Title: Traffic Safety on State Roads

Summary: Creates Chloe's Law; requires DOT to install roadside barriers to shield water bodies contiguous with state roads; requires DOT to conduct study related to motor vehicle accidents on state roads contiguous with water bodies; requires DOT to submit report to Legislature.

Full Text:
An act relating to traffic safety on state roads; creating s. 335.085, F.S.; providing a short title; requiring the Department of Transportation to install roadside barriers to shield water bodies contiguous with state roads at certain locations by a specified date under certain circumstances; providing applicability; requiring the department to conduct a study related to certain motor vehicle accidents on state roads contiguous with water bodies which occurred during a specified timeframe, subject to certain requirements; requiring the department to submit a report to the Legislature by a specified date, subject to certain requirements; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Section 335.085, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 335.085 Installation of roadside barriers along certain water bodies contiguous with state roads.-(1) This section shal lbe cited as "Chloe's Law." (2) By June 30, 2018, the department shall install roadside barriers to shield water bodies contiguous with state roads at locations where a death due to drowning resulted from a CS/HB 2016 motor vehicle accident in which a vehicle depa rted the adjacent state road during the period between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2016. This requirement does not apply to any location at which the department's chief engineer determines, based on engineering principles, that installation of a barrier woul dincrease the risk of injury to motorists traveling on the adjacent state road. Section 2. The Department of Transportation shall review all motor vehicle accidents that resulted in death due to drowning in a water body contiguous with a state road an dthat occurred during the period between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2016. The department shall use the reconciled crash data received from the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and shall submit a report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by January 3, 2017, providing recommendations regarding any necessary changes to state laws and department rules to enhance traffic safety. Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.