Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 344
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/10/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Transportation (Altman) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Between lines 15 and 16
    4  insert:
    5         (6)(a) Neither a person who is certified by a physician as
    6  having a medical condition that causes the use of a safety belt
    7  to be inappropriate or dangerous nor an employee of a newspaper
    8  home delivery service while in the course of his or her
    9  employment delivering newspapers on home delivery routes is
   10  required to be restrained by a safety belt.
   11         (b) The number of front seat passengers of a pickup truck
   12  required to wear a safety belt pursuant to this section shall
   13  not exceed the number of safety belts which were installed in
   14  the front seat of such pickup truck by the manufacturer.
   15         (b)(c) An employee of a solid waste or recyclable
   16  collection service is not required to be restrained by a safety
   17  belt while in the course of employment collecting solid waste or
   18  recyclables on designated routes.
   19         (c)(d) The requirements of this section do shall not apply
   20  to the living quarters of a recreational vehicle or a space
   21  within a truck body primarily intended for merchandise or
   22  property.
   23         (d) The requirements of this section do not apply to motor
   24  vehicles that are not required to be equipped with safety belts
   25  under federal law.
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   28         And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   29         Delete lines 13 - 14
   30  and insert:
   31         Section 2. Subsections (6) and (8) of section 316.614,
   32  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
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   35         And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete line 6
   37  and insert:
   38         Law as a secondary action; deleting a provision
   39         exempting passengers in a pickup truck from the
   40         requirement to use a safety belt; providing an
   41         exemption for certain vehicles from provisions of
   42         state law relating to the use of safety belts;
   43         providing an effective