Bill > S1032

Introduced Session

An act relating to transportation; amending s. 20.23, F.S.; deleting obsolete language; amending s. 316.1575, F.S.; revising provisions requiring a person approaching a railroad-highway grade crossing to stop within a certain distance from the nearest rail; revising penalties; amending s. 316.1576, F.S.; revising circumstances under which a person is prohibited from driving a vehicle through a railroad highway grade crossing; revising penalties; amending s. 318.18, F.S.; revising penalties for certain violations; providing a penalty for a certain violation; amending s. 334.065, F.S.; revising the membership of the Center for Urban Transportation Research advisory board; deleting a requirement that the appointments of certain board members be reviewed and approved by the Florida Transportation Commission and confirmed by the Board of Governors of the State University System; amending s. 334.066, F.S.; revising the membership of the Implementing Solutions from Transportation Research and Evaluating Emerging Technologies (I-STREET) Living Lab advisory board; amending s. 339.175, F.S.; revising legislative intent; prohibiting the designation of additional metropolitan planning organizations (M.P.O.’s) after a specified date except in certain urbanized areas; deleting provisions relating to duties for a designated M.P.O.; revising projects and strategies to be considered in developing an M.P.O.’s long-range transportation plan and transportation improvement program; revising the M.P.O.’s required to submit to the Governor and the Legislature, by a specified date, a feasibility report regarding consolidation; requiring the department to periodically convene M.P.O.’s of similar size to exchange best practices; authorizing such M.P.O.’s to develop committees or working groups; requiring training for new M.P.O. governing board members to be provided by the department or, at the discretion of the department, another specified entity; deleting a provision relating to M.P.O. coordination mechanisms; including public-private partnerships as an authorized innovative financing technique for needed projects and programs; revising proposed transportation enhancement activities that must be indicated by the long-range transportation plan; providing that M.P.O. long-range transportation plans must be approved by the department, as well as the M.P.O.; requiring the department to review certain aspects of each M.P.O.’s long-range transportation plan and to return the plan to the M.P.O. for revision if deemed unsatisfactory; requiring the department to create quality performance metrics and a scoring mechanism to evaluate each M.P.O.’s service to its communities and to establish a minimum acceptable quality performance score; requiring each M.P.O. to report its quality performance score annually to the district secretary and to publish the score on its website, beginning on a specified date; requiring the department to validate each M.P.O.’s score calculation and make any necessary adjustments; deleting provisions relating to the Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council; amending s. 627.748, F.S.; revising the preemption of airports or seaports relating to fees charged for taxicab pickups at such airports and seaports; amending ss. 28.37, 142.01, 316.1951, 316.306, 316.622, 318.121, 318.21, 322.27, 331.3051, 331.310, and 395.4036, F.S.; conforming cross-references and provisions to changes made by the act; requiring the department to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date which provides a comprehensive review of the boundaries of department districts and makes certain recommendations; providing an effective date.

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Joe Gruters (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (2)

Died in Appropriations (on 03/08/2024)

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