Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF1617

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
treatment services; expanding chemical use assessment and report requirements to
defendants convicted of certain violent crimes and modifying report content
requirements; requiring chemical use assessments used by 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; requiring commissioner to establish a process to distribute
grants funds to counties providing care coordination to persons receiving
chemical use assessments; clarifying the definition of American Indian under
chemical dependency treatment provisions; modifying the chemical dependency
treatment allocation; modifying eligibility for chemical dependency fund
services; removing a restriction for eligibility on amount of contribution on
the sliding fee scale; increasing the liquor tax on distilled spirits, wine and
fermented malt beverages (beer) and the qualified malt beverage brewer tax
credit; 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; requiring commissioner of public safety to establish a
repeat DUI offender pilot program as an alternative to incarceration;
appropriating money to commissioner of public safety for local units of
government grants for license holder compliance checks, domestic violence
prevention grants and the repeat DUI offender pilot program, to commissioner of
human services for chemical dependency assistance treatment funding and care
coordination, to board of behavioral health and therapy, and to supreme court
chief justice; repealing statutory provisions relating to chemical dependency
allocation process and Indian reservation allocation of chemical dependency
fund
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