RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 348 (HB 621) 2021 Regular Session Pierre
Prior law required the office of motor vehicles collect a handling charge of $8.00 for special
identification cards (ID cards), new applications, renewals, and duplicates. Requires $2.50
of the fee charged for any handling fee be forwarded to the state treasurer for deposit into the
Office of Motor Vehicles Customer Service and Technology Fund.
New law increases the handling fee for identification cards, applications, renewals, and
duplicates to $12.00.
New law retains current law and requires that monies deposited into the Office of Motor
Vehicles Handling Fee Escrow Fund be available for appropriation in various Fiscal Years.
Prior law required the fee for issuance or renewal of an ID card for persons under the age of
16 be $3 for a two-year ID card and $5 for a four-year ID card.
Proposed law changes the four-year period to a six-year period and increases the fee of $5
to $7.50.
Prior law required the fee for issuance or renewal of an ID card for persons 16 years or older
be $10.
New law changes the fee from $10 to $15.
Prior law authorized the Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV) to issue an ID card for a period
of less than four years in circumstances of medical, legal presence, or other special
restriction. Required the ID card issued to a properly documented alien student or a
nonresident alien to expire on the date the alien's immigration documents expire or four years
after issuance, whichever was sooner.
New law changes the four-year period to a six-year period.
New law creates the Office of Motor Vehicles Special Identification Card Escrow Fund,
which is a special statutorily dedicated fund account in the state treasury. Requires that after
compliance with the La. constitution the treasurer pay an amount equal to 1/3 of the monies
received by the state treasury pursuant to current law (R.S. 40:1321(C)) into the
Identification Card Account. Requires monies deposited into the Identification Card
Account be categorized as fees and self-generated revenue available for Fiscal Years 2026,
2027, 2032, 2033, 2038, and 2039. Further requires the provisions of R.S. 40:1321.1 be null,
void, and of no effect beginning on July 1, 2039.
Effective August 1, 2021.
(Amends R.S. 32:412.1(A) and (B) and 412.3(E) and R.S. 40:1321(C)(intro. para.) and (2)
and (D)(1)(a)(intro. para.) and (i); Adds R.S. 40:1321.1)