Florida Senate - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1562
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and
Economic Development (Brandes) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (841202) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Delete lines 5 - 26
5 and insert:
6 Section 1. Present subsections (5) and (6) of section
7 338.166, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (6)
8 and (7), respectively, subsection (4) is amended, and a new
9 subsection (5) is added to that section, to read:
10 338.166 High-occupancy toll lanes or express lanes.—
11 (4) The department may implement variable rate tolls on
12 high-occupancy toll lanes or express lanes. The department may
13 require use of an electronic transponder interoperable with the
14 department’s electronic toll collection system for the use of
15 high-occupancy toll lanes or express lanes.
16 (5) Effective July 1, 2018, if a customer’s average travel
17 speed for a trip in an express lane falls below 40 miles per
18 hour, the customer must be charged the minimum express lane
19 toll. A customer’s express lane average travel speed is his or
20 her average travel speed from the customer’s entry point to the
21 customer’s exit point.
22 Section 2. Paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section
23 338.2216, Florida Statutes, is amended, and paragraph (e) is
24 added to that subsection, to read:
25 338.2216 Florida Turnpike Enterprise; powers and
26 authority.—
27 (1)
28 (d) The Florida Turnpike Enterprise shall pursue and
29 implement new technologies and processes in its operations and
30 collection of tolls and the collection of other amounts
31 associated with road and infrastructure usage. Such technologies
32 and processes must include, without limitation, video billing
33 and variable pricing. The Florida Turnpike Enterprise may
34 require use of an electronic transponder interoperable with the
35 department’s electronic toll collection system for the use of
36 express lanes on the turnpike system. Variable pricing may not
37 be implemented in express lanes when the level of service in the
38 express lane, determined in accordance with the criteria
39 established by the Transportation Research Board Highway
40 Capacity Manual (5th Edition, HCM 2010), as amended from time to
41 time, is equal to level of service A. Variable pricing in
42 express lanes when the level of service in the express lane is
43 level of service B may only be implemented by charging the
44 general toll lane toll amount plus 25 cents. Except as otherwise
45 provided in this subsection, pricing in express lanes when the
46 level of service is other than level of service A or service B
47 may vary in the manner established by the Florida Turnpike
48 Enterprise to manage congestion in the express lanes.
49 (e) Effective July 1, 2018, if a customer’s average travel
50 speed for a trip in an express lane falls below 40 miles per
51 hour, the customer must be charged the general toll lane toll
52 amount plus 25 cents. A customer’s express lane average travel
53 speed is his or her average travel speed from the customer’s
54 entry point to the customer’s exit point.
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56 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
57 And the title is amended as follows:
58 Delete lines 188 - 199
59 and insert:
60 amending s. 338.166, F.S.; authorizing the department
61 to require use of an electronic transponder
62 interoperable with the department’s electronic toll
63 collection system for the use of high-occupancy toll
64 lanes or express lanes; requiring, as of a specified
65 date, that a customer be charged the minimum express
66 lane toll if his or her average travel speed for a
67 trip in an express lane falls below a specified rate;
68 providing for measurement of a customer’s express lane
69 average travel speed; amending s. 338.2216, F.S.;
70 authorizing the Florida Turnpike Enterprise to require
71 use of an electronic transponder interoperable with
72 the department’s electronic toll collection system for
73 the use of express lanes on the turnpike system;
74 prohibiting variable pricing from being implemented in
75 express lanes when the level of service in the express
76 lane, determined in accordance with specified
77 criteria, is equal to level of service A; specifying
78 that variable pricing in express lanes when the level
79 of service in the express lane is level of service B
80 may only be implemented by charging the general toll
81 lane toll amount plus a specified amount; providing
82 that pricing in express lanes when the level of
83 service is other than level of service A or B may vary
84 in the manner established by the Florida Turnpike
85 Enterprise to manage congestion in the express lanes;
86 requiring, as of a specified date, that a customer be
87 charged a general toll lane toll amount plus a
88 specified amount if his or her average travel speed
89 for a trip in an express lane falls below a specified
90 rate; providing for measurement of a customer’s
91 express lane average travel speed; amending