Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1122
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/19/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Transportation (Evers) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 488 and 489
    4  insert:
    5         Section 7. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
    6  316.302, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         316.302 Commercial motor vehicles; safety regulations;
    8  transporters and shippers of hazardous materials; enforcement.—
    9         (2)
   10         (c) Except as provided in 49 C.F.R. s. 395.1, a person who
   11  operates a commercial motor vehicle solely in intrastate
   12  commerce not transporting any hazardous material in amounts that
   13  require placarding pursuant to 49 C.F.R. part 172 may not drive
   14  after having been on duty more than 70 hours in any period of 7
   15  consecutive days or more than 80 hours in any period of 8
   16  consecutive days if the motor carrier operates every day of the
   17  week. Thirty-four consecutive hours off duty shall constitute
   18  the end of any such period of 7 or 8 consecutive days. This
   19  weekly limit does not apply to a person who operates a
   20  commercial motor vehicle solely within this state while
   21  transporting, during harvest periods, any unprocessed
   22  agricultural products or unprocessed food or fiber that is
   23  subject to seasonal harvesting from place of harvest to the
   24  first place of processing or storage or from place of harvest
   25  directly to market or while transporting livestock, livestock
   26  feed, or farm supplies directly related to growing or harvesting
   27  agricultural products. Upon request of the Department of
   28  Transportation, motor carriers shall furnish time records or
   29  other written verification to that department so that the
   30  Department of Transportation can determine compliance with this
   31  subsection. These time records must be furnished to the
   32  Department of Transportation within 2 days after receipt of that
   33  department’s request. Falsification of such information is
   34  subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $100. The provisions of
   35  this paragraph do not apply to operators of farm labor vehicles
   36  operated during a state of emergency declared by the Governor or
   37  operated pursuant to s. 570.07(21), and do not apply to drivers
   38  of utility service vehicles as defined in 49 C.F.R. s. 395.2.
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   40  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   41         And the title is amended as follows:
   42         Delete line 38
   43  and insert:
   44         intent in doing so; amending s. 316.302, F.S.;
   45         providing that certain restrictions on the number of
   46         consecutive hours that a commercial motor vehicle may
   47         operate do not apply to a farm labor vehicle operated
   48         during a state of emergency or during an emergency
   49         pertaining to agriculture; amending s. 316.3026, F.S.;