Commercial Driving Schools

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific penalties for non-compliance by commercial driving schools.

Commercial Driving Schools

This law allows the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to make agreements with tax collectors so they can enforce rules about commercial driving schools.

What This Bill Does

• Creates a new section in Florida Statutes that lets the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles work with tax collectors.
• Allows these departments to sign agreements where tax collectors get authority from the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
• These agreements can give tax collectors power to stop certain actions by commercial driving schools, like entering their offices without permission or doing things that might be scams.
• Requires people who run commercial driving schools to show proof of their licenses when asked by law enforcement or tax collector employees.
• Lets the tax collector check if a commercial driving school is following all state and local rules.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
• Tax collectors in Florida
• People who run commercial driving schools

Terms To Know

Interagency agreement

A contract between two government agencies that lets one agency give some of its powers to the other.

Tax collector

An official who collects taxes for a county or city in Florida.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how tax collectors will be chosen to enter into these agreements.
• It is unclear what specific penalties there are if commercial driving schools do not follow the rules set by this law.
• The exact details of the grants of authority in interagency agreements are not fully defined.

Official Summary Text

Commercial Driving Schools; Authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to enter into interagency agreements with tax collectors for a specified purpose; specifying that such an interagency agreement is a delegation of authority of the department to the tax collector; providing that such an interagency agreement may include, but need not be limited to, certain grants of authority, etc.

Current Bill Text

ENROLLED

2026

Legislature

SB 584

2026584er
1
2 An act relating to commercial driving schools;
3 creating s. 488.09, F.S.; authorizing the Department
4 of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to enter into
5 interagency agreements with tax collectors for a
6 specified purpose; specifying that such an interagency
7 agreement is a delegation of authority of the
8 department to the tax collector; providing that such
9 an interagency agreement may include, but need not be
10 limited to, certain grants of authority; providing an
11 effective date.
12
13 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
14
15 Section 1. Section 488.09, Florida Statutes, is created to
16 read:
17
488.09
Interagency agreements with tax collectors
.—The

18
Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles may
enter into

19
interagency agreements with
tax collectors
authorizing such tax

20
collectors
to enforce this chapter.
An
interagency agreement

21
entered into under this section

is
a delegation of
the
authority

22
of the
d
epartment to the tax collector. Such
an
interagency

23
agreement may include, but
need not be
limited to,
grants of

24
authority to the tax collector, or his or her agent,
to
do any

25
of the following
:

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(
1
)

Prohibit licensees operating commercial driving

27
schools,
and
their agents, from entering upon the tax

28
collector’s premises, including its parking areas, unless such

29
licensees and agents

are
seeking tax collector services in their

30
personal capacit
ies
.

31
(
2
)

Prohibit any course of conduct
by licensees operating

32
commercial driving schools, and their agents, which
operate
s or

33
would operate
as a fraud or deceit upon a person, the

34
department, or the tax collector.

35
(
3
)

Prohibit any transaction, practice, or course of

36
business
related to a commercial driving school
which undermines

37
the integrity of the driver license issuance process.

38
(
4
)

Require person
s
licensed to operate commercial driving

39
school
s
,
and
their agents, to present pertinent license
s
, agent

40
identification card
s
,
and
certificate
s
issued under this chapter

41
upon demand of a law enforcement officer,
a
department employee,

42
or
an
employee of the tax collector.

43
(
5
)

Enter the premises where a commercial driving school is

44
located to ensure compliance with state and local laws

45
regulating the business of commercial driving schools
.

46 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.