Bill > H0567

Introduced Session

An act relating to transportation; creating s. 218.3215, F.S.; requiring counties to annually by a date certain provide the Office of Economic and Demographic Research with certain information; requiring counties to report such information in the format specified by the office; requiring the office to compile the information into a report and submit the report to the Legislature and the Department of Transportation; amending s. 316.003, F.S.; revising definitions; amending s. 316.173, F.S.; authorizing a person to request an administrative hearing with a school district within a specified time period after receiving a notice of violation; providing that the mailing of the notice of violation constitutes notification; removing a provision requiring a court with jurisdiction over traffic violations to determine whether a specified violation has occurred; authorizing a school district to appoint a local hearing officer to conduct an administrative hearing; providing eligibility requirements for such officer; providing duties of such officer; providing for civil penalties and administrative costs; providing procedures for an administrative hearing; authorizing certain administrative hearings to be conducted by a hb567-03-c3 CS/ specified date; amending s. 316.183, F.S.; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to determine certain speed limits; amending s. 316.187, F.S.; increasing certain speed limits; amending s. 316.20655, F.S.; authorizing a local government to adopt certain ordinances and provide certain training relating to the safe operation of electric bicycles; amending s. 316.2128, F.S.; authorizing a local government to adopt certain ordinances and provide certain training relating to the safe operation of motorized scooters and micromobility devices; amending s. 316.640, F.S.; authorizing school resource officers to enforce specified traffic laws on the roadways within a school district; amending s. 316.650, F.S.; revising the entity required to provide citation data in certain cases; amending s. 316.88, F.S.; prohibiting excessive wakes under certain circumstances; amending s. 318.18, F.S.; providing minimum civil penalties for a specified violation enforced by a school bus infraction detection system; requiring specified costs to be imposed for specified violations; requiring such costs to be used by a school district for specified purposes; requiring such penalties and costs to be remitted to the school district at least monthly; amending s. 318.21, F.S.; hb567-03-c3 CS/ requiring specified penalties to be distributed in a certain manner; creating s. 320.0849, F.S.; requiring the department to issue expectant mother parking permits; specifying the validity period thereof; providing design requirements for expectant mother parking permit placards or decals; providing application requirements; authorizing such permitholders to park in certain spaces; amending s. 330.355, F.S.; prohibiting publicly owned airports from charging a landing fee established on or after a specified date for certain aircraft operations; amending s. 331.3051, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 334.044, F.S.; revising conditions under which the Department of Transportation may acquire property through eminent domain; amending s. 334.065, F.S.; removing the Board of Governors of the State University System as administrator of the Florida Center for Urban Transportation Research; revising membership of the Center for Urban Transportation Research advisory board; creating s. 334.63, F.S.; providing requirements for certain project concept studies and project development and environmental studies; amending s. 337.11, F.S.; providing competitive bidding and award requirements for contracts for hb567-03-c3 CS/ certain projects; providing construction; revising requirements for requests for proposals for design- build contracts; revising requirements for selection and award of phased design-build contracts; removing provisions relating to design-build and phased design- build contracts and construction; requiring contracts to contain protection and indemnity coverage; amending s. 337.14, F.S.; authorizing the department to waive certain requirements for push-button or task work order contracts; revising the amount of contracts for which the department may waive bonding requirements; requiring a contractor seeking to bid on a certain maintenance contract to possess certain qualifications; amending s. 337.185, F.S.; revising the amount of a contract that may be subject to arbitration; revising the timeframe in which arbitration requests must be made to the State Arbitration Board; amending s. 337.19, F.S.; revising the timeframe in which certain suits by and against the department must commence; removing an obsolete provision; amending s. 339.175, F.S.; revising legislative intent; revising requirements for the designation of additional M.P.O.'s; revising projects and strategies to be considered in developing an M.P.O.'s long-range transportation plan and hb567-03-c3 CS/ transportation improvement program; removing obsolete provisions; requiring the department to convene M.P.O.'s 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 another specified entity; removing provisions relating to M.P.O. coordination mechanisms; including public- private partnerships in authorized financing techniques; revising proposed transportation enhancement activities that must be indicated by the long-range transportation plan; authorizing each M.P.O. to execute a written agreement with the department regarding state and federal transportation planning requirements; providing that the department is responsible for scheduling projects in the state transportation improvement program in collaboration with the M.P.O.'s; requiring the department and M.P.O.'s to establish certain quality performance metrics and develop certain performance targets; requiring the department to evaluate and post on its website whether each M.P.O. has made significant progress toward such targets; removing provisions relating to the Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council; amending s. 339.65, F.S.; requiring hb567-03-c3 CS/ the department, in collaboration with each M.P.O., to prioritize certain Strategic Intermodal System highway corridor projects; amending s. 339.84, F.S.; authorizing the department to expend certain funds for grants for the purchase of certain equipment within a specified timeframe; providing requirements for grant recipients; requiring the department to give certain priority in awarding grants; creating s. 339.85, F.S.; requiring the department to implement the Next- generation Traffic Signal Modernization Program; providing requirements for the program; amending s. 331.310, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; providing legislative findings regarding widening of a certain roadway; requiring the department, by specified dates, to submit certain reports to the Governor and Legislature; creating s. 332.136, F.S.; establishing an airport pilot program at the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority; providing purpose of the pilot program; requiring the department to adopt rules; requiring the department, by a specified date, to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature; providing for future repeal; amending s. 348.0304, F.S.; revising qualifications to be a member of the governing body of the Greater Miami Expressway Agency; providing effective dates. hb567-03-c3 CS/

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Fiona McFarland (R)*,  Linda Chaney (R), 

Other Sponsors (3)

Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/SB 462 (Ch. 2025-149), CS/CS/CS/SB 1662 (Ch. 2025-155) (on 04/29/2025)

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