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CS/SB 226 — Disabled Parking Permits
by Budget Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Appropriations and Senators Margolis and Gaetz
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Prepared by: Transportation Committee (TR)
The bill revises laws relating to disability parking permits. Provisions of the bill:
- expand the type of officials who may waive citations for disability permit parking violations by including the parking enforcement specialist or agency that issued the citation;
- revise the requirements for renewing or replacing a long-term disabled parking permit and include prohibitions for certain violations;
- provide for random reviews of disabled parking permit holders; and
- require the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop and implement a system to allow the reporting of abuses of disabled parking permits.
If approved by the Governor, these provisions take effect July 1, 2012.
Vote: Senate 40-0; House 118-0