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Scott PowersJuly 5, 2017

How big is the Puerto Rico migration to Florida? In one county, in one single service, the number plays out: an average of 104 people every workday are transferring their driver’s licenses from Puerto Rico to Florida, just in Orange County. The Orange County Tax Collector’s Office reported that in a six-month period recently sampled […]

Associated PressMarch 23, 2017

Children in foster care would get help obtaining a driver’s license and auto insurance under a bill unanimously passed by the Senate. The bill passed Thursday would make permanent a pilot program that began in 2014. The program reimburses foster parents or children for driver’s education, license fees and insurance. The idea is to help […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 29, 2016

In 2014, the Florida Legislature enacted a pilot program designed to make it easier for foster children to get driver’s licenses and auto insurance. In 2017, Sen. Aaron Bean seeks to make that program permanent, via Senate Bill 60, to ensure children in “out-of-home care” permanently have a way to secure driver’s licenses and defray the […]

Jim RosicaApril 19, 2016

Don’t try to renew your driver’s license online the weekend of May 6-8. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) will be offline then as it moves its computers and other equipment to a new home, the agency said in a Tuesday news release. The move begins 8 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) on Friday, […]

Guest AuthorMarch 30, 2016

Jacob and Zachary, my sons, turned 16 in January. The birthday cards came pouring in, dozens of messages and jokes around the idea that “drivers better watch out” and “it’s time to get your license.” Since I’ve always been guided by reason, rather than Hallmark, these cards didn’t mean much to me. Or my kids. […]

Ryan RaySeptember 22, 2015

Sen. Jeff Brandes dashed off a flurry of letters to state agency heads on Tuesday asking for more details on Florida’s system of revoking and suspending drivers’ licenses – and the financial strain, even incarceration, that comes with it. Brandes, a St. Petersburg Republican, chairs the Senate Transportation Committee, which he says will draft a new law […]

Puerto Rican migration causes flood of Central Florida driver’s license requests

Bill will help foster children get driver’s licenses

Program for driver’s licenses for foster children could be made permanent

State DHSMV moving its computers in May

Catherine Durkin Robinson: Florida should raise the driving age to 18

Jeff Brandes wants answers on “cruel” driver’s license suspension regime