Budget Amendment ID: FY2019-S4-1084

EPS 1084

Collection of Sex Offender Registration Fee in coordination with the RMV

Messrs. Tarr, O'Connor and Fattman moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after Section _,  the following new section:- 

“SECTION_. Section 178Q of chapter 6 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition,

is hereby amended by inserting the following paragraph:-

The sex offender registry board shall, within 30 days of a sex offender's failure of the requirement under this section to pay said sex offender registry fee or any portion thereof, report to the registry of motor vehicles the offender's name, other necessary identifying information as determined by the registrar of motor vehicles, and the unpaid amount of any sex offender registration fee owed. The registry of motor vehicles shall not issue or renew a driver's license, or motor vehicle registration for any vehicle subsequently purchased, to any offender reported with an unpaid sex offender registration fee until it receives subsequent notification from the sex offender registry board that the reported offender's fee has been paid.”