Title: Specialty License Plates/Freemasonry

Summary: Creates Freemasonry 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.; creating a Freemasonry 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 (aaaa) 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 specialty license plates: (aaaa) Freemasonry license plate, $25. Section 2. Subsection (79) is added to section 320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read: 320.08058 Specialty license plates.-(79) FREEMASONRY LICENSE PLATES.-(a) Notwithstanding section of chapter 2008-176, Laws of Florida, as amended by section of chapter 2010-223, Laws of Florida, and s. 320.08053(1), the department shall develop a Freemasonry license plate as provided in this section and s. 320.08053(2) and (3). The word "Florida" must appear at the top of the plate, and the words "In God We Trust" must a ppear at the bottom of the plate. (b) The license plate annual use fees shall be distributed ENROLLED CS/CS/CS/HB 2013 Legislature to the Masonic Home Endowment Fund, Inc., which may use a maximum of percent of the proceeds to promote and market the plate. The remainder of the proceeds sh all be used by the Masonic Home Endowment Fund, Inc., to invest and reinvest and use the interest for the operation of the Masonic Home of Florida, a five-star facility dedicated to the care of Masons and their families. Section 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2013.