No. CS/HB 925
Filed under Transportation.
Clerks of the Court; Authorizing the cumulative excess of funds to be used in the development of the total combined budgets of the clerks of the court; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; revising the definition of the term “publicly accessible website”; increasing the percentage of certain penalties which must be deposited into the fine and forfeiture fund and decreasing the percentage of certain penalties that must be paid to a municipality, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDClerks of the court no longer transfer 50 percent of their cumulative excess funds to the state General Revenue Fund. The entire amount now stays with the clerks for budgeting purposes.
A new 10 percent reserve requirement applies to the cumulative excess. This reserve must reach 16 percent of the total budget authority before funds can be fully spent.
The bill changes how certain traffic and school-zone fines are distributed. More money goes to the state fine and forfeiture fund, and less goes to local municipalities.
The definition of a publicly accessible website expands. Clerks and county comptrollers can now use their own websites to publish legal notices regarding real property.
AIClerks of the circuit court and county comptrollers may publish real property legal notices on their own websites or a private website they designate, in addition to the county's official website.
AICivil penalties for certain school zone violations must be remitted to the school district, explicitly overriding the general remittance rules in s. 28.37(6).
AIClerks of the court may now use the entire cumulative excess of the Clerks of the Court Trust Fund for their combined budgets, rather than having half transferred to the state General Revenue Fund.
AIThe required 10 percent reserve for clerks of the court is now funded by the cumulative excess itself, rather than by transfers from the Trust Fund.
AIFor violations in a municipality, the share of the penalty paid to the municipality is reduced from 50.8 percent to 28.2 percent, while the share deposited into the fine and forfeiture fund is increased from 5.6 percent to 28.2 percent.