Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1180
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/14/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism,
       and Economic Development Appropriations (Bogdanoff) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 889 and 890
    4  insert:
    5         Section 15. Subsection (1) of section 338.155, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         338.155 Payment of toll on toll facilities required;
    8  exemptions.—
    9         (1) No persons are permitted to use any toll facility
   10  without payment of tolls, except employees of the agency
   11  operating the toll project when using the toll facility on
   12  official state business, state military personnel while on
   13  official military business, handicapped persons as provided in
   14  this section, persons exempt from toll payment by the
   15  authorizing resolution for bonds issued to finance the facility,
   16  and persons exempt on a temporary basis where use of such toll
   17  facility is required as a detour route, and persons operating
   18  public transit vehicles owned or operated by a county,
   19  municipality, political subdivision, or other public district or
   20  authority. Any law enforcement officer operating a marked
   21  official vehicle is exempt from toll payment when on official
   22  law enforcement business. Any person operating a fire vehicle
   23  when on official business or a rescue vehicle when on official
   24  business is exempt from toll payment. Any person participating
   25  in the funeral procession of a law enforcement officer or
   26  firefighter killed in the line of duty is exempt from toll
   27  payment. The secretary, or the secretary’s designee, may suspend
   28  the payment of tolls on a toll facility when necessary to assist
   29  in emergency evacuation. The failure to pay a prescribed toll
   30  constitutes a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a
   31  moving violation pursuant to s. 318.18. The department is
   32  authorized to adopt rules relating to the payment, collection,
   33  and enforcement of tolls, as authorized in chapters 316, 318,
   34  320, 322, and 338, including, but not limited to, rules for the
   35  implementation of video or other image billing and variable
   36  pricing.
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   38  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   39  And the title is amended as follows:
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   41         Delete line 46
   42  and insert:
   43         access facilities; amending s. 338.155, F.S.;
   44         providing that persons operating public transit
   45         vehicles owned or operated by a county, municipality,
   46         political subdivision, or other public district or
   47         authority are exempt from the payment of tolls;
   48         amending s. 338.227, F.S.;