Senator Devine proposes the following amendment (SJ-76.MB0009S):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding appropriately numbered SECTIONS to read:

SECTION X.A. Chapter 8, Title 16 of the S.C. Code is amended by adding:

 Section 16-8-545. (A) The "Youth Violence Prevention and Reduction Fund" is established within the Department of Public Safety for the purpose of assisting in the prevention and reduction of youth violence within communities.
  (1) For fines collected under Section 16-8-540, two and one-half percent of the monies collected must be remitted to the fund.
  (2) The remainder of the fines collected under Section 16-8-540 shall be distributed as provided in Section 14-1-205.
 (B) The Public Safety Coordinating Council shall oversee the fund and shall establish a process for the application for and disbursement of monies, including allowing monies from this fund to be contributed to funds overseen by the Public Safety Coordinating Council, which are dedicated to youth and juvenile justice and are established on the effective date.

B. Section 14-1-205 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 14-1-205. Except as provided in Sections 16-8-545, 17-15-260, 34-11-90, and 56-5-4160, on January 1, 1995, fifty-six percent of all costs, fees, fines, penalties, forfeitures, and other revenues generated by the circuit courts and the family courts, except the one-hundred-dollar-filing fee prescribed in Section 8-21-310(C)(1) must be remitted to the county in which the proceeding is instituted and forty-four percent of the revenues must be delivered to the county treasurer to be remitted monthly by the fifteenth day of each month to the State Treasurer on forms and in a manner prescribed by him. When a payment is made to the county in installments, the state's portion must be remitted to the State Treasurer by the county treasurer on a monthly basis. The forty-four percent remitted to the State Treasurer must be deposited as follows:
 (1) 72.93 percent to the general fund;
 (2) 16.73 percent to the Department of Mental Health to be used exclusively for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts within the department's addiction center facilities;
 (3) 10.34 percent to the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund.
 In any court, when sentencing a person convicted of an offense which has proximately caused physical injury or death to the victim, the court may order the defendant to pay a restitution charge commensurate with the offense committed, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, to the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division, Department of Crime Victim Compensation, Victim Compensation Fund.

C. This SECTION takes effect on July 1, 2027. Fines collected prior to the effective date will be distributed under Section 14-1-205.

Renumber sections to conform.

Amend title to conform.