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SF 3822 Senate Long Description

Providing for an aggressive initiative against impaired driving and chemical dependency; stating the intent of the legislature to address the problem of alcohol abuse; expanding the authority of the court to order persons convicted of driving while under the influence of alcohol or controlled substance to submit to the level of care recommended in chemical use assessments; requiring chemical use assessments of defendants convicted of certain violent crimes; requiring the assessment report to contain an evaluation of the criminal record of the convicted defendant; expanding eligibility for chemical dependency fund services on a sliding fee basis to persons without full chemical dependency health care coverage; increasing the tax on alcoholic beverages; expanding the community oriented policing grant program to the investigation and prevention of impaired driving crimes; requiring the court to impose a chemical dependency assessment charge on persons convicted of crimes requiring a chemical use assessment, requiring the county to collect and forward a certain amount of the fee to the commissioner of finance for deposit in the general fund and to keep the remainder; requiring the court to order chemical dependency treatment as a condition of probation for persons convicted of certain violent crimes; appropriating money to the commissioner of public safety to increase the number of state troopers assigned to enforcing DWI laws, for COPS program grants to increase law enforcement efforts targeting impaired driving crimes and for grants to counties to establish and operate intensive probation programs for repeat impaired driving offenders, requiring the commissioner to cooperate with the commissioners of corrections and human services in making the grants; appropriating money to the commissioner of corrections for adult detention facility and program grants and to the commissioner of human services for chemical dependency fund services (mk)