Official Text and Analysis.

• Eliminates drivers' license suspension for the failure to pay, respond, or appear at a requested hearing for a traffic infraction for a moving violation. • Authorizes the Department of Licensing (DOL) to reinstate all driver's licenses suspended for reasons that are no longer grounds for suspension. • Requires DOL to take reasonable steps to notify anyone whose driver's license was suspended who may qualify for reinstatement, and create an online application process for people to use to determine whether they are eligible for reinstatement, within 90 days of the effective date of the legislation.

Provides the court is not required to enter into a payment plan with an individual if the court has already referred the matter for enforcement action by a collections agency; decreases the time period from 120 days to 90 days from the date of the infraction before the court can refer an obligation to a collections agency; authorizes the court to require a person who fails to pay under a payment plan to appear for a hearing and provide evidence of inability to pay; authorizes driver's license suspension for an individual who fails to appear at a hearing for a moving violation.

Removes the additional $4 fee on traffic infractions. Maintains $4 diversion from the general fund to the new driver licensing technology support account.

Removes the additional $2 assessment on each traffic infraction.

Removes the additional $1 assessment on driver license and identicards applications.

Authorizes the suspension of a person's driver's license or driving privileges if the person has failed to respond to a notice of traffic infraction for a moving violation or failed to appear at a requested hearing for a moving violation. Removes the requirement that the court enter into a payment plan with a person who has failed to pay a monetary obligation associated with a traffic infraction if the court has previously entered into a payment plan with the person for the same monetary obligation. Clarifies that multiple traffic infractions issued during or as the result of a single traffic stop constitute a single occasion for determining the number of infractions a person has committed. Removes the requirement that the Department of Licensing make efforts to personally notify individuals who may qualify for reinstatement but retains the requirement that DOL publicize the availability of relief.