GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

S                                                                                                                                                    2

SENATE BILL 655

Finance Committee Substitute Adopted 5/26/10

Short Title:        Increase Drivers License Restoration Fee.	(Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:

March 19, 2009

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to increase the fee for the restoration OF DRIVERS licenses to provide funding for the forensic tests for alcohol branch of the DEPARTMENT of health and HUMAN services.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 20-7(i1) reads as rewritten:

"(i1)      Restoration Fee. - Any person whose drivers license has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, other than G.S. 20-17(a)(2) shall pay a restoration fee of fifty dollars ($50.00).seventy-five dollars ($75.00). A person whose drivers license has been revoked under G.S. 20-17(a)(2) shall pay a restoration fee of seventy-five dollars ($75.00).one hundred dollars ($100.00). The fee shall be paid to the Division prior to the issuance to such person of a new drivers license or the restoration of the drivers license. The restoration fee shall be paid to the Division in addition to any and all fees which may be provided by law. This restoration fee shall not be required from any licensee whose license was revoked or voluntarily surrendered for medical or health reasons whether or not a medical evaluation was conducted pursuant to this Chapter. The fifty-dollar ($50.00) fee, and the first fifty dollars ($50.00) of the seventy-five-dollar ($75.00) fee, shall be deposited in the Highway Fund. The remaining twenty-five dollars ($25.00) of the seventy-five-dollar ($75.00) fee shall be deposited in the General Fund of the State. Fifty dollars ($50.00) of each fee shall be deposited in the Highway Fund. Twenty-five dollars ($25.00) of the one-hundred-dollar ($100.00) fee shall be deposited in the General Fund. Twenty-five dollars ($25.00) of each fee collected under this section shall be used to fund a statewide chemical alcohol testing program administered by the Forensic Tests for Alcohol Branch of the Chronic Disease and Injury Section of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Office of State Budget and Management shall annually report to the General Assembly the amount of fees deposited in the General Fund and transferred to the Forensic Tests for Alcohol Branch of the Chronic Disease and Injury Section of the Department of Health and Human Services under this subsection.

It is the intent of the General Assembly to annually appropriate from the funds deposited in the General Fund under this subsection the sum of five hundred thirty-seven thousand four hundred fifty-five dollars ($537,455) to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina to be used for the operating expenses of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2010.