Title: Specialty License Plates/Childhood Cancer Awareness

Summary: Establishing an annual use fee for the Childhood Cancer Awareness license plate; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Childhood Cancer Awareness license plate, etc.

Full Text:
An act relating to specialty license plates; amending s. 320.08056, F.S.; establishing an annual use fee for the Childhood Cancer Awareness license plate; amending s. 320.08058, F.S.; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Childhood Cancer Awareness license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the 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 specialty license plates: (ffff )  Childhood Cancer Awareness license plate, $25. Section 2. Subsection (84) is added to section 320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read: 320.08058 Specialty license plates.  (84) CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS LICENSE PLATES.  (a)   The department shall develop a Childhood Cancer Awareness license plate as provided in this section and s. 320.08053. The Childhood Cancer Awareness license plates 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 Childhood Cancer   must appear at the bottom of the plate. (b)   The annual use fees shall be distributed to No Kid Should Know Cancer, Inc., a nonprofit corporation under s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which may use up to percent of the proceeds for administrative costs and for the marketing of the plate. The balance of the fees shall be used by No Kid Should Know Cancer, Inc., to: 1.   Support families who have a child recently diagnosed with cancer, in the form of gift cards to help with food, tolls, and gas; 2.   Hold events that raise awareness about childhood cancer; and 3.   Support clinical trials that work to provide better treatment plans for children diagnosed with cancer and, ultimately, a better prognosis. Section 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2018.