Florida Senate - 2025 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1318
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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The Committee on Rules (Grall) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete line 301
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5 Section 3. Subsection (5) of section 318.14, Florida
6 Statutes, is amended to read:
7 318.14 Noncriminal traffic infractions; exception;
8 procedures.—
9 (5)(a) Any person electing to appear before the designated
10 official or who is required to appear is shall be deemed to have
11 waived his or her right to the civil penalty provisions of s.
12 318.18. The official, after a hearing, shall make a
13 determination as to whether an infraction has been committed. If
14 the commission of an infraction has been proven, the official
15 may impose a civil penalty not to exceed $500, except that in
16 cases involving unlawful speed in a school zone or involving
17 unlawful speed in a construction zone, the civil penalty may not
18 exceed $1,000; or require attendance at a driver improvement
19 school, or both.
20 (b)1. If the person is required to appear before the
21 designated official pursuant to s. 318.19(1) and is found to
22 have committed the infraction, the designated official must
23 shall impose a civil penalty of $1,000 in addition to any other
24 penalties and the person’s driver license shall be suspended for
25 6 months.
26 2. If the person is required to appear before the
27 designated official pursuant to s. 318.19(1) and is found to
28 have committed the infraction against a vulnerable road user as
29 defined in s. 316.027(1), the designated official must shall
30 impose a civil penalty of not less than $5,000 in addition to
31 any other penalties, the person’s driver license must shall be
32 suspended for 1 year, and the person must shall be required to
33 attend a department-approved driver improvement course relating
34 to the rights of vulnerable road users relative to vehicles on
35 the roadway as provided in s. 322.0261(2).
36 (c)1. If the person is required to appear before the
37 designated official pursuant to s. 318.19(2) and is found to
38 have committed the infraction, the designated official must
39 shall impose a civil penalty of $500 in addition to any other
40 penalties and the person’s driver license must shall be
41 suspended for 3 months.
42 2. If the person is required to appear before the
43 designated official pursuant to s. 318.19(2) and is found to
44 have committed the infraction against a vulnerable road user as
45 defined in s. 316.027(1), the designated official must shall
46 impose a civil penalty of not less than $1,500 in addition to
47 any other penalties, the person’s driver license must shall be
48 suspended for 3 months, and the person must shall be required to
49 attend a department-approved driver improvement course relating
50 to the rights of vulnerable road users relative to vehicles on
51 the roadway as provided in s. 322.0261(2).
52 (d) If the person is required to appear before the
53 designated official pursuant to s. 318.19(6) and is found to
54 have committed an infraction of s. 316.075(1)(c) or s.
55 316.123(2):
56 1. Except as provided in subparagraphs 2. and 3., the
57 designated official must impose a civil penalty of $500 in
58 addition to any other penalties.
59 2. A second time, the designated official must impose a
60 civil penalty of $1,000 in addition to any other penalties and
61 the person’s driver license must be suspended for 6 months.
62 3. A third or subsequent time, the designated official must
63 impose a civil penalty of $1,000 in addition to any other
64 penalties and the person’s driver license must be suspended for
65 1 year.
66 (e) If the official determines that no infraction has been
67 committed, no costs or penalties may shall be imposed and any
68 costs or penalties that have been paid must shall be returned.
69 (f) Moneys received from the mandatory civil penalties
70 imposed pursuant to this subsection upon persons required to
71 appear before a designated official pursuant to s. 318.19(1),
72 (2), or (6) s. 318.19(1) or (2) shall be remitted to the
73 Department of Revenue and deposited into the Department of
74 Health Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund to provide
75 financial support to certified trauma centers to assure the
76 availability and accessibility of trauma services throughout the
77 state. Funds deposited into the Emergency Medical Services Trust
78 Fund under this section shall be allocated as follows:
79 1.(a) Fifty percent shall be allocated equally among all
80 Level I, Level II, and pediatric trauma centers in recognition
81 of readiness costs for maintaining trauma services.
82 2.(b) Fifty percent shall be allocated among Level I, Level
83 II, and pediatric trauma centers based on each center’s relative
84 volume of trauma cases as calculated using the hospital
85 discharge data collected pursuant to s. 408.061.
86 Section 4. Section 318.19, Florida Statutes, is amended to
87 read:
88 318.19 Infractions requiring a mandatory hearing.—Any
89 person cited for the infractions listed in this section does
90 shall not have the provisions of s. 318.14(2), (4), and (9)
91 available to him or her but must appear before the designated
92 official at the time and location of the scheduled hearing:
93 (1) Any infraction which results in a crash that causes the
94 death of another;
95 (2) Any infraction which results in a crash that causes
96 “serious bodily injury” of another as defined in s. 316.1933(1);
97 (3) Any infraction of s. 316.172(1)(b);
98 (4) Any infraction of s. 316.520(1) or (2); or
99 (5) Any infraction of s. 316.183(2), s. 316.187, or s.
100 316.189 of exceeding the speed limit by 30 mph or more; or
101 (6) Any infraction of s. 316.075(1)(c) or s. 316.123(2)
102 which results in a crash with another vehicle as defined in s.
103 316.003.
104 Section 5. This act shall take effect October 1, 2025.
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107 And the title is amended as follows:
108 Delete lines 2 - 16
109 and insert:
110 An act relating to traffic offenses; amending s.
111 316.305, F.S.; revising a short title; revising
112 legislative intent; defining terms; prohibiting a
113 person from operating a motor vehicle while using a
114 wireless communications device in a handheld manner;
115 providing an exception; requiring that sustained use
116 of a wireless communications device by a person
117 operating a motor vehicle be conducted through a
118 hands-free accessory until such use is terminated;
119 revising exceptions to the prohibition; removing
120 obsolete provisions; providing penalties; amending s.
121 316.306, F.S.; revising penalty provisions relating to
122 the use of wireless communications devices in a
123 handheld manner in certain circumstances; conforming
124 provisions to changes made by the act; amending s.
125 318.14, F.S.; requiring the imposition of specified
126 civil penalties and periods of driver license
127 suspension, in addition to any other penalties, on a
128 person found at a mandatory hearing to have committed
129 certain traffic infractions that resulted in a crash
130 with another vehicle; amending s. 318.19, F.S.;
131 requiring persons cited for specified infractions that
132 result in a crash with another vehicle to appear at a
133 certain mandatory hearing; providing an