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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to a K -12 school route optimization 2
pilot program; amending s. 1006.23, F.S.; creating a 3
K-12 school route optimization pilot program in 4
specified county school districts; providing program 5
requirements; providing reporting requirements; 6
requiring the Department of Education to assist school 7
districts with the implementation of the pilot 8
program; providing for the expiration of the program; 9
providing an effective date. 10
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 12
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Section 1. Subsection (7) is added to section 1006.23, 14
Florida Statutes, to read: 15
1006.23 Hazardous walking conditions. — 16
(7) ROUTE OPTIMIZATION PILOT PROG RAM.—There is created a 17
K-12 school route optimization pilot program in Duval, 18
Highlands, Hillsborough, Okeechobee, and Pasco County school 19
districts to model and evaluate the efficiencies and financial 20
impacts of different routing scenarios. 21
(a) Each school district must use its existing 22
transportation management system in conjunction with a student 23
transportation intelligence platform with artificial 24
intelligence, if available, to evaluate diverse routing 25
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scenarios and optimize student transportation ef ficiency while 26
maintaining student safety. The routing scenario evaluations 27
must include: 28
1. Expanding school transportation to students in grades 29
7-12, if such students are subject to current hazardous walking 30
conditions as provided in s. 1006.23 while en route to or from 31
school. 32
2. Expanding school transportation to students in 33
kindergarten through grade 12 whose homes are more than 1 mile 34
from the nearest appropriate school. 35
3. Reducing hazardous walking conditions that require 36
students to walk: 37
a. Along a roadway within 4 feet of lanes of traffic; 38
b. Along a roadway that is 30 miles per hour or greater; 39
c. In the dark; or 40
d. Along a path on which there is no sidewalk adjacent to 41
the road. 42
4. Dynamically changing routes if a student's rout e is 43
within 3 miles of the residence of a person registered as a 44
sexual predator under s. 775.21 or as a sexual offender under s. 45
943.0435. 46
(b) Each school district shall report the costs to 47
implement each of the requirements and the cost savings, if any, 48
associated with the use of artificial intelligence, including 49
reduction in fuel use, accidents, injuries, the number of buses 50
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required to provide transportation, the number or length of 51
routes, and any changes to existing routes based on the use of 52
artificial intelligence or routing scenarios. 53
(c) The department shall assist school districts with the 54
implementation of the pilot program and submit a summary report 55
of the evaluations submitted by each school district to the 56
Legislature by September 1, 2026. 57
(d) This subsection is repealed July 1, 2027. 58
Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025. 59