Bill > S1226

Introduced Session

An act relating to the Department of Transportation; amending s. 20.23, F.S.; revising the list of areas of program responsibility within the Department of Transportation; deleting the requirement that the secretary of the department appoint the department’s inspector general and that he or she be directly responsible to the secretary; amending s. 311.101, F.S.; requiring that a specified amount of recurring funds from the State Transportation Trust Fund be made available for the Intermodal Logistics Center Infrastructure Support Program; requiring the department to include specified projects in its tentative work program; amending s. 334.046, F.S.; revising provisions relating to the department’s mission, goals, and objectives; creating s. 334.61, F.S.; requiring governmental entities that propose certain projects to conduct a traffic study; requiring the governmental entity to give notice to property owners, impacted municipalities, and counties affected by such projects within a specified timeframe; providing notice requirements; requiring such governmental entities to hold a public meeting, with a specified period of prior notice, before completion of the design phase of such projects; providing requirements for such public meetings; requiring such governmental entities to review and take into consideration comments and alternatives presented in public meetings in the final project design; amending s. 338.231, F.S.; revising the length of time before which an inactive prepaid toll account becomes unclaimed property; amending s. 338.26, F.S.; revising the date by which fees generated from tolls deposited into the State Transportation Trust Fund must be used to reimburse a local governmental entity for certain costs of operating a specified fire station; providing that a specified interlocal agreement related to the Alligator Alley toll road controls the use of certain State Transportation Trust Fund moneys until the local governmental entity and the department enter into a new agreement or agree to extend the existing agreement; specifying the amount of reimbursement for the 2024-2025 fiscal year; requiring the local governmental entity, by a specified date and at specified intervals thereafter, to provide a maintenance and operations comprehensive plan to the department; providing requirements for the comprehensive plan; requiring the local governmental entity and the department to review and adopt the comprehensive plan as part of the interlocal agreement; requiring the department, in accordance with certain projections, to include the corresponding funding needs in the department’s work program; requiring that ownership and title of certain equipment purchased with state funds and used at a specified fire station during the term of the interlocal agreement transfer to the state at the end of the term of the agreement; amending s. 339.08, F.S.; prohibiting the department from expending state funds to support a project or program of specified entities; requiring the department to withhold state funds until such entities are in compliance with a specified provision; amending s. 339.0803, F.S.; prioritizing availability of certain revenues deposited into the State Transportation Trust Fund for payments under service contracts with the Florida Department of Transportation Financing Corporation to fund arterial highway projects; providing that two or more such projects may be treated as a single project for certain purposes; amending s. 339.0809, F.S.; specifying availability of funds appropriated for payments under a service contract with the corporation; authorizing the department to enter into service contracts to finance certain projects; providing requirements for annual service contract payments; requiring the department, before execution of a service contract, to ensure that annual payments are programmed for the life of the contract and to ensure that they remain programmed until fully paid; amending s. 339.2818, F.S.; authorizing, subject to appropriation, a local government within a specified area to compete for funding using specified criteria on specified roads; providing an exception; amending s. 341.051, F.S.; providing voting and meeting notice requirements for specified public transit projects; providing meeting notice requirements for discussion of specified actions by a public transit provider; requiring that certain unallocated funds for the New Starts Transit Program be reallocated for the purpose of the Strategic Intermodal System; providing for expiration of the reallocation; prohibiting, as a condition of receiving state funds, public transit provider from expending such funds for specified marketing or advertising activities; requiring the department to incorporate certain guidelines in the public transportation grant agreement entered into with each public transit provider; prohibiting certain wraps, tinting, paint, media, or advertisements on passenger windows of public transit provider vehicles from being darker than certain window tinting requirements; amending s. 341.071, F.S.; defining terms; beginning on a specified date and annually thereafter, requiring each public transit provider to take specified actions during a publicly noticed meeting; requiring that a certain disclosure be posted on public transit providers’ websites; requiring the department to determine the annual state average of general administrative costs; authorizing certain costs to be excluded from such annual state average; requiring a specified increase in general administration costs to be reviewed and approved by certain entities; amending s. 341.822, F.S.; revising the powers of the Florida Rail Enterprise; providing an effective date.

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Nick DiCeglie (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (3)

Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/CS/HB 1301 (on 03/06/2024)

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