Florida Senate - 2016 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1392
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and
Economic Development (Brandes) recommended the following:
1 Senate Substitute for Amendment (152974) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Delete lines 83 - 165
5 and insert:
6 Section 1. Present subsections (91), (92), and (93) of
7 section 316.003, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
8 subsections (92), (93), and (94), respectively, and a new
9 subsection (91) is added to that section to read:
10 316.003 Definitions.—The following words and phrases, when
11 used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively
12 ascribed to them in this section, except where the context
13 otherwise requires:
14 (92) DRIVER-ASSISTIVE TRUCK PLATOONING TECHNOLOGY.—Vehicle
15 automation and safety technology that integrates sensor array,
16 wireless vehicle-to-vehicle communications, active safety
17 systems, and specialized software to link safety systems and
18 synchronize acceleration and braking between two vehicles while
19 leaving each vehicle’s steering control and systems command in
20 the control of the vehicle’s driver in compliance with the
21 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rules regarding
22 vehicle-to-vehicle platooning.
23 Section 2. The Department of Transportation, in
24 consultation with the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
25 Vehicles, shall study the use and safe operation of driver
26 assistive truck platooning technology, as defined in s. 316.003,
27 Florida Statutes, for the purpose of developing a pilot project
28 to test vehicles that are equipped to operate using driver
29 assistive truck platooning technology.
30 (1) Upon conclusion of the study, the Department of
31 Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Highway
32 Safety and Motor Vehicles, may conduct a pilot project to test
33 the use and safe operation of vehicles equipped with driver
34 assistive truck platooning technology.
35 (2) Notwithstanding ss. 316.0895 and 316.303, Florida
36 Statutes, the Department of Transportation may conduct the pilot
37 project in such a manner and at such locations as determined by
38 the Department of Transportation based on the study.
39 (3) Before the start of the pilot project, manufacturers of
40 driver–assistive truck platooning technology being tested in the
41 pilot project must submit to the Department of Highway Safety
42 and Motor Vehicles an instrument of insurance, surety bond, or
43 proof of self-insurance acceptable to the department in the
44 amount of $5 million.
45 (4) Upon conclusion of the pilot project, the Department of
46 Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Highway
47 Safety and Motor Vehicles, shall submit the results of the study
48 and any findings or recommendations from the pilot project to
49 the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of
50 the House of Representatives.
51 Section 3. Subsection (7) of section 316.0745, Florida
52 Statutes, is amended to read:
53 316.0745 Uniform signals and devices.—
54 (7) The Department of Transportation may, upon receipt and
55 investigation of reported noncompliance and is authorized, after
56 hearing pursuant to 14 days’ notice, to direct the removal of
57 any purported traffic control device that fails to meet the
58 requirements of this section, wherever the device is located and
59 without regard to assigned responsibility under s. 316.1895
60 which fails to meet the requirements of this section. The public
61 agency erecting or installing the same shall immediately bring
62 it into compliance with the requirements of this section or
63 remove said device or signal upon the direction of the
64 Department of Transportation and may not, for a period of 5
65 years, install any replacement or new traffic control devices
66 paid for in part or in full with revenues raised by the state
67 unless written prior approval is received from the Department of
68 Transportation. Any additional violation by a public body or
69 official shall be cause for the withholding of state funds for
70 traffic control purposes until such public body or official
71 demonstrates to the Department of Transportation that it is
72 complying with this section.
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74 And the title is amended as follows:
75 Delete lines 3 - 14
76 and insert:
77 316.003, F.S.; defining the term “driver-assistive
78 truck platooning technology; directing the Department
79 of Transportation to study the operation of driver
80 assistive truck platooning technology; authorizing the
81 department to conduct a pilot project to test such
82 operation; providing security requirements; requiring
83 a report to the Governor and Legislature; amending s.
84 316.0745, F.S.; revising the circumstances under which
85 the Department of Transportation is authorized to
86 direct the removal of certain traffic control devices;
87 requiring the public agency erecting or installing
88 such a device to bring it into compliance with certain
89 requirements or remove it upon the direction of the
90 department;