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Traffic Ticket
Surcharges
Source:
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com
Update on
surcharges on traffic tickets from the 82nd
Texas legislative session.
Despite the
Senate Criminal Justice Committee's interim
recommendation that the surcharge be
abolished, the 9-figure fiscal hole that
would create deterred legislators from
acting on bipartisan proposals to do just
that. Instead, your correspondent asked
state Reps. Ryan Guillen and Armando Walle
to amend a bill Guillen was carrying - which
would have allowed full, 100% payment
one-time of surcharges up front - to require
implementation of the Incentive rules
sometime during this biennium. (Literally
the entire amendment was to delete a "may"
in the old law and insert "shall." )
As a
result of Walle's amendment to Guillen's
bill, not only do people still get to pay
early, as Guillen's original bill would have
allowed, once the Incentive rules are
passed, they'll get a 30-50% break if they
pay in the first 30-90 days after the
surcharge is assessed.
Here are the
reductions under the TAC rules:
- 50% of all three years of surcharges
assessed for each offense if payment is
made within 30 days.
- 60% of all three years of surcharges
assessed for each offense if payment is
made within 60 days.
- 70% of all three years of surcharges
assessed for each offense if payment is
made within 90 days.
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