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How much is your identity worth?  If you were a registered driver in Florida from 2000 to 2004, state lawmakers will be giving you a one dollar credit the next time you renew your license plate because of a lawsuit over the sale of driver’s license records, but as Mike Vasilinda tells us, you may have a hard time noticing the break.

From 2000 to 2004, the state violated federal driver license protection policies.  It allowed your information to be sold without asking first. Four people sued asking for 25 hundred dollars for every driver in the state.

Now a settlement is in the works that will give every driver a one dollar credit the next time you renew a car tag. The cost to the state: just over ten million.

The state is getting off easy. When it was selling this information, it was getting 30 million dollars a year.

Greg Evers is sponsoring the tag credit.

“Whether it’s a dollar here or a dollar there, Ben Franklin said a penny saved, is a penny earned,” Rep. Greg Evers (R-Milton) said.

But it is dollar you may never see.

Later this week, lawmakers will roll out $800 million in new license fees. The cost of renewing or replacing your driver’s license will go up. So will the cost of a license plate.

Julio Robaina wants to raise the cost of not paying your tickets on time or reinstating a suspended license. He’ll use the money to pay police.”

“The intent of this is to try to keep these law enforcement officers in place,” Robaina said. “There’s more cuts, means more of them will leave.”

So the dollar credit, which isn’t much anyway, will be a one time offset to permanently higher car and license fees.

Drivers don’t need to do anything to get the dollar credit once it is approved. It will automatically show up after July 1st, when you renew your tag.