Under existing law, the Legislature has delegated its legislative authority relating to charges for photo driver's licenses and photo nondriver identification cards to the Department of Public Safety, now a part of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, subject to certain standards provided in the law.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency increased various fees for the licenses effective February 9, 2015, without following the rulemaking procedures of the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act.
This bill would specify that setting any charge to the public for issuing the driver's licenses or cards would be subject to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would also specify that this action is declaratory of existing law and would be retroactive to February 9, 2015.
The bill would also require the department to credit any person who paid the increased fee with the difference in the amount of the increased fee for the obtained licenses prior to the increase.
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 249
Third Reading Passed
Whatley motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Reported from Transportation and Energy as Favorable
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Transportation & Energy
Source: Alabama Legislature