Title: Specialty License Plates

Summary: Directs DHSMV to develop Cure Diabetes license plate; provides for distribution & use of fees collected from sale of plate.

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 Cure Diabetes 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 (127) is added to section 320.08 058, Florida Statutes, to read: 320.08058 Specialty license plates.-(127) CURE DIABETES LICENSE PLATES.-(a) The department shall develop a Cure Diabetes 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 "Cure Diabetes" must appear at the bottom of the plate. (b) The department shall retain all annual use fees from the sale of the plate until all star tup costs for developing and issuing the plate have been recovered. Thereafter, the annual use fees from the sale of the plate shall be distributed as follows to be used to fund research to cure Type diabetes: 1. To one of the following organizations a sselected by HB 1619 2023 the purchaser of the plate: a. The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, which supports the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; b. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; or c. The Univ ersity of Florida Diabetes Institute; or 2. If the purchaser of the plate does not select one of the organizations provided in subparagraph 1., equally among all such organizations. Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2023.