S-3302.1
SENATE BILL 6012
State of Washington
65th Legislature
2018 Regular Session
By Senators King, Sheldon, Angel, Rolfes, Van De Wege, Keiser, Hunt, Conway, Chase, Short, O'Ban, Saldaña, and Mullet
Prefiled 12/07/17. Read first time 01/08/18. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
AN ACT Relating to allowing the federal veteran identification card to be used to obtain a veteran designation on a driver's license; amending RCW 46.20.161; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.  RCW 46.20.161 and 2014 c 185 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The department, upon receipt of a fee of forty-five dollars from October 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013, and fifty-four dollars after June 30, 2013, unless the driver's license is issued for a period other than five years from October 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013, or six years after June 30, 2013, in which case the fee shall be nine dollars for each year that the license is issued, which includes the fee for the required photograph, shall issue to every qualifying applicant a driver's license. A driver's license issued to a person under the age of eighteen is an intermediate license, subject to the restrictions imposed under RCW 46.20.075, until the person reaches the age of eighteen. The license must include a distinguishing number assigned to the licensee, the name of record, date of birth, Washington residence address, photograph, a brief description of the licensee, either a facsimile of the signature of the licensee or a space upon which the licensee shall write his or her usual signature with pen and ink immediately upon receipt of the license, and, if applicable, the person's status as a veteran as provided in subsection (2) of this section. No license is valid until it has been so signed by the licensee.
(2) A person may apply to the department to obtain a veteran designation on a driver's license issued under this section by providing a federal veteran identification card or the United States department of defense discharge document, DD Form 214, as it exists on August 30, 2017, or such subsequent date as may be provided by the department by rule, consistent with the purposes of this section, that shows a discharge status of "honorable" or "general under honorable conditions" that establishes the person's service in the armed forces of the United States.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  This act takes effect January 1, 2019.
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