BILL REQ. #:  H-3877.1 

Read first time 01/14/2004.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to compliance with federal selective service requirements before the issuance of a driver's license; adding a new section to chapter 46.20 RCW; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 46.20 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) A person who applies for an original, renewal, or replacement instruction permit, intermediate driver's license, driver's license, or identicard, and who is less than twenty-six years of age, and is required to do so, must be registered in compliance with the requirements of section 3 of the Military Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C. app. 451 et seq., as amended.
     (2) The department shall forward in an electronic format the necessary personal information of an applicant identified in subsection (1) of this section to the selective service system within ten days of the completion of the application. The applicant's submission of the application serves as an indication that the applicant either has already registered with the selective service system or that he is authorizing the department to forward to the selective service system the necessary information for the registration. The department shall notify the applicant at the time of application that his submission of the application will serve as his consent to registration with the selective service system, if so required. The department shall also notify the applicant that if he is under the age of eighteen he will be registered upon turning age eighteen as required by federal law.
     (3) The department may adopt rules necessary for the implementation of this section.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   This act takes effect January 1, 2005.