Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1716
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/27/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Transportation (Garcia) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (11) of section 318.21, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         318.21 Disposition of civil penalties by county courts.—All
    8  civil penalties received by a county court pursuant to the
    9  provisions of this chapter shall be distributed and paid monthly
   10  as follows:
   11         (11)(a) A county or municipality may, by majority vote of
   12  the governing board of the respective county or municipality,
   13  impose a surcharge on parking fines and violations of s.
   14  316.1895 for the sole purpose of funding school crossing guard
   15  programs; however, the governing body may set aside funds from
   16  this surcharge to pay for startup costs and recurring
   17  administrative costs related to printing new tickets or other
   18  means of implementing the program. The surcharge must be
   19  authorized by ordinance requiring public hearings.
   20         (b) The proceeds of this surcharge must be placed in a
   21  trust fund established by the governing body of the county or
   22  municipality called the School Crossing Guard Trust Fund. Funds
   23  collected from this surcharge must be distributed quarterly to
   24  fund the school crossing guard programs provided in subsection
   25  (3).
   26         (b)(c) If a county government is operating a school
   27  crossing guard program in the exercise of its municipal
   28  responsibilities, the county may, by majority vote of its
   29  governing board, impose a countywide surcharge on parking fines
   30  and violations of s. 316.1895 for the sole purpose of funding
   31  school crossing guard programs throughout the county; however,
   32  the governing body may set aside funds from this surcharge to
   33  pay for startup costs and recurring administrative costs related
   34  to printing new tickets or other means of implementing the
   35  program. The surcharge must be authorized by an ordinance
   36  requiring public hearings. This surcharge, established by the
   37  governing body of the county, must be placed in a trust fund
   38  called the School Crossing Guard Trust Fund. Funds collected
   39  from this surcharge must be distributed quarterly to
   40  jurisdictions to fund school crossing guard programs based on
   41  each jurisdiction’s percentage of the school crossing guards in
   42  the county school district.
   43         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
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   45  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   46         And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   48  and insert:
   49                        A bill to be entitled                      
   50         An act relating to the disposition of traffic
   51         infractions; amending s. 318.21, F.S.; authorizing
   52         local governments to impose surcharges on violations
   53         of s. 316.1895, F.S., relating to school speed zones;
   54         requiring that the surcharges be imposed pursuant to
   55         an ordinance requiring public hearings; providing an
   56         effective date.