Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 650
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/11/2025           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education (Leek)
       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. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
    6  1006.23, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         1006.23 Hazardous walking conditions.—
    8         (2) HAZARDOUS WALKING CONDITIONS.—
    9         (a) Walkways parallel to the road.—
   10         1. It shall be considered a hazardous walking condition
   11  with respect to any road along which students must walk in order
   12  to walk to and from school if there is not an area at least 4
   13  feet wide adjacent to the road, not including drainage ditches,
   14  sluiceways, swales, or channels, having a surface upon which
   15  students may walk without being required to walk on the road
   16  surface or if the walkway is along a limited access facility as
   17  defined in s. 334.03(12). In addition, whenever the road along
   18  which students must walk is uncurbed and has a posted speed
   19  limit of 50 miles per hour or greater, the area as described
   20  above for students to walk upon shall be set off the road by no
   21  less than 3 feet from the edge of the road.
   22         2. Subparagraph 1. does not apply when the road along which
   23  students must walk:
   24         a. Is a road on which the volume of traffic is less than
   25  180 vehicles per hour, per direction, during the time students
   26  walk to and from school; or
   27         b. Is located in a residential area and has a posted speed
   28  limit of 30 miles per hour or less.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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   31  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   34  and insert:
   35                        A bill to be entitled                      
   36         An act relating to hazardous walking conditions;
   37         amending s. 1006.23, F.S.; revising the criteria that
   38         determine a hazardous walking condition for public
   39         school students; providing an effective date.