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    By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Silver





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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to transportation; amending s.

  3         318.1451, F.S.; authorizing governmental

  4         entities and courts to prepare information

  5         concerning driver improvements schools;

  6         amending s. 318.21, F.S.; authorizing use of

  7         civil penalties to fund local law enforcement

  8         automation under certain circumstances;

  9         providing an 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.  Subsection (5) of section 318.1451, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended to read:

15         318.1451  Driver improvement schools.--

16         (5)(a)  No governmental entity or court shall provide,

17  issue, or maintain any information or orders regarding driver

18  improvement schools or course providers, with the exception of

19  directing inquiries or requests to the local telephone

20  directory heading of driving instruction or the traffic school

21  reference guide. However, The department is authorized to

22  maintain the information and records necessary to administer

23  its duties and responsibilities for driver improvement

24  courses. Where such information is a public record as defined

25  in chapter 119, it shall be made available to the public upon

26  request pursuant to s. 119.07(1).

27         (b)  The department or court may shall prepare for any

28  governmental entity to distribute a traffic school reference

29  guide that lists which shall list the benefits of attending a

30  driver improvement school and contains the names of the fully

31  approved course providers and a single telephone number for

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  1  each such provider, as furnished by the provider., but under

  2  no circumstance may any list of course providers or schools be

  3  included, and shall refer further inquiries to the telephone

  4  directory under driving instruction.

  5         Section 2.  Subsection (9) of section 318.21, Florida

  6  Statutes, as amended by section 11 of chapter 2001-122, Laws

  7  of Florida, is amended to read:

  8         318.21  Disposition of civil penalties by county

  9  courts.--All civil penalties received by a county court

10  pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be

11  distributed and paid monthly as follows:

12         (9)  Twelve dollars and fifty cents from each moving

13  traffic violation must be used by the county to fund that

14  county's participation in an intergovernmental radio

15  communication program approved by the Department of Management

16  Services. If the county is not participating in such a

17  program, or if a municipality maintains an independent 800

18  megahertz radio communication program which can communicate

19  with the county's system, or if the mutual-aid channels are

20  compatible, funds collected within the territorial

21  jurisdiction of the municipality may must be used to fund

22  local law enforcement automation and must be distributed to

23  the municipality or special improvement district in which the

24  violation occurred or to the county if the violation occurred

25  within the unincorporated area of the county. If a

26  municipality within the county maintains a radio communication

27  program independent of the county, funds collected from

28  violations that occurred within the territorial jurisdiction

29  of that municipality must be used to fund local law

30  enforcement automation and must be distributed to that

31  municipality.

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  1         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.

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  3          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  4                         Senate Bill 1554

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  6  -     Changes s. 318.1451(5), F.S., to remove the current
          restriction against government entities providing a list
  7        of driver improvement schools or course providers.

  8  -     Provides for the distribution of a portion of civil
          penalties to municipalities that maintain independent
  9        but compatible radio communication systems with the
          county. If the radio system is compatible the portion of
10        funds collected from traffic violations committed within
          the municipality may be distributed to the municipality.
11        If the county and municipal radio systems are completely
          independent and not compatible the municipality must
12        receive the funds.

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