Overview
- The package of laws was signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and takes effect on Oct. 1, 2026, requiring the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to begin collecting email addresses on license and ID forms.
- Emailed orders for cancellation, suspension, revocation or renewal will require the holder’s prior, express consent and will be treated as completed after a statutory period, generally 20 days with a 15-day rule for certain insurance notices.
- A companion law makes email addresses collected by the agency exempt from public-records disclosure retroactively and sets an automatic sunset for that exemption on Oct. 2, 2031 unless the Legislature renews it.
- The reform also raises the minimum property-damage threshold for police reporting from $500 to $2,000, changes required identity proofs for vehicle registration, clarifies allowed decorative plate frames while keeping criminal penalties for knowingly obscuring plates, and replaces some carrier registrations with fuel-tax decal licensing.
- Drivers and insurers could see practical effects from the new notice timing because an emailed order becomes effective even if a recipient does not open it, and officials should monitor how the record-exemption and higher crash-reporting threshold affect privacy, enforcement and insurance claims.