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Votes at a glance: transportation committee advances FDOT package and a set of license-plate, indemnity and agency bills

March 19, 2025 | Transportation , Standing Committees, Senate, Legislative, Florida


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Votes at a glance: transportation committee advances FDOT package and a set of license-plate, indemnity and agency bills
The Senate Committee on Transportation reported several bills favorably after committee hearings and amendments. Below is a concise summary of each bill that received a recorded committee outcome during this session, with the committee's action as recorded in the hearing transcript.

Votes at a glance
- CS for SB 462 (Department of Transportation package): Committee adopted a substitute amendment and then reported the bill favorably. The substitute amendment bundled funding (monthly distribution to the State Transportation Trust Fund), FDOT authority changes, workforce grants, and new utility-relocation and mediation provisions. Outcome: reported favorably (committee roll call announced).

- CS for SB 1024 (United States Naval Academy / specialty license plates amendment): Committee adopted an amendment adding a United States Military Academy plate alongside the Naval Academy plate and reported the bill favorably. Outcome: reported favorably.

- CS for SB 824 (Florida Highway Patrol specialty license plate): Committee adopted a technical amendment to plate standards and reported the bill favorably. Outcome: reported favorably.

- CS for SB 916 (Indemnification for commuter rail on the Florida East Coast Railway corridor): Sponsor said key stakeholders, including private freight railroads and Miami-Dade and Broward counties, support the bill modeled on existing SunRail indemnity language; committee adopted technical amendments and reported the bill favorably. Outcome: reported favorably.

- CS for SB 666 (Miami Northwestern Alumni Association specialty license plate): Committee adopted an amendment limiting administrative/marketing fees to statutory limits and reported the bill favorably. Outcome: reported favorably.

- CS for SB 1290 (DHSMV agency package): Committee adopted a technical amendment and reported the bill favorably. Outcome: reported favorably.

- SB 1292 (Public records exemption for DHSMV email addresses): Committee reported the bill favorably. Outcome: reported favorably.

- SB 1408 (Memorial highway designations for law enforcement officers): Committee reported the bill favorably. Outcome: reported favorably.

- CS for SB 1502 (Special mobile equipment: mobile crane blanket permits): Committee adopted an amendment clarifying local-travel curfew language, heard industry support, and reported the bill favorably. Outcome: reported favorably.

How to read these outcomes: "Reported favorably" is the committee's recorded action to move the bill from committee for further consideration by the Senate. For items that received amendments, the committee adopted the amendment(s) before issuing the favorable report. Several of these bills were noncontroversial technical or memorial items; others (notably CS for SB 462) drew extended testimony and follow-up direction to sponsors to continue stakeholder engagement.

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Report contents and vote details are drawn from the committee transcript and roll-call announcements; specific roll-call tallies and full text of committee amendments are available in the committee docket and staff materials.

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