S-0788.1
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5154
State of Washington
65th Legislature
2017 Regular Session
By Senate Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Fain, Hobbs, Liias, Zeiger, Billig, Wilson, and Kuderer)
READ FIRST TIME 02/02/17.
AN ACT Relating to driver's license formats for persons approaching twenty-one years of age; amending RCW 46.20.105; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.  RCW 46.20.105 and 2000 c 115 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)(a) The department may provide a method to distinguish the driver's license of a person who is under the age of twenty-one from the driver's license of a person who is twenty-one years of age or older.
(b) The department must allow for a person who applies to renew his or her driver's license within one week of his or her twenty-first birthday to convert the driver's license to the format of a driver's license for a person who is twenty-one years of age or older.
(2) An instruction permit must be identified as an "instruction permit" and issued in a distinctive form as determined by the department.
(3) An intermediate license must be identified as an "intermediate license" and issued in a distinctive form as determined by the department.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  This act takes effect July 1, 2018.
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