Often times, criminal defendants do not pay all of their criminal fines, surcharges and other fees all at one time. When only a partial payment is made, Georgia law establishes priorities for how the funds are distributed to the various funds and agencies to which they are owed. SB 50 reorders the fees and adds funding of local victim assistance programs to the priority list.   The list was reordered to place all fees that are kept locally or benefit local government ahead of all fees that are remitted to the state.  The local governing authority has moved up to number 9 on this list from 14 in the last version of the bill.