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Senate Finance hears DMV testimony on $29 driver’s-test no-show fee; senators consider delaying implementation
Summary
On March 19, the Senate Finance Committee questioned DMV Commissioner Amy Potter about why a $29 no-show fee for scheduled driver’s tests has not been collected and discussed an amendment to delay implementing the fee until the agency’s new licensing and scheduling system is live.
The Senate Finance Committee on March 19 took follow-up testimony on a bill to enable collection of a $29 no-show fee for scheduled driver’s tests. Commissioner Amy Potter told the committee the Department of Motor Vehicles has not been collecting the fee since it was implemented during the COVID period because the agency’s legacy mainframe cannot accept the online payments needed to charge and retain no-show deposits. "This could be, but it’d be more of a post-November go-live application," Commissioner Amy Potter said, referring to the DMV’s licensed- and scheduling-related modernization work.
Committee members pressed the department on the fiscal trade-offs. A Joint Fiscal Office note cited in committee estimated as…
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