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Relating to driver’s licenses and nonoperator identification cards for victims of domestic abuse
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
AI summary Victims of domestic abuse can use a special notarized document to get a new driver's license or ID card. This new process allows them to get these documents without having to turn in their old ones first. Certain emergency shelters and support services may also be allowed to help issue these documents.1
Read the official explanation
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. 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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