SB 2160 Summary

• Transfers the Office of Motor Carrier Compliance from the Department of Transportation to the Division of the Florida Highway Patrol within the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, renaming the function "motor carrier weight inspection."

• Consolidates the Division of Driver Licenses and Division of Motor Vehicles into a single Division of Motorist Services within the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

• Requires county tax collectors who are constitutional officers to assume all driver's license issuance services by June 30, 2015, with tax collectors retaining specified portions of license fees beginning July 1, 2015.

• Authorizes the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to contract with third-party providers to conduct online examinations for learner's driver's licenses, with enhanced security measures and parental monitoring requirements.

• Creates a Law Enforcement Consolidation Task Force to evaluate duplication and consolidation of state law enforcement functions, with a report due to the Legislature by December 31, 2011.