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PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 23
PRINTER'S NO. 1025
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
42
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, SCARNATI, STACK, TEPLITZ, BREWSTER, WILEY,
FONTANA, HUGHES, SMITH, COSTA, WHITE, RAFFERTY, VOGEL AND
BROWNE, JANUARY 14, 2015
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 8, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in licensing of drivers, further providing for
issuance and content of driver's license.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1510(a.1) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 1510. Issuance and content of driver's license.
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(a.1) Veteran's driver's license designation.--
(1) Beginning as soon as practicable, but no later than
18 months following the effective date of this subsection,
the department shall issue a driver's license or
identification card that clearly indicates that the person is
a veteran of the United States Armed Forces. A qualified
applicant is an individual who has served in the United
States Armed Forces, including a reserve component or the
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National Guard, and who was discharged or released from such
service under conditions other than dishonorable.
(2) Upon receipt of an application from a qualified
applicant accompanied by such documentation as the department
shall require, the department shall issue to the veteran a
driver's license or identification card displaying a veteran
designation. There shall be no fee for the veteran
designation, but the qualified applicant must pay any renewal
or duplicate driver's license or identification card fees.
(3) The department and the Department of Military and
Veterans Affairs shall enter into an agreement whereby the
Department of Military and Veterans Affairs shall reimburse
the Motor License Fund for the department's actual costs of
the issuance of a veteran's designation on drivers' licenses
and identification cards. Reimbursement shall be paid from
the Veterans' Trust Fund or such other funds available for
this purpose.
(4) A person who falsely represents himself as a veteran
of the United States Armed Forces on AN APPLICATION FOR a
driver's license or identification card commits a summary
offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a
fine of $300, or to imprisonment for not less than 30 nor
more than 90 days, or both IS SUBJECT TO THE PENALTY UNDER 18
PA.C.S. § 4904(B) (RELATING TO UNSWORN FALSIFICATION TO
AUTHORITIES) .
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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