PRINTER'S NO. 537
No. 495 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY KASUNIC, STOUT, COSTA, LAVALLE, FERLO,
TARTAGLIONE, KITCHEN, RAFFERTY, MUSTO, FONTANA, LOGAN AND
WOZNIAK, MARCH 19, 2007
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 19, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for issuance and content of
3 driver's license.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1510(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
8 adding a subsection to read:
9 § 1510. Issuance and content of driver's license.
10 (a) General rule.--The department shall, upon payment of the
11 required fee, issue to every qualified applicant a driver's
12 license indicating the type or general class of vehicles the
13 licensee is authorized to drive and any endorsements or
14 restrictions, which license shall contain a distinguishing
15 number assigned by the department to the licensee, the actual
16 name, date of birth, residence address, a color photograph or
17 photographic facsimile of the licensee, such other information
18 as may be required by the department, and either a facsimile of
1 the signature of the licensee or a space upon which the licensee
2 shall write his usual signature with pen and ink. Program
3 participants in the Address Confidentiality Program under 23
4 Pa.C.S. Ch. 67 (relating to domestic and sexual violence victim
5 address confidentiality) may use a substitute address designated
6 by the Office of Victim Advocate as their address. Personal
7 medical data and other information for use in an emergency may
8 be included as a part of the license, except that communication
9 disability information under subsection (j) shall be included on
10 the license. Information other than that required to identify
11 the licensee, communication disability information under
12 subsection (j), the distinguishing number and the class of
13 license issued may be included in microdata form. Except as
14 provided in subsection (f), an applicant shall include his
15 Social Security number on his license application, but the
16 Social Security number shall not be included on the license. No
17 driver's license shall be valid until it has been signed by the
18 licensee.
19 * * *
20 (j) Communication disability.--The department shall include
21 information concerning a person's communication disability,
22 including, but not limited to, a speech or hearing disability,
23 on that person's license.
24 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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