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Committee reviews DMV emergency rule to update forms after statutory fee increases
Summary
The committee heard the DMV director explain an emergency rule to update widely used DMV forms to match fee increases in 2025 chapter 141; members pressed the department on notice to municipal clerks, the emergency justification and the filing appendix, and recommended using abbreviated or interim procedures in future.
The Rules Committee examined an emergency rule from the Department of Safety that would update DMV forms to reflect statutory fee increases that went into effect Jan. 1, 2026, after the legislature adopted changes in chapter 141 of the 2025 law. John Marasco, director of the DMV, told the committee the department submitted updated forms to the Office of Legislative Services and was told the changes were substantive and therefore required rulemaking rather than an editorial update.
Marasco said the forms affected are widely used — driver license applications, duplicate driver's license and title forms, and record request forms — and that the department has high transaction volume (it processed roughly…
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