No. SB 982
Filed under Transportation.
Motor Vehicle Registration Renewal; Deleting provisions requiring a validation sticker to be issued with each license plate and requiring certain license plates to include validation stickers; requiring that registration renewals be recorded electronically; deleting a provision requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide certain entities with validation stickers; deleting provisions requiring that validation stickers meet certain specifications, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDVehicle owners will no longer receive a physical validation sticker for their license plate. Instead, each renewal payment is simply recorded electronically, whether the registration runs 12 months, 24 months, or is permanent.
The department is no longer required to supply tax collectors and license plate agents with validation stickers, and the requirement that stickers be made of retroreflective material specified by the department is also repealed.
One sticker-related rule survives untouched: large fleets, 250 or more vehicles for certain taxed vehicles, or 50 or more for semitrailers, may still move a validation sticker between same-owner vehicles, even though nothing requires the department to issue stickers anymore.
Four other statutes are updated only to fix cross-references and renumbering caused by deleting the sticker-supply subsection; unlike its House companion, this bill does not touch s. 320.04, which separately lists validation stickers among items subject to two registration service charges.
AIFor every registration period, standard, extended, or permanent, the state no longer issues a validation sticker upon renewal. Instead the renewal itself is recorded electronically once the license tax and fees are paid.
AIThe department's duty to keep tax collectors and license plate agents stocked with validation stickers is repealed entirely, consistent with renewals now being recorded electronically rather than through a physical sticker.
AIThe requirement that validation stickers themselves be treated with retroreflective material, sized as the department specifies, and made to adhere to the plate is deleted, since stickers are being phased out.