HB2063 H
R&T AM #1
The
Committee on
“ARTICLE 2. ISSUANCE OF LICENSE,
EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL.
§17B-2-12.
Expiration of licenses.
(a)
Except as provided in subsection subsections (b) and (c) of this
section, every driver's license expires eight years from the date of its
issuance.
(b)(1)
Every driver's license issued to a person who has attained his or her
twenty-first birthday expires on the licensee's birthday.
The commissioner may modify the expiration date of any license as
necessary to effectuate the transition from the five-year renewal cycle to an
eight-year renewal cycle as he or she considers necessary.
(2)
Every driver's license issued to a person who has not attained his or her
twenty-first birthday expires thirty days after the licensee's
twenty-first birthday, except as provided in section three-a of this article.
(3) The
driver's license of any person in the member or the spouse of any
member of the United States Armed Forces expires six months after the date
on which the person member is separated from active duty in the
Armed Forces under honorable circumstances. Upon request a member or a
spouse of a member shall be issued documentation by the division which indicates
that the applicant’s license remains valid and shall not expire until six months
after the member, or the applicant’s member spouse has been separated from
active duty under honorable circumstances upon providing proof, as determined
by the division, of the following:
(A) That the member was separated from active
duty under honorable circumstances; and
(B) For
a spouse of a member, proof that the spouse and the member are married.
(c) A
license issued to a person who is not a citizen of the United States may only
be issued for the time the person is legally authorized to be in the United
States, not to exceed eight years. If
the time the person is authorized to be in the United States is extended, the
commissioner may renew the license in accordance with section twelve-a of this
article for the time extended, not to exceed eight years.”
Adopted
Rejected