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Timeline on upcoming Driver Responsibility rules, hearings

The next couple of months are shaping up to be important ones regarding proposed reforms to Texas' Driver Responsibility program. I'd already mentioned that the new DPS rules will be released this week, and the Texas Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee will meet in Plano on August 3 to "Review the possible increase in number of unlicensed and uninsured drivers resulting from license suspensions or indigence resulting from drivers' inability to pay Driver Responsibility surcharges in light of new Department of Public Safety rules."Now the House Public Safety Committee has announced a hearing on August 10 here in Austin in which they'll disucss "Interim Charge #3: Monitor the Driver Responsibility Program and consider methods for overall improvement of the program...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).