No. CS/CS/HB 1233
Filed under Transportation.
Transportation; Revises membership of Florida Transportation Research Institute; requires Florida Greenways & Trails Council to meet within specified timeframe to update specified recommendations; requires seaports to include critical infrastructure resource strategies in specified plan; revises provisions relating to personal delivery devices & mobile carriers; increases certain speed limits; modifies terms for elections to attend basic driver improvement course; authorizes certain rental trucks to elect permanent registration period; requires motor vehicle registration renewal to be recorded electronically; removes provisions relating to validation stickers; revises provisions relating to drone delivery services & drone ports; revises powers & duties of DOT with respect to state airport systems; provides requirements for commercial service airports relating to critical infrastructure resources; revises provisions relating to certain communications facilities; revises construction materials that may be used for certain multiuse trails or shared-use paths; provides that certain provisions relating to paratransit services apply only to persons with disabilities; revises provisions authorizing certain sign owners to increase sign height under certain circumstances; provides penalties for shooting into or throwing deadly missiles into occupied or unoccupied autonomous vehicle; provides penalties for defacing, injuring, or damaging autonomous vehicle.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDSpeed limits jump on major roads: 80 miles per hour on limited access highways, up from 70, and 70 on divided highways with four or more lanes outside cities, up from 65.
Registration renewals no longer come with a physical validation sticker for the license plate. The renewal is instead recorded electronically, and rental trucks gain the option of permanent registration.
Personal delivery devices, the sidewalk robots that carry packages, can now also run in bike lanes, paths, and road shoulders at up to 20 miles per hour. Local governments can no longer charge them fees or restrict their advertising.
Counties and cities lose most power to cap, charge deposits for, or slow-walk permits for communications line work in public road rights-of-way, a change that mainly affects telecom and utility providers.
AICounties and municipalities may no longer limit the number of permits issued to a single communications or utility provider, require a cash deposit or escrow before issuing a right-of-way permit, or make a provider survey facilities other than its own as a condition of a permit.
AIState policy now holds that diversity, environmental-justice, and climate-related factors are not considerations in taxpayer-funded transportation studies. When federal law requires considering them anyway, the agency must publicly disclose that fact, the funding involved, and the added cost.
AIRegistration renewals stop coming with a paper validation sticker for the plate. Instead, the renewal is recorded electronically each time the registration, extended registration, or permanent registration period is paid for.
AIThe cap on limited access highways rises from 70 to 80 miles per hour. Divided highways with four or more lanes outside urban areas rise from 65 to 70, and the Department of Transportation's own ceiling for other roads rises from 60 to 70.
AIPersonal delivery devices, previously confined to sidewalks and crosswalks, may now also run in bicycle lanes, bicycle paths, and street shoulders, at up to 20 miles per hour there versus 10 on sidewalks and crosswalks.
AIWillfully defacing, injuring, or damaging an autonomous vehicle by more than $200 becomes a third-degree felony. Shooting at or throwing a deadly missile into an occupied or unoccupied autonomous vehicle joins the existing second-degree felony for shooting into buildings and buses.
AICounties and cities may no longer enact or enforce an operating fee on personal delivery devices unless a future general law expressly authorizes one, nor may they restrict commercial advertising displayed on the devices.
AISeaport strategic plans and commercial-airport programs must now include long-term contracts and rights of first refusal for electricity, fuel, and water. A new Department of Transportation program also coordinates seaport projects supporting the maritime industrial base with federal commerce and defense agencies.