An SR-22 lapse tends to end the same way in every state: the insurer reports the cancellation, the state suspends the license, and the driver eventually fixes the insurance problem. Then comes the part almost nobody budgets for. The state does not simply hand the license back once the suspension clears — it charges a reinstatement fee, and depending on where you live and how many times this has happened, that fee runs from $20 to $1,000.
This page collects those fees for ten states, each one read directly from the agency's own fee page or from the statute that sets it, with the date it was read. Four more states publish their fees on servers that refuse automated reading; rather than copy a number from a comparison site, this page says plainly that they could not be verified, and where to ask. Every figure below can change without notice — the agency's page, not this article, is always the authority.
One suspension, three separate bills
Drivers searching for "SR-22 cost" get three unrelated numbers mixed into one answer, and pages that blur them produce budgets that are wrong by hundreds of dollars. It is worth separating them once, clearly.
The reinstatement fee is what this article covers: a charge paid to the state agency — the DMV, BMV, DDS, or Department of Revenue, depending on the state — to restore a suspended or revoked license. It exists whether or not an SR-22 is involved, and the agency publishes it, which is why it can be verified.
The SR-22 filing fee is a separate, small administrative charge from your insurer for filing the certificate itself. It goes to the insurance company, not the state. If you are new to the form, start with what an SR-22 actually is — the certificate is proof of insurance, not a policy.
The premium is the largest of the three and the only one nobody can put in a table, because no insurer publishes a rate for an individual driving record. Our page on what moves an SR-22 premium up or down explains the factors; any site that prints "your SR-22 will cost $X per month" is guessing.
A lapse can trigger all three at once: the suspension that follows what happens when an SR-22 filing lapses ends in a reinstatement fee, a re-filing charge, and often a higher premium. Only the first of those appears below, because only the first is published by anyone.
The fees, read from the agencies themselves
Every amount in this table was read on September 1, 2026, from the page or statute named in the source list underneath. Where a state charges differently for insurance-related suspensions than for alcohol-related ones, both amounts appear — after a lapse, the insurance-related figure is usually the one you need. Several of these states are covered in more depth in this site's state guides, including the Florida guide, the California guide, the Indiana guide, and the Virginia guide.
| State |
What the fee applies to |
Amount |
Issuing body |
| California |
Reissue after suspension or revocation |
$55; $125 if the reissue follows an Admin Per Se (DUI arrest) action |
California DMV |
| Colorado |
Reinstatement, including points and insurance suspensions with an SR-22 requirement |
$95 |
Colorado DMV |
| Florida |
Reinstatement after a financial responsibility suspension |
$150 first; $250 second; $500 each subsequent within 3 years of the first |
Florida Legislature (statute) |
| Georgia |
No proof of insurance |
1st: $200 by mail / $210 in person; 2nd or more: $300 / $310 |
Georgia DDS |
| Indiana |
No-insurance suspension (on or after Jan. 1, 2015) |
$250 first; $500 second; $1,000 third and subsequent |
Indiana BMV |
| Minnesota |
Revocation, non-impaired-driving |
$30 |
Minnesota Legislature (statute) |
| Minnesota |
Impaired-driving revocation |
$250 fee plus $430 surcharge per revocation ($680 total) |
Minnesota Legislature (statute) |
| Missouri |
Failure to maintain insurance |
$20 first offense; $200 second; $400 third |
Missouri DOR |
| Oregon |
Reinstatement for a suspension or revocation |
$85 |
Oregon DMV |
| Virginia |
Insurance-related suspension $145; DUI revocation $220; plus $5 per additional active order |
$145–$220 |
Virginia DMV |
| Washington |
License reissue after suspension |
$75; $170 if the original charge was drug- or alcohol-related |
Washington DOL |
Sources, each read September 1, 2026:
- California: Reissue Fees, California DMV
- Colorado: Reinstating After Points, Tickets, or Child Support, Colorado DMV
- Florida: Fla. Stat. § 324.0221, Online Sunshine
- Georgia: Reinstatement Fees and Payment, Georgia DDS
- Indiana: Indiana Driver's Manual, Chapter 5, Indiana BMV
- Minnesota: Minn. Stat. § 171.29, Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Missouri: Reinstatement Requirements, Missouri Department of Revenue
- Oregon: Driver Licensing & ID Card Fees, Oregon DMV
- Virginia: Reinstatement Fees, Virginia DMV
- Washington: Unresolved Traffic Citations, Washington State DOL
The one state that lets you pay it in instalments
Minnesota is worth reading in the statute rather than in the table, because its own wording carries something no fee page mentions. Minn. Stat. § 171.29 subd. 2 sets the impaired-driving figure as a fee and a surcharge, not one amount:
"A person whose driver's license has been revoked under section 169A.52, 169A.54, 171.177, 609.2112, 609.2113, or 609.2114 ... must pay a $250 fee plus a $430 surcharge for each instance of revocation before the driver's license is reinstated."
Read the phrase "for each instance of revocation" carefully: the $680 is not a one-off ceiling, it repeats. Two revocations mean two surcharges.
