Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1458
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/29/2013           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and
       Economic Development (Brandes) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 420 and 421
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
    6  316.066, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         316.066 Written reports of crashes.—
    8         (2)
    9         (b) Crash reports held by an agency under paragraph (a) may
   10  be made immediately available to the parties involved in the
   11  crash, their legal representatives, their licensed insurance
   12  agents, their insurers or insurers to which they have applied
   13  for coverage, persons under contract with such insurers to
   14  provide claims or underwriting information, prosecutorial
   15  authorities, law enforcement agencies, the Department of
   16  Transportation, county traffic operations, victim services
   17  programs, radio and television stations licensed by the Federal
   18  Communications Commission, newspapers qualified to publish legal
   19  notices under ss. 50.011 and 50.031, and free newspapers of
   20  general circulation, published once a week or more often,
   21  available and of interest to the public generally for the
   22  dissemination of news. For the purposes of this section, the
   23  following products or publications are not newspapers as
   24  referred to in this section: those intended primarily for
   25  members of a particular profession or occupational group; those
   26  with the primary purpose of distributing advertising; and those
   27  with the primary purpose of publishing names and other personal
   28  identifying information concerning parties to motor vehicle
   29  crashes.
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   32         And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete line 9
   34  and insert:
   35         F.S.; defining the term “road rage”; amending s.
   36         316.066, F.S.; authorizing the Department of
   37         Transportation to immediately receive a crash report;
   38         amending s.