Bill > H0937

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 hb937-02-c2 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 an exception; 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. 320.95, 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"; hb937-02-c2 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 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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Taylor Yarkosky (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (2)

Added to Second Reading Calendar (on 02/26/2026)

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