Bill > H1301

Introduced Session

An act relating to the Department of Transportation; amending s. 20.23, F.S.; removing the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation be nominated by the Florida Transportation Commission; 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. 333.03, F.S.; revising requirements for the adoption of airport land use compatibility zoning regulations; 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 of a decision to continue with the design phase of a project to property owners, impacted municipalities,CS/2024 Legislature 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.; 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; limiting 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 theCS/2024 Legislature 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 the local governmental entity to include such needs in its capital comprehensive plan and appropriate fiscal year budget; 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 forCS/2024 Legislature 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; authorizing the department to retain interest earnings on specified appropriations; requiring such interest earnings to be spent on specified projects; 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 providers from expending such funds for specifiedCS/2024 Legislature 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 administrative costs to be reviewed and approved by certain entities; amending s. 341.822, F.S.; revising the powers of the Florida Rail Enterprise; amending s. 768.1382, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "streetlight provider"; 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; revisingCS/2024 Legislature 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 the penalties for certain offenses; amending s. 322.27, F.S.; revising the point system for convictions for violations of motor vehicle laws and ordinances; amending ss. 28.37, 142.01, 316.1951, 316.306, 316.622, 318.121, 318.21, and 395.4036, F.S.; conforming cross-references; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date.

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Shane Abbott (R)*,  Kim Berfield (R)*,  Linda Chaney (R), 

Other Sponsors (3)

Chapter No. 2024-57 (on 04/03/2024)

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