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Bill or against the bill there is a place to sign up right over here where it says testimony. So without objection we're going to jump down to H. B. fifteen seventy nine with representative Wardlaw is promised us it would be very. Representative thank you Mr Jeff Wardlaw district ninety four well you guys remember two years ago for the ones of our own transportation two years ago we ran a very controversial bill on of the motor vehicle commission act of dictating manufactures versus dealers we've had a couple places need some clean up due to the new batteries and things that are being used all manufacturers and dealers have agreed upon this bill so with that I'd appreciate a good vote. Any questions from the committee. Representative car moved for a do pass when appropriate. Okay. Any other questions or comments. We have a motion for two prior to pass. We'll okay Sir anyone here to speak for the bill. Against the bill. All right we do have a motion for the passage or any comments or questions. The Committee on fiber say aye. All against say no. Thank you Mister Committee I promised and not delivered all K. congratulations Sir you said thirty seconds it was forty nine cents forty nine. All right is represented Pilkington in the room are not representative Gonzalez. Representative Gonzales you're recognized understand we have amendment that we need to address first yeah thank you. Thank you Mr thank you have a committee. Alright representative Gonzales. Our. Just wanna leave it as it sets. No so I'll present the amendment So the the amendment. Well added to the bill this is the I don't really know how to talk about the member without talking some by the bill so fuel allow me a little leeway there the bill is an offense prosecution bill is currently in law. The Amendment. Will basically be the the new bill Currently you cannot you don't have a defense to prosecution if you're riding up the eighty the inside the city limits this just says if if the. City or municipality passes an ordinance to allow you to have a defense to prosecution you can have a defense to prosecution site same fence you currently have now outside of city limits. Any questions upon from the Committee concerning the amendment. The Committee. Is there a motion for the. I see no motion for the amendment. All right thank you Committee. Thank you representative. All right representative Richardson. Representative Richardson before we begin I understand we need to go back and expunged a vote on a Amendment. So we need a motion to expunge the vote by which Amendment deep T. P. one twenty five was adopted since that amendment was engrossed in the bill so do we have a motion we do have a motion Is there any comments questions. All in favor expunging the vote for Amendment DTP one to five say aye aye aye All opposed say nay the eyes have it. In Richardson. Thank you thank you Mr chair and the thank you committee so we're back at it again of of going back and I've made some a few updates to the to the bill but I wanted to kind of make sure clarify to keep few things when we talk about this of. We don't want the committee to understand is that the people that we're trying to get licenses for our tax paying individuals these are people that are actually paying taxes in our community excuse me. Of some of the questions I had had in the last of. Committee hearing was you know what what was it going to cost and what does it look like and I think if we combine with the state police have generated and what DF and they I think were around for four million dollars is what we're looking at give or take a couple of I've gone upon the price that is going to cost for an individual to obtain these licenses and based on the amount of people that we estimate to be within the state we have with. Capturing those funds for licenses will will more than have enough money to accommodate that so in in my opinion this could be a self funding situation. Of there's no additional cost to any of the current taxpayers or surcharges to help cover any of the other cost a couple of stats is that you on it uninsured motorist rate of nineteen point three ranks the highest in the country. We need to reduce that number of uninsured drivers in this bill would absolutely help with that. One of the concerns in another meeting was regarding the ability for these individuals to vote of the bill explicitly talks about identifying that in which they can not I'm still working. With D. F. and ES and members of. Of their group to see if we can even of your computer program if we can manipulate the driver's license in the background some kind of way we haven't haven't confirmed it yet but that's what we're trying to see if we can do and and with that an amendment to that if he gets out that's the that's the goal because the way they're saying it now is that is not a lot of room left on the license itself so my thought was if we could manipulate where the picture is that showed it differently that can accommodate and and meet the needs of some of the committee members but other than that I mean those are some of the the big changes I've spoken to you guys before and Mister chairman I'm open to take questions or questions from the committee. Representative renders. Thank you Mr president region talking about changing the. Former licenses there where we can just do a really the watermark of not non US citizen on the back maybe for maybe and I'm okay with that and that's what I'm working with them to try to figure out what that would look like so. We just talk briefly just a second ago and they told me that they couldn't one of the changes I asked if they could do they can't do that so we're trying to work on that so you have my commitment that we're trying to do something that's very very noticeable of maybe a large water mark maybe a different color behind the badge when you take your photo words green another we're selling adults have your orders of horizontal Sullivan like on sixteen eighteen year old yes have the read article style yeah yeah so that's we will we'll try to figure out how quickly we can get that done but you have my commitment to do that thank you. Any other questions. Okay I think we have someone from DFA that's going to come up and explain the fiscal impact. Thank you Mr chair members of the committee Eliasson Smith and the chief counsel for the Revenue Division of the FNA we did issue a fiscal impact statement. I assume everyone has a copy in front of you but yes we are looking at programming changes of a hundred thirty six thousand dollars and we would need additional personnel of course to it administer this new law at an approximate annual salary cost as one point six million we have spoken with a representative about the requested changes about the actual license perhaps a watermark perhaps a different color our tech team will need actual words in writing and an amendment in order to be able to come up with an estimate cost for those changes and I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions from the committee. Saying that thank. Representative Richardson. Are you close yes Sir hello I'll close I just want to reiterate again these these I will know I'll close only to the. All right representative would occur if you have you have a comment or something else I know our. Is anyone here to speak for the bill. Against the bill. The Committee. Representive Anders we we got one more question Mr if you out. Richey Richmond the if I just said. We're in need in the bill for the actual changes that working. Still taking questions yes. Yes this not in the bill we just spoke about it just now that's part of the amendment that I said I wanted to do with the changes of the license should we at the moment and then vote on the bill first we can still have the amendment even before it hits the floor or before it hits the Senate if it gets off the floor. We still have time to add an amendment. Okay. Representative Springer. Motion at the proper time. All right. Motion do pass as amended. Motion. Passes or any comments from the Committee. The barrier yes thank you Mr so in want to believe with the we can solve the the problem with the the license when we promulgate rules but I will say that representative Richardson has gone totally out of his way to amend this this bill to make it satisfactory to the committee and I think it's a it's a great bill that's something that's very much needed we allow when we go to foreign countries we drive in foreign countries and and and I think it's something that we should really consider here and I'll be a support representative Richardson and and this bill and I would ask for a a good vote thank you. If the comments from the Committee. Then all in favor say aye aye All opposed say no. The eyes have it. Thank you Mr Richardson congratulations. Is represented me. Representative what's another member of the class over then say no further business we are. What without objection we will take up H. B. fifteen sixty three is a special order of business on Thursday March sixteenth upon adjournment of the Joint Budget. We are adjourned.