DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE FEE OFFICES (Section 136.055)

Current law allows the Department of Revenue to promulgate rules and regulations for the awarding of fee office contracts, including preferences for certain non-profit organizations. This act replaces a portion of such preferences with a preference for "Missouri not-for profit corporations", and requires such rules to include a preference for persons and entities based in a location near the fee office location. If the Department utilizes any scoring mechanism for evaluating bids, such mechanism shall award bonus points based on the proximity between where the person or entity is based and the location of the fee office, as described in the act. Persons and entities that are residents of this state, as described in the act, shall be awarded a bonus of ten percent of the total available points.

No contract shall be awarded to a person or entity that is not in compliance with these provisions, or to an entity that has not been registered with the Secretary of State for at least one year.

These provisions are identical to provisions in HCS/SB 782 (2020), provisions in HCS/SB 686 (2020), and provisions in HCS/SCS/SB 867 (2020), and similar to SB 777 (2020) and HCS/HB 2121 (2020).

PURPLE HEART SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES (Section 301.451)

Currently, a recipient of the Purple Heart medal shall be charged only regular registration fees to be issued Purple Heart special license plates from the Department of Revenue.

This act exempts Purple Heart special license plates from vehicle registration fees for the first set of the plates issued to an eligible person.

Under the act, any registered co-owner of the vehicle shall be entitled to use and renew the plates until he or she remarries, or for the rest of his or her life if he or she does not remarry.

These provisions are identical to provisions in HCS/SB 782(2020), provisions in HCS/SB 656 (2020), provisions in HCS/SB 686 (2020), and provisions in HCS/SCS/SB 867 (2020).

ERIC VANDER WEERD