Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has squashed a plan that would’ve wrangled all slower drivers into the right lane.

Two bills – S732 and HB157 – would have restricted all vehicles from using the left lane, except when passing, avoiding accidents and other similar extenuating circumstances. However, in the vetoed bill, S732, violators could have received a fine of up to $60 and four points added to their licenses, Land Line previously reported.

Citing concerns that the bill – dubbed the “road rage reduction” act – was based on unsupported evidence, Bush said in a veto message that he would not approve a law that reprimanded drivers obeying the posted speed limits.

“There’s no evidence to suggest that it’s a real problem, number one,” Bush told The Associated Press. “Number two, I couldn’t get over the fact that this bill would punish law-abiding citizens that were going below the speed limit within the law. They would be penalized at the expense of someone who was going above the speed limit.”

This marks the first time this year Bush has used his veto power. In the state legislature, however, the measure received strong support, with a 28-10 approval in the Senate and a 113-4 vote in the House, according to the Tallahassee Ledger.

“You talk to practically anybody out there; the bill is not to encourage speeding,” Sen. Mike Bennet, R-Bradenton, the bill’s sponsor, told the Ledger. “It’s to prevent people from dying.”

Bennet told the St. Petersburg Times that he does not think lawmakers will try to override the veto; however, he does expect it to come back during next year’s legislative session. To provide better evidence for his cause, Bennet said he would push for a $500,000 grant from the Florida DOT for a study on the hazards of slow left lane drivers.

The measure is not the only rulemaking in Florida designed to keep slower drivers out of the fast lane. Officials with Florida’s Turnpike adopted a regulation that prohibits commercial vehicles – not passenger vehicles – in the left lane on a 27-mile stretch of road in Miami-Dade County, according to a turnpike press release. Violators can be fined up to $115.50 and have three points added to their licenses.

The new Turnpike regulations went into effect on May 2.