F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S
HB 421 2024
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to removal of roadside memorials;
3 creating s. 337.116, F.S.; providing a short title;
4 requiring a state agency, county, municipality,
5 private entity, or person to make best efforts to
6 provide advance notice to certain entities or persons
7 before altering, dismantling, destroying, or removing
8 a traffic-related roadside memorial; providing an
9 effective date.
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11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13 Section 1. Section 337.116, Florida Statutes, is created
14 to read:
15 337.116 Removal of roadside memorials.—
16 (1) This section may be cited as the "Dori Slosberg,
17 Carolina Gil Gallego, Margo Scher, Crystal Cordes, and Ryan
18 Rashidian Memorial Notification Act."
19 (2) Before altering, dismantling, destroying, or removing
20 a traffic-related roadside memorial, a state agency, county,
21 municipality, private entity, or person must make best efforts
22 to provide advance notice to the entity or person who installed
23 such roadside memorial, and any person whose deceased loved one
24 is commemorated by such roadside memorial, that such roadside
25 memorial will be altered, dismantled, destroyed, or removed.
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HB 421 2024
26 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.
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