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M. Patrick McCabe, Director Traffic Safety Institute Manatee Community College 5840 26th St W. Bradenton, FL 34207
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NEWS
FACC Legislative Committee Update: April 28, 2008
The House and Senate finalized the Budget over the weekend and this is the last week of the Session.
Issues that we have discussed before include the “Highway Safety Package” is still viable, this includes the driver improvement language of “ five elections within ten years”, to increase the number of times you could attend traffic school.
Two other issues, the Ignition Interlock bill, which would expand interlock to 1st offenders with BAL .15 to .20 and the AMS or SCRAM bill which would require 4th offenders (permanent revocations currently) to prove abstinence by use of SCRAM prior to acceptance into Special Supervision (and a license) are both stuck in committee and may not be going anywhere, but anything can happen the last week.
Funds restored to several agencies/programs- In Health and Human Services, the cuts to Healthy Start, Childrens Medical Services, and Independent Living were restored.
The Juvenile Assessment centers (JACs) saw some restoration of funds, with any cuts being spread across all assessment centers.
Also, re: Juveniles- SB 792 by Sen. Carey Baker is in Criminal & Civil Justice Appropriations. This allows court to maintain jurisdiction until all costs, fees are paid and also permits a child to be taken into custody for violations of preadjudicatory conditions, and authorizes the circuit court to set reasonable conditions of preadjudicatory release.
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