Bill Number: S.B. 1557
Ugenti-Rita Floor Amendment
Reference to: printed bill
Amendment drafted by: Leg Council
FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
1. Eliminates the Highway Safety Fee from and after June 30, 2021, rather than phasing it out over five years.
2. Cancels the creation of the Highway Safety Fee Fund and continues to deposit monies collected from the Highway Safety Fee into the Highway Patrol Fund.
3. Allows the Attorney General (AG) to use monies from the Anti-Racketeering Revolving Fund (Fund) to pay for no more than 16 full-time equivalent position salaries in the AG's office, rather than being prohibited from using monies for that purpose entirely.
4. Removes the prohibition against the AG using monies from the Fund to pay for programmatic costs that are expected, ongoing yearly costs.
5. Makes conforming changes.
First Regular Session S.B. 1557
UGENTI-RITA FLOOR AMENDMENT
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1557
(Reference to printed bill)
Page 2, line 16, strike "ADDITIONAL" insert "more than sixteen"
Line 17, strike "AND OTHER"
Strike line 18, insert a period
Page 8, line 3, strike "; rulemaking exemption"
Line 8, strike the colon
Line 9, strike "1. Through June 30, 2020,"
Strike lines 16 through 28
Reletter to conform
Line 30, strike "DECEMBER 31, 2023" insert "June 30, 2021"
Strike lines 32 through 44
Page 9, strike lines 1 through 31
Renumber to conform
Page 13, lines 14 and 15, strike "as amended by this act,"
Line 17, strike "as amended by this act,"
Strike lines 27 through 31
Amend title to conform