No. HB 1011
Filed under Transportation.
Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Fees; Authorizes tax collector to retain certain costs, charges, & fees; revises determination of certain handling charge; requires tax collector to determine certain costs; authorizes processing entity to retain certain record & driver license reinstatement fees; requires certain amount of replacement driver license & renewal & replacement identification card fees to be remitted to tax collector; requires specified fee to cover actual costs of any required criminal history check; requires tax collector to retain certain amount of such fee; increases amount of certain driver license reinstatement fees to be remitted to or retained by tax collector; authorizes processing entity or tax collector to retain certain driver license reinstatement fees.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDDriver license, ID card, vehicle registration, and reinstatement fees that used to flow into the state's Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund now go instead to whichever tax collector or clerk of court processed the transaction.
Reinstatement fees after a license suspension or revocation see the tax collector's cut double, from $15 to $30 on a $45 fee and from $20 to $40 on a $75 fee, with the trust fund's matching share eliminated.
The 25-cent cap on vehicle-registration mail handling charges disappears. Tax collectors may instead charge whatever the actual handling or envelope cost is, with no dollar limit written into the law.
Every fee a tax collector keeps is still trimmed by the general revenue service charge in section 215.20, so the state keeps a small percentage even of money it no longer banks directly.
AIThe $7 kept back from every $25 replacement driver license fee, and the $6 and $9 shares of renewal and replacement identification card fees, now go to the tax collector instead of the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund. The old clause limiting this to the issuance transition period is deleted.
AIOn the $45 suspension-reinstatement fee, the tax collector's retained share doubles from $15 to $30 and the trust fund's matching $15 cut disappears. On the $75 revocation-reinstatement fee, the collector's share doubles from $20 to $40, again eliminating the trust fund's cut.
AIWhen a clerk of court or tax collector reinstates a surrendered license, that office now keeps the entire $60 service fee, instead of retaining $37.50 and sending the remaining $22.50 to the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund.
AIReplaces the flat 25-cent handling charge added to mailed registration certificates, plates, and stickers with an amount equal to the tax collector's actual handling or envelope cost, with no dollar cap stated in the new text.
AIA tax collector or agent remitting the additional vehicle-registration fee to the department now first subtracts a 14.3 percent service charge for itself. That share no longer reaches the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund.
AIRecord fees clerks of court and tax collectors charge for driver-history requests are now retained by whichever office processed the request, replacing the old rule that sent the money to the department within a set deadline.
AIDrivers reinstating after an insurance-related suspension can now pay the escalating $150-$500 reinstatement fee, or the flat $15 fee under a related statute, to a tax collector, who then retains the fee instead of forwarding it to the department.
AIThe hazardous-materials endorsement fee, still capped at $100, must now cover the actual cost of the required criminal history check, and the tax collector keeps a flat $50 of that fee regardless of what the check actually costs.