It’s official: If your car registration is due to be renewed July 1 or later, you’ll get an extra month to pay it.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation early this month approving the delay, which is a tactic by state Democrats to buy time to reach a budget deal and to keep vehicle license fees from dropping.

On July 1, the temporary, one-half percentage point increase in vehicle license fees expires. That would save a driver $75 a year on a car worth $15,000. But the higher vehicle license fee has generated $1.4 billion in extra revenue for state, and Brown and the Democrats want to keep the higher fee to help balance the budget. They’re hoping they can reach a budget deal by July 1 that includes the higher fee.

The DMV had been sending out renewal notices at least 60 days in advance, and while the legislation, Senate Bill 94, doesn’t say when the DMV should do it now, it’s expected the DMV will wait as long as possible, perhaps even the first of the month that your registration is due.

Police across California are being notified of the registration delay so that officers won’t pull you over for an expired tag.

And if you go on vacation out of state? DMV spokesman Armando Botello said the DMV has alerted all agencies via the National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System of the registration delay, so you shouldn’t get stopped for expired tags out of state too.