HF 1254

as introduced - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to drivers' licenses; changing allocation of 
  1.3             12 percent of a driver's license reinstatement fee; 
  1.4             amending Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 171.29, 
  1.5             subdivision 2. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 171.29, 
  1.8   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subd. 2.  [FEES, ALLOCATION.] (a) A person whose driver's 
  1.10  license has been revoked as provided in subdivision 1, except 
  1.11  under section 169A.52 or 169A.54, shall pay a $30 fee before the 
  1.12  driver's license is reinstated. 
  1.13     (b) A person whose driver's license has been revoked as 
  1.14  provided in subdivision 1 under section 169A.52 or 169A.54 shall 
  1.15  pay a $250 fee plus a $40 surcharge before the driver's license 
  1.16  is reinstated.  The $250 fee is to be credited as follows: 
  1.17     (1) Twenty percent must be credited to the trunk highway 
  1.18  fund. 
  1.19     (2) Fifty-five percent must be credited to the general fund.
  1.20     (3) Eight percent must be credited to a separate account to 
  1.21  be known as the bureau of criminal apprehension account.  Money 
  1.22  in this account may be appropriated to the commissioner of 
  1.23  public safety and the appropriated amount must be apportioned 80 
  1.24  percent for laboratory costs and 20 percent for carrying out the 
  1.25  provisions of section 299C.065. 
  2.1      (4) Twelve percent must be credited to a separate account 
  2.2   to be known as the alcohol-impaired driver education account.  
  2.3   Money in the account is appropriated as follows: 
  2.4      (i) the first $200,000 in a fiscal year to the commissioner 
  2.5   of children, families, and learning for programs for elementary 
  2.6   and secondary school students; and 
  2.7      (ii) the remainder credited in a fiscal year to the 
  2.8   commissioner of transportation to be spent as grants to the 
  2.9   Minnesota highway safety center at St. Cloud State University to 
  2.10  the Minnesota safety council for programs relating to alcohol 
  2.11  and highway safety education in elementary and secondary schools.
  2.12     (5) Five percent must be credited to a separate account to 
  2.13  be known as the traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury 
  2.14  account.  The money in the account is annually appropriated to 
  2.15  the commissioner of health to be used as follows:  35 percent 
  2.16  for a contract with a qualified community-based organization to 
  2.17  provide information, resources, and support to assist persons 
  2.18  with traumatic brain injury and their families to access 
  2.19  services, and 65 percent to maintain the traumatic brain injury 
  2.20  and spinal cord injury registry created in section 144.662.  For 
  2.21  the purposes of this clause, a "qualified community-based 
  2.22  organization" is a private, not-for-profit organization of 
  2.23  consumers of traumatic brain injury services and their family 
  2.24  members.  The organization must be registered with the United 
  2.25  States Internal Revenue Service under section 501(c)(3) as a 
  2.26  tax-exempt organization and must have as its purposes:  
  2.27     (i) the promotion of public, family, survivor, and 
  2.28  professional awareness of the incidence and consequences of 
  2.29  traumatic brain injury; 
  2.30     (ii) the provision of a network of support for persons with 
  2.31  traumatic brain injury, their families, and friends; 
  2.32     (iii) the development and support of programs and services 
  2.33  to prevent traumatic brain injury; 
  2.34     (iv) the establishment of education programs for persons 
  2.35  with traumatic brain injury; and 
  2.36     (v) the empowerment of persons with traumatic brain injury 
  3.1   through participation in its governance. 
  3.2   No patient's name, identifying information or identifiable 
  3.3   medical data will be disclosed to the organization without the 
  3.4   informed voluntary written consent of the patient or patient's 
  3.5   guardian, or if the patient is a minor, of the parent or 
  3.6   guardian of the patient. 
  3.7      (c) The $40 surcharge must be credited to a separate 
  3.8   account to be known as the remote electronic alcohol monitoring 
  3.9   program account.  The commissioner shall transfer the balance of 
  3.10  this account to the commissioner of finance on a monthly basis 
  3.11  for deposit in the general fund. 
  3.12     (d) When these fees are collected by a licensing agent, 
  3.13  appointed under section 171.061, a handling charge is imposed in 
  3.14  the amount specified under section 171.061, subdivision 4.  The 
  3.15  reinstatement fees and surcharge must be deposited in an 
  3.16  approved state depository as directed under section 171.061, 
  3.17  subdivision 4. 
  3.18     [EFFECTIVE DATE.] This section is effective July 1, 2001.