Relating to driver’s licenses and nonoperator identification cards for victims of domestic abuse

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.