Bill Text: IA SF2027 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to driver’s licenses marked to reflect veteran status for members of the reserve forces of the United States and the Iowa national guard.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-16 - Subcommittee: Dawson, Allen, and Lofgren. S.J. 109. [SF2027 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2027-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2027 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  JOCHUM

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to driver's licenses marked to reflect veteran
  2    status for members of the reserve forces of the United
  3    States and the Iowa national guard.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.189, subsection 8, Code 2018, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    8.  Veterans status.  A licensee who is an honorably
  1  4 discharged veteran of the armed forces of the United States may
  1  5 request that the license be marked to reflect the licensee's
  1  6 veteran status. Upon such a request, the word "VETERAN" shall
  1  7 be marked prominently on the face of the license. Such a
  1  8 license shall be issued upon receipt of satisfactory proof
  1  9 of veteran status pursuant to procedures established by the
  1 10 department in consultation with the department of veterans
  1 11 affairs, or upon presentation of the licensee's certification
  1 12 of release or discharge from active duty, DD form 214, to
  1 13 the department at the time of the licensee's request, if the
  1 14 form indicates the licensee was honorably discharged. If
  1 15 the license is issued upon presentation of the licensee's
  1 16 certification of release or discharge from active duty,
  1 17 DD form 214, the department shall notify the commission of
  1 18 veteran affairs of the county of the licensee's residence
  1 19 that the licensee was issued a license marked to reflect the
  1 20 licensee's veteran status. After receiving notification
  1 21 from the department, the commission of veteran affairs shall
  1 22 initiate contact with the licensee.  For purposes of this
  1 23 subsection, "veteran" means as defined in section 35.1 but shall
  1 24 also include any member of the reserve forces of the United
  1 25 States discharged under honorable conditions and any member of
  1 26 the Iowa national guard discharged under honorable conditions
  1 27 regardless of the aggregate number of days of federal active
  1 28 duty served by the member and regardless of whether the member
  1 29 was activated for federal duty.
  1 30                           EXPLANATION
  1 31 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 32 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 33    Under current law, a person who is an honorably discharged
  1 34 veteran of the armed forces of the United States may request
  1 35 that the person's driver's license be marked to reflect the
  2  1 person's veteran status. Such a license is required to be
  2  2 issued upon receipt of satisfactory proof of veteran status
  2  3 pursuant to procedures established by the department of
  2  4 transportation (DOT) in consultation with the department of
  2  5 veterans affairs (DVA), or upon presentation of the person's
  2  6 certification of release or discharge from active duty, DD form
  2  7 214, to the DOT.  The procedures established by the DOT (761
  2  8 IAC 605.2) require a person who was a member of the national
  2  9 guard or reserve forces and who applies directly to the DOT
  2 10 to present a DD form 214 which indicates that the person was
  2 11 honorably discharged after serving for at least a minimum
  2 12 aggregate of 90 days of active duty service for purposes other
  2 13 than training. A person who was a member of the national
  2 14 guard or reserve forces and who has a discharge document other
  2 15 than a DD form 214 must have the person's eligibility for a
  2 16 veteran designation determined by a designee of the Iowa DVA
  2 17 and is required to apply to the DVA for a veteran designation
  2 18 by submitting form 432035. Form 432035 requires the person
  2 19 to meet the definition of "veteran" set forth in Code section
  2 20 35.1. Code section 35.1 defines "veteran" to mean, in part, a
  2 21 member of the reserve forces of the United States who completed
  2 22 a minimum aggregate of 90 days of federal active duty other
  2 23 than training and was discharged under honorable conditions,
  2 24 and a member of the Iowa national guard who was activated for
  2 25 federal duty other than training for a minimum aggregate of 90
  2 26 days and was discharged under honorable conditions.
  2 27    This bill provides that for purposes of a driver's license
  2 28 marked to reflect veteran status, "veteran" means as defined
  2 29 in Code section 35.1 but also includes any member of the
  2 30 reserve forces of the United States discharged under honorable
  2 31 conditions and any member of the Iowa national guard discharged
  2 32 under honorable conditions regardless of the aggregate number
  2 33 of days of federal active duty served by the member and
  2 34 regardless of whether the member was activated for federal
  2 35 duty.
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