HB 207 - This act modifies provisions relating to Department of Revenue fee offices. This act increases the service fees charged by Department of Revenue fee offices, and establishes separate service fees for 3-year or permanent trailer registrations.
In awarding fee office contracts, the act requires the Department of Revenue to provide at least 5% of evaluation credit, rather than "priority" or "special consideration", to applicants meeting certain criteria. The act also specifies that the Director of the Department of Revenue shall not award fee office contracts to entities affiliated in any manner, as defined in the act, with a current employee of the Department or with a former employee of the Department for the one-year period following the employee's termination of employment, and no person affiliated in any manner with an entity awarded a fee office contract shall be affiliated in any manner with a motor vehicle title service agent as prescribed by law.
Under the act, the Director may extend certain fee office contracts by up to 5 years.
The act also modifies current law to reflect that fee office contracts may be awarded to non-tax-exempt organizations.
These provisions are similar to provisions in the truly agreed to and finally passed SCS/SB 3 (2025), SCS/HCS/HB 1775 (2024), SB 738 (2024), provisions in HCS/SS#2/SB 862 (2024), provisions in HB 1768 (2024), provisions in CCS/HCS/SB 47 (2023), provisions in HCS/HB 424 (2023), and SCS/SB 366 (2023).
ERIC VANDER WEERD