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Bill	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 university’s 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.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2021	SB 676	Florida SB 676 (2021)	bill		enacted	2021-177	Baxley	5	44	6	2021-01-15	2021-07-06	openstates	ocd-bill/a68399e9-0d7c-42bc-8a6e-f0fe3727842a	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/676/ByCategory	db64287c9be8e58ba1597c493030bf394725bffd6c2ef2fc2261270c324c4774	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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 university’s 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
2. S 676 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 676 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 676 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 676 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Returning Messages — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 115–2 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–0 (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; origin ocd-bill/a68399e9-0d7c-42bc-8a6e-f0fe3727842a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).