PRINTER'S NO. 1800
No. 1482 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY GEORGE, DeWEESE, BIANCUCCI, BLAUM, CALTAGIRONE,
CURRY, FAIRCHILD, FREEMAN, GOOD, GRUCELA, HENNESSEY,
HICKERNELL, JAMES, JOSEPHS, KOTIK, McGEEHAN, McILHATTAN,
MUNDY, O'NEILL, PISTELLA, ROEBUCK, SHANER, STABACK, THOMAS,
TIGUE, WALKO AND YOUNGBLOOD, MAY 2, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MAY 2, 2005
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for issuance and content of
3 driver's license; and making an appropriation.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1510 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
8 § 1510. Issuance and content of driver's license.
9 * * *
10 (d.1) Use of driver's license or identification card to
11 indicate advance directive.--No later than one year following
12 the effective date of this subsection, the department shall
13 redesign the driver's license and identification card
14 application system to include information regarding execution by
15 the individual of an advance directive in accordance with 20
16 Pa.C.S. Ch. 54 (relating to advance directive for health care).
17 The following question shall be asked:
1 Do you wish to have an advance directive designation
2 printed on your driver's license or identification card?
3 Only an affirmative response of an individual shall be noted on
4 the front of the driver's license or identification card and
5 shall clearly indicate the individual's execution of an advance
6 directive in accordance with 20 Pa.C.S. Ch. 54.
7 * * *
8 Section 2. The sum of $100,000, or as much thereof as may be
9 necessary, is hereby appropriated to the Department of
10 Transportation for the fiscal year July 1, 2005, to June 30,
11 2006, to carry out the provisions of 75 Pa.C.S. § 1510(d.1).
12 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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