Florida Senate - 2025                              CS for SB 872
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senators Ingoglia and
       Burgess
       
       
       
       
       596-02313-25                                           2025872c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to price controls for the removal and
    3         storage of electric vehicles; amending ss. 125.0103
    4         and 166.043, F.S.; requiring counties and
    5         municipalities, respectively, to establish specified
    6         rates for the removal and storage of electric vehicles
    7         from an accident scene; authorizing a wrecker operator
    8         to charge specified costs for the cleanup of an
    9         accident scene and removal of such vehicles; providing
   10         an effective date.
   11          
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (1) of
   15  section 125.0103, Florida Statutes, to read:
   16         125.0103 Ordinances and rules imposing price controls.—
   17         (1)
   18         (e)1. Counties shall establish maximum rates for the
   19  removal and storage of electric vehicles from an accident scene
   20  which may be up to 3 times the rates charged by a wrecker
   21  operator, as defined in s. 323.002(1), for the removal and
   22  storage of vehicles that run on gasoline or diesel fuels, in the
   23  event the electric vehicle owner or operator is incapacitated,
   24  unavailable, leaves the procurement of wrecker service to the
   25  law enforcement officer at the scene, or otherwise does not
   26  consent to the removal of the electric vehicle.
   27         2. A wrecker operator may charge actual cost, plus 15
   28  percent, for the cleanup of an accident scene and removal of an
   29  electric vehicle, including a fire or any accidental discharge
   30  of any hazardous materials or debris associated with the
   31  electric vehicle.
   32         Section 2. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (1) of
   33  section 166.043, Florida Statutes, to read:
   34         166.043 Ordinances and rules imposing price controls.—
   35         (1)
   36         (e)1. Municipalities shall establish maximum rates for the
   37  removal and storage of electric vehicles from an accident scene
   38  which may be up to 3 times the rates charged by a wrecker
   39  operator, as defined in s. 323.002(1), for the removal and
   40  storage of vehicles that run on gasoline or diesel fuels, in the
   41  event the electric vehicle owner or operator is incapacitated,
   42  unavailable, leaves the procurement of wrecker service to the
   43  law enforcement officer at the scene, or otherwise does not
   44  consent to the removal of the electric vehicle.
   45         2. A wrecker operator may charge actual cost, plus 15
   46  percent, for the cleanup of an accident scene and removal of an
   47  electric vehicle, including a fire or any accidental discharge
   48  of any hazardous materials or debris associated with the
   49  electric vehicle.
   50         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.