HB 1164 -- Automobile Theft Prevention

Sponsor:  O'Toole

This bill creates within the Department of Public Safety an
Automobile Theft Prevention Authority.  The authority will have
the powers enumerated in the bill to carry out it mission.  An
Automobile Theft Prevention Fund is created within the state
treasury.  The fund will consist of moneys transmitted into it
by the authority from additional reinstatement fees of driving
while intoxicated or with excessive blood alcohol content or the
$1 fee created by this bill charged for each automobile
insurance policy issued or renewed to residents of St. Louis
City or any county of the first classification in this state.
Money in the automobile theft prevention fund will be expended:
(1) to provide financial support to state or local law
enforcement agencies for programs designed to reduce the
incidence of economic automobile theft; and  (2) to pay the
necessary costs of administration of the authority.  The
authority must develop and implement a plan of operation,
including an assessment of the scope of the problem of
automobile theft, an analysis of various methods of solving the
problem, a plan for providing financial support to combat
automobile theft, and an estimate of the funds required to
implement the plan.