THE BILL ITSELF

HB 1513

Specialty License Plates/Italian-American Culture License Plate

underlined language is being added; struck language is being deleted. Line numbers are the Legislature's own — the same ones amendments cite.

1 A bill to be entitled

2 An act relating to specialty license plates; amending

3 s. 320.08058, F.S.; directing the Department of

4 Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop an

5 Italian-American culture license plate; providing for

6 distribution and use of fees collected from the sale

7 of the plate; providing an effective date.

9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

11 Section 1. Subsection (136) is added to section 320.08058,

12 Florida Statutes, to read:

13 320.08058 Specialty license plates.—

14 (136) ITALIAN-AMERICAN CULTURE LICENSE PLATES.—

15 (a) The department shall develop an Italian-American

16 culture license plate as provided in this section and s.

17 320.08053. The plate must bear the colors and design approved by

18 the department. The word "Florida" must appear at the top of the

19 plate, and the words "Italian Heritage" must appear at the

20 bottom of the plate.

21 (b) The annual use fees from the sale of the plate must be

22 distributed to Il Circola, Inc., a nonprofit corporation under

23 s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, which may use up to

24 10 percent of the fees for administrative costs and marketing of

25 the plate. Il Circola, Inc., must use the remainder of the fees

26 to support its mission of promoting an awareness and

27 appreciation of Italian culture, arts, and language for people

28 of all ethnic backgrounds.

29 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.