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Florida Senate - 2025 CS for CS for SB 650 By the Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; the Committee on Transportation; and Senators Leek and Rouson 602-03445-25 2025650c2 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to hazardous walking conditions; 3 amending s. 1006.23, F.S.; revising the criteria that 4 determine a hazardous walking condition for public 5 school students; providing an effective date. 6 7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 8 9 Section 1.Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 10 1006.23, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 11 1006.23Hazardous walking conditions. 12 (2)HAZARDOUS WALKING CONDITIONS. 13 (a)Walkways parallel to the road. 14 1.It shall be considered a hazardous walking condition 15 with respect to any road along which students must walk in order 16 to walk to and from school if there is not an area at least 4 17 feet wide adjacent to the road, not including drainage ditches, 18 sluiceways, swales, or channels, having a surface upon which 19 students may walk without being required to walk on the road 20 surface or if the walkway is along a limited access facility as 21 defined in s. 334.03(12). In addition, whenever the road along 22 which students must walk is uncurbed and has a posted speed 23 limit of 50 miles per hour or greater, the area as described 24 above for students to walk upon shall be set off the road by no 25 less than 3 feet from the edge of the road. 26 2.Subparagraph 1. does not apply when the road along which 27 students must walk: 28 a.Is a road on which the volume of traffic is less than 29 180 vehicles per hour, per direction, during the time students 30 walk to and from school; or 31 b.Is located in a residential area and has a posted speed 32 limit of 30 miles per hour or less. 33 Section 2.This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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