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Back to the Drawing Board: DPS rewriting Driver Responsibility rules

Thanks to Paul Watkins and Rebekah Hibbs for allowing me to participate yesterday in the DPS working group on the Driver Responsibility rules regarding indigency, amnesty and incentive programs. The discussion centered mostly on concepts; they didn't get down to drafting language. But if the rules that ultimately go to the Public Safety Commission (PSC) follow our discussion yesterday, they'll be a dramatic improvement IMO over what was discussed at the public hearing.Without going into details that would violate the spirit of open participation at such a meeting, there was a consensus on adding amnesty and incentive programs to the indigency program suggested previously, as well as on simplifying the indigency application process modeled on methods commonly used in courts and hospitals...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 18, 2010 (boomark / email).