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FL S1012

Bill

Status

Introduced

11/28/2017

Primary Sponsor

Appropriations

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Origin

Senate

2018 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Exempts law enforcement officers operating marked or unmarked official vehicles from toll payment while on official law enforcement business, defined to include patrol operations, investigative activities, crime prevention operations, and traffic operations.

  • Changes Alligator Alley toll revenue reimbursement to local governments for operating the fire station at mile marker 63 from a design and construction model to reimbursing direct actual operating costs through interlocal agreements effective July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2019.

  • Requires expressway authorities in counties with populations over 250,000 to submit compliance information to the Governor by October 1, 2018, regarding a minimum 5 percent toll reduction requirement.

  • Dissolves existing expressway authority boards effective October 31, 2018, and appoints new boards if the required toll reduction has not been implemented, with current board members prohibited from appointment to the new board except the district secretary of the Department of Transportation.

  • Updates terminology throughout the toll payment exemption section from "handicapped persons" to "persons with a disability" and restructures exemption language for clarity.

Legislative Description

Toll Operations

Last Action

Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 141

3/8/2018

Committee Referrals

Appropriations2/9/2018
Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Appropriations Subcommittee1/18/2018
Transportation12/13/2017

Full Bill Text

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