Senate Bill 0090c1

    Florida Senate - 1999                             CS for SB 90

    By the Committee on Transportation and Senators Grant and
    Dawson-White




    306-2124-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Safety Belt Law;

  3         amending s. 316.614, F.S.; providing

  4         restrictions on authority to search a motor

  5         vehicle, its contents, the driver, or a

  6         passenger based on a safety belt violation;

  7         deleting a provision that requires enforcement

  8         of the act only as a secondary action;

  9         providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Subsection (8) of section 316.614, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended to read:

15         316.614  Safety belt usage.--

16         (8)  Any person who violates the provisions of this

17  section commits a nonmoving violation, punishable as provided

18  in chapter 318. A law enforcement officer may not search or

19  inspect a motor vehicle, its contents, the driver, or a

20  passenger solely because of a violation of this section.

21  However, enforcement of this section by state or local law

22  enforcement agencies must be accomplished only as a secondary

23  action when a driver of a motor vehicle has been detained for

24  a suspected violation of another section of this chapter,

25  chapter 320, or chapter 322.

26         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                             CS for SB 90
    306-2124-99




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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  4  The CS provides that a law enforcement officer may not search
    or inspect a motor vehicle, its contents, the driver, or a
  5  passenger solely because of a violation of the safety belt
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