Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3822

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)