Florida Senate - 2026                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1220
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/24/2026           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Burgess) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 233 and 234
    4  insert:
    5         Section 6. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and subsection
    6  (3) of section 316.126, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         316.126 Operation of vehicles and actions of pedestrians;
    8  approach of authorized emergency, sanitation, or utility service
    9  vehicle, wrecker, or road and bridge maintenance or construction
   10  vehicle; presence of disabled motor vehicle.—
   11         (1)(a) Upon the immediate approach of an authorized
   12  emergency vehicle, while en route to meet an existing emergency,
   13  the driver of every other vehicle shall, when such emergency
   14  vehicle is giving audible signals by siren, exhaust whistle, or
   15  other adequate device, or visible signals by the use of
   16  flashing, oscillating, rotating, or similarly activated
   17  displayed blue or red lights, yield the right-of-way to the
   18  emergency vehicle and shall immediately proceed to a position
   19  parallel to, and as close as reasonable to the closest edge of
   20  the curb of the roadway, clear of any intersection and shall
   21  stop and remain in position until the authorized emergency
   22  vehicle has passed, unless otherwise directed by a law
   23  enforcement officer. The use of cruise lights by an authorized
   24  emergency vehicle is not a visible signal that requires a driver
   25  to yield the right-of-way. For purposes of this paragraph, the
   26  term “cruise lights” means low intensity, continuously
   27  illuminated blue or red lights displayed on an authorized
   28  emergency vehicle which remain on while the vehicle is in
   29  service but not actively engaged in an emergency response.
   30         (3) An authorized emergency vehicle, when en route to meet
   31  an existing emergency, shall warn all other vehicular traffic
   32  along the emergency route by an audible signal, siren, exhaust
   33  whistle, or other adequate device or by a visible signal by the
   34  use of flashing, oscillating, rotating, or similarly activated
   35  displayed blue or red lights. While en route to such emergency,
   36  the emergency vehicle shall otherwise proceed in a manner
   37  consistent with the laws regulating vehicular traffic upon the
   38  highways of this state.
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   40  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   41  And the title is amended as follows:
   42         Between lines 23 and 24
   43  insert:
   44         316.126, F.S.; revising the visible signals given by
   45         an approaching emergency vehicle upon which a driver
   46         must yield the right-of-way; providing that the use of
   47         cruise lights is not such a visible signal; defining
   48         the term “cruise lights”; revising the means by which
   49         an emergency vehicle may signal that such vehicle is
   50         en route to an emergency; amending s.