Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (121990) for SB 144
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                 Comm: UNFAV           .                                
                  03/27/2014           .                                
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       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 122 - 150
    4  and insert:
    5         a. For a violation that occurs up to and including 0.5
    6  second after a red signal display, a warning issued and mailed
    7  to the registered owner of the vehicle. The notification must be
    8  sent by first-class mail.
    9         b. For a violation that occurs after 0.5 second after a red
   10  signal display:
   11         (I) One hundred fifty-eight dollars for a violation of s.
   12  316.074(1) or s. 316.075(1)(c)1. when a driver failed to stop at
   13  a traffic signal if enforcement is by the department’s traffic
   14  infraction enforcement officer. One hundred dollars shall be
   15  remitted to the Department of Revenue for deposit into the State
   16  Transportation Trust General Revenue Fund, $10 shall be remitted
   17  to the Department of Revenue for deposit into the Department of
   18  Health Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund, $3 shall be
   19  remitted to the Department of Revenue for deposit into the Brain
   20  and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund, and $45 shall be distributed
   21  to the municipality in which the violation occurred, or, if the
   22  violation occurred in an unincorporated area, to the county in
   23  which the violation occurred. Of the funds distributed to a
   24  county or municipality, any funds remaining after satisfaction
   25  of contractual obligations must be used for traffic safety
   26  capital projects intended to protect vulnerable road users or to
   27  fund traffic studies required under s. 316.0776(1). Funds
   28  deposited into the State Transportation Trust Fund under this
   29  sub-sub-subparagraph must be used for intersection safety
   30  improvements in the county or municipality in which the
   31  violation occurred. As used in this section, the term
   32  “vulnerable road users” includes pedestrians and bicyclists.
   33  Funds deposited into the Department of Health Emergency Medical
   34  Services Trust Fund under this sub-sub-subparagraph sub
   35  subparagraph shall be distributed as provided in s. 395.4036(1).
   36  Proceeds of the infractions in the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury
   37  Trust Fund shall be distributed quarterly to the Miami Project
   38  to Cure Paralysis and used for brain and spinal cord research.
   39         (II)b. One hundred fifty-eight dollars for a violation of
   40  s.
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   42  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   43  And the title is amended as follows:
   44         Delete line 17
   45  and insert:
   46         316.0083, F.S.; requiring the mailing of a warning to
   47         the registered owner of a vehicle for failing to stop
   48         at a red light up to and including one-half second
   49         after a red display; revising the distribution of
   50         penalties