Missouri would put transportation officials in charge of driver licensing

The Missouri Department of Transportation would handle driver licensing and vehicle titles and registrations. The provisions cover Missouri vehicle owners and both commercial and noncommercial drivers. The transfer would include related powers, duties, and administrative rules.

The replacement law would omit section 136.055, which governs contract license offices and their extra service fees. The omitted section covers office contracts and extra fees for services such as driver licenses, vehicle registrations, and titles. The proposal does not describe a replacement system for contract license offices.

The state's fund for paying legal claims would no longer expressly list contract license office agents as a covered group. This provision concerns people appointed by the revenue director to act as department agents under the contract license office statute. The omitted protection applies to official work performed as state law or Department of Revenue rules require.

Candidate eligibility rules would refer to past corporate officers of tax-owing license offices and omit the separate reference to current officers. The wording concerns candidates for Missouri public office who are corporate officers of license offices owing state taxes. Candidates would still face disqualification for their own unpaid taxes covered by the rule.