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State | Statute | Description/Statute Name | Statutory language | Who receives the funding | Other beneficiaries | Level of offense | |
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-25-28(a) | Special indemnity account for criminal injuries compensation |
It is provided that the general treasurer establish a violent crimes indemnity account within the general fund for the purpose of paying awards granted pursuant to this chapter. The court + See moreshall assess as court costs in addition to those provided by law, against all defendants charged with a felony, misdemeanor, or petty misdemeanor, whether or not the crime was a crime of violence, and who plead nolo contendere, guilty or who are found guilty of the commission of those crimes as follows:(1) Where the offense charged is a felony and carries a maximum penalty of five (5) or more years imprisonment, one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) or fifteen percent (15%) of any fine imposed on the defendant by the court, whichever is greater.
(2) Where the offense charged is a felony and carries a maximum penalty of less than five (5) years imprisonment, ninety dollars ($90.00) or fifteen percent (15%) of any fine imposed on the defendant by the court, whichever is greater.
(3) Where the offense charged is a misdemeanor, thirty dollars ($30.00) or fifteen percent (15%) of any fine imposed on the defendant by the court, whichever is greater.
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-10 | Disposition of recoveries |
Unless otherwise specially provided: (1) All fines recovered shall be to the use of the state; (2) All penalties and pecuniary forfeitures, one-half (1/2) to the use of the state and one-half (1/2) to the use of the person who shall sue for it; and (3) All forfeitures of personal property shall be disposed of as provided by law.
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Complainant |
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-16 | Payments of amounts due to the state |
All fines and all penalties and forfeitures to the use of the state shall be paid over to the general treasurer, unless otherwise specially provided. |
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-17 | Payment and accounting for fines due other than to state |
All fines recovered under any statute of this state, the whole or any part of which may be due or payable to any city, town, or society, or to any person as complainant, shall be accounted for with the state controller, and be paid to the general treasurer. The general treasurer shall, upon the order of the state controller, pay to the city, town, society, or person so much of the amount of the fine so recovered as the city, town, society, or person may be entitled to, which order shall be drawn by the state controller whenever he or she shall receive a proper return or certificate from the clerk of the court in which the fine was imposed.
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Local jurisdiction; complainant; municipality/municipal agency. |
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-19 | Payment of fines to general treasurer - accounting |
Whenever a fine is recovered under any statute of this state, the whole of which may be due the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Children's Friend and Service, or to any other society, or the one-half ( ½ ) of which may be due the state or any society, or to any person, as complainant, the whole of the fine shall be accounted for with the state controller and paid to the general treasurer. The fine due any society, or the one-half ( ½ ) fine due any society, or to any person, as complainant, shall be paid by the general treasurer upon order of the state controller and the state controller shall draw his or her order whenever he or she shall receive a proper return or certificate from the clerk of the court in which the fine was imposed.
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-25-30 | Deposit of funds |
All moneys assessed pursuant to § 12-25-28 as costs against defendants as provided in this chapter shall be paid by the clerks of the family, district and superior courts to the treasurer, who shall keep the funds in the violent crimes indemnity account. Funds received by the treasurer in excess of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) shall be made available and distributed within thirty (30) days of receipt in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 11-30-4 | Penalty for nuisance involving intoxicating liquors |
Money arising from fines imposed under this section shall be paid one-half ( ½ ) to the general treasurer of the state and one-half ( ½ ) to the treasurer of the town or city where the offense occurred.
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Local jurisdiction |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 42A.653(c) | Additional Monthly Fine for Certain Sex Offenders |
(c) A community supervision and corrections department shall deposit a fine collected under this article to be sent to the comptroller as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 133, Local Government Code. The comptroller shall deposit the fine in the sexual assault program fund under Section 420.008, Government Code.
