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Committee advances bill increasing trauma funding by redirecting traffic‑fine revenue
Summary
The committee voted to report Senate Bill 1018, which would shift a larger share of traffic-fine fee revenue from the general revenue fund to the designated trauma facility and emergency medical services account (raising the trauma account share from 30% to 50%).
The Committee on Finance voted to report Senate Bill 1018 to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation after Chair Huffman outlined the bill’s change to the allocation of traffic‑fine fee revenue.
Under current law described by the chair, the comptroller deposits 70% of certain traffic-fine fee revenue to the undedicated portion of the general revenue fund and 30% to the designated trauma facility and emergency medical services account (GRD account 5‑5111). Chair Huffman told the committee that revenue to the trauma account has declined in recent years while trauma-care costs have risen. SB 1018 would reduce the share deposited to general revenue from 70% to 50% and increase the share to the designated trauma account from 30% to 50% to bolster trauma care and EMS infrastructure.
The committee heard a resource witness from the Department of State Health Services’ trauma system director; no public opposition was recorded in the transcript. The clerk recorded 12 ayes, no nays when the committee voted to report the bill to the full Senate.
