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FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[TRULY AGREED TO AND FINALLY PASSED]
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 3
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2025
0348S.03T
AN ACT
To repeal section 136.055, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
department of revenue fee offices.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
1 Section A. Section 136.055, RSMo, is repealed and one new
2 section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 136.055,
3 to read as follows:
1 136.055. 1. Any person who is selected or appointed
2 by the state director of revenue as provided in subsection 2
3 of this section to act as an agent of the department of
4 revenue, whose duties shall be the processing of motor
5 vehicle title and registration transactions and the
6 collection of sales and use taxes when required under
7 sections 144.070 and 144.440, and who receives no salary
8 from the department of revenue, shall be authorized to
9 collect from the party requiring such services additional
10 fees as compensation in full and for all services rendered
11 on the following basis:
12 (1) For each motor vehicle [or trailer] registration
13 issued, renewed, or transferred[, six dollars and twelve
14 dollars for those licenses sold or biennially renewed
15 pursuant to section 301.147;]:
16 (a) Nine dollars for annual registration; or
EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
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17 (b) Eighteen dollars for biennial registration;
18 (2) For each trailer registration issued, renewed, or
19 transferred:
20 (a) Nine dollars for annual registration;
21 (b) Twenty-seven dollars for three-year registration;
22 or
23 (c) Forty-five dollars for permanent registration;
24 (3) For each application or transfer of title, [six]
25 nine dollars;
26 [(3)] (4) For each instruction permit, nondriver
27 license, chauffeur's, operator's or driver's license issued
28 for a period of three years or less, [six] nine dollars and
29 [twelve] eighteen dollars for licenses or instruction
30 permits issued or renewed for a period exceeding three years;
31 [(4)] (5) For each notice of lien processed, [six]
32 nine dollars;
33 [(5)] (6) Notary fee or electronic transmission per
34 processing, two dollars.
35 2. The director of revenue shall award fee office
36 contracts under this section through a competitive bidding
37 process. The competitive bidding process shall give
38 priority to organizations and entities that are exempt from
39 taxation under Section 501(c)(3), 501(c)(6), or 501(c)(4),
40 except those civic organizations that would be considered
41 action organizations under 26 C.F.R. Section 1.501 (c)(3)-
42 1(c)(3), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,
43 with special consideration given to those organizations and
44 entities that reinvest a minimum of seventy-five percent of
45 the net proceeds to charitable organizations in Missouri,
46 and political subdivisions, including but not limited to,
47 municipalities, counties, and fire protection districts.
48 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the
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49 director of revenue shall not award any fee office contract
50 under this section to any entity affiliated in any manner
51 with a current employee of the department of revenue or with
52 a former employee of the department of revenue for the one-
53 year period following the former employee's termination of
54 employment with the department. For purposes of this
55 subsection, "affiliated in any manner" includes owning the
56 entity or serving as an officer or board member of such
57 entity. Additionally, no person affiliated in any manner
58 with an entity awarded a fee office contract under this
59 section shall be affiliated in any manner with an entity
60 acting as a motor vehicle title service agent as prescribed
61 in sections 301.112 to 301.119. The director of the
62 department of revenue may promulgate rules and regulations
63 necessary to carry out the provisions of this subsection.
64 Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in
65 section 536.010, that is created under the authority
66 delegated in this subsection shall become effective only if
67 it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of
68 chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This
69 section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the
70 powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter
71 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove
72 and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional,
73 then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed
74 or adopted after August 28, 2009, shall be invalid and void.
75 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
76 contrary, the director of revenue shall have the authority
77 to enter into a contract amendment or renewal, for any
78 contract for a fee office awarded through the competitive
79 bidding process after September 1, 2009, to extend such
80 contract for up to a five-year period to begin after the
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81 expiration date of such contract. The director of revenue
82 shall evaluate performance under the contract when deciding
83 whether to enter into contract amendments or renewals
84 authorized in this subsection. Nothing shall obligate the
85 director to offer such extension or renewal. A
86 competitively awarded contract may only be extended once
87 pursuant to this subsection.
88 4. All fees authorized under this section collected by
89 a [tax-exempt organization] contract fee office may be
90 retained and used by the [organization] entity operating the
91 contract fee office, and all fees authorized under this
92 section collected by a fee office operated by the department
93 of revenue shall be considered state revenue.
94 [4.] 5. All fees charged shall not exceed those in
95 this section. The fees [imposed by] authorized under this
96 section shall be collected by all [permanent] contract fee
97 offices and shall be collected by all full-time or temporary
98 offices [maintained] operated by the department of revenue.
99 [5.] 6. Any person acting as agent of the department
100 of revenue for the sale and issuance of registrations,
101 licenses, and other documents related to motor vehicles
102 shall have an insurable interest in all license plates,
103 licenses, tabs, forms and other documents held on behalf of
104 the department.
105 [6.] 7. The fees authorized by this section shall not
106 be collected by motor vehicle dealers acting as agents of
107 the department of revenue under section 32.095 or those
108 motor vehicle dealers authorized to collect and remit sales
109 tax under subsection 10 of section 144.070.
110 [7.] 8. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to
111 the contrary, the state auditor may audit all records
112 maintained and established by the fee office in the same
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113 manner as the auditor may audit any agency of the state, and
114 the department shall ensure that this audit requirement is a
115 necessary condition for the award of all fee office
116 contracts. No confidential records shall be divulged in
117 such a way to reveal personally identifiable information.
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