To sign up for e-mail vehicle or boat registration renewal reminders
Want the government to encourage personal responsibility?
Senate Bill 5727 is for you.
If passed, the state Department of Licensing would stop mailing cards to remind you it’s time to renew your vehicle registration.
Tony Sermonti, department spokesman, said not sending out 6.5 million cards a year would save about $3.8 million.
The cards are mailed only as a courtesy, he said.
“Our budget is being cut,” Sermonti said. “We have to streamline.”
Sermonti said vehicle owners can sign up for online notification.
Otherwise, “a great reminder is to look at your license plate,” Sermonti said.
The proposed bill, sponsored by State Sens. Scott White, D-Seattle, Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island, and Paull Shinn, D-Edmonds, at the request of the department, authorizes charging people $5 a year to still receive notices in the mail.