Virginia company sues over Mo. records fees

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The company hired to overhaul Missouri's driver's license and motor vehicle records system is challenging a state law capping fees for those records.

The lawsuit was filed by Virginia-based BearingPoint Inc. after lawmakers voted to limit the charge for driver's license and motor vehicle records to one-half cent per record. Lawmakers set the limit after the Revenue Department began charging $7 for records that had cost a fraction of a cent per record for bulk purchases.

The department planned to pay its $50 million contract with BearingPoint using profits from records requests and by letting the consulting firm keep $1 from every record sale.

BearingPoint contends the new price cap should be struck down because it was amended to property tax legislation. The suit claims that wrongly mixes multiple subjects.