Senate Bill sb1140c1

    Florida Senate - 2007                           CS for SB 1140

    By the Committee on Transportation and Economic Development
    Appropriations; and Senator Fasano




    606-2652-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to driver improvement; amending

  3         s. 322.025, F.S.; authorizing the Department of

  4         Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to distribute

  5         safety awareness materials that do not include

  6         advertisements; providing that such materials

  7         include Official Florida Driver Handbooks;

  8         requiring that other governmental entities,

  9         including public schools, use the books

10         provided by the department; providing an

11         effective date.

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

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15         Section 1.  Section 322.025, Florida Statutes, is

16  amended to read:

17         322.025  Driver improvement.--

18         (1)  The department may implement programs to improve

19  the driving ability of the drivers of this state.  Such

20  programs may include, but shall not be limited to, safety

21  awareness campaigns, driver training, and licensing

22  improvement.  Motorcycle driver improvement programs

23  implemented pursuant to this section or s. 322.0255 shall be

24  funded by the motorcycle safety education fee collected

25  pursuant to s. 320.08(1)(c), which shall be deposited in the

26  Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund of the department and

27  appropriated for that purpose.

28         (2)  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 283.58, when

29  funds have been appropriated by the Legislature for the

30  purpose of providing safety awareness materials, the

31  department shall distribute to the public only materials that

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    Florida Senate - 2007                           CS for SB 1140
    606-2652-07




 1  do not include advertisements. Safety materials shall include,

 2  but need not be limited to, Official Florida Driver Handbooks

 3  provided by the department to the motoring public for the

 4  purpose of education. The Official Florida Driver Handbook may

 5  be distributed by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor

 6  Vehicles only in accordance with this paragraph. Other

 7  governmental entities, including secondary public schools,

 8  wishing to obtain the Official Florida Driver Handbook must

 9  use those books provided by the department.

10         Section 2.  This act shall take effect August 1, 2007.

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12          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
13                         Senate Bill 1140

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15  The Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1140 provides that
    the Department of Highway Safety shall print and distribute
16  the Official Florida Driver License Handbooks without the use
    of advertisement.  The PCS for SB 1140 also provides that no
17  governmental agency including secondary public schools would
    be allowed to distribute any driver handbooks other than those
18  printed by the Department.

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