{"id":91163,"date":"2025-12-21T04:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91163\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:35:21","slug":"florida-bill-calls-for-the-elimination-of-vehicle-registration-decals-lawmakers-call-sticker-labels-outdated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91163\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida bill calls for the elimination of vehicle registration decals, lawmakers call sticker labels &#8220;outdated&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists would no longer have to peel and place yellow vehicle registration stickers on their<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/florida-license-plate-frame-rules-clarified\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> license plates<\/a>, under a measure filed Friday for the 2026 regular session that begins Jan. 13.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2026\/841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HB 841<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2026\/982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SB 982<\/a>) would still require individuals to follow registration and renewal rules. The measure&#8217;s sponsors \u2014 Rep. Tom Fabricio, R-Miami Lakes, and Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez, R-Doral \u2014 maintain that doing away with the sticky labels would save money for motorists and county officials.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officers already can verify vehicle registration digitally, the legislators noted in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In an era of real-time digital verification, clinging to physical decals is outdated. This common-sense change reduces burdens on taxpayers, prevents fraud, and streamlines government, exactly what Floridians expect from their leaders,&#8221; Rodriguez said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal also would reduce fraud and theft of stolen decals, according to the bill&#8217;s sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Families should not be forced to wait for mailed stickers, pay replacement fees, or risk theft when technology does the job better,&#8221; Fabricio said. Other states have started eliminating registration decals &#8220;with zero issues,&#8221; according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Florida families deserve efficient, modern government, not relics from the past,&#8221; Fabricio added, calling the elimination of the decals a &#8220;slam-dunk for savings and security.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists would no longer have to peel and place yellow vehicle registration stickers on their license plates, under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49111,14180,28,30,29,30073,1064,807],"class_list":{"0":"post-91163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-auto-industry","9":"tag-doral","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-miami-lakes","14":"tag-miami-dade","15":"tag-south-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91163","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=91163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}