$140.00 Get You A Long Wait Time - Email Governor Abbott

[sweatmachine]

I just went through and emailed all of my reps as well. I'll report back if I hear anything from them.

[cmac]

I emailed my reps and gov. Worked like a charm. License was in print within 4 days of email. Of course, I had waited long enough that my info was already back from FBI and waiting to be worked.

[Smokey613]

You could always move to Alabama. It took my son, who lives in Loxley,AL 30 minutes to get his Alabama CHL from start to finish. I was amazed at the process. :)

[Smokey613]

Interesting news article:

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/ ... nses.html/

[Bare00foot]

I understand that technically the budget money is not there for DPS to add staff...BUT: it really is. Think about it this way:

The supervisor at DPS (whom the 21 current processors report to), told me that historically they've had about 55,000 applicants in process at any given time (or for a 6-week processing cycle, that's just under 10,000 applicants per week). Currently they're sitting on a backlog of 160,000 applications. The revenue to the state for the extra 105,000 applicants is $14.7 MILLION!!!! That buys ALOT of processors for a long time. If all-in costs for each employee was $100,000, then the extra funds would employ 147 processors.

Said another way, sure - the additional expense for more processors was not budgeted, but neither was the additional revenue.

[domobro]

I understand that technically the budget money is not there for DPS to add staff...BUT: it really is. Think about it this way:

The supervisor at DPS (whom the 21 current processors report to), told me that historically they've had about 55,000 applicants in process at any given time (or for a 6-week processing cycle, that's just under 10,000 applicants per week). Currently they're sitting on a backlog of 160,000 applications. The revenue to the state for the extra 105,000 applicants is $14.7 MILLION!!!! That buys ALOT of processors for a long time. If all-in costs for each employee was $100,000, then the extra funds would employ 147 processors.

Said another way, sure - the additional expense for more processors was not budgeted, but neither was the additional revenue.

Seems legit.

[16Adams]

The LTC licensing fees go to the General Revenue fund not Texas DPS. Neither do fines from tickets. http://www.texastransparency.org/State_ ... p41-45.php

[16Adams]

And here is where the money goes by agency and category. The legislature meets for 90 days every two years to allocate money for programs.

http://www.texastransparency.org/State_ ... /Spending/

[domobro]

I just got off of the phone with RSD. They have zero clue. There was a correction made to my CHL100 that needed to be initialed. I changed and initialed it and FAXed it to them as they requested. They did not receive it. That is what I learned. If I didn't call to find out I would have been mailed a letter and been further delayed. I will get them the paperwork this evening and be able to keep my original all in date of 5March2016. If you FAX a document there is no way for them to confirm receipt.

[nyj]

Whoa Betsy...

Back in the day, a lot of us waited 4 -6 months.

Have patience.

Yep, 6 months easily. Their system is overwhelmed. Chill out. My renewal took closer to 60 days.