Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1094

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)