Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1570
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/23/2017           .                                
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       The Committee on Transportation (Garcia) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 30 - 47
    4  and insert:
    5  entry and exit to and from its express lanes while meeting
    6  operational performance goals. If the maintained average speed
    7  of vehicles traveling in an express lane is equivalent to or
    8  less than that of vehicles traveling in adjacent general-use
    9  lanes, no toll shall be charged. The average speed of vehicles
   10  shall be measured at the middle point between an entry point and
   11  an exit point.
   12         Section 1. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (1) of
   13  section 338.2216, Florida Statutes, to read:
   14         338.2216 Florida Turnpike Enterprise; powers and
   15  authority.—
   16         (1)
   17         (e) The Florida Turnpike Enterprise shall ensure reasonable
   18  and practicably feasible entry and exit points on its express
   19  lanes and shall undertake efforts to expand reasonable and
   20  practicably feasible entry and exit points to increase
   21  accessibility and ease of entry and exit to and from its express
   22  lanes while meeting operational performance goals. If the
   23  maintained average speed of vehicles traveling in an express
   24  lane is equivalent to or less than that of vehicles traveling in
   25  adjacent general toll lanes, the toll charged for the express
   26  lane must be the same as the toll for the general toll lanes.
   27  The average speed of vehicles shall be measured at the middle
   28  point between an entry point and an exit point.
   29  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   30  And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Delete lines 9 - 16
   32  and insert:
   33         under certain circumstances; providing for measurement
   34         of the average speed of vehicles; amending s.
   35         338.2216, F.S.; requiring the Florida Turnpike
   36         Enterprise to ensure reasonable and practicably
   37         feasible entry and exit points on its express lanes
   38         and to undertake efforts to expand reasonable and
   39         practicably feasible entry and exit points for certain
   40         purposes; requiring a toll charged to be the same for
   41         the use of express and general toll lanes under
   42         certain circumstances; providing for measurement of
   43         the average speed of vehicles;