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Introduced Session

An act relating to transportation; amending s. 207.001, F.S.; revising a short title; amending s. 207.002, F.S.; providing and revising definitions; amending s. 207.004, F.S.; requiring licensing, rather than registration, of motor carriers; requiring fuel tax decals, rather than identifying devices, for motor carriers; requiring a copy of the license to be carried in each qualified motor vehicle or made available electronically; specifying how fuel tax decals are to be displayed on qualified motor vehicles; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles or its authorized agent to issue licenses and fuel tax decals; requiring fuel tax decal renewal orders to be submitted electronically beginning on a specified date; revising required contents of temporary fuel-use permits; removing provisions relating to driveaway permits; amending s. 207.005, F.S.; revising reporting periods and due dates for motor fuel use tax returns; requiring such tax returns to be submitted electronically beginning on a specified date; amending s. 207.007, F.S.; revising requirements for calculation of interest due for delinquent tax; providing penalties for any person who counterfeits, alters, manufactures, or sells fuel tax licenses, fuel tax decals, or temporary fuel-use permits except under certain circumstances; amending s. 207.019, F.S.; requiring motor carriers to destroy fuel tax decals under certain circumstances and notify the department; amending s. 316.065, F.S.; revising the apparent amount of property damage that requires the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash to notify law enforcement of the crash; amending s. 320.02, F.S.; providing an exemption from certain vehicle registration requirements for certain active duty military members; requiring applicants to provide proof of address; revising requirements for documenting an applicant’s address and proof of legal presence; defining the term “REAL ID driver license or identification card”; removing certain requirements for business applicants; amending s. 320.061, F.S.; revising a prohibition on obscuring a license plate; providing that the use of a license plate frame or decorative border is not prohibited under specified conditions; amending s. 320.084, F.S.; providing that a disabled veteran may retain a certain license plate designation upon reissuance, renewal, or transfer of the plate; amending s. 320.0843, F.S.; authorizing applications for certain license plates to be made to the tax collector; providing that such license plates may be stamped with specified letters at the option of the applicant; authorizing the tax collector to issue such plates immediately on demand; amending s. 320.262, F.S.; revising the definition of the term “license plate obscuring device”; providing that the use of a license plate frame or decorative border device is not prohibited under specified conditions; amending s. 320.64, F.S.; authorizing licensees to reject the succession to interest in a franchise agreement of a motor vehicle dealer under certain circumstances; clarifying the motor vehicles for which a licensee must pay certain costs to a motor vehicle dealer under certain circumstances; prohibiting a licensee from distributing more than a specified percentage of a specified number of motor vehicles of a particular line-make during a certain period to one motor vehicle dealer or dealers that share common ownership or control; providing applicability; amending s. 320.643, F.S.; authorizing a licensee to reject a sale, transfer, alienation, or other disposition of a franchise agreement or an equity interest in a motor vehicle dealer under certain circumstances; amending s. 320.95, F.S.; authorizing the department to use e-mail as a method of notification; amending s. 322.01, F.S.; revising the definition of the term “tank vehicle”; amending ss. 322.051 and 322.17, F.S.; requiring an e-mail address to be included on an identification card application and a request for a replacement driver license or instruction permit, respectively; amending s. 322.251, F.S.; authorizing orders of cancellation, suspension, revocation, or disqualification to be provided by e mail notification; amending s. 337.401, F.S.; prohibiting municipalities and counties from requiring that providers locate or perform surveys of certain facilities; requiring a provider to use certain means to avoid damaging certain facilities under specified circumstances; prohibiting municipalities and counties from taking certain actions relating to certain facility permits; authorizing municipalities and counties to require a bond or other financial instrument; prohibiting municipalities and counties from imposing or collecting a tax, fee, cost, charge, or exaction for the placement of certain communications facilities; revising applicability; revising the definition of the term “application”; prohibiting an authority from requiring compliance with an authority’s provisions regarding placement of communications facilities in certain locations; providing exceptions; requiring that certain authority ordinances apply to all providers of communications services; providing bond requirements; providing requirements for certain financial obligations required by an authority; prohibiting an authority from requiring a deposit or escrow of cash or agreement with certain terms; prohibiting an authority from requiring a communications service provider to indemnify it for certain liabilities; prohibiting an authority from imposing certain landscaping and vegetation management requirements; amending ss. 120.80, 207.003, 207.008, 207.011, 207.013, 207.014, 207.023, 207.0281, 212.08, 316.545, 318.15, 319.35, 319.40, 320.03, 322.08, 322.18, 322.21, 322.245, 322.2615, 322.2616, 322.64, 324.091, 324.171, 328.30, 328.73, and 627.7415, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date.

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Ralph Massullo (R)*, 

Chapter No. 2026-39 (on 04/22/2026)

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