ATLANTA, Ga. – A bill that would pump the brakes on a longtime police practice generating millions of dollars in revenue for Georgia small cities was passed out of a state House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday, and is now on its way to a full Governmental Affairs committee hearing Wednesday.
In late January, state Rep. Joseph Gullett, R-Dallas, filed a bill that would cap the amount of revenue cities can collect from fines and forfeitures through traffic enforcement to 10 percent of their annual budgets.
House Bill 140, the End Local Taxation by Citation Act would require citation revenue collected above that threshold to be sent to a state fund. Details of how that money would be used has not been determined, but Gullett said it could be used to aid crime victims or for public safety measures…