HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2008.11.20 - 9565REPORT (MISC. 108256) November 20, 2008
BY: General Government Committee, Christine Long, Chairperson
IN RE: MR #08256 - BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT FOR HOUSE BILL
6455 — AMENDMENTS TO THE MICHIGAN VEHICLE CODE TO ALLOW FOR
REINSTATEMENT OF DRIVER'S LICENSE FOR THOSE WITH OUTSTANDING DRIVER
RESPONSIBILITY FEES
To: The Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having reviewed the above-referenCed
resolution on November 10, 2008, reports with the recommendation that the resolution be
adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move acceptarice
of the foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Hatchett, Potter and Clark absent.
Chairperson, I move adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Miscellaneous Resolution # 08256
BY: Bill Bullard, Jr., District #2; Helaine Zack, District #22; Mattie Hatchett, District #10
RE: Board of Commissioners - Support for House Bill 6455 — Amendments to the
Michigan Vehicle Code to Allow for Reinstatement of Driver's License For Those with
Outstanding Driver Responsibility Fees
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS upon recommendation of Oakland County's Criminal Justice Coordinating
Council (CJCC), on October 2, 2008, this Board of Commissioner's adopted MR 08180 and MR
08181, which among other things expressed the Board's support to extend the Pilot Tether
Program, created by MR 07226, and further to create a program to address the Driving While
License Suspended (DWLS) segment of the population in the Oakland County Jail; and
WHEREAS support for MR 08180 and MR 08181 was premised on the Board's
appreciation of the CJCC's efforts to devise and implement programs to successfully address
chronic jail overcrowding; and
WHEREAS among the provisions articulated in MR 08181 was the recognition tat
legislative and regulatory revisions would be necessary to effectuate the concepts envisioned by
the CJCC to address the DWLS segment of the County's jail population; and
WHEREAS House Bill 6455, as passed by a vote of 106 — 0 in the Michigan House On
September 25, 2008, would amend the Michigan Vehicle Code to allow for the reinstatement of
the driver's license of a person whose license was denied, suspended, or revoked solely due te a
,failure to pay driver responsibility fees, by establishing a payment plan to pay said fees; however,
if the driver failed to make timely payments, the person's license would then be suspended; and
WHEREAS House Bill 6455 further amends provisions in the Michigan Vehicle Code
concerning plans for the payment of driver responsibility fees and driver license reinstatement
fees to allow the Secretary of State to authorize installment payments for any amount owed, Oid
payments to be paid for up to 24 months. (Current law only allows the Secretary of State.to
authorize installment payments for a driver who owes $500.00 or more, and the full amount mOst
be paid within 12 months.); and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners supports this legislative effort to help drivers who
have lost their driving privileges solely because they cannot pay large driver responsibility fees
and also allow individuals who owe smaller amounts in driver responsibility and license
reinstatement fees to pay them over a longer period of time, i.e., 24 months instead of 12; and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners finds that House Bill 6455 is consistent with the
CJCC's efforts to reduce chronic jail overcrowding by focusing attention on the DWLS segment of
the County's jail population.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
hereby supports House Bill 6455, as passed by the House, and encourages its passage in the
Michigan Senate.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Clerk is hereby directed to send a copy of
this resolution to the Secretary of State, the Michigan Senate, the Michigan House, the Oakland
County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, the Oakland County delegation to the Michigan
Legislature, the Michigan Association of Counties, and Oakland County's lobbyists.
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Resolution #06256 November 6, 2068
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no
objections.
Resolution #08256 November 6, 2008
Moved by Potter supported by Nash the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent Agenda
be adopted (with accompanying reports being
AYES: Burns, Clark, Coleman. Coulter, Crawford, Douglas, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin,
Gregory, Greimel, Hatchett, Jacobsen, KowaII, Long, Middleton, Nash, Potter, Potts, Scott,
Spector, Zack, Bullard. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda were adopted (with accompanying Npor ts being acuepted).
DOES NOT REQUIRE COM EXECUTIVE ACTION
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Ruth Johnson, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a trOe
and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on
November 20, 2008, with the original record thereof now remaining in my office,
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County of Oakland at
Pontiac. Michigan this 20th day of November, 2008.
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Ruth Johnson, County Clerk