Topic:
New traffice fine
(McAuliffe, R-Chicago; Munoz, D-Chicago creates the State Police Merit Board Public Safety Fund that is to be used to provide training for law enforcement personnel. Requires that every person pay $15 to pay for this fund if he or she is convicted of or pleads guilty any criminal or traffic violation or a similar provision of a local ordinance. This is on third reading in the Senate. This is going to be a trend in which State government is moving to funding specific state agencies by assessing fees wherever they are able to get legislation enacted to do so.