Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0606

1E Providing for an aggressive initiative against impaired driving and chemical
dependency; expanding the authority of the court to order persons convicted of
driving while impaired (under the influence of alcohol or controlled substance)
or arrested for another DWI related offense to submit to the level of care
recommended in chemical use assessments; expanding chemical use assessment and
report requirements to defendants convicted of certain violent crimes and
modifying report content requirements; restricting court acceptance of
preconviction assessments; requiring chemical use assessments used by the
commissioner of public safety in decisions relating to reinstatement of drivers
licenses to meet certain standards; providing for the timing of the assessments;
authorizing the court to order an assessment based on the belief of the
existence of a chemical dependency problem; clarifying the definition of
American Indian under chemical dependency treatment provisions; reducing county
cost responsibility for chemical dependency services; modifying eligibility for
chemical dependency fund services and eliminating certain separate account
requirements; modifying certain allocation requirements; increasing the liquor
tax on distilled spirits, wine and fermented malt beverages (beer) and the
qualified malt beverage brewer tax credit; expanding the community oriented
policing grant program to impaired driving and domestic violence crimes and
requiring grants for local law enforcement agency liaison efforts with school
districts to be provided for areas with high crime rates and gang, drug or
prostitution activity; requiring the state to provide adequate funding for
counties to provide comprehensive needs specific chemical dependency treatment
programs and services to individuals within the county criminal justice system;
expanding the definition of violent crime for chemical dependency treatment
purposes to assault in the fourth and fifth degrees and to domestic assault and
imposing a chemical dependency assessment charge on persons convicted of violent
crimes; requiring the supreme court to include chemical use assessments in the
judicial education program; eliminating certain obsolete provisions and making
certain technical corrections; appropriating money to the commissioner of public
safety to increase the complement of state troopers assigned to enforcing DWI
laws and for grants under the COPS program to increase law enforcement targeting
impaired driving crimes, to local government units to conduct compliance checks
relating to underage on-sales and off-sales of intoxicating liquor and to
prevent domestic violence and to provide services to domestic violence victims,
to the commissioner of corrections for adult detention facility and program
grants for costs associated with incarcerating DWI offenders, for grants to
counties to establish and operate intensive probation programs for repeat DWI
offenders, for increased chemical dependency treatment programs at state prisons
and for appropriate chemical dependency treatment for offenders on supervised
release, to the commissioner of human services to reimburse counties for
detoxification and detoxification transportation services and to fully fund
chemical dependency fund services for eligible persons, to the chief justice of
the supreme court for increased judicial training and for grants to counties for
court services and correctional costs relating to chemical use assessments and
to the commissioner of health for health screenings for children and vulnerable
adults residing or found at methamphetamine manufacturing sites, for grants to
county boards for methamphetamine abuse prevention efforts and for education and
prevention initiatives to eliminate underage drinking; repealing certain
allocation provisions
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