HF 395

as introduced - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to drivers' licenses; increasing and 
  1.3             reallocating fees charged to reinstate revoked 
  1.4             drivers' licenses; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, 
  1.5             section 171.29, subdivision 2. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 171.29, 
  1.8   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subd. 2.  [REINSTATEMENT FEES AND SURCHARGES, ALLOCATION.] 
  1.10  (a) A person whose driver's license has been revoked as provided 
  1.11  in subdivision 1, except under section 169A.52, 169A.54, or 
  1.12  609.21, shall pay a $30 fee before the driver's license is 
  1.13  reinstated. 
  1.14     (b) A person whose driver's license has been revoked as 
  1.15  provided in subdivision 1 under section 169A.52, 169A.54, or 
  1.16  609.21, shall pay a $250 $300 fee plus a $40 surcharge before 
  1.17  the driver's license is reinstated.  Beginning July 1, 2002, the 
  1.18  surcharge is $145.  Beginning July 1, 2003, the surcharge is 
  1.19  $380.  The $250 $300 fee is to be credited as follows: 
  1.20     (1) Twenty Seventeen percent must be credited to the trunk 
  1.21  highway fund. 
  1.22     (2) Sixty-seven Fifty-six percent must be credited to the 
  1.23  general fund. 
  1.24     (3) Eight Seven percent must be credited to a separate 
  1.25  account to be known as the bureau of criminal apprehension 
  2.1   account.  Money in this account may be appropriated to the 
  2.2   commissioner of public safety and the appropriated amount must 
  2.3   be apportioned 80 percent for laboratory costs and 20 percent 
  2.4   for carrying out the provisions of section 299C.065. 
  2.5      (4) Five Twenty percent must be credited to a separate 
  2.6   account to be known as the traumatic brain injury and spinal 
  2.7   cord injury account.  The money in the account is annually 
  2.8   appropriated to the commissioner of health to be used as 
  2.9   follows:  35 86 percent for a contract with a qualified 
  2.10  community-based organization to provide information, resources, 
  2.11  and support to assist persons with traumatic brain injury and 
  2.12  their families to access services, and 65 14 percent to maintain 
  2.13  the traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury registry 
  2.14  created in section 144.662.  For the purposes of this clause, a 
  2.15  "qualified community-based organization" is a private, 
  2.16  not-for-profit organization of consumers of traumatic brain 
  2.17  injury services and their family members.  The organization must 
  2.18  be registered with the United States Internal Revenue Service 
  2.19  under section 501(c)(3) as a tax-exempt organization and must 
  2.20  have as its purposes:  
  2.21     (i) the promotion of public, family, survivor, and 
  2.22  professional awareness of the incidence and consequences of 
  2.23  traumatic brain injury; 
  2.24     (ii) the provision of a network of support for persons with 
  2.25  traumatic brain injury, their families, and friends; 
  2.26     (iii) the development and support of programs and services 
  2.27  to prevent traumatic brain injury; 
  2.28     (iv) the establishment of education programs for persons 
  2.29  with traumatic brain injury; and 
  2.30     (v) the empowerment of persons with traumatic brain injury 
  2.31  through participation in its governance. 
  2.32  No patient's name, identifying information, or identifiable 
  2.33  medical data will be disclosed to the organization without the 
  2.34  informed voluntary written consent of the patient or patient's 
  2.35  guardian or, if the patient is a minor, of the parent or 
  2.36  guardian of the patient. 
  3.1      (c) The surcharge must be credited to a separate account to 
  3.2   be known as the remote electronic alcohol-monitoring program 
  3.3   account.  The commissioner shall transfer the balance of this 
  3.4   account to the commissioner of finance on a monthly basis for 
  3.5   deposit in the general fund. 
  3.6      (d) When these fees are collected by a licensing agent, 
  3.7   appointed under section 171.061, a handling charge is imposed in 
  3.8   the amount specified under section 171.061, subdivision 4.  The 
  3.9   reinstatement fees and surcharge must be deposited in an 
  3.10  approved state depository as directed under section 171.061, 
  3.11  subdivision 4.