Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 522
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/21/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Transportation (Bullard) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 18 - 33
    4  and insert:
    5         335.085 Installation of roadside barriers along certain
    6  water bodies contiguous with state roads.—
    7         (1) This section shall be cited as “Chloe’s Law.”
    8         (2) By June 30, 2018, the department shall install roadside
    9  barriers to shield water bodies contiguous with state roads at
   10  locations where a death due to drowning resulted from a motor
   11  vehicle accident in which a vehicle departed the adjacent state
   12  road during the period between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2016.
   13  This requirement does not apply to any location at which the
   14  department’s chief engineer determines, based on engineering
   15  principles, that installation of a barrier would increase the
   16  risk of injury to motorists traveling on the adjacent state
   17  road.
   18         Section 2. The Department of Transportation shall review
   19  all motor vehicle accidents that resulted in death due to
   20  drowning in a water body contiguous with a state road and that
   21  occurred during the period between July 1, 2006, and July 1,
   22  2016. The department shall use the reconciled crash data
   23  received from the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
   24  Vehicles and shall submit a report to the President of the
   25  Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by
   26  January 3, 2017, providing recommendations regarding any
   27  necessary changes to state laws and department rules to enhance
   28  traffic safety.
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   30  And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Delete lines 4 - 9
   32  and insert:
   33         requiring the Department of Transportation to install
   34         roadside barriers to shield water bodies contiguous
   35         with state roads at certain locations by a specified
   36         date under certain circumstances; providing
   37         applicability; requiring the department to conduct a
   38         study related to certain motor vehicle accidents on
   39         state roads contiguous with water bodies which
   40         occurred during a specified timeframe, subject to
   41         certain requirements; requiring