Driver's licenses in Kentucky would be issued every eight years, instead of four, and the cost would go from 20-dollars to 50-dollars.
That’s the recommendation from the commissioner of the State’s Department of Motor Vehicle Regulation Randy Kuhl. He says other states are switching to an eight-year license period.
Kuhl says the price increase would be to help his department recover more of the cost for processing the license card.
“Right now, Kentucky pays two dollars and ninety-five cents for the card that we actually issue. Out of the twenty dollars that is being paid by the citizen, only a dollar of that comes back to us. So, after every card that’s issued right now, the Department of Vehicle Regulation loses a dollar ninety-five on all of those.”
If the charge is raised to fifty dollars, Kuhl is suggesting that twenty-eight dollars be earmarked for the State Road Fund. Currently, he says, thirteen dollars and sixty cents of the twenty dollar fee goes to the Road Fund.
Kuhl testified on Thursday (November 5) before the Kentucky Legislature’s Interim Joint Committee on Transportation.
