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Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2015 - 2016 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: September 14, 2015 09:44 AM
From: Senator John C. Rafferty, Jr. and Sen. Randy Vulakovich
To: All Senate members
Subject: Repeal the Optional Biennial Registration
 
In the near future, we will be introducing legislation to repeal the optional biennial registration that was integrated in Act 89 of 2013, the historic transportation funding legislation.

Currently, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) issues annual registration coupons to drivers in order to receive a permanent registration card. Drivers can renew their vehicle registration online, by mail, at a messenger service office or any Driver and Vehicle Service Center location. The optional biennial registration in Act 89 was integrated to give drivers the choice of registering their vehicle on an annual or biennial basis in the amount of $36 or $72, respectively, for a typical passenger vehicle. As currently written, the optional biennial registration would be effective as of December 31, 2016.

The purpose of our legislation is directly correlated with repealing the elimination of the registration sticker. If the General Assembly does not repeal the elimination of vehicle registration stickers, we will mandate law enforcement agencies with the undue burden of buying costly plate reading equipment that would be exclusively purchased if vehicle registration stickers were eliminated. Furthermore, statistical data from law enforcement support the importance of retaining vehicle registration stickers since they are meaningful tools that systematically cite unsafe, illegal reports of driver offenses.

If the General Assembly passes legislation to repeal the elimination of the registration sticker and not to repeal the optional biennial registration, then PennDOT will be required to maintain two inventories of registration stickers – one for drivers who renew annually and a separate one for drivers who renew biennially. With over 11 million registered vehicles and a need for maintaining two years of inventory, PennDOT would have to invest an estimated $3 million if our legislation is not passed.

At the behest of law enforcement agencies from across this Commonwealth, please join us in supporting the repeal of the optional biennial registration (as well as the elimination of vehicle registration stickers).

If you have any questions, please contact Nolan Ritchie, Senate Transportation Committee, at nritchie@pasen.gov.



Introduced as SB1014