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STATUS: AVAILABLE
The Animal Friend Plates are available.
Please send us up-to-date information if you are working on, or have additional information about this program.
GET THE PLATES
Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
Or visit the Florida Animal Friend.com website to obtain forms to mail in.HOW YOU CAN HELP
Purchase the plates
PROGRAM DETAILS
Slogan: Animal Friend
Artist/Designer:
Fee: $37 ($25 annual tax deductible contribution, $2 annual state fee, and a one-time new plate cost of $10) in addition to regular registration fees.
Amount to Spay-Neuter:
Fund: Florida Animal Friend, Inc.
Fund Administrator:
Fund Disbursement:
BILL TEXT
Current "GROUP" Specialty License Plate Bill: Senate Bill 2020
Florida Animal Friend (Original Bill): House Bill 211
Florida Animal Friend (Original Bill): Senate Bill 1366
Florida Plate for Paws: Application not submitted to DMV. No bill filed.
UPDATE: PaLC's understanding is that at the last minute, the Senate lumped ALL the specialty plate bills under one bill, SB 2020.
What originally started out as separate legislations to create the "Animal Friend" and "Save Our Seas" and "Aquaculture" and other such specialty license plates, ended up being the committee substituted bill to house all of the specialty license plate legislation and edited down to match other specialty plate legislation.
History: On February 17, the Florida House Transportation Committee heard House Bill 211 (titled "Animal Welfare Protection Programs") by Representative Nan Rich to create a spay/neuter license plate for Florida!!! This will allow animal lovers to purchase a specialty license plate for an additional $25 fee and the funds will go for spay/neuter grants throughout the state.
The Florida Animal Friend team is pleased to announce that the bill passed unanimously. The Bill was signed into law by Governor Bush.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
Bill Sponsor(s):
Supporting Organization(s):
Background: Read more here
Why were there two efforts underway and what happened to the Florida Plate for Paws effort? Learn more
Also read more about the Florida Plate in PaLC's discussion forum message archives
SALES DATA
Sales Data is updated quarterly here
COMMENTSList of All Florida Specialty License Plates
The Florida Animal Friend coalition, has obtained the support of some senior legislatures to modify Senate Bill 2020 in the 2005 session so that the group specialty license plate bill will more closely reflect the Florida Animal Friend coalition's original intent.
The first preference of the coalition (per their original bill)
will be to set up a fund within the Department of Agriculture. If the coalition is unable to do this, the plan is for Animal Friend to incorporate, so that funds can be banked in a coalition account.
With regard to how funds will be distributed (assuming there are any funds paid out by the DMV before the bill is modified) the group specialty plate SB 2020 does not prohibit the coalition committee from distributing the funds as they had planned in their original bill. Therefore there will be no changes in how the funds will be used/distributed and the Florida Animal Friend committee will
distribute funds as had always been intended in their original bill.
The original Animal Friend bill stated that funds could be used in the case of a major Florida disaster, but ONLY with a unanimous committee vote. It should be noted that a majority vote would NOT be adequate to divert funds from spay/neuter programs.
When the senate reworked the bill to incorporate it into their group specialty license plate bill, they included this under the term "animal welfare."