Florida SB 654: Protective Injunctions

Bill Text

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Traffic Infraction Enforcement 
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Revising the periods during which a county or municipality may enforce school zone speed limits, and the violations for which such enforcement is authorized, through the use of a speed detection system; prohibiting the use of a traffic infraction detector for remote surveillance; requiring district school board authorization and a public hearing process before a school district may place or install, or contract with a vendor to install, operate, and maintain, school bus infraction detection systems; revising the periods for which a county or municipality may authorize a traffic infraction enforcement officer to issue certain uniform traffic citations, etc. 
Committee Substitute 2 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for CS for SB 654 

 By the Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and 
 Economic Development; the Committee on Transportation; and 
 Senator DiCeglie 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to traffic infraction enforcement; 
 3 amending s. 28.37, F.S.; deleting a provision 
 4 exempting certain penalties and fines from a 
 5 requirement that a certain percentage of all court 
 6 related fines collected by the clerk be deposited into 
 7 the fines and forfeiture fund for a specified purpose; 
 8 amending s. 316.003, F.S.; revising the definitions of 
 9 the terms “local hearing officer” and “speed detection 
 10 system”; amending s. 316.008, F.S.; revising the 
 11 periods during which a county or municipality may 
 12 enforce school zone speed limits, and the violations 
 13 for which such enforcement is authorized, through the 
 14 use of a speed detection system; prohibiting the 
 15 enforcement of a school zone speed limit through the 
 16 use of a speed detection system under certain 
 17 circumstances; revising the circumstances for which a 
 18 county or municipality may place or install, or 
 19 contract with a vendor to place or install, a speed 
 20 detection system within a roadway maintained as a 
 21 school zone; amending s. 316.0083, F.S.; deleting a 
 22 provision prohibiting the issuance of certain notices 
 23 of violation and traffic citations for failure to stop 
 24 before crossing over a stop line or other point at 
 25 which a stop is required under certain circumstances; 
 26 defining the term “careful and prudent manner”; 
 27 providing that certain counties and municipalities are 
 28 responsible for and must maintain certain data for a 
 29 specified period; requiring the Department of Highway 
 30 Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide to the Governor 
 31 and the Legislature recommended legislation, rather 
 32 than necessary legislation, with a certain report; 
 33 providing that certain hearings may be conducted 
 34 either virtually or in person; prohibiting the use of 
 35 a traffic infraction detector for remote surveillance; 
 36 providing construction; specifying the purposes for 
 37 which video and images recorded by a traffic 
 38 infraction detector may be used; requiring that a 
 39 traffic infraction detector use technology to obscure 
 40 certain personal identifying information; providing 
 41 that certain notices of violation and uniform traffic 
 42 citations may not be dismissed for a specified reason; 
 43 requiring the destruction of certain recorded videos 
 44 and images within a certain timeframe; requiring a 
 45 traffic infraction detector vendor annually to provide 
 46 certain written notice to the county or municipality; 
 47 providing that motor vehicle registration and owner 
 48 information obtained in a certain manner is not the 
 49 property of certain manufacturers and vendors; 
 50 repealing s. 316.00831, F.S., relating to distribution 
 51 of penalties collected under the Mark Wandall Traffic 
 52 Safety Program; amending s. 316.07456, F.S.; deleting 
 53 obsolete provisions; amending s. 316.0776, F.S.; 
 54 providing that only warnings may be issued for certain 
 55 violations during the duration of a certain public 
 56 awareness campaign; deleting an obsolete provision; 
 57 prohibiting a county or municipality from operating a 
 58 speed detection system under certain circumstances; 
 59 conforming provisions to changes made by the act; 
 60 amending s. 316.173, F.S.; requiring district school 
 61 board authorization and a public hearing process 
 62 before a school district may place or install, or 
 63 contract with a vendor to install, operate, and 
 64 maintain, school bus infraction detection systems; 
 65 providing requirements for such authorization and 
 66 public hearing process; requiring a school district 
 67 that establishes a school bus infraction detection 
 68 system program after a certain date to enter into a 
 69 certain interlocal agreement before beginning its 
 70 school bus infraction detection system program; 
 71 providing that law enforcement agencies may a