Florida Senate - 2025                             CS for SB 1408
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Fiscal Policy; and Senators Collins and
       Martin
       
       
       
       
       594-03707-25                                          20251408c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to transportation facility
    3         designations; providing honorary designations of
    4         certain transportation facilities in specified
    5         counties; directing the Department of Transportation
    6         to erect suitable markers; amending chapter 2022-224,
    7         Laws of Florida; revising an honorary designation in a
    8         specified county; directing the Department of
    9         Transportation to erect suitable markers; providing an
   10         effective date.
   11          
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   13  
   14         Section 1. Transportation facility designations; Department
   15  of Transportation to erect suitable markers.—
   16         (1) That portion of I-275 between mile markers 47 and 48 in
   17  Hillsborough County is designated as “Master Patrol Officer
   18  Jesse Madsen Memorial Highway.”
   19         (2) That portion of U.S. 41 between Melbourne Street and
   20  Church Street in Charlotte County is designated as “Sergeant
   21  Elio Diaz Memorial Highway.”
   22         (3) That portion of W. South Street between South Division
   23  Avenue and U.S. 441 in Orange County is designated as “Geraldine
   24  Thompson Way.”
   25         (4) That portion of International Drive between S.R. 528
   26  and Sand Lake Road in Orange County is designated as “Harris
   27  Rosen Way.”
   28         (5) The railroad overpass located on S.R. 100 in the City
   29  of Starke in Bradford County is designated as “Heroes Memorial
   30  Overpass” in honor of those who have given their lives in the
   31  service of others.
   32         (6) That portion of S.R. 10/West Beaver Street between King
   33  Street and Acorn Street in Duval County is designated as “Harry
   34  Frisch Street.”
   35         (7) That portion of U.S. 92/S.R. 600/Gandy Boulevard
   36  between S. West Shore Boulevard in Hillsborough County and 4th
   37  Street N. in Pinellas County is designated as “Senator James A.
   38  Sebesta Memorial Highway.”
   39         (8) That portion of U.S. 90 between Lancelot Road and
   40  Oakridge Way in Walton County is designated as “Deputy William
   41  May Memorial Highway.”
   42         (9) That portion of U.S. 41/SW 8th Street between S.W. 27th
   43  Avenue and Brickell Avenue in Miami-Dade County is designated as
   44  “Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart Memorial Highway.”
   45         (10) That portion of Southern Boulevard between 18000
   46  Southern Boulevard/Lion Country Safari Road and Royal Palm Beach
   47  Boulevard in Palm Beach County is designated as “PBSO Motorman
   48  Highway.”
   49         (11) That portion of S.R. 688/Ulmerton Road between 122nd
   50  Avenue N./125th Street and Walsingham Road in Pinellas County is
   51  designated as “Staff Sergeant Matthew Sitton Memorial Highway.”
   52         (12) That portion of S.R. 19 in the town of Howey-in-the
   53  Hills in Lake County is designated as “Sheriff Gary S. Borders
   54  Memorial Highway.”
   55         (13) That portion of S.R. 400 east of the Central Parkway
   56  Bridge and the E. E. Williamson Bridge in the City of Longwood
   57  in Seminole County is designated as “Sergeant Karl Strohsal
   58  Memorial Highway.”
   59         (14) Bridge number 900111 on S.R. 5/South Pine Channel over
   60  South Pine Channel in Monroe County is designated as “Jose
   61  Wejebe Bridge.”
   62         (15) That portion of U.S. 27 within the municipal
   63  boundaries of Minneola in Lake County is designated as “Master
   64  Deputy Bradley Link Memorial Highway.”
   65         (16) The bridge on S.R. 7 over Sample Road in Broward
   66  County is designated as “SPC Daniel J. Ajami Bridge.”
   67         (17) That portion of S.R. 932/N.W. 103rd Street/49th Street
   68  within the City of Hialeah in Miami-Dade County is designated as
   69  “Celia Cruz Way.”
   70         (18) The Department of Transportation is directed to erect
   71  suitable markers designating the transportation facilities as
   72  described in this section.
   73         Section 2.  Subsection (7) of section 1 of chapter 2022
   74  224, Laws of Florida, is amended, and subsection (27) of that
   75  section is reenacted, to read:
   76         Section 1. Transportation facility designations; Department
   77  of Transportation to erect suitable markers.—
   78         (7) That portion of U.S. 27/S.R. 25 between 9200 U.S. 27
   79  South and South George Boulevard the Polk County line and the
   80  Glades County line in Highlands County is designated as “Deputy
   81  William Gentry, Jr., Memorial Highway.”
   82         (27) The Department of Transportation is directed to erect
   83  suitable markers designating the transportation facilities as
   84  described in this section.
   85         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.