{"id":167983,"date":"2019-03-22T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167983"},"modified":"2019-03-22T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:54:32","slug":"burgum-vetoes-driving-license-fee-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167983","title":{"rendered":"Burgum vetoes drivers license fee hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"summary ap-serif d-block mb-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-147126\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BurgumCSiphoto-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BurgumCSiphoto-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BurgumCSiphoto-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BurgumCSiphoto.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has vetoed a bill to raise driver&#8217;s license fees for the first time in more than 30 years.In his veto message Friday, Burgum says the increase in fees &#8220;imposes an unnecessary additional burden on our residents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-led House and Senate easily passed the legislation that raises commercial and non-commercial driver&#8217;s license fees from $15 to $30.<\/p>\n<p>A two-thirds vote in both chambers is needed to override a governor&#8217;s veto. Legislative leaders have not signaled if they will challenge the veto.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature last raised the driver&#8217;s license fees in 1987. Several prior attempts to raise the fees have been rebuffed by lawmakers, who called it a tax increase.<\/p>\n<p>The increased fees are expected to raise $5.5 million in a two-year budget cycle.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has vetoed a bill to raise driver&#8217;s license fees for the first time in more than 30 years.In his veto message Friday, Burgum says the increase in fees &#8220;imposes an unnecessary additional burden on our residents.&#8221; The Republican-led House and Senate easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167985,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167983\/revisions\/167985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}