Florida Senate - 2021 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 646
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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The Committee on Transportation (Taddeo) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. Renaming of specified roads as South Harriet
6 Tubman Highway and West Harriet Tubman Highway; implementation.—
7 (1) That portion of South Dixie Highway/U.S. 1/S.R. 5 from
8 the Miami-Dade/Monroe County line to S.R. 9A/I-95 Northbound is
9 renamed “South Harriet Tubman Highway/U.S. 1/S.R. 5.”
10 (2) That portion of West Dixie Highway/S.R. 909 from
11 Northeast 119th Street to Northeast 163rd Street is renamed
12 “West Harriet Tubman Highway/State Road 909.”
13 (3) The Department of Transportation is directed to take
14 all steps necessary within previously budgeted funds to
15 implement the renaming as described in subsections (1) and (2).
16 (4) Before signage is installed within the jurisdiction of
17 a particular municipality or an unincorporated area of the
18 county, the governing body of the municipality or county, as
19 applicable, shall hold a public hearing and approve the road
20 renaming. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision
21 of state law, nothing shall prevent signage from being installed
22 in a particular municipality or the unincorporated area of a
23 county once the municipality or county, respectively, has
24 approved the renaming.
25 (5) Miami-Dade County may designate an official to
26 facilitate the local renaming notification process, which may
27 include the county’s submission of a formal letter or comparable
28 electronic correspondence to the Department of Transportation
29 Traffic Engineering and Operations Office, all affected
30 municipalities, the property appraiser, the local address
31 authority, E911, local law enforcement agencies, utility
32 providers, the local authority responsible for street signs, the
33 public works departments, the animal services departments, and
34 affected property owners, notifying these persons and entities
35 of the renaming and providing information on how the county will
36 change references to the road name on signage and other traffic
37 control devices.
38 (6) By September 1, 2021, the county may seek a written
39 concurrence from the United States Postmaster General of the
40 approved name change and may provide a copy thereof to the
41 Department of Transportation Traffic Engineering and Operations
42 Office.
43 (7) The Department of Transportation shall determine a
44 transition period during which the renaming process will be
45 fully implemented. The existing road names specified in
46 subsections (1) and (2), respectively, must remain as aliases
47 during the transition period until the renaming is fully
48 implemented and all preexisting signage bearing the former names
49 has been replaced.
50 (8) Signage bearing the former name must be removed and
51 replaced in a phased-in approach in accordance with the standard
52 practice and normal timeframe for sign maintenance and
53 replacement so as to mitigate the fiscal impact of this act.
54 (9) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, any
55 person or entity whose home or business address is affected by
56 this act may not be required to update any state driver license,
57 state identification card, or other state or local license,
58 permit, registration, or similar authorization until expiration
59 thereof or in the normal course of renewal or replacement.
60 (10) This act may not be construed to require:
61 (a) The expenditure of funds by the Department of
62 Transportation beyond those already allocated to it as of July
63 1, 2021, for the specified purpose of this act.
64 (b) Any business or other entity to change the name of its
65 business or other identifying information, business cards, or
66 stationary or incur other such expenses as a result of the
67 renaming.
68 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.
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71 And the title is amended as follows:
72 Delete everything before the enacting clause
73 and insert:
74 A bill to be entitled
75 An act relating to renaming transportation facilities;
76 revising the names of specified transportation
77 facilities; directing the Department of Transportation
78 to take all steps necessary within budgeted funds to
79 implement the renaming; providing for certain
80 approvals by affected municipalities and Miami-Dade
81 County before new road signage is installed on
82 specified transportation facilities; authorizing the
83 county to designate an official to facilitate the
84 local renaming notification process; authorizing the
85 county to seek written concurrence from the United
86 States Postmaster General of the transportation
87 facility name changes and to provide a copy of such
88 concurrence to the Traffic Engineering and Operations
89 Office within the department; requiring the department
90 to determine a transition period for the renaming of
91 the transportation facilities; requiring that existing
92 names of such transportation facilities remain as
93 aliases during the transition period until the
94 renaming is fully implemented; requiring that signage
95 be removed and replaced in a phased approach;
96 prohibiting persons or entities affected by the name
97 changes from being required to update state driver
98 licenses and identification cards, state and local
99 licenses, permits, registration, and similar
100 authorizations until expiration or in the normal
101 course of renewal or replacement; providing
102 construction; providing an effective date.