{"id":168433,"date":"2019-03-28T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168433"},"modified":"2019-03-28T16:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:06:43","slug":"nd-senate-overrides-burgum-veto-drivers-license-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168433","title":{"rendered":"ND senate overrides Burgum veto, drivers license 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-27581\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DriverLicense-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DriverLicense-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DriverLicense-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DriverLicense.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota&#8217;s Senate dealt Gov. Doug Burgum his first veto setback of the session, overriding his rejection of a bill to raise driver&#8217;s license fees for the first time in more than 30 years.Senators voted 41-4 to override Burgum on Thursday. The legislation now goes to the House for an override vote.<\/p>\n<p>The 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>Burgum says the increase in fees &#8220;imposes an unnecessary additional burden on our residents.&#8221;<\/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 North Dakota&#8217;s Senate dealt Gov. Doug Burgum his first veto setback of the session, overriding his rejection of a bill to raise driver&#8217;s license fees for the first time in more than 30 years.Senators voted 41-4 to override Burgum on Thursday. The legislation now goes to [&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-168433","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\/168433","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=168433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168435,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168433\/revisions\/168435"}],"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=168433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}