Craig Allen Banks

The committee reviewed and approved several new license plate applications, including those for Make A Wish Alabama, Mental Health Matters, Tags for Moody Teachers, Alabama Respiratory Therapist, America 250 AL, Georgia Tech, and OTC Mental Health Awareness. Additionally, the committee addressed applications for license plate reissuance and redesign, granting favorable outcomes for the A Pink Breast Cancer Tag, Helping Schools, and Habitat for Humanity tags. Applications for reissuance while retaining current designs were also approved for Jefferson State Community College, Shriners Hospital, and Thank A Lineman, and the committee acknowledged various non-LOC organizational reissuance requests.

The committee reviewed and provided favorable recommendations for several new license plate applications, including those for the Alabama Pinhoti Trail Association, PTSD Awareness, and Saraland City Schools. Additionally, the committee approved applications for the reissuance and retention of designs for the Choose Life and God Bless America tags, as well as the reissuance and redesign of the Talladega College tag. The committee also engaged in a discussion regarding HB321.

The meeting included updates on the OIVS ad campaign and the OIVS pilot program, noting that all pilot counties should have programming completed by July 1, 2012, and be using the new registration database layout by September 1, 2012. There was also discussion regarding an administrative rule to permit officials to assign identification numbers for registrants without standard identification. The council discussed insurance data transfers and cleaning up mismatched VIN records. Smaller insurers were included in the pilot group of insurers. The department's electronic evidence of insurance administrative rule became effective June 8, 2012.

The meeting included an OIVS update with statistics on requests, law enforcement users, questionnaires, and registration suspensions. There was discussion regarding insurers manually confirming insurance, contacting insurers about unconfirmed responses, and the high number of "system unavailable" responses. The council discussed reverification of registrations and the potential for a tapering system. The Insurance Research Council's upcoming report was mentioned, and alternative methods for determining Alabama's uninsured motorist rate were offered for investigation.

The meeting addressed several key areas, including the OIVS ad campaign with a focus on brochure and poster designs for county licensing offices, and a media campaign mirroring the "Click It or Ticket" initiative. An update on the OIVS pilot program discussed concerns from pilot counties, particularly regarding VIN mismatches and the process for handling unconfirmed insurance verifications. The council also discussed the transfer of insurance data, with a report of 2.3 million vehicle insurance records received to date, and the need for insurers to use the 2008 ANSI schema for data uploads. Additionally, the council reviewed updates to the OIVS User Guide, including the requirement for a legal trading partner agreement and security measures for data exchange via web services.