If light makes your condition worse, Florida lets you run darker tint once a licensed provider signs off on it, and you can do the medical part from your couch. It's $150, and that covers your visit and your Form HSMV 83390 filled out and signed and emailed back to you in 24 to 48 hours. Each additional car is $75.
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Form HSMV 83390 names five conditions outright and then leaves a line for any other autoimmune disease or medical condition that requires limited exposure to light, so your provider writes the diagnosis in and makes the final call.
If yours isn't listed here it can still go on the write in line, because the form allows any other autoimmune disease or medical condition that requires limited exposure to light, and that's where a diagnosis like porphyria or Cockayne syndrome or Bloom syndrome gets written in, so it's worth asking.
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Mail your signed HSMV 83390 with your proof of identity and the $6.50 state fee for each vehicle to:
Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
Bureau of Motorist Compliance
2900 Apalachee Parkway, Mail Stop 97
Tallahassee, FL 32399
That's the address printed on the form itself, so it's worth matching whatever appears on your own copy before you drop it in the mail.
Your signed form comes back from us in 24 to 48 hours. After that the state reviews the application and mails your certificate to you, and FLHSMV doesn't publish a turnaround time for that part anywhere, so we're not going to quote you one.
Download Form HSMV 83390 →VLT stands for visible light transmission and a lower number means darker glass, so here's what those numbers actually look like on a car.
A medical exemption under Statute 316.29545 lets you go darker than all of this when a licensed provider certifies it is medically necessary. The statute does not name a replacement percentage. Figures reflect Florida Statutes 316.2951 through 316.2957. Confirm current limits with FLHSMV.
There are five steps and most of them take minutes.
Answer a few questions about your condition. Takes about a minute.
Pick a time and fill out your secure medical intake.
A licensed Florida provider reviews your history and evaluates you by telehealth.
If you're approved we fill out and sign your HSMV 83390 and email it to you, usually 24 to 48 hours after your visit.
Mail the signed form with your proof of identity and the $6.50 state fee for each vehicle to FLHSMV in Tallahassee, and the state mails your certificate back to you.
Gabby is a Florida licensed Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and she's spent years bringing real medical care to people in their own homes across Palm Beach County, and a licensed provider completes and signs the state's certification section on your form.
Your evaluation is a real look at your condition and your history, not a form mill, and if light sensitivity is making it harder for you to drive safely then that's a medical problem and we treat it like one.
Without an exemption your front side windows have to let in more than 28% of visible light. Back side and rear windows need at least 15% on a sedan and at least 6% on an SUV or van. The windshield can only carry non-reflective tint above the AS-1 line. A medical exemption certified on Form HSMV 83390 is what lets you go darker.
20% is darker. VLT measures how much light gets through the glass so a lower number means less light. 20% blocks noticeably more than 35%.
Not on your front side windows without an exemption because Florida wants more than 28% VLT there. On the back side and rear windows of a sedan 20% sits inside the 15% floor. The medical exemption is what makes darker front tint legal.
Yes. Officers can stop a vehicle when the tint looks like it breaks the VLT limits. If you have an exemption keep the certificate in the car and hand it over during the stop.
Form HSMV 83390 names lupus with a positive ANA titer and dermatomyositis with a positive ANA titer and albinism and total or facial vitiligo and xeroderma pigmentosum, and then it leaves a line for any other autoimmune disease or medical condition that requires limited exposure to light, which is where a diagnosis like photophobia or a light triggered migraine or medication photosensitivity gets written in. A licensed provider has to certify it either way.
Form HSMV 83390. It's the Application for Sunscreening Medical Exemption. It carries a medical certification section your provider fills out and signs plus your identification and vehicle information.
You mail it in. The signed HSMV 83390 goes to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Bureau of Motorist Compliance, 2900 Apalachee Parkway, Mail Stop 97, Tallahassee, FL 32399, along with the $6.50 state fee for each vehicle. FLHSMV issues the certificate and mails it back to you, so it isn't something your county tax collector hands you over the counter.
The state's procedure lists several certifying authorities, including physicians and physician assistants and dermatologists and military or federal medical providers and advanced practice registered nurse practitioners. At Beyond Concierge Healthcare a licensed provider completes and signs the state's certification section on your form. FLHSMV reviews every application, so if your situation is unusual it's worth checking with them before your appointment.
The state's procedure doesn't set a renewal or expiration date. What ends it is selling the car, because the certificate is issued against the vehicle identified on it and it isn't transferable, so it goes invalid the moment that vehicle is sold or transferred, and the registered owner is the one responsible for getting the sunscreening off the windows before handing the car over.
Per vehicle. Florida issues only one medical exemption certificate for each motor vehicle, which is why the state fee is charged per vehicle and why our pricing is per car too, at $150 for your car and $75 for each additional car. Section 3 of the form has three rows though, so one visit and one form can cover up to three cars.
Most people have their signed HSMV 83390 in their inbox within 24 to 48 hours of the visit. After that it's mail time, because FLHSMV in Tallahassee reviews the application and mails the certificate back to you. The state doesn't publish a turnaround time for that part anywhere, so we're not going to quote you one we can't stand behind.
No. The state's own procedure says the customer does not have to have a Florida driver license or ID card, and that vehicles titled and registered in Florida are eligible for sunscreen tinting, so an out of state license is fine as long as the vehicle is a Florida vehicle. For proof of identity the state takes any one of three things: a valid driver license or ID card issued by Florida or any other state or US territory, or a valid passport or passport card from any country, or a valid Canadian driver license, ID card, passport or passport card.
No. Once your Physician's Statement of Certification is on file with the state, a registered owner who buys a new or additional vehicle isn't required to complete that certification section again. That certification is permanent, and you still owe the $6.50 state fee for that vehicle because Florida issues one certificate per vehicle, but you don't need a second medical evaluation, and adding that car with us is $75. Text us and we'll tell you exactly what to send.
It's $150 for your car, and that includes your evaluation and your form filled out and signed. Each additional car is $75. The state charges its own $6.50 fee per car, and that gets mailed in with your form to FLHSMV instead of paid to us.
Illegal tint is a noncriminal traffic infraction. It usually comes as a fix-it ticket and a first offense with fees and court costs commonly lands somewhere around $100 to $120. It varies by county.
A medical window tint/sunscreening evaluation determines whether a patient has a medical condition for which limiting exposure to light may be medically appropriate under applicable Florida requirements.
Beyond Concierge Healthcare and the evaluating medical provider do not prescribe, select, install, or recommend a specific window tint percentage, darkness level, or tint product.
Patients are responsible for ensuring that any window sunscreening installed on their vehicle complies with applicable laws and does not interfere with their ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.
A medical exemption does not mean that every level of window tint is medically recommended or safe for driving. Patients should maintain adequate visibility during daytime, nighttime, inclement weather, and other driving conditions and should not operate a vehicle if tinting or any other condition interferes with safe visibility.
Answer a few questions and if you're a fit we'll get you booked, and your signed form is usually back in your inbox within 24 to 48 hours.
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