The Missouri House and Senate committees heard bills that would suspend driver's licenses for unpaid parking tickets. Liz Cafer has the story in Jefferson City. The House bill would give cities the power to suspend driver's licenses for 10 unpaid parking fines. Car owners would only have to collect three unpaid tickets to lose their licenses under the Senate bill.
Representatives say the bill is patterned after an Illinois law that has been effective in Chicago.
But Reprentative Fred Pouche of the House Motor Vehicle Committee says the bill would be ineffective in college towns like Columbia. So the state's going to be spinning their wheels and spending money and trying to send out notices and things.