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Public Safety Commission backs Driver Responsibility revamp

I must say, I've seldom been as pleased at being rejected as I was yesterday when the Texas Public Safety Commission formally voted to deny the Grits' peitition for rulemaking regarding creation of indigency, amnesty and incentive programs for the so-called "Driver Responsibility" fee. Instead the Commission voted to publish in the Texas Register new rules proposed by the Drivers License division that go a long way toward achieving our petition's goals. DPS will soon propose its own version of an "Amnesty/Indigency Program" and an"Incentive Program" for the Driver Responsibility surcharge, which is a civil fee assessed on top of criminal fines and penalties that stretch out over three years. Drivers lose their license if they don't pay and there's no provision currently on the books for reducing fees...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 22, 2009 (boomark / email).