Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to driver’s licenses and nonoperator identification cards for victims of domestic abuse
Topics:Transportation
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 2, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 3, 2022
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to driver’s licenses and nonoperator identification cards for victims of domestic abuse. The bill requires the department of justice to adopt rules to create and issue a domestic abuse relief inquiry document to allow a victim of domestic abuse to obtain a nonoperator’s identification card. The document shall contain the victim’s full legal name and date of birth and be notarized. The bill allows the department of justice to authorize a provider of emergency shelter services and support services to victims of domestic abuse to issue domestic abuse relief inquiry documents.
Read the full explanation
The bill allows a person to apply for a driver’s license without surrendering all other driver’s licenses and nonoperator’s licenses or certifying the person has no other driver’s license if the person is applying for a driver’s license using a properly completed domestic relief inquiry document. The bill allows a person to obtain a nonoperator’s identification card if the person is applying for a card using a properly completed domestic abuse relief inquiry document. The bill directs the department of transportation, in collaboration with the department of justice, to amend its administrative rules to provide that a victim of domestic abuse who submits a notarized domestic abuse relief inquiry document to the department of transportation shall satisfy the requirements to obtain a nonoperator’s identification card and identification requirements to obtain a driver’s license.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 3, 2022. It hasn’t reported yet.
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