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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR:	Whitaker		DATE TYPED:	2/7/02		HJM	93
SHORT TITLE:		Programs Funded By DWI Grant Fund				SB
					ANALYST:		Patel

APPROPRIATION

Appropriation Contained		Estimated Additional Impact		Recurring or Non-Rec	Fund Affected
FY02	FY03	FY02	FY03
	NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Duplicates/Relates to Appropriation in The General Appropriation Act

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Synopsis of Bill

House Joint memorial is requesting that the legislative finance committee in cooperation with the local government division of the department of finance and administration conduct a performance audit and evaluation of the programs funded from the local DWI grant fund. Memorial request that LFC report include the effectiveness of funding from the local grant fund. The report be presented to the revenue stabilization and tax policy committee prior to October 1, 2002.. Memorial further request that the revenue stabilization and tax policy committee hold hearings on the local DWI grant fund and make recommendations as to possible reforms in the distribution of liquor excise tax revenues to the local DWI grant fund or in the distributions from the local DWI grant fund to the first session of the forty-sixth legislature.

The local DWI grant fund was created in Chapter 65, Laws of 1993. According to the HJM 93 more than sixty-six million dollars of funding has been directed to local programs since the inception of the local DWI grant fund. The HJM resolves that the performance audit and evaluation consider the following:

n number of people served;

n success of programs in limiting alcohol abuse and problems associated with driving while intoxicated;

n existence of follow-up programs and after-care for participants; and

n existence of coordinated and regional approaches in program development and operation

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