Bill Text: WV HB4356 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Placing notation on drivers license or ID cards regarding certain cognitive disabilities
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-24 - To House Technology and Infrastructure [HB4356 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2022-HB4356-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2022 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 4356
By Delegates Pritt, Haynes, Ferrell, Cooper, Nestor, Fast, Sypolt, Hanna, Dean, Phillips, and Maynor
[Introduced January 24, 2022;
referred to
the Committee on Technology and Infrastructure then the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §17B-1A-3, relating to allowing an individual with a medical condition or conditions to have those conditions placed upon a driver’s license or permit so that an officer may be aware of the condition or conditions a driver may have.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 1A. DRIVER LICENSE COMPACT.
§17B-1A-3. Cognitive disabilities displayed on licenses.
(a) A person providing a medical certification may request that the department notate a health condition on the back of his or her driver’s license or permit with a caduceus symbol and include health conditions such as neurological disorder, brain injury, a neuroimmune condition, mental illness, a disorder that causes seizures, and others.
(b) A person with autism providing medical certification may request the department add “AUT” and one other medical condition designated by a caduceus.
(c) The motor vehicle record of a driver may contain not more than four certified medical conditions, one of which may be autism.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow persons with medical conditions, including autism, to have this displayed upon his or her driver’s license or permit for the purpose of allowing the officer to identify that individual as having that condition or conditions.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
