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Committee backs restructuring of Motor Vehicle Commission dispute hearings after court ruling
Summary
Lawyers and the attorney general’s office urged the committee to approve a statutory change creating a three-member independent dispute panel to hear licensee disputes for the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission in response to a Fifth Circuit ruling; the committee reported the bill with amendments.
Senate Bill 37, introduced to the House Committee on Commerce on June 2, would change how the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission (LMVC) handles disputes among licensees by creating an independent, three-member panel to hear contested matters, testimony said.
Skip Phillips, a private attorney serving as a Special Assistant Attorney General, told the committee the change responds to a United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that called into question whether commissioners who are business competitors with licensees could fairly adjudicate…
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