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effect immediately after being passed through the House of Delegates and signed by the Governor.
“This is a clean repeal. It puts the burden on us to contact those who were convicted under the statute. It sets up a streamlined process to refund these fees and clarifies that no one will lose their license for failure to pay an abuser fee,” Senator Chap Petersen said on the floor of the Senate speaking in favor of the amendments.
“We worked together as a team to get this thing done, and it goes to show you can get a lot done when don’t care who gets the credit,” he said.
Senator Herring agreed these amendments were necessary to make a clean repeal of the abusive driver fees.
“It was important that we made sure the law applied equally to everyone. It wasn’t enough to repeal the fees, we needed to wipe the slate clean and repeal this legislation as quickly as possible and refund those who have already been assessed a fine,” Senator Herring said.
The Democratic majority made repealing the abusive driver fees as one of their legislative priorities at the start of the General Assembly Session.
“As a caucus we promised we would repeal the abusive driver fees and today we delivered on that pledge,” Senator Phillip Puckett (D-Russell), vice-chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus, said.
Senator Houck spoke to his bill on the floor of the Senate urging Senators to pass it unanimously.
“This was the wrong way to fund transportation...and today is the day we correct all that,” he said.
The bill was passed 39-0
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