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Committee advances highways dedications, DMV fee changes and technical fixes in busy session
Summary
The Transportation committee moved a large slate of mostly noncontroversial bills—highway dedications, DMV fee-cap adjustments, towing regulations and ID-waiver measures—reporting most favorably as amended; one traffic-safety bill was deferred and several items will need follow-up fiscal or implementation details.
The Senate Committee on Transportation and Public Works advanced a broad package of bills covering highway dedications, DMV operations and technical changes in a lengthy session that also included several controversial items.
Among the items the committee reported favorably without recorded roll-call votes were multiple highway-dedication bills honoring law enforcement and community leaders (House Bills 149, 358, 384, 720, 765, 965, and others) and technical measures on towing and private-parking enforcement (HB 728).
Representative (author) presented HB 712 to provide waivers for homeless individuals to obtain a Class E driver's license or state ID; the governor's office requested an amendment to add birth certificates to acceptable documentation and the committee adopted the amendment before reporting the bill favorably.
The committee considered several DMV-related bills, including HB 593 (raising permitted facility service fees to help keep local OMV offices open), HB 845 (raising DWI reinstatement fees), and HB 846 (addressing obscured license plates and license-plate-reader effectiveness). OMV Commissioner Keith Neal and other agency representatives provided information to the committee when invited.
A handful of bills were deferred for further consideration (for example HB 487 was involuntarily deferred), while the remainder mostly moved forward to the floor. Committee members noted fiscal-impact questions on some items and asked authors to work with implementing agencies and with the finance committee where appropriate.
The committee adjourned after a motion by Senator Carter.
