Senate Bill sb1240c1

    Florida Senate - 2001                           CS for SB 1240

    By the Committee on Comprehensive Planning, Local and Military
    Affairs; and Senator Sebesta




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  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 sent to the Department

21  of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to be distributed in the

22  following manner:

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

24  Safety Operating Trust Fund.

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

26  and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Trust Fund.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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    Florida Senate - 2001                           CS for SB 1240
    316-1511-01




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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  4  Specifies that revenue from civil penalties collected for
    traffic violations by a local government, that exceeds 25
  5  percent of the annual revenue of the local government, shall
    be sent to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
  6  for distribution as provided in the bill.

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