The Senate voted to take a ten dollar Trauma Care fee to the polls. If passed by Georgia voters it would bring in in 74 million dollars for Trauma Care throughout the state, something needed in South and West Georgia were little is available.
Senator Cecil Staton (R.), has been pushing for a way to fund trauma care. Staton said the issue needs to be solved now.
"It is unacceptable that 700 Georgians die needlessly - if we would just reach the national average- but even that's not good enough," said Staton.Senate leaders said 75 percent of trauma care cases come from car accidents and the license plate fee was the most practical place to begin raising funds.
And, while both chambers agree with the ten dollar fee, they disagree on the rest of the taxes attached to cars; the Senate wants to keep them and leaders in the House said they need to go.
They only have three days left in the session to iron out their differences.
