Florida Senate - 2006 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1596
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11 The Committee on Health Care (Fasano) recommended the
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 316.068, Florida
19 Statutes, is amended to read:
20 316.068 Crash report forms.--
21 (2) Every crash report required to be made in writing
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23 department and must contain all the information required
24 therein, including the date, time, and location of the crash;
25 a description of the vehicles involved; the names and
26 addresses of the parties involved; the names and addresses of
27 all drivers and passengers in the vehicles involved; the names
28 and addresses of witnesses; the name, badge number, and law
29 enforcement agency of the officer investigating the crash; and
30 the names of the insurance companies for the respective
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Florida Senate - 2006 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1596
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1 absence of information in such written crash reports regarding
2 the existence of passengers in the vehicles involved in the
3 crash constitutes a rebuttable presumption that no such
4 passengers were involved in the reported crash.
5 Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, a crash
6 report produced electronically by a law enforcement officer
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14 And the title is amended as follows:
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18 amending s. 316.068, F.S.; providing that a
19 crash report must contain specified
20 information, if available; providing a
21 rebuttable presumption;
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