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SF 1094 Senate Long Description

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 the level of+ care recommended in chemical use assessments; expanding chemical use +assessment and report requirements to defendants convicted of certain violent crimes+ and expanding report content requirements; prescribing the method of +assessment, defining and requiring collateral contacts; restricting court +acceptance of preconviction assessments; requiring chemical use assessments used by+ the 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; clarifying the +definitions of American Indian and chemical dependency services under chemical +dependency treatment provisions; reducing county cost responsibility for +chemical dependency services; modifying eligibility for chemical dependency +fund services and eliminating certain separate account requirements; +modifying certain allocation requirements; increasing the liquor tax on +distilled spirits, wine and fermented malt beverages (beer) and the qualified +malt beverage brewer tax credit; expanding the community oriented policing+ grant program to impaired driving and domestic violence crimes and +requiring grants for local law enforcement agency liaison efforts with school +districts to be provided for areas with high crime rates and gang, drug or +prostitution activity; requiring 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; +appropriating money to the commissioner of public safety to increase the complement+ of state troopers assigned to enforcing DWI laws and for grants under the COPS+ program to increase law enforcement targeting impaired driving crimes, to +local government units to conduct compliance checks relating to underage +on-sales and off-sales of intoxicating liquor and to prevent domestic violence and+ to provide services to domestic violence victims, to the commissioner of corrections for adult detention facility and program grants for costs associated with incarcerating DWI offenders, for grants to counties +to establish and operate intensive probation programs for repeat DWI +offenders, for increased chemical dependency treatment programs at state prisons+ and for appropriate chemical dependency treatment for offenders on supervised+ release, to the commissioner of human services to fully fund chemical +dependency fund services for eligible persons, to the chief justice of the supreme +court for increased judicial training and for grants to counties for court +services and correctional costs relating to chemical use assessments and to the +commissioner of health for education and prevention initiatives to eliminate +underage drinking; repealing certain allocation provisions (ra)