Florida Senate - 2012                             CS for SB 1716
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Garcia
       
       
       
       
       596-02437-12                                          20121716c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the disposition of traffic
    3         infractions; amending s. 318.21, F.S.; authorizing
    4         local governments to impose surcharges on violations
    5         of s. 316.1895, F.S., relating to school speed zones;
    6         requiring that the surcharges be imposed pursuant to
    7         an ordinance requiring public hearings; providing an
    8         effective date.
    9  
   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   11  
   12         Section 1. Subsection (11) of section 318.21, Florida
   13  Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         318.21 Disposition of civil penalties by county courts.—All
   15  civil penalties received by a county court pursuant to the
   16  provisions of this chapter shall be distributed and paid monthly
   17  as follows:
   18         (11)(a) A county or municipality may, by majority vote of
   19  the governing board of the respective county or municipality,
   20  impose a surcharge on parking fines and violations of s.
   21  316.1895 for the sole purpose of funding school crossing guard
   22  programs; however, the governing body may set aside funds from
   23  this surcharge to pay for startup costs and recurring
   24  administrative costs related to printing new tickets or other
   25  means of implementing the program. The surcharge must be
   26  authorized by ordinance requiring public hearings.
   27         (b) The proceeds of this surcharge must be placed in a
   28  trust fund established by the governing body of the county or
   29  municipality called the School Crossing Guard Trust Fund. Funds
   30  collected from this surcharge must be distributed quarterly to
   31  fund the school crossing guard programs provided in subsection
   32  (3).
   33         (b)(c) If a county government is operating a school
   34  crossing guard program in the exercise of its municipal
   35  responsibilities, the county may, by majority vote of its
   36  governing board, impose a countywide surcharge on parking fines
   37  and violations of s. 316.1895 for the sole purpose of funding
   38  school crossing guard programs throughout the county; however,
   39  the governing body may set aside funds from this surcharge to
   40  pay for startup costs and recurring administrative costs related
   41  to printing new tickets or other means of implementing the
   42  program. The surcharge must be authorized by an ordinance
   43  requiring public hearings. This surcharge, established by the
   44  governing body of the county, must be placed in a trust fund
   45  called the School Crossing Guard Trust Fund. Funds collected
   46  from this surcharge must be distributed quarterly to
   47  jurisdictions to fund school crossing guard programs based on
   48  each jurisdiction’s percentage of the school crossing guards in
   49  the county school district.
   50         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.