Senate Bill sb1350c1

    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 1350

    By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Bennett





    307-2185-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to disposition of civil

  3         penalties; amending s. 318.21, F.S.; requiring

  4         the use of civil penalties to fund local law

  5         enforcement automation or communications under

  6         certain circumstances; providing an effective

  7         date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (9) of section 318.21, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

13         318.21  Disposition of civil penalties by county

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

15  pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be

16  distributed and paid monthly as follows:

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

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

19  county's participation in an intergovernmental radio

20  communication program approved by the Department of Management

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

22  program, funds collected must be used to fund local law

23  enforcement automation and must be distributed to the

24  municipality or special improvement district in which the

25  violation occurred or to the county if the violation occurred

26  within the unincorporated area of the county. If a

27  municipality within the county maintains an independent 800

28  megahertz radio communication program that can communicate

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

30  compatible, funds collected from violations that occur within

31  the territorial jurisdiction of that municipality must be used

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    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 1350
    307-2185-03




 1  to fund local law enforcement automation or law enforcement

 2  communications and must be distributed to that municipality.

 3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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 5          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 6                         Senate Bill 1350

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 8  -    Deletes the requirement that certain funds generated from
         civil moving violations that occur on the Florida
 9       Turnpike or interstate highways be deposited into the
         Grants and Donations Trust Fund within FDLE.
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    -    Adds the requirement that, in addition to funding local
11       law enforcement automation, the funds designated for
         municipalities must be used for law enforcement
12       communications.

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