Florida Senate - 2026                                    SB 1392
       
       
        
       By Senator Bernard
       
       
       
       
       
       24-01177-26                                           20261392__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to right turns at intersections using
    3         traffic infraction detectors; amending s. 316.075,
    4         F.S.; prohibiting certain right turns at intersections
    5         using traffic infraction detectors; requiring certain
    6         signage at such intersections; providing an effective
    7         date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   10  
   11         Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section
   12  316.075, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         316.075 Traffic control signal devices.—
   14         (1) Except for automatic warning signal lights installed or
   15  to be installed at railroad crossings, whenever traffic,
   16  including municipal traffic, is controlled by traffic control
   17  signals exhibiting different colored lights, or colored lighted
   18  arrows, successively one at a time or in combination, only the
   19  colors green, red, and yellow shall be used, except for special
   20  pedestrian signals carrying a word legend, and the lights shall
   21  indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as
   22  follows:
   23         (c) Steady red indication.—
   24         1. Vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal shall stop
   25  before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the
   26  intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection
   27  and shall remain standing until a green indication is shown;
   28  however:
   29         a. The driver of a vehicle which is stopped at a clearly
   30  marked stop line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on
   31  the near side of the intersection, or, if none then at the point
   32  nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of
   33  approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering
   34  the intersection in obedience to a steady red signal may make a
   35  right turn, but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and
   36  other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal at the
   37  intersection, except that municipal and county authorities may
   38  prohibit any such right turn against a steady red signal at any
   39  intersection, which prohibition shall be effective when a sign
   40  giving notice thereof is erected in a location visible to
   41  traffic approaching the intersection. Right turns under this
   42  sub-subparagraph are prohibited at intersections using traffic
   43  infraction detectors pursuant to ss. 316.0083 and 316.0776, and
   44  a sign giving notice of such prohibition must be erected in a
   45  location visible to traffic approaching the intersection.
   46         b. The driver of a vehicle on a one-way street that
   47  intersects another one-way street on which traffic moves to the
   48  left shall stop in obedience to a steady red signal, but may
   49  then make a left turn into the one-way street, but shall yield
   50  the right-of-way to pedestrians and other traffic proceeding as
   51  directed by the signal at the intersection, except that
   52  municipal and county authorities may prohibit any such left turn
   53  as described, which prohibition shall be effective when a sign
   54  giving notice thereof is attached to the traffic control signal
   55  device at the intersection.
   56         2.a. The driver of a vehicle facing a steady red signal
   57  shall stop before entering the crosswalk and remain stopped to
   58  allow a pedestrian, with a permitted signal, to cross a roadway
   59  when the pedestrian is in the crosswalk or steps into the
   60  crosswalk and is upon the half of the roadway upon which the
   61  vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so
   62  closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in
   63  danger.
   64         b. Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal
   65  as provided in s. 316.0755, pedestrians facing a steady red
   66  signal shall not enter the roadway.
   67         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.