HF 3573

as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to public safety; transferring responsibility 
  1.3             for distributing certain funds for highway safety to 
  1.4             commissioner of public safety; amending Minnesota 
  1.5             Statutes 1999 Supplement, section 171.29, subdivision 
  1.6             2. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1999 Supplement, section 
  1.9   171.29, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.10     Subd. 2.  [FEES, ALLOCATION.] (a) A person whose driver's 
  1.11  license has been revoked as provided in subdivision 1, except 
  1.12  under section 169.121 or 169.123, shall pay a $30 fee before the 
  1.13  driver's license is reinstated. 
  1.14     (b) A person whose driver's license has been revoked as 
  1.15  provided in subdivision 1 under section 169.121 or 169.123 shall 
  1.16  pay a $250 fee plus a $40 surcharge before the driver's license 
  1.17  is reinstated.  The $250 fee is to be credited as follows: 
  1.18     (1) Twenty percent shall must be credited to the trunk 
  1.19  highway fund. 
  1.20     (2) Fifty-five percent shall must be credited to the 
  1.21  general fund. 
  1.22     (3) Eight percent shall must be credited to a separate 
  1.23  account to be known as the bureau of criminal apprehension 
  1.24  account.  Money in this account may be appropriated to the 
  1.25  commissioner of public safety and the appropriated amount shall 
  1.26  must be apportioned 80 percent for laboratory costs and 20 
  2.1   percent for carrying out the provisions of section 299C.065. 
  2.2      (4) Twelve percent shall must be credited to a separate 
  2.3   account to be known as the alcohol-impaired driver education 
  2.4   account.  Money in the account is appropriated as follows: 
  2.5      (i) The first $200,000 in a fiscal year is to the 
  2.6   commissioner of children, families, and learning for programs 
  2.7   for elementary and secondary school students.; and 
  2.8      (ii) The remainder credited in a fiscal year is 
  2.9   appropriated to the commissioner of transportation public safety 
  2.10  to be spent as grants to the Minnesota highway safety center at 
  2.11  St. Cloud State University for programs relating to alcohol and 
  2.12  highway safety education in elementary and secondary schools. 
  2.13     (5) Five percent shall must be credited to a separate 
  2.14  account to be known as the traumatic brain injury and spinal 
  2.15  cord injury account.  The money in the account is annually 
  2.16  appropriated to the commissioner of health to be used as 
  2.17  follows:  35 percent for a contract with a qualified 
  2.18  community-based organization to provide information, resources, 
  2.19  and support to assist persons with traumatic brain injury and 
  2.20  their families to access services, and 65 percent to maintain 
  2.21  the traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury registry 
  2.22  created in section 144.662.  For the purposes of this clause, a 
  2.23  "qualified community-based organization" is a private, 
  2.24  not-for-profit organization of consumers of traumatic brain 
  2.25  injury services and their family members.  The organization must 
  2.26  be registered with the United States Internal Revenue Service 
  2.27  under the provisions of section 501(c)(3) as a tax-exempt 
  2.28  organization and must have as its purposes:  
  2.29     (i) the promotion of public, family, survivor, and 
  2.30  professional awareness of the incidence and consequences of 
  2.31  traumatic brain injury; 
  2.32     (ii) the provision of a network of support for persons with 
  2.33  traumatic brain injury, their families, and friends; 
  2.34     (iii) the development and support of programs and services 
  2.35  to prevent traumatic brain injury; 
  2.36     (iv) the establishment of education programs for persons 
  3.1   with traumatic brain injury; and 
  3.2      (v) the empowerment of persons with traumatic brain injury 
  3.3   through participation in its governance. 
  3.4      No patient's name, identifying information or identifiable 
  3.5   medical data will be disclosed to the organization without the 
  3.6   informed voluntary written consent of the patient or patient's 
  3.7   guardian, or if the patient is a minor, of the parent or 
  3.8   guardian of the patient. 
  3.9      (c) The $40 surcharge shall must be credited to a separate 
  3.10  account to be known as the remote electronic alcohol monitoring 
  3.11  program account.  The commissioner shall transfer the balance of 
  3.12  this account to the commissioner of finance on a monthly basis 
  3.13  for deposit in the general fund. 
  3.14     (d) When these fees are collected by a county-operated 
  3.15  office of deputy registrar, a handling charge is imposed in the 
  3.16  amount specified under section 168.33, subdivision 7.  The 
  3.17  handling charge must be deposited in the treasury of the place 
  3.18  for which the deputy registrar was appointed and the 
  3.19  reinstatement fees and surcharge must be deposited in an 
  3.20  approved state depository as directed under section 168.33, 
  3.21  subdivision 2.