New Law Allows Texas Drivers Flexibility on Paying Penalty Surcharges

September 4, 2007

  • September 4, 2007 at 2:26 am
    Ohioan says:
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    Only in Texas do law breakers get amnesty when they refuse to pay fines/surcharges. Somebody there lacks the secondary male sex characterisitics to demand and enforce payment. “making nice” doesn’t play well with offenders. In most civilized states in the country you’d be arrested until you paid up.

  • September 4, 2007 at 3:13 am
    Texas Agent says:
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    We also all carry side arms, own oil and gas wells, shoot buffalo, and give the finger to Yankees. As our Governor Ricj Perry says, “Adios Mo Fo”.

  • September 4, 2007 at 4:29 am
    John B. says:
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    You certainly have much to be proud of….. Just stay where you are and be happy. The rest of the country is.

  • September 5, 2007 at 1:32 am
    media mogul says:
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    Yep’n, as I said many months ago, Bush and Rove have taken this filth worldwide and you can see the results.

    Rove, the Cheat, Corrupter, not the Architect. Bush, The Legacy (of coke and alcohol).

    Yee-haa, y’all!

    Something to be proud of indeed…

  • September 9, 2007 at 9:41 am
    Tamara Shippy says:
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    I have dedicated many months of my time to prepare a report of sorts on the DRP. What I have discovered is that the entire fate of Texas is connected to the Surcharge Program. This is because the money from the Unconstitutional program is earmarked for the Tran-Texas Corridor, which is a strategic segment of what is to become a Super Corridor that spans the entire North American Continent.

    The state is suspending people’s license over not paying an excessive surcharge fee that is in addition to what you agree to in court. What’s more is the money is going to pay for the Corridor projects, without consent or knowledge or the People or Congress! I believe that spreading the word would enable individuals to better deal with the negative effects that the TX DRP has had on their lives, as well as have a say in their own future.

    TX DRP Surcharge Petition
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    Have you heard of this yet??
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    http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/public_information/pr081903c.htm

    Who receives money from the surcharges?

    Each surcharge collected by the department under this law will be remitted to the Comptroller, on a monthly basis. Trauma centers and county and regional emergency medical services will receive 49.5 percent of the collected money, and the Texas Mobility fund will receive 49.5 percent of the collected money. The money that goes to trauma centers will be handled by the Texas Department of Health, while the **Texas Department of Transportation **will handle money going to the **Mobility fund**, which funds highway projects, including the **Trans-Texas Corridor**. The remaining one percent of the collected money will go to DPS for operation of the Driver Responsibility program.

    The Driver Responsibility Program was passed into law as part of House bill 3588, article 10. (The text of the law is located at
    http://www.capitol.state.tx.us, page 152 of the Adobe text version.)

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  • September 15, 2007 at 11:42 am
    Howard P says:
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    I was injured just before I was laid off. I went to apply for unemployment insureace and was told that because I was under a doctor’s care and unable to work that I was ineligible. Therefore, before I was fully recovered from my injuries, I requested that the doctor write a letter, releasing me from his care, so that I could sent it to the State of Texas and get my benefits.

    Of course, my benefits were no where near my previous salary level – only about 25% – so some hard choices had to be made. What do I do without? A house? Food? or auto insurance?

    In this day and age, you can’t make money without going to work and in this part of the country you can’t get there without driving.

    Knowing that I now had no insurance I religiously obeyed all spped limits and other traffic laws to prevent being stopped by the police and asked for my insurance.

    One evening on the way home from work, unbeknownst to me, I was stopped for a burned out headlight – it was’nt even burned out, just a loose wire. But it was enough for the Highway Patrol to pull me over.

    So – I’m in a Catch-22 situation – I have to go to work to make money – I have to drive to get there – I can drive because I have no insurace – I have no insurace because I have no job – I have no job because I can’t get to work. You tell me what I should do?

    I have no money to buy insurance, what make these people think that I can afford to pay a surcharge on top of renewing insurance and the original fine that went with it?

    I wish I could be in a business where the govenment mandates that the public buy my product. Does anyone else know of any other business with a racket like this?

  • January 12, 2009 at 4:43 am
    Donna Platt says:
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    What happens to the people who can’t afford to pay the surcharge. How is a young person only making minumum supposed to make payments of over $300.00 a month for three years and be able to afford the cost of housing. This has happened to my son who is 24 and has had no drivers license for over two years and has to walk to work in order to have a job and is very limited to the jobs that he can have. i guess he will be 40 before he can afford to pay the high surcharge.



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