State law will increase fees if you're late renewing your tag

If you don't renew your tags in time, you're late fee will increase by 300%.

Instead of 25 cents a day for an expired tag, you'll pay a dollar, but that's not all.

"If you buy a car, there is excise, which there can be a penalty on.  There's the registration, which there can be penalty and the tag.  So potentially, if a person buys a car and they wait beyond the 30 days, that can be $3 a day," said Lex Gaylord, manager of the Tulsa Eastside Tag Agency.

Plus, the amount at which those fees max out is increasing too.

"As opposed to capping a tag, say at $50, for a maximum, it caps that tag at $100," said Gaylord.

Lawmakers say the idea behind it, is to get people to pay on time, and the millions in revenue will go to help small town Oklahoma.

"The purpose of that is to go to rural infrastructure.  We have a lot of infrastructure needs out in the rural areas," said State Representative Chris Benge, House Speaker, (R)-Tulsa.

But some drivers say the state is asking for too much in a tough economy.

"It's already hard enough as it is.  Why make things any harder?  Everybody struggling right now," said driver Marvin Thomas.

However, driver Chuck Breckenridge say a struggling economy is all the more reason the state needs the money. 
Plus, he says it could keep motorists on their toes.

"I think it makes people more responsible," said Breckenridge.

If your tag expired June 30th or earlier, the old fee of 25 cents a day applies.

150 state laws will go into effect July 1st.  One of the laws will reform the state's foster care system.  The law will reduce the number of kids in state care, by working to provide families services so the children can stay with their parents or family members.  The law also aims to reduce the number of kids who stay in state shelters.

Another law changes the state agency who oversees state testing data for students.

Benge says a health care reform bill will go into effect in November that will provide insurance for many uninsured.

Below is a list of the Senate bill taking effect July 1st, to see the House bills going into law click on the attachment above.

