HB 571 — Vehicle and Vessel Registration Data and Functionality

Other tax collection systems may include technology systems provided by vendors contracted with the tax collector for in-person transactions of motor vehicle and mobile home registration certificates, registration license plates, and validation stickers and online motor vehicle and mobile home registration renewals and validation stickers.

For purposes of this subsection, other tax collection systems do not include electronic filing systems pursuant to s.

320.03(10).

Upon a tax collector's request, the department shall provide the tax collector and his or her approved vendors with the same data access and interface functionality that other third parties receive from the department, including, but not limited to, bulk Page 3 of 6 CODING:

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SuchSection data2. and functionality may be used only for purposes of fulfilling the tax collector's statutory duties and may not be resold or used for any other purpose.

The department shall administer this program upon consultation with the Florida Tax Collectors, Inc., to ensure that each county tax collector's office is technologically equipped and functional for the operation of the Florida Real Time Vehicle Information System and that tax collectors' approved vendors protect customer privacy and data collection.

Tax collectors and their approved license plate agents shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the department regarding use of the Florida Real Time Vehicle Information system in accordance with paragraph (4)(b).

Any designated revenue collected to support functions of the county tax collectors and not used in a given year must remain exclusively in the trust fund as a carryover to the following year.

Section 3.

Subsection (3) of section 320.04, Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (4), and a new subsection (3) is added to that section to read:

320.04 Registration service charge.— (3) In exercising his or her authority to contract with a license plate agent, the tax collector shall determine the additional service charges that shall be collected by privately Page 4 of 6 CODING:

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The license plate agent shall enter into a contract with the tax collector regarding the disclosure of additional service charges.

Section 4.

Subsection (7) of section 328.72, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

328.72 Classification;

registration;

fees and charges;

surcharge;

disposition of fees;

fines;

marine turtle stickers.— (7) SERVICE FEE.— (a) In addition to other registration fees, the vessel owner shall pay the tax collector a $2.25 service fee for each registration issued, replaced, or renewed.

Except as provided in subsection (15), all fees, other than the service charge, collected by a tax collector must be remitted to the department not later than 7 working days following the last day of the week in which the money was remitted.

Vessels may travel in salt water or fresh water.

(b) In exercising his or her authority to contract with a license plate agent, the tax collector shall determine the additional service charges that shall be collected by privately owned license plate agents approved by the tax collector and shall be fully itemized and disclosed to the customer.

The license plate agent shall enter into a contract with the tax collector regarding the disclosure of additional service Page 5 of 6 CODING:

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Section 5.

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Upon328.30. a tax collector's request, the department shall provide the tax collector and his or her approved vendors with the same data access and interface functionality that other third parties receive from the department, including, but not limited to, bulk data for vessel registrations and each applicant's current residential address and electronic mail address collected pursuant to s.

320.95.Section 3.

Such data and functionality may be used only for purposes of fulfilling the tax collector's statutory duties and may not be resold or used for any other purpose.

Section 6.

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