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Louisiana Transportation Committee To Lift Pricing on Motor Vehicle Background Checks

Here is a rare instance when a public service group is actually reducing prices for services.   The Louisiana House Transportation Committee has approved legislation revoking an additional $15 fee for Motor Vehicle Driving Records or MVRs.    According to the article in the Shreveport Times, The HTC also wants to confirm the  loss of revenues won’t inhibit a program requiring background checks on license applicants.

The House Transpiration Committee feels that levying the new pricing will be an unwarranted burden on citizens with a fixed income or on low income levels.  I think we should all appreciate this sentiment.  However, the new bill is worded so that eliminates the authority for the state to conduct background checks.   The panel has taken the ruling under review to amend the language  to it would allow for background checks.

Before the new bill was actually presented to the House, the committee recommended that the House Appropriations Committee review it to determine whether removing $13.6 million from the Department of Public Safety Budget can be covered.

The bill is to be debated shortly.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.