Senate Bill sb1554e1

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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, funds collected must be used to fund local law

18  enforcement automation and must be distributed to the

19  municipality or special improvement district in which the

20  violation occurred or to the county if the violation occurred

21  within the unincorporated area of the county. If a

22  municipality within the county maintains an independent

23  800-megahertz radio communication program that can communicate

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

25  compatible, funds collected from violations that occur within

26  the territorial jurisdiction of that municipality must be used

27  to fund local law enforcement automation and must be

28  distributed to that municipality.

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

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