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type: "Bill"
title: "Specialty and Special License Plates"
description: "Specialty and Special License Plates; Providing that the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles may not issue any new specialty license plates until a sufficient number of plates are discontinued; providing an exception to the requirement that specialty license plate annual use fees and interest earned from those fees only be expended in this state; requiring the department to discontinue an independent college or universitys existing specialty license plate if the college or university elects to use the standard template specialty license plate; revising distribution of annual use fees from the sale of Divine Nine license plates, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 676"
citation: "Florida SB 676 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-177"
primary_sponsors: ["Baxley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-15"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a68399e9-0d7c-42bc-8a6e-f0fe3727842a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/676/ByCategory"
source_hash: "db64287c9be8e58ba1597c493030bf394725bffd6c2ef2fc2261270c324c4774"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---
# Florida SB 676 (2021) — Specialty and Special License Plates
Specialty and Special License Plates; Providing that the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles may not issue any new specialty license plates until a sufficient number of plates are discontinued; providing an exception to the requirement that specialty license plate annual use fees and interest earned from those fees only be expended in this state; requiring the department to discontinue an independent college or universitys existing specialty license plate if the college or university elects to use the standard template specialty license plate; revising distribution of annual use fees from the sale of Divine Nine license plates, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-177.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 676 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/676/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 676 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/676/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 676 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/676/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 676 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/676/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 676 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/676/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Returning Messages — **390** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **110** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1152** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **390** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **200** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **80** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Baxley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-15** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-11** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 03/16/21, 9:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-16** CS by Transportation; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-18** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-18** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
- **2021-03-18** CS by Transportation read 1st time
- **2021-04-05** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 04/08/21, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-04-08** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2021-04-12** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/19/21, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-19** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2021-04-20** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-20** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/22/21
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-22** In Messages
- **2021-04-22** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-26** Amendment 047911 filed
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 831405 filed
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 047911 temporarily postponed
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 831405 temporarily postponed
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Amendment 937939 filed
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** Amendment 937939 adopted
- **2021-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** In returning messages
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-29** Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) failed (588400)
- **2021-04-29** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (937939)
- **2021-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-177
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a68399e9-0d7c-42bc-8a6e-f0fe3727842a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).