Florida Senate Bill 568 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on February 7 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-02-07 - Original bill laid on Table, refer to combined CS/SB 590 (Died in Budget Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Appropriations)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

(THIS BILL COMBINED IN CS/S590 & S568) Providing for testing of certain unattended devices used to enforce traffic laws; specifying that, at a hearing of any charge of a noncriminal traffic infraction, the burden for proving guilt rests with the governmental entity bringing the charge; specifying that a person may not be compelled to be a witness against himself or herself in any hearing of a noncriminal traffic infraction; requiring that evidence obtained from such device must be authenticated in court by certain persons who must appear in person and offer direct testimony and account in writing for any evidence used; providing that a person receiving a notice of violation involving such device has the option of paying a fine or requesting a hearing without further issuance of a traffic citation and may not be charged a surcharge for requesting the hearing, etc.

Noncriminal Traffic Infractions

Sen. Greg Evers [R]

Sen. Stephen Wise [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-07		Original bill laid on Table, refer to combined CS/SB 590 (Died in Budget Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Appropriations)
2012-02-07		CS combines this bill with SB 590
2012-02-02		On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 02/07/12, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Office Building --Fav/CS Combined
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 49
2011-11-02		Referred to Transportation; Community Affairs; Budget -SJ 49
2011-10-18		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
318	14		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/568
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0568/BillText/Filed/HTML