Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 244
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/22/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Regulation (Bennett) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 103 - 138
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 6. Subsection (22) is added to section 318.18,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         318.18 Amount of penalties.—The penalties required for a
    8  noncriminal disposition pursuant to s. 318.14 or a criminal
    9  offense listed in s. 318.17 are as follows:
   10         (22) In addition to any penalties or points imposed under
   11  subsection s. 316.1923, a person convicted of aggressive
   12  careless driving shall also pay:
   13         (a) Upon a first violation, a fine of $100.
   14         (b) Upon a second or subsequent conviction, a fine of not
   15  less than $250 but not more than $500 and be subject to a
   16  mandatory hearing under s. 318.19.
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   18  The clerk of the court shall remit the moneys collected from the
   19  increased fine imposed by this subsection to the Department of
   20  Revenue for deposit into the Department of Health Administrative
   21  Trust Fund. Of the funds deposited into the Department of Health
   22  Administrative Trust Fund, $200,000 in the first year after this
   23  act takes effect, and $50,000 in the second and third years,
   24  shall be transferred into the Highway Safety Operating Trust
   25  Fund to offset the cost of providing educational materials
   26  related to this act. Funds deposited into the Department of
   27  Health Administrative Trust Fund under this subsection shall be
   28  allocated as follows:
   29         1. Twenty-five percent shall be allocated equally among all
   30  Level I, Level II, and pediatric trauma centers in recognition
   31  of readiness costs for maintaining trauma services.
   32         2. Twenty-five percent shall be allocated among Level I,
   33  Level II, and pediatric trauma centers based on each center’s
   34  relative volume of trauma cases as reported in the Department of
   35  Health Trauma Registry.
   36         3. Twenty-five percent shall be transferred to the
   37  Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund and used by the department
   38  for making matching grants to emergency medical services
   39  organizations as defined in s. 401.107.
   40         4. Twenty-five percent shall be transferred to the
   41  Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund and made available to
   42  rural emergency medical services as defined in s. 401.107, and
   43  shall be used solely to improve and expand prehospital emergency
   44  medical services in this state. Additionally, these moneys may
   45  be used for the improvement, expansion, or continuation of
   46  services provided.
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   49  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   50         And the title is amended as follows:
   51         Between lines 12 and 13
   52  insert:
   53         amending s. 318.18, F.S.;