Bill Text: NH HB1629 | 2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Relative to state photographic identification indicating honorable veterans status.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-06-07 - House Signed By Governor 06/05/2012; Effective 08/04/2012; Chapter 0127 [HB1629 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2012-HB1629-Chaptered.html
CHAPTER 127
HB 1629-FN – FINAL VERSION
15Mar2012… 1028h
15Mar2012… 1175h
05/02/12 1869s
2012 SESSION
09/10
HOUSE BILL 1629-FN
AN ACT relative to state photographic identification indicating honorable veteran’s status.
SPONSORS: Rep. J. Johnson, Ches 6; Rep. A. Perkins, Rock 14
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
This bill requires a designation on driver’s licenses and nondriver’s picture identification cards issued by the division of motor vehicles which indicate honorable veteran’s status for purposes of identification for receiving state veterans’ benefits and services.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15Mar2012… 1028h
15Mar2012… 1175h
05/02/12 1869s
12-2634
09/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to state photographic identification indicating honorable veteran’s status.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
127:1 Nondriver’s Picture Identification Cards; Veteran Status Designation. Amend RSA 260:21, III to read as follows:
III. The identification card shall bear the name, address, [social security number,] date of birth, blood type (optional), veteran’s status for the purposes of identification for receiving benefits and services under New Hampshire law (optional), picture and signature of the applicant, and in the case of a card issued pursuant to RSA 260:21, I(c), said card shall bear the notation “Golden Granite State Discount Card.”
127:2 Driver’s License; Form of License. Amend RSA 263:40 to read as follows:
263:40 Form of License. The commissioner shall, upon payment of the required fee, issue to every applicant a driver’s license subject to such conditions as the commissioner may deem expedient and in such form as the commissioner may prescribe. Licenses issued to persons under the age of 21 shall be designed so that their horizontal and vertical axes are opposite the horizontal and vertical axes of licenses issued to other persons, and said licenses shall prominently display the date on which the licensee shall attain the age of 21 years. Consistent with RSA 263:14, the youth operator license shall expire on the 21st anniversary of the applicant’s date of birth, at which time the applicant shall be issued a traditional license. The license shall bear thereon a distinguishing number assigned to the licensee and an instant full-face color photograph, image, or likeness of the licensee. There shall also be provided a space wherein the licensee may enter his or her blood type and a space wherein the licensee may indicate his or her honorable veteran’s status for purposes of identification for receiving benefits and services under New Hampshire law if the licensee so desires. The license shall bear a special designation or symbol indicating honorable veteran’s status for licensees who indicate such veteran status.
127:3 Implementation. The director of the division of motor vehicles shall implement the provisions of RSA 260:21, III and RSA 263:40, as inserted by sections 1 and 2 of this act, upon his or her determination that veteran’s status designation information may be accepted and maintained by the department of safety’s information technology system, but in no event later than July 1, 2014. The director shall provide the date of implementation to the secretary of state and the director of the office of legislative services within 30 days of implementation.
127:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 5, 2012
Effective Date: August 4, 2012
