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Amnesty, Indigence rules for Driver Responsibility surcharge finally published

New rules for Amnesty, Indigence and Incentive program were issued by the Department of Public Safety in today's Texas Register for the Driver Responsibility Program. I'll have much more on this next week heading toward the upcoming House Public Safety Committee meeting on the subject.The Amnesty program looks about as good as I could have hoped for and I'm really proud of everybody at DPS (and their bosses on the Public Safety Commission) for listening carefully to public criticism and thoughtfully responding to it. This could potentially help out a lot of desperate folks. The Indigence program is also a big improvement, though there's a good chance the truly indigent still won't be able to afford $250. Basically it's the same reduction offered to those under the more general Amnesty program available to everybody...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 06, 2010 (boomark / email).