Senate Bill sb2030

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2030

    By Senator Wise





    5-1629-06                                               See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to noncriminal traffic

  3         infractions; amending s. 318.14, F.S.;

  4         providing that persons required to appear

  5         before a designated official for infractions

  6         that resulted in a crash that caused serious

  7         bodily injury of another may receive a

  8         specified fine or license suspension, or both,

  9         rather than requiring that such persons receive

10         both; providing an effective date.

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

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14         Section 1.  Subsection (5) of section 318.14, Florida

15  Statutes, is amended to read:

16         318.14  Noncriminal traffic infractions; exception;

17  procedures.--

18         (5)  Any person electing to appear before the

19  designated official or who is required so to appear shall be

20  deemed to have waived his or her right to the civil penalty

21  provisions of s. 318.18. The official, after a hearing, shall

22  make a determination as to whether an infraction has been

23  committed. If the commission of an infraction has been proven,

24  the official may impose a civil penalty not to exceed $500,

25  except that in cases involving unlawful speed in a school zone

26  or involving unlawful speed in a construction zone, the civil

27  penalty may not exceed $1,000; or require attendance at a

28  driver improvement school, or both. If the person is required

29  to appear before the designated official pursuant to s.

30  318.19(1) and is found to have committed the infraction, the

31  designated official shall impose a civil penalty of $1,000 in

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2030
    5-1629-06                                               See HB




 1  addition to any other penalties and the person's driver's

 2  license shall be suspended for 6 months. If the person is

 3  required to appear before the designated official pursuant to

 4  s. 318.19(2) and is found to have committed the infraction,

 5  the designated official shall impose a civil penalty of $500

 6  in addition to any other penalties or and the person's

 7  driver's license shall be suspended for 3 months , or both. If

 8  the official determines that no infraction has been committed,

 9  no costs or penalties shall be imposed and any costs or

10  penalties that have been paid shall be returned. Moneys

11  received from the mandatory civil penalties imposed pursuant

12  to this subsection upon persons required to appear before a

13  designated official pursuant to s. 318.19(1) or (2) shall be

14  remitted to the Department of Revenue and deposited into the

15  Department of Health Administrative Trust Fund to provide

16  financial support to certified trauma centers to assure the

17  availability and accessibility of trauma services throughout

18  the state. Funds deposited into the Administrative Trust Fund

19  under this section shall be allocated as follows:

20         (a)  Fifty percent shall be allocated equally among all

21  Level I, Level II, and pediatric trauma centers in recognition

22  of readiness costs for maintaining trauma services.

23         (b)  Fifty percent shall be allocated among Level I,

24  Level II, and pediatric trauma centers based on each center's

25  relative volume of trauma cases as reported in the Department

26  of Health Trauma Registry.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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