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Does DRP amnesty punish those who play by the rules?

Regular readers know I was particularly pleased when the Public Safety Commission enacted Amnesty and Indigence rules for the Driver Responsibility Program (DRP), but a story in the Dallas News ("Texas drivers who haven't paid fines get a break under new surcharges," Nov. 6) highlights the problematic failure of the PSC to also implement incentives for drivers who are current on their surcharge payments. The story by Terrence Stutz opens:More than 1.2 million Texans who have refused to pay big fines for drunken driving and other violations are about to be rewarded in spite of their scofflaw ways.Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of drivers who have followed state law and made their payments on time are being told to keep doing so.The contrast in treatment of those who ignore the law and those who don't has rankled some legislators who say that the Texas Driver Responsibility Program hasn't worked and should be scrapped...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 07, 2010 (boomark / email).