Florida Senate - 2016                                     SB 522
       
       
        
       By Senator Soto
       
       
       
       
       
       14-00504-16                                            2016522__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to traffic safety on state roads;
    3         creating s. 335.085, F.S.; providing a short title;
    4         requiring the Department of Transportation to erect
    5         guardrails along certain water bodies that are
    6         contiguous with state roads; requiring the department
    7         to conduct a study related to certain motor vehicle
    8         accidents on state roads contiguous with water bodies
    9         which occurred during a specified timeframe; requiring
   10         the department to submit a report to the Legislature
   11         by a specified date, subject to certain requirements;
   12         providing an effective date.
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   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Section 335.085, Florida Statutes, is created to
   17  read:
   18         335.085 Erection of guardrails along certain water bodies
   19  contiguous with state roads.—
   20         (1) This section shall be cited as “Chloe’s Law.”
   21         (2) The department shall erect guardrails along all water
   22  bodies contiguous with state roads where motor vehicle accidents
   23  that resulted in death due to drowning occurred during the
   24  period between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2016.
   25         Section 2. The Department of Transportation shall review
   26  all motor vehicle accidents that resulted in death due to
   27  drowning in a water body contiguous with a state road which
   28  occurred during the period between July 1, 2006, and July 1,
   29  2016. The department shall submit a report to the President of
   30  the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by
   31  January 3, 2017, providing recommendations regarding any
   32  necessary changes to state laws and department rules to enhance
   33  traffic safety.
   34         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.