The subdivision then does something none of the ten agency pages advertises — it allows the total to be split. A driver may pay "50 percent and an additional $25 of the total amount of the surcharge and 50 percent of the fee" up front, in which case the licence expires after two years and the balance extends it by two more. That is a documented instalment route through the single largest reinstatement charge in this table, and it exists in the statute rather than on the counter.
The same subdivision also shows where the money goes, which is unusual enough to be worth stating: of the $430 surcharge, $50 is directed to the traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury account and the remainder to the remote electronic alcohol-monitoring programme account. A reinstatement fee is often assumed to be an administrative cost of processing the paperwork. In Minnesota, most of it demonstrably is not.
Two of these figures deserve a warning even after verification. Oregon's live fee table says $85, while an older $75 figure still surfaced repeatedly in search results — a reminder of how fast a republished number goes stale. And Missouri's $20 first-offense fee is the lowest in the table by a wide margin, which makes it the number most often quoted out of context; the same page lists $400 for a third offense.
Four states we could not read at the source
Texas, Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin all publish reinstatement fees, and all four host them on servers that refused every connection attempted on September 1, 2026 — dps.texas.gov refused the connection outright, bmv.ohio.gov returned an access-denied page, ilsos.gov returned 403 Forbidden, and wisconsindot.gov denied both automated and browser access. The same hosts refused access when this site last tried in August.
We will not print a number we could not read, and we would not source one to an aggregator. If you are reinstating in one of these four states, get the amount from the agency itself: dps.texas.gov for the Texas Department of Public Safety, bmv.ohio.gov for the Ohio BMV, ilsos.gov for the Illinois Secretary of State, and wisconsindot.gov for the Wisconsin DMV. These sites may open normally in your own browser even though they refuse automated readers, and each agency will also quote the exact balance on your record by phone or through its driver-record service. Five minutes with the primary source beats any number a third-party page can offer you, including ours.
Where the fee shrinks — and where it disappears
The table rewards a second read, because several agencies build in ways to pay less that rarely make it into secondary coverage.
Indiana's is the most valuable. The BMV's driver's manual states that a driver may reinstate without paying the no-insurance fee at all by having the insurer file an SR-22 electronically and keeping it active for 180 consecutive days. On a third suspension that provision is worth $1,000. It comes with a trap, though: if the insurer files the SR-26 cancellation notice during those 180 days, the fee snaps back onto the record. The waiver only pays out if the policy survives the full stretch.
Georgia discounts most reinstatements by $10 when you pay by mail or online instead of walking into a customer service center — the difference between $210 and $200 on a first no-insurance offense. Minnesota lets impaired-driving drivers split the $680 into two installments, paying half the fee and half the surcharge plus $25 up front. Virginia caps stacked suspensions sensibly: with multiple active orders you pay the single highest fee owed plus $5 per additional order, not the full fee for each.
None of these provisions is a loophole. Each one is printed by the agency that collects the money, which is exactly why they are safe to rely on — and why a fee page is always worth reading past the first number.
Pay in the right order, or you pay twice
The expensive mistake with reinstatement is not the fee itself — it is paying it at the wrong moment. Before any money moves, pull your driver record from the agency's own portal. The record tells you three things this article cannot: your exact eligibility date, the specific suspensions still open, and the precise balance the agency wants, which matters in states like Indiana and Georgia where each suspension carries its own fee.
Then sequence it. If your state requires an SR-22 for reinstatement, the filing generally must be on record before the fee payment does anything useful — a paid fee with no certificate on file leaves the license suspended, and the walkthrough on reinstating after a license suspension covers that ordering in detail. Confirm the suspension period has actually expired before paying, since several states will accept your money early without restoring anything.
Finally, re-check the agency's fee page the week you pay, not the week you first researched. Fee schedules change by legislative session and without ceremony; the gap between Oregon's live table and the figure circulating in search results is what that drift looks like in practice. If the number on the agency's page disagrees with the number here, the agency is right and this page is out of date — that is the standard this site holds every dollar amount to.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the reinstatement fee the same as the SR-22 filing fee?
No. The reinstatement fee goes to the state agency to restore your license after a suspension, and the agency publishes the amount. The SR-22 filing fee is a small administrative charge your insurer collects for filing the certificate. They arrive around the same time, which is why they get confused, but they are paid to different parties for different things.
Do I pay one reinstatement fee, or one per suspension?
It depends on the state, and the difference is large. Georgia charges a separate fee for each suspension on the record. Virginia charges only the highest single fee you owe, plus $5 for each additional active order. Your driver record lists every open suspension, so pull it before paying — it is the only document that shows your true total.
Why does my state quote me a different amount than this table?
Because fee schedules change without notice, and the agency's page is the authority, not this article. Every figure here carries the date it was read — September 1, 2026 — and was accurate at its source that day. If your agency's site or your official driver record shows something different today, trust the agency and treat this table as the older document.
What if my state is not in the table?
We only list amounts we could read on the agency's own page or in the statute, and four states — Texas, Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin — actively block that reading. For any state not listed, go to the licensing agency's fee page directly or call its driver services line, and be wary of third-party sites that print a number without naming its source.
This article is general information, not legal or insurance advice. Fee schedules change without notice; the issuing agency's published schedule is the authority for every amount on this page. All figures were read at the linked primary sources on September 1, 2026.
