| 1 | The Transportation & Economic Development Appropriations |
| 2 | Committee recommends the following: |
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| 4 | Council/Committee Substitute |
| 5 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 6 | A bill to be entitled |
| 7 | An act relating to traffic law enforcement; designating |
| 8 | the Dori Slosberg Safety Belt Law; amending s. 316.614, |
| 9 | F.S.; requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies |
| 10 | prohibiting racial profiling; requiring law enforcement |
| 11 | officers to collect certain information to be forwarded by |
| 12 | the agency to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor |
| 13 | Vehicles; requiring the department to compile such |
| 14 | information and annually submit reports of such data to |
| 15 | the Governor and the Legislature; deleting requirement for |
| 16 | enforcement of the Florida Safety Belt Law as a secondary |
| 17 | action; providing an effective date. |
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| 19 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 21 | Section 1. This act may be cited as the "Dori Slosberg |
| 22 | Safety Belt Law." |
| 23 | Section 2. Subsection (8) of section 316.614, Florida |
| 24 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 25 | 316.614 Safety belt usage.-- |
| 26 | (8) Any person who violates the provisions of this section |
| 27 | commits a nonmoving violation, punishable as provided in chapter |
| 28 | 318. By January 1, 2006, each law enforcement agency in this |
| 29 | state shall adopt departmental policy to prohibit the practice |
| 30 | of racial profiling. When a law enforcement officer issues a |
| 31 | citation for a violation of this section, the law enforcement |
| 32 | officer must record the race and ethnicity of the violator. All |
| 33 | law enforcement agencies must maintain such information and |
| 34 | forward the information to the department in a form and manner |
| 35 | determined by the department. The department shall collect this |
| 36 | information by jurisdiction and annually report the data to the |
| 37 | Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the |
| 38 | House of Representatives. The report must show separate |
| 39 | statewide totals for the state's county sheriffs and municipal |
| 40 | law enforcement agencies, state law enforcement agencies, and |
| 41 | state university law enforcement agencies. However, except for |
| 42 | violations of s. 316.613, enforcement of this section by state |
| 43 | or local law enforcement agencies must be accomplished only as a |
| 44 | secondary action when a driver of a motor vehicle has been |
| 45 | detained for a suspected violation of another section of this |
| 46 | chapter, chapter 320, or chapter 322. |
| 47 | Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |