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Driver Responsibility rule re-write due out next week

Having participated in their "working group" on the subject, I got word via email from the Texas Department of Public Safety that: "We will be proposing the revised rule [on the Driver Responsibility Program] to the Public Safety Commission at their next meeting on July 15, 2010." After attending the working group meeting, I'd reported that "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." Next week we find out whether and how that behind-the-scenes consensus translates into rule language.Stay tuned ... we won't discover till then what they're actually proposing. Related: See "Back to the drawing board: DPS rewriting Driver Responsibility rules...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).