2010 Senate Bill 1497

Revise “driver responsibility fees”

Introduced in the Senate

Sept. 15, 2010

Introduced by Sen. Deborah Cherry (D-26)

To eliminate the provision that suspends a person’s drivers license for nonpayment of “driver responsibility fees” (“bad driver tax”) that are assessed for various violations and must be paid for two consecutive years. These very expensive fees were originally <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-SB-509">adopted in 2003</a> to raise revenue so as avoid spending cuts and reforms.

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary