No. SB 1358
Filed under Transportation.
Fees for Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Services; Providing that an expedited service fee, less a specified charge, is retained by the tax collector under certain circumstances; providing that a specified percentage of certain fees imposed on motor vehicle registration transactions are retained by the tax collector or other authorized agent of the department rather than deposited into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund; providing that a processing fee for specialty license plate requests is retained by the tax collector, less a specified charge, rather than deposited into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund; providing that certain fees relating to specified symbols exhibited on identification cards and driver licenses, respectively, are retained by the tax collector, less a specified charge, rather than deposited into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDAcross driver licenses, ID cards, vehicle registrations, and license reinstatements, fees that now reach the state's Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund would instead stay with the tax collector or clerk of court handling the transaction.
Suspension and revocation reinstatement fees keep their tax collector share doubled: $15 becomes $30 on the $45 fee, and $20 becomes $40 on the $75 fee, with the trust fund's matching cut gone.
The 25-cent mail handling charge disappears too. In its place, either the department or the tax collector may charge whatever it determines the actual handling or envelope cost to be, with no ceiling stated.
A hazmat endorsement fee, still capped at $100, must now also cover an additional $50 for the tax collector on top of the actual cost of the required criminal history check.
AIThe $7 kept back from a $25 replacement driver license fee, and the $6 and $9 shares of renewal and replacement identification card fees, are now retained by or remitted to the tax collector, as applicable, instead of deposited into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund.
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.
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 actual handling or envelope cost, as determined by the department or the tax collector, with no dollar cap stated.
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, and the department deposits the remaining moneys entirely into the State Transportation 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 a tax collector instead of only the department. If the tax collector provides the service, it retains the fee instead of forwarding it to the state trust fund.
AIThe hazardous-materials endorsement fee must now reflect an additional $50 to be retained by the tax collector, on top of the actual criminal-history-check and licensing costs it already must cover, while the fee stays capped at $100.