Senate Bill 0152

    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 152

    By Senators Sebesta and Sullivan





    20-153-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to civil penalties from traffic

  3         violations; requiring any county or

  4         municipality that receives more than a

  5         specified percentage of its total annual

  6         revenue for the prior year from civil penalties

  7         collected from traffic violations to deposit

  8         such excess revenue into the Highway Safety

  9         Operating Trust Fund and the Brain and Spinal

10         Cord Injury Rehabilitation Trust Fund;

11         providing an effective date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  Excess revenue from civil penalties imposed

16  for traffic violations.--If any municipality or county

17  receives more than 25 percent of its total actual annual

18  revenue for the prior fiscal year, excluding grant revenue,

19  from civil penalties collected for traffic violations, any

20  amount in excess of 25 percent shall be deposited each month

21  in the following manner:

22         (1)  Fifty percent shall be deposited into the Highway

23  Safety Operating Trust Fund.

24         (2)  Fifty percent shall be deposited into the Brain

25  and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Trust Fund.

26         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 152
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  2                          SENATE SUMMARY

  3    Requires a county or municipality that receives more than
      25 percent of its total annual revenue for the prior
  4    fiscal year, excluding grant revenue, from civil
      penalties imposed for traffic violations to deposit 50
  5    percent of such excess into the Highway Safety Operating
      Trust Fund and 50 percent into the Brain and Spinal Cord
  6    Injury Rehabilitation Trust Fund.

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