No. HB 1199
Filed under Transportation.
Transportation; Transfers Division of FHP & Office of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement from DHSMV to FDLE; requires executive director of DHSMV to be appointed by Governor & subject to confirmation by Senate.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Florida Highway Patrol and the Office of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement move out of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and into the Department of Law Enforcement, taking their staff, records, and property with them.
The remaining agency, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, keeps its Motorist Services division. Its executive director must now be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.
Every reference to "the department" in the Highway Patrol chapter of state law now means the Department of Law Enforcement, shifting authority over wrecker rotation rules, training fees, and rulemaking to that agency.
AIAll powers, duties, staff, records, property, and unspent funds of the Florida Highway Patrol and the Office of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement move from the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to the Department of Law Enforcement in a single statutory transfer.
AIThe Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles' executive director must be appointed by the Governor, with a majority vote of the Governor and Cabinet, and that appointment must then be confirmed by the Senate.
AIA new definition provides that wherever chapter 321, which governs the Florida Highway Patrol, refers to "the department," that term now means the Department of Law Enforcement rather than the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
AIAfter the Highway Patrol and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement move out, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles retains just the Division of Motorist Services as its remaining internal division.
AIUniforms and equipment for volunteer auxiliary Highway Patrol officers will be purchased from the Department of Law Enforcement Operating Trust Fund instead of the fund previously designated for that purpose.