Kentucky Senate Bill 245 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Vetoed on April 27 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-04-27 - vetoed
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [PDF]

Amend KRS 186.410 to specify that the Transportation Cabinet is the issuing agency for operator's licenses and personal identification cards; allow applications through alternative technology; establish a base renewal period of 8 years for operator's licenses and personal ID cards; require drivers under 18 to enroll in a driver education course; repeal and reenact KRS 186.412 to set forth the application process for citizens and permanent residents to apply for operator's licenses and instruction permits; identify the information required in the application process; require electronic scanning of supporting documents used in the application process; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to set forth the application process for immigrants who can show proof of legal presence to apply for operator's licenses and instruction permits; require that immigrants applying for an operator's license apply with the Transportation Cabinet instead of the circuit clerk; require verification through the SAVE alien verification system; require an immigrant with a change in status to update information with the Transportation Cabinet within 10 days; state that licenses issued under this section are good for the length of time a person's visa is valid or 8 years, whichever is shorter; specify that if an immigrant does not have a date certain on his or her immigration status, the license issued will be valid for 1 year; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to set forth the application procedures for citizens and permanent residents to apply for personal identification cards; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to set forth the application procedures for immigrants who can show proof of legal presence to apply for personal identification cards, with the similar limitations and restrictions as for operator's licenses; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to establish the form and composition of operator's licenses and personal identification cards, including the requirements for photographs taken; specify that name changes through marriage, divorce, or other name changes conform to an applicant's name on file with the Social Security Administration; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to establish procedures and fees for the child ID program; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to establish procedures for the issuance of personal identification cards or operator's licenses to inmates being released from state and federal correctional institutions and individuals on probation and parole; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to allow renewal by mail for active duty members of the military stationed outside the Commonwealth; allow a 90-day extension for active duty military members returning home to renew their licenses; and set forth procedures and requirements for the issuance of a "veteran" notation on an operator's license or personal ID card; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to require the Transportation Cabinet to develop a system of enhanced secure licenses and personal ID cards; identify features of the system; require initial applicants, including individuals coming into Kentucky from another state, to apply for an enhanced secure identity document; allow current holders of nonenhanced secure identity documents to apply for enhanced secure identity document; allow individuals ineligible under federal standards for an enhanced secure identity document to apply for a nonenhanced secure identity document; set same fees for both enhanced secure and nonenhanced secure identity documents; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to set forth the documents required to apply for an enhanced secure identity document; amend KRS 186.4101 to allow the Transportation Cabinet, within the first 4 years of the effective date of the Act, to issue identity documents with terms of both 4 and 8 years in order to accommodate the transition to an 8-year issuance period; amend KRS 186.442 to clarify procedures for the issuance of a restricted "Kentucky Only" operator's license; amend KRS 186.450 set the term of a motorcycle instruction permit to 2 years instead of 1 year with one allowable 1 year renewal; repeal and reenact KRS 186.531 to set fees for instruction permits, operator's licenses, and personal identification cards; set forth the distribution of fees; specify that the fees for a 4 year license issued within the first 4 years after the effective date of the Act shall be 50% of the fee listed, with all distributions subsequently reduced by 50%; specify that fees for identity documents applied for using alternative technology shall be distributed in the same manner as identity documents applied for with the circuit clerk; set forth procedures for voluntary donations to promote organ donation; establish donation levels of $2 for an 8-year document and $1 for a document with a term of less than 8 years; require donations to be forwarded to the Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks' Trust for Life and appropriate funds to promote an organ donation program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to establish the circuit court clerk salary account; set forth streams of income including a portion of fees under Sections 21 and 24 of the Act; appropriate money in the fund to hire additional deputy circuit clerks and provide salary adjustments to deputy circuit clerks; create a new section of KRS Chapter 174 to establish the KYTC photo license account; set forth stream of income, including a portion of the fees under Section 21 of this Act; appropriate moneys in the fund for the purpose of verifying, creating, and distributing enhanced secure identity documents; amend KRS 186.540 to clarify that fees for corrected licenses be set as provided in Section 21 of the Act and require the Transportation Cabinet to issue a corrected license free of charge to an individual who is mailed an identity document that contains an error; repeal, reenact, and renumber KRS 186. 6401 as KRS 186.635 to conform and to bring the section into the statutory range dealing with operator's licenses; amend KRS 281A.170 to require that a commercial driver's license contain a denotation that the license either does or does not comply with the requirements of the REAL ID Act and can be used for federal identification purposes; set an 8-year term for CDLs; amend KRS 281A.120 to clarify that only citizens and permanent residents of the United States are eligible to receive a CDL; amend KRS 281A.150 to set forth the fees set by the Transportation Cabinet for application and issuance of CDLs and eliminate outdated references; amend KRS 186.010 to define "identity document" and "enhanced secure"; amend KRS 15A.358, 186.4125, 186.430, 186.435, 186.440, 186.480, 186.490, 186.520, 186.535, 186.570, 186.579, 281A.140, and 281A.160 to conform; repeal KRS 186.495 and 186.5315; EFFECTIVE 1/1/2019.

AN ACT relating to enhanced secure identity documents and making an appropriation therefor.

Sen. Ernie Harris [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-04-27	Senate	vetoed
2016-04-15	Senate	delivered to Governor
2016-04-15	Senate	enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
2016-04-15	Senate	received in Senate
2016-04-15	House	passed 59-40
2016-04-15	House	floor amendment (2) ruled not germane
2016-04-15	House	3rd reading
2016-04-01	House	floor amendment (1) and (2) and (3-title) filed
2016-03-25	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 28, 2016
2016-03-25	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2016-03-24	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2016-03-23	House	posting waived
2016-03-23	House	to Transportation (H)
2016-03-22	House	received in House
2016-03-22	Senate	3rd reading, passed 26-12 with Committee Substitute (1)
2016-03-22	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 22, 2016
2016-03-17	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2016-03-16	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
2016-02-29	Senate	to Transportation (S)
2016-02-29	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB245.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB245/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB245/SCS1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB245/HFA1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB245/HFA2.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB245/HFA3.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB245/LM.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB245/SCS1LM.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB245/vote_history.pdf