House Bill 841<\/a> would eliminate Florida\u2019s yellow vehicle registration stickers
\nRegistrations would still be required, but recorded electronically
\nMiami-Dade County’s Tax Collector\u2019s Office projects potential savings of $2.5 million annually
\nOrange County officials say the change would have little financial impact locally<\/p>\nEvery year or two, Floridians have to renew their vehicle\u2019s registration. Drivers place a yellow sticker at the top right corner of their license plate to show the registration is up to date.<\/p>\n
But House Bill 841 may change that, making drivers say goodbye to that yellow sticker.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t actually change anything to the operations of my office at all,\u201d said Scott Randolph, Orange County Tax Collector. \u201cAll it really does is get rid of the decal sticker, but it doesn\u2019t get rid of the transaction, it doesn\u2019t get rid of the requirement to have a written receipt of that transaction still in your glove box.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawmakers say this bill would require motor vehicle registration renewals to be recorded electronically. Many law enforcement agencies now have automated license plate recognition systems, allowing them to check a vehicle\u2019s registration digitally in seconds.<\/p>\n
States like Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and New Jersey do not require the sticker. Lawmakers claim this could mean some cost savings for tax collector offices.<\/p>\n
A House staff analysis does not list a statewide savings estimate, but the Miami-Dade Tax Collector\u2019s Office projects going fully digital could save about $2.5 million annually in processing and recording registrations.<\/p>\n
Orange County\u2019s Tax Collector\u2019s Office says there would not really be any savings for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose people would still have to do a transaction for whatever reason now, it\u2019s sort of useless other than a written registration receipt. Maybe save a little bit on ink and that\u2019s about it,\u201d Randolph said.<\/p>\n
Spectrum News reached out to the bill\u2019s sponsor, Tom Fabricio, for comment but did not hear back. The bill still has additional stops at the Capitol, but if approved, Florida drivers could soon see a sticker-free registration process.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Those yellow registration stickers on Florida license plates may soon be a thing of the past.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4318,3140,274,2173,6507,28,2200,2204,115,139,141,140,99,135,278,729,2032,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-155978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-app-latest-local-state-politics-stories","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-app-traffic-transit","12":"tag-ashley-engle","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-instagram-bn9","15":"tag-instagram-n13","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-orlando-headlines","19":"tag-orlando-news","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-tampa","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-traffic","24":"tag-trending-topics","25":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}