| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to interstate highway safety; creating the |
| 3 | interstate highway traffic safety priority program area in |
| 4 | the Department of Transportation Highway Safety Grant |
| 5 | Program; providing requirements for awarding grants; |
| 6 | amending s. 318.18, F.S.; providing for a surcharge for |
| 7 | disposition of traffic infractions; amending s. 318.21, |
| 8 | F.S.; providing for distribution of the surcharge; |
| 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. Interstate highway safety grants.--An |
| 14 | interstate highway traffic safety priority program area is added |
| 15 | to the Department of Transportation Highway Safety Grant |
| 16 | Program. Grants awarded under this priority program area shall |
| 17 | be available to any law enforcement agency with jurisdiction to |
| 18 | enforce traffic laws on an interstate highway. Grants under this |
| 19 | program area shall be awarded using the same procedures and |
| 20 | criteria used for other program areas, as applicable, except |
| 21 | that grants under this program area must be used for interstate |
| 22 | highway traffic safety to assist in addressing traffic safety |
| 23 | deficiencies, expand an ongoing activity, or develop a new |
| 24 | program related to interstate highway traffic safety. |
| 25 | Section 2. Subsection (14) is added to section 318.18, |
| 26 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 27 | 318.18 Amount of civil penalties.--The penalties required |
| 28 | for a noncriminal disposition pursuant to s. 318.14 are as |
| 29 | follows: |
| 30 | (14) In addition to any penalties imposed for noncriminal |
| 31 | traffic infractions pursuant to this chapter, a $20 surcharge |
| 32 | shall be paid for each infraction and shall be distributed as |
| 33 | provided under s. 318.21(13). |
| 34 | Section 3. Subsection (13) is added to section 318.21, |
| 35 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 36 | 318.21 Disposition of civil penalties by county |
| 37 | courts.--All civil penalties received by a county court pursuant |
| 38 | to the provisions of this chapter shall be distributed and paid |
| 39 | monthly as follows: |
| 40 | (13) The additional surcharge on traffic infractions |
| 41 | provided for under s. 318.18(14) shall be collected and remitted |
| 42 | by the clerk of the court to the Department of Revenue to be |
| 43 | distributed as follows: |
| 44 | (a) Ten dollars of each surcharge collected shall be |
| 45 | distributed to the Department of Transportation Highway Safety |
| 46 | Grant Program to enhance funds available for grant awards under |
| 47 | the interstate highway traffic safety priority program area. |
| 48 | (b) Ten dollars of each surcharge collected shall be |
| 49 | deposited into the General Revenue Fund to be used to improve |
| 50 | highway safety and enhance traffic law enforcement on interstate |
| 51 | highways. |
| 52 | Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005. |