>> 50 states.

>> The heavier your foot on the gas pedal.

The deeper you'll dig in your pockets to pay for it.

That's the idea behind a bill now before the Kentucky General Assembly.

>> If it passes anyone driving.

25 miles an hour over the speed limit would face a $200 fine.

Our role lawmaker wants costly tickets to deter reckless driving and help pay medical costs for those surviving terrible car wrecks.

Our June Leffler has details.

As we began more of tonight's legislative update.

>> 2 Republican senators debated the use of expensive speeding ticket.

>> You know, if you're going 25 miles an hour in the middle of a city that's dangerous and I can see a reason for super speeder find if you're trying to get home at 10 o'clock at night and there's nobody on limited access highway at all.

Frankly, I would just a dot montana's, reasonable and prudent standard.

And as long as you're not being unsafe, then I don't really think you should have to pay an additional 5.

I would possibly agree.

But if you have a ball out to the tire and >> then the sustained trauma, which obviously you will, then he's going to be response for the cause of the trauma.

>> Senate Bill, 57 would put revenue from those fines towards Kentucky's trauma care system like helping pay for physicians, salaries and care, administered to uninsured trauma patients.

The money would also pay to trained EMT's issue loans to rural hospitals and by automated external defibrillators for public schools, which are required by state law.

The Senate Transportation Committee advanced the bill with just one no vote trauma.

Surgeons and Kentucky testified in support of the bill.

>> We've got areas that you are 4 to 5 times more likely to die from the exact same traffic accident in our own state.

In areas of western Kentucky, eastern Kentucky in Southcentral, Kentucky.

Then you are if you were to have that same accident.

And Lexington in Louisville or the surrounding areas.

>> Senate Bill 57 is based off a law in Georgia that's generated 20 million dollars a year for trauma care.

Meredith estimates Kentucky's version could bring in 10 million dollars for Kentucky edition.

I'm John Leffler.

>> Thank you.

June Senate Bill 57 now heads to the full Senate.