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HB 301 2025 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. hb301-00 Page 33 of 80 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 the incident. 801 b.(I) If a department train, a freight rail operator 802 train, and any other train are involved in an incident, the 803 allocation of liability between the department and the freight 804 rail operator, regardless of whether the other train is treated 805 as a department train, shall remain one-half each as to third 806 parties outside the rail corridor who incur loss, injury, or 807 damage as a result of the incident; the involvement of any other 808 train shall not alter the sharing of equal responsibility as to 809 third parties outside the rail corridor who incur loss, injury, 810 or damage as a result of the incident; and, if the owner, 811 operator, or insurer of the other train makes any payment to 812 injured third parties outside the rail corridor who incur loss, 813 injury, or damage as a result of the incident, the allocation of 814 credit between the department and the freight rail operator as 815 to such payment shall not in any case reduce the freight rail 816 operator's third-party-sharing allocation of one-half under this 817 paragraph to less than one-third of the total third party 818 liability; or 819 (II) If a department train, a National Railroad Passenger 820 Corporation train, and any other train are involved in an 821 incident, the allocation of liability between the department and 822 National Railroad Passenger Corporation, regardless of whether 823 the other train is treated as a department train, shall remain 824 one-half each as to third parties outside the rail corridor who 825