Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1104
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and
       Economic Development (Brandes) recommended the following:
       
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    4         Between lines 82 and 83
    5  insert:
    6         Section 1. Section 322.38, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    7  read:
    8         322.38 Renting motor vehicle to another.—
    9         (1) A No person may not shall rent a motor vehicle to any
   10  other person unless the other latter person is then duly
   11  licensed, or, if a nonresident, he or she shall be licensed
   12  under the laws of the state or country of his or her residence,
   13  except a nonresident whose home state or country does not
   14  require that an operator be licensed.
   15         (2) A No person may not shall rent a motor vehicle to
   16  another until he or she has inspected the driver license of the
   17  person to whom the vehicle is to be rented, and has compared and
   18  verified that the driver license is unexpired signature thereon
   19  with the signature of such person written in his or her
   20  presence.
   21         (3) Every person renting a motor vehicle to another shall
   22  keep a record of the registration number of the motor vehicle so
   23  rented, the name, and address, and license number of the person
   24  to whom the vehicle is rented, the number of the license of said
   25  latter person, and the date and place when and where the said
   26  license was issued. Such record shall be open to inspection by
   27  any police officer, or officer or employee of the department.
   28         (4) If a rental car company rents a motor vehicle to a
   29  person through digital, electronic, or other means that allows
   30  the renter to obtain possession of the motor vehicle without
   31  direct contact with an agent or employee of the rental car
   32  company, or if through use of such means the renter does not
   33  execute a rental contract at the time he or she takes possession
   34  of the vehicle, the rental car company is deemed to have met the
   35  requirements of subsections (1) and (2) when the rental car
   36  company requires the renter to verify that he or she is duly
   37  licensed and that the license is unexpired. Such verification
   38  may occur at the time the renter enrolls in a membership
   39  program, master agreement, or other means of establishing use of
   40  the rental car company’s services or at any time thereafter.
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   42  And the title is amended as follows:
   43         Delete line 2
   44  and insert:
   45         An act relating to transportation; amending s. 322.38,
   46         F.S.; prohibiting a person from renting a motor
   47         vehicle to another until he or she has verified that
   48         the driver license of the person to whom the vehicle
   49         is rented is unexpired; deleting the requirement that
   50         a person renting a motor vehicle to another keep a
   51         record of the date when the license of the person to
   52         whom the vehicle is rented was issued; specifying that
   53         a rental car company is deemed to have met specified
   54         requirements when the rental car company requires the
   55         renter to verify that he or she is duly licensed and
   56         that the license is unexpired if the rental car
   57         company rents a motor vehicle to a person through
   58         certain digital, electronic, or other means;
   59         specifying when such verification may occur; amending