This bill increases the cost for vehicle owners and dealers who receive license plates and decals by mail, adding a $12 fee per license plate or set of plates and keeping a $2.50 fee per decal or set of decals. These new mailing fees apply to regular vehicle registrations, dealer plates, and other license plate categories sent through the mail, with an option to pay actual postage costs for express mail delivery. The fees collected will be deposited into county or state general funds depending on who collects them.
The engrossed version significantly expands the bill's scope beyond just vehicle owner decals to also impose mailing fees on license plates ($12 per set) and extends these fees to dealer transactions across multiple vehicle licensing categories (commercial, motorcycle, etc.), while also increasing the decal mailing fee from $1 to $2.50. This BROADENS the bill from a narrow fee increase on mailed decals for individual vehicle owners into a comprehensive mailing fee structure affecting both owners and dealers across all vehicle types.
The amendment increases mailing fees for decals and license plates across multiple vehicle registration statutes, raising fees from $1.50 to $2.50 for decals and introducing a new $12 fee for mailed license plates, which STRENGTHENS the bill's original purpose of increasing these mailing-related fees.
The enrolled version restructures and clarifies the fee language across multiple vehicle registration statutes by replacing "collect from" with "charge," reorganizing provisions into numbered subsections for decals and license plates, and consolidating confusing or redundant language—making the bill NARROWER and more straightforward while maintaining the same fee amounts (two dollars and fifty cents for decals, twelve dollars for license plates mailed to owners).
Other amendments
Signed by the Governor H.J. 400
Delivered to the Governor H.J. 326
Signed by the President S.J. 264
Signed by the Speaker H.J. 300
House of Representatives Concurred in amendments Passed, YEAS 53, NAYS 12. H.J. 277
Senate Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 27, NAYS 7. S.J. 214
Transportation Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. S.J. 9
Transportation Motion to amend S.J. 9
Transportation Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
Senate Referred to Senate Transportation S.J. 122
First Reading Senate S.J. 113
House of Representatives Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 42, NAYS 22. H.J. 127
House of Representatives Deferred to another day H.J. 115
Transportation Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 3. H.J. 3
Transportation Motion to amend H.J. 3
Transportation Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
First read in House and referred to House Transportation H.J. 15
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Prime sponsor · Sen.
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Concurred in amendments
Do Pass Amended
Transportation — Do Pass Amended
Do Pass Amended
Transportation — Do Pass Amended