Florida Senate - 2023 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/CS/HB 1085, 1st Eng.
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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Senator DiCeglie moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment
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3 Delete lines 199 - 255
4 and insert:
5 subsection (1) of section 316.066, Florida Statutes, is amended
6 to read:
7 316.066 Written reports of crashes; electronic submission.—
8 (1)(a) All traffic law enforcement agencies must provide
9 uniform crash reports by electronic means to the department
10 using a nonproprietary, interchangeable electronic form and
11 reporting method. For purposes of this section, the term
12 “nonproprietary” means a commonly used and commercially
13 available report format and reporting method. Such crash reports
14 must be consistent with the state traffic crash manual rules and
15 the procedures established by the department and must be
16 appropriately numbered and inventoried. A Florida Traffic Crash
17 Report, Long Form must be completed and electronically submitted
18 to the department within 10 days after an investigation is
19 completed by the law enforcement officer who in the regular
20 course of duty investigates a motor vehicle crash that:
21 1. Resulted in death of, personal injury to, or any
22 indication of complaints of pain or discomfort by any of the
23 parties or passengers involved in the crash;
24 2. Involved a violation of s. 316.061(1) or s. 316.193;
25 3. Rendered a vehicle inoperable to a degree that required
26 a wrecker to remove it from the scene of the crash; or
27 4. Involved a commercial motor vehicle.
28 Section 4. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
29 316.066, Florida Statutes, as amended by section 1 of chapter
30 2022-198, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:
31 316.066 Written reports of crashes
32 (2)
33 (b) Crash reports held by an agency under paragraph (a) may
34 be made immediately available to the parties involved in the
35 crash, their legal representatives, their licensed insurance
36 agents, their insurers or insurers to which they have applied
37 for coverage, persons under contract with such insurers to
38 provide claims or underwriting information, law enforcement
39 agencies and their contracted service providers, victim services
40 programs, and any federal, state, or local governmental agency
41 or any private person or entity acting on behalf of a federal,
42 state, or local governmental agency in carrying out its
43 functions, but not for redistribution to any person or entity
44 not listed in this subsection. Crash reports held by an agency
45 under paragraph (a) which do not contain the home or employment
46 street addresses, driver license or identification card numbers,
47 dates of birth, and home and employment telephone numbers of the
48 parties involved in the crash shall be made immediately
49 available to radio and television stations licensed by the
50 Federal Communications Commission and newspapers qualified to
51 publish legal notices under ss. 50.011 and 50.031. A crash
52 report may also be made available to any third party acting on
53 behalf of a person or entity authorized under this section to
54 access the crash report, except that the third party may
55 disclose the crash report only to the person or entity
56 authorized to access the crash report under this section on
57 whose behalf the third party has sought the report. This section
58 shall not prevent an agency, pursuant to a memorandum of
59 understanding, from providing data derived from crash reports to
60 a third party solely for the purpose of identifying vehicles
61 involved in crashes if such data does not reveal the identity,
62 home or employment telephone number or home or employment
63 address, or other personal information of the parties involved
64 in the crash.