Measure Number	Short Title	Primary Author
SB52	Oklahoma State Employees Benefits Council; updating reference to agency granting a certificate of authority to a Health Maintenance Organization; deleting flexible benefit allowance related to TRICARE supplemental products. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Jolley H-Ortega
SB63	State Board of Career and Technology Education; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB69	Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education; authorizing expenditure. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB71	Commissioners of the Land Office; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB73	Oklahoma Department of Libraries; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB79	Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB81	Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB87	Office of the State Bond Advisor; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB89	Department of Central Services; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB93	Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB95	Ethics Commission; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB107	Merit Protection Commission; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB109	Military Department of the State of Oklahoma; Setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB111	Office of Personnel Management; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB119	Oklahoma Tax Commission; making appropriations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB121	Department of Transportation; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB123	Office of the State Treasurer; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB125	Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB127	Office of Disability Concerns; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB131	Oklahoma Health Care Authority; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB133	Oklahoma Human Rights Commission; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB137	Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB139	J.D. McCarty Center for Children with Developmental disabilities; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB147	University Hospitals Authority; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB153	Oklahoma Department of Commerce; making an appropriation; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB155	Oklahoma Conservation Commission; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB163	Oklahoma Historical Society; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB169	J.M. Davis Memorial Commission; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB170	Department of Labor; relating to the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Act; modifying fees. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB171	Department of Labor; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB175	Scenic Rivers Commission; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB179	Oklahoma Water Resources Board; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB181	Will Rogers Memorial Commission; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB189	Court of Criminal Appeal; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB191	District Attorney Council; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB193	Supreme Court for District Courts; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB197	Oklahoma Indigent Defense System; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB201	Council on Judicial Complaints; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB206	Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control; making an appropriation. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB212	Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges; modifying funded ratio. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB215	Workers' Compensation Court; setting budgetary limitations. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB222	Schools; creating the Educational Accountability Reform Act. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Jolley H-Miller
SB232	State employees; modifying methodology for accrual of leave; deleting restriction. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB248	Game and fish; modifying exceptions to prohibitions. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Ford H-Sears
SB257	Career and technology education; authorizing transfer of surplus property from one district to another or to the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Corn H-Denney
SB269	Counties and county officers; relating to duties of county officer and commission membership; deleting rate of interest; authorizing persons to designate alternate to commission. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Crain H-Wright (John)
SB275	Technology center school districts; providing for apportionment of district into district zones; providing procedures; providing for promulgating rules for election of district board members from district zones. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Corn H-Renegar
SB277	Game and fish; requiring license for certain persons; requiring Department of Wildlife Conservation to promulgate rules; setting fee. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Schulz H-Armes
SB290	Schools; requiring correlation of academic credit for concurrently enrolled courses on student transcripts. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Coates H-Sears
SB299	Motor vehicles; transferring authority to sell seized vehicles. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Bingman H-Thompson
SB310	Schools; relating to the Oklahoma Health Care Workers and Educators Assistance Program; making award of scholarships contingent on availability of funds. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Paddack H-Cox
SB313	Revenue and taxation; modifying time period during which gross production tax exemption may be claimed. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Bingman H-Thompson
SB318	Revenue and taxation and motor vehicles; modifying various sections of the tax code. Effective dates. Emergency.	S-Mazzei H-Hickman
SB349	Environment and natural resources; requiring recordable notices for property remediation. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Myers H-Richardson
SB353	Public health and safety; relating to the Governmental Tort Claims Act; modifying definition; relating to the Volunteer Medical Professional Services Immunity Act; expanding scope. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Rice H-Cox
SB357	Counties and county officers; relating to fire protection services; adding services. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Crutchfield H-Hilliard
SB397	Counties and county officers; modifying amount of employer contribution to county retirement systems. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Crain H-Sullivan
SB399	Roads, bridges and ferries; establishing the Safe Routes to Schools program. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Branan H-Shannon
SB446	Oklahoma Brownfields Voluntary Redevelopment Act; modifying permit procedures. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Bingman H-Richardson
SB473	Schools; providing additional criteria under which a school performance review may be conducted by Office of Accountability. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Ford H-Banz
SB525	Schools; relating to the Ardmore Higher Education Program; authorizing the Board of Trustees to establish plans and benefits for its employees. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Crutchfield H-Ownbey
SB539	Criminal procedure; relating to the victims and witnesses rights; expanding scope of rights; stating certain duty of law enforcement officer; providing written victim notification; Effective date. Emergency.	S-Reynolds H-Tibbs
SB582	Schools; relating to alternative teacher certification; providing for licensure and certification of individuals eligible through the Troops to Teachers and Passport to Teaching programs. Effective date.	S-Jolley H-Jones
SB585	Open records; providing for confidentiality of campus security plans for public educational institutions. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Ford H-Coody
SB592	Professions and occupations; relating to the State Architectural and Registered Interior Designers Act; changing the name of the Act and the Board; modifying powers of the Board; providing for registered interior designers. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Ford H-Sears
SB604	Schools; creating Task Force on Internet-Based Instruction. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Stanislawski H-Sears
SB605	School security; establishing Oklahoma School Security Grant Program Act; directing Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security to solicit proposals and make grants for campus security to certain institutions. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Lamb H-Denney
SB614	Criminal procedure; modifying supervision fee; deleting sunset provision. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Anderson H-Duncan
SB636	Agriculture; relating to powers and duties of the Board; making it unlawful for persons to misrepresent the quantity determined by weights and measures. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Justice H-Armes
SB658	Motor vehicles; increasing penalty for failure to register vehicles within specified time period; providing for distribution of penalty amounts. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Aldridge H-Nelson
SB670	State government; relating to voluntary payroll deductions; increasing membership requirement; setting out changes which simplify calculations of the value of donated leave. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Aldridge H-Wright (John)
SB702	Crimes and punishments; increasing maximum imprisonment for kidnapping; modifying circumstances of rape by instrumentation. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Paddack H-Thomsen
SB712	Definitions and general provisions; providing for flying flag at half staff on day of soldier's memorial service. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Gumm H-Roan
SB726	Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System; modifying date; modifying requirements for fire departments to report information; relating to fire chiefs; prohibiting holding certain other positions. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Barrington H-Armes
SB764	Duplicate Sections; amending, merging, consolidating, and repealing multiple versions of statutes. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Anderson H-Duncan
SB844	Crimes and punishments; prohibiting scleral tattooing; defining term. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Branan H-Armes
SB857	Revenue and taxation; requiring specified entities to provide certain computer support and training to counties. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Ballenger H-Jackson
SB878	Public finance; authorizing examination fee for Attorney General bond review. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Johnson (Mike) H-Miller
SB888	Motor vehicles; modifying appointment of motor license agents. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Coffee H-Benge
SB899	Officers; requiring forfeiture of benefits by certain state or county officers or employees upon conviction of specified crimes. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Coffee H-Nelson
SB920	Insurance; modifying several provisions in the Service Warranty Insurance Act. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Sparks H-McDaniel (Randy)
SB964	Education; modifying membership of advisory committee; modifying duties of advisory committee. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Paddack H-Cox
SB982	Higher education; relating to the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program; specifying nonguaranteed resident tuition for award; delaying implementation of income limitation. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Ford H-Thomsen
SB1020	Crimes and punishments; prohibiting transmission of child pornography by Internet; criminalizing pattern of domestic abuse; prohibiting sex offenders from ice cream truck vending. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Nichols H-Terrill
SB1031	Wildlife; modifying license fees; specifying distribution of fees. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Sparks H-Schwartz
SB1062	Professions and occupations; creating the Oklahoma Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Myers H-DeWitt
SB1119	Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act; modifying provisions related to registration, order forms and dispensers. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Sykes H-Terrill
SB1138	Crimes and punishments; relating to child endangerment; creating vehicle-related offenses; providing for affirmative defense. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Easley H-McDaniel (Jeannie)
SB1166	Public health and safety; creating Regional Emergency Nine-One-One Services Act. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Jolley H-Terrill
SB1168	Schools; creating the Legislative Task Force on Achieving Classroom Excellence. Effective date. Emergency.	S-Ford H-Coody
SB1231	Insurance; relating to prepaid funeral services and funeral service merchandise; providing procedures. Effective dates. Emergency.	S-Jolley H-Martin (Scott)