Bill Text: PA HB2333 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for veteran identification cards.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 26-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-01 - Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS [HB2333 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB2333-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3435
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2333 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY SIMMONS, AUMENT, BAKER, BARBIN, BARRAR, BOBACK, BRENNAN, BROOKS, R. BROWN, CAUSER, CLYMER, EVANKOVICH, EVERETT, GEORGE, GINGRICH, HARHART, HICKERNELL, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, F. KELLER, LAWRENCE, LONGIETTI, MAJOR, MARSICO, MULLERY, PYLE, READSHAW, SAINATO, SCAVELLO, SONNEY, STEVENSON, TOOHIL AND VULAKOVICH, MAY 1, 2012
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, MAY 1, 2012
AN ACT
Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, providing for veteran identification
cards.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 51 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 7703. Veteran identification card.
(a) Identification card.--The Department of Transportation
shall, upon payment of the required fee, issue an identification
card to any Pennsylvania resident who meets all of the
following:
(1) Served in the United States Armed Forces, including
a reserve component or the National Guard.
(2) Was honorably discharged or released from the
service.
(3) Has made application in the manner prescribed by the
Department of Transportation.
(b) Issuance.--Issuance of an identification card to a
person under this section shall serve as a legal document for
purposes of identification within this Commonwealth. It shall be
the duty of the department to verify the status of a person
seeking an identification card under this section using form
DD-214 or form NGB-22 in conjunction with either of the
following forms of identification:
(1) A valid identification card issued by any other
executive agency of the Commonwealth.
(2) A valid identification card issued by the United
States Government.
(c) Contents.--An identification card issued under this
section shall clearly indicate that the person is a veteran and
shall contain the appropriate mark or insignia of the branch of
the United States Armed Forces the veteran served in or its
reserve component, including the National Guard. Upon
application by the veteran, the identification card shall
include the mark or insignia for each branch the veteran served
in of the United States Armed Forces or its reserve component.
(d) Substitute address.--Program participants in the Address
Confidentiality Program may use a substitute address designated
by the Office of Victim Advocate as their address.
(e) Driver's license.--The identification card shall have
substantially the same content as a driver's license issued
under 75 Pa.C.S. § 1510 (relating to issuance and content of
driver's license) but shall clearly indicate that it is not a
driver's license.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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