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Committee debates DMV fee changes: replacement fee, SSI/SSDI reductions, EV infrastructure fee and license renewal timelines
Summary
Committee reviewed DMV bill drafts (including a 6.1 variant) that would eliminate or reduce several fees — replacement registration, SSI/SSDI license fees, EV infrastructure fee exemptions, and changes to renewal periods — and asked Joint Fiscal and counsel for refined fiscal impacts; members sought to limit damage to the Transportation Fund.
Senate Transportation committee members reviewed a package of proposed changes to vehicle and driver fees that staff said would reduce Transportation Fund revenues by roughly $700,000 under an earlier draft but could be reduced to about $353,000 under an amended 6.1 draft.
Logan of the Joint Fiscal Office walked the committee through the largest cost drivers in the draft DMV bill: elimination or reduction of the replacement registration fee (section 5), a reduction of fees for people receiving SSI/SSDI (sections 9 and 10), and an EV infrastructure fee exemption for state and municipal emergency vehicles. Logan said the administration’s earlier estimate of a…
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