Bill Text: NH HB1128 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Adding deaf or hard of hearing to the medical conditions that may be indicated on a driver's license or nondriver's identification.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-06-16 - Vacated from Committee and Laid on Table, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 06/16/2020 Senate Journal 8 [HB1128 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB1128-Introduced.html

HB 1128 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2099

11/04

 

HOUSE BILL 1128

 

AN ACT adding deaf or hard of hearing to the medical conditions that may be indicated on a driver's license or nondriver's identification.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. M. Pearson, Rock. 34; Rep. Woods, Merr. 23; Rep. Knirk, Carr. 3; Rep. Merchant, Sull. 4; Rep. Porter, Hills. 1; Rep. Marsh, Carr. 8; Rep. Gagne, Hills. 13; Rep. Major, Rock. 14; Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 4; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Morgan, Dist 23; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill adds deaf or hard of hearing to the medical conditions that may be indicated on a driver's license or nondriver's identification card.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2099

11/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT adding deaf or hard of hearing to the medical conditions that may be indicated on a driver's license or nondriver's identification.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Drivers' Licenses; Form of License; Medically Recognized Disorder Indication.  Amend RSA 263:41-b, III to read as follows:

III.  For the purpose of this section, [autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or its abbreviation is] the following medically recognized disorders, or their abbreviations, are authorized to be printed on the driver's license or nondriver's picture identification card[.]:

(a)  Autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

(b)  Deaf or hard of hearing.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

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