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Sexual Assault fund |
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Texas | Tex. Loc. Gov't Code Sec. 133.102 | Consolidated Fees on Conviction |
(e) The comptroller shall allocate the court costs received under this section to the following accounts and funds so that each receives to the extent practicable, utilizing historical data as applicable, the same amount of money the account or fund would have received if the court costs for the accounts and funds had been collected and reported separately, except that the account or fund may not receive less than the following percentages:
(1) crime stoppers assistance account 0.2427 percent; (2) breath alcohol testing account 0.3900 percent; (3) Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute account 1.4741 percent; (4) Texas Commission on Law Enforcement account 3.4418 percent; (5) law enforcement and custodial officer supplement retirement trust fund 7.2674 percent; (6) criminal justice planning account 8.5748 percent; (7) an account in the state treasury to be used only for the establishment and operation of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Juvenile Crime and Delinquency at Prairie View A&M University 0.8540 percent; (8) compensation to victims of crime account 24.6704 percent; (9) emergency radio infrastructure account 3.6913 percent; (10) judicial and court personnel training account3.3224 percent; (11) an account in the state treasury to be used for the establishment and operation of the Correctional Management Institute of Texas and Criminal Justice Center Account 0.8522 percent; (12) fair defense account 17.8857 percent; (13) judicial fund 12.2667 percent; (14) DNA testing account 0.1394 percent; (15) specialty court account 1.0377 percent; (16) statewide electronic filing system account 0.5485 percent; (17) jury service fund 6.4090 percent; (18) truancy prevention and diversion account 2.5956 percent; and (19) transportation administrative fee account 4.3363 percent. (f) Of each dollar credited to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement account under Subsection (e)(4): (1) 33.3 cents may be used only to pay administrative expenses; and (2) the remainder may be used only to pay expenses related to continuing education for persons licensed under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code. |
State/statewide agency |
Law enforcement; state courts; crime stoppers (private actors); supervision agency; victims fund. |
Felony, Misdemeanor |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0185(f) | Fine For Intoxication Convictions: Emergency Medical Services, Trauma Facilities, and Trauma Care Systems |
The comptroller shall deposit the funds received under this article to the credit of the account established under Section 773.006, Health and Safety Code. |
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The Commissioner of state health services allocates the funds to county and regional emergency medical services, designated trauma facilities, and trauma care systems |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 42A.301(b)(17)-(18),(20),(22) | Basic Discretionary Conditions |
The judge of the court having jurisdiction of the case shall determine the conditions of community supervision. The judge may impose any reasonable condition that is designed to protect or restore the community, protect or restore the victim, or punish, rehabilitate, or reform the defendant. Conditions of community supervision may include conditions requiring the defendant to:
(17) reimburse the compensation to victims of crime fund for any amounts paid from that fund to or on behalf of a victim, as defined by Article 56.32, of the offense or if no reimbursement is required, make one payment to the compensation to victims of crime fund in an amount not to exceed $50 if the offense is a misdemeanor or not to exceed $100 if the offense is a felony; (18) reimburse a law enforcement agency for the analysis, storage, or disposal of raw materials, controlled substances, chemical precursors, drug paraphernalia, or other materials seized in connection with the offense; (20) make one payment in an amount not to exceed $50 to a crime stoppers organization, as defined by Section 414.001, Government Code, and as certified by the Texas Crime Stoppers Council; (23) reimburse the county in which the prosecution was instituted for compensation paid to any interpreter in the case. |
State/statewide agency |
Crime victims if applicable; County; Crime stoppers organzation. |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 42.15(a) | Fine and costs |
When the defendant is fined, the judgment shall be that the defendant pay the amout of the fine and all costs to the state. |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0045(b) | Fee for Jury Reimbursement to Counties |
b) The clerk of the court shall remit the fees collected under this article to the comptroller in the manner provided by Subchapter B,1 Chapter 133, Local Government Code. The comptroller shall deposit the fees in the jury service fund.
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Jury fund |
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Washington | Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 9.94A.780(5) | Offender supervision intake fees |
(5) All amounts required to be paid under this section shall be collected by the department of corrections and deposited by the department in the dedicated fund established pursuant to RCW 72.11.040 [which states,] The cost of supervision fund is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from assessments made under RCW 9.94A.780, 9.94A.74504, and 72.04A.120 shall be deposited into the fund. Expenditures from the fund may be used only to support the collection of legal financial obligations. Only the secretary of the department of corrections or the secretary's designee may authorize expenditures from the fund. The fund is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but no appropriation is required for expenditures.
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Collection of legal financial obligations |
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Washington | Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 43.43.7541 | DNA identification system--Collection of biological samples--Fee |
Every sentence imposed for a crime specified in RCW 43.43.754 must include a fee of one hundred dollars unless the state has previously collected the offender’s DNA as a result of a prior conviction. The fee is a court-ordered legal financial obligation as defined in RCW 9.94A.030 and other applicable law. For a sentence imposed under chapter 9.94A RCW, the fee is payable by the offender after payment of all other legal financial obligations included in the sentence has been completed. For all other sentences, the fee is payable by the offender in the same manner as other assessments imposed. The clerk of the court shall transmit eighty percent of the fee collected to the state treasurer for deposit in the state DNA database account created under RCW 43.43.7532, and shall transmit twenty percent of the fee collected to the agency responsible for collection of a biological sample from the offender as required under RCW 43.43.754.
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(DNA database account); private actor. |
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Washington | Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 9A.56.085 | Minimum fine for theft of livestock |
(6) The two thousand dollars additional penalty shall be remitted by the county treasurer to the state treasurer as provided under RCW 10.82.070. |
State/statewide agency | N/A | All |
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