The new state budget goes into effect today, along with 130 new laws.

Among those is a bill filed in the Florida Senate to crack down on overzealous ticketing by law enforcement.

The original concern was that local governments were using revenue from speeding ticket quotas to pad their budgets. Now, ticket quotas are prohibited by law.

Karen Morgan with the AAA Auto Club Group says AAA worked to get a bill like this passed for decades. 

Morgan says it all started in 1995 when AAA conducted an investigation into speed traps in two towns in North Central Florida. They found that officers in those towns were giving tickets only to generate revenue, and not always for traffic safety, so they pushed for the law to be changed.

“It ensures all traffic enforcement is purely for traffic safety and not for revenue generating purposes,” said Morgan.

Drivers say now they feel safer on the roads, knowing they won’t be taken advantage of by officers trying to meet quotas.  

“I think it’s good that they won’t just start randomly pulling people over, or maybe pulling them over for doing just a few miles over the speed limit, or something silly like that, I think it will make a lot of people happy,” said Jessica Brana.

Sixty-three of the laws approved by the Legislature went into effect when Scott signed the budget into law.

Other new legislation calls for legalization of 64-ounce growlers at craft breweries, a modest cut to communications services taxes to cellphone and cable TV bills, terminally ill patients will be able to obtain experimental drugs without federal approval and new limits will be placed on the use of remote-controlled drones.

Legislators also voted to waive legal liability for cities and counties that don't collect parental permission forms before allowing children to use public skate parks and bicycle tracks.

Also, when a state, county or municipality purchase a United States flag or a state flag for public use, the flag must be made in the United States from "articles, materials or supplies, all of which are grown, produced and manufactured in the United States."

Despite signing the budget last week, Scott vetoed about $500 million from the state's spending plan.