constitution license plate; establishes annual use fee for plate; provides for distribution of use fees received from sale of such plates.

Full Text:
An act relating to specialty license plates; amending ss. 320.08056 and 320.08058, F.S.; directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to create a Support Our Constitution license plate; establishing an annual use fee for the plate; providing for the distribution of use fees received from the sale of such plates; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Paragraph (ffff) is added to subsection (4) of section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read: 320.08056 Specialty license plates.-(4) The following license plate annual use fees shall be collected for the appropriate specia lty license plates: (ffff) Support Our Constitution license plate, $25. Section 2. Subsection (84) is added to section 320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read: 320.08058 Specialty license plates.-(84) SUPPORT OUR CONSTITU TION LICENSE PLATES.-(a) The department shall develop a Support Our Constitution license plate as provided in this section. Support Our Constitution license plates must bear the colors and design approved by the department. The word "Florida" must appear at CS/HB 2016 the top of the plate, and the words "Support Our Constitution" must appear at the bottom of the plate. (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to The Constitution Foundation, Inc., which may retain all proceeds from the annual use fees until the startup costs for develop ing and issuing the license plates have been recovered. Thereafter, The Constitution Foundation, Inc., shall use the proceeds as follows: 1. A maximum of percent may be used for administrative costs of the organization. 2. A maximum of percent ma ybe used for promotion and marketing costs of the license plate. 3. The remainder shall be used to fund the activities, programs, projects, and mission of The Constitution Foundation to increase awareness and understanding of the United States Constitut ion in Florida's public schools, recruit and train school leaders to make presentations in each school district, and provide to each student, at no charge, with learning materials and a pocket Constitution. Section 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2016.