Bill Text: WV HB2305 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance, expiration and renewal of driver’s license
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-10 - To House Roads and Transportation [HB2305 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB2305-Introduced.html
WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
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to the Committee on Roads and Transportation then the Judiciary
A BILL to amend and
reenact §17B-2-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to
the issuance, expiration and renewal of driver’s license; providing that the
license of any person who is working on behalf of West Virginia or the United
States out of the United States does not expire until six months after that
person returns to West Virginia; and providing that the driver’s license of
family members of persons in the Armed Forces of the United States do not
expire until six months after separation from the service by the military
member.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That §17B-2-12 of the
Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 2. ISSUANCE OF
LICENSE, EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL.
§17B-2-12. Expiration of
licenses.
(a) Except as provided in
subsection (c) of this section, every driver's license expires eight years from
the date of its issuance.
(b)(1) Every driver's
license issued to a person who has attained his or her twenty-first birthday
expires on the licensee's birthday. The
commissioner may modify the expiration date of any license as necessary to
effectuate the transition from the five-year renewal cycle to an eight-year
renewal cycle as he or she considers necessary.
(2) Every driver's license
issued to a person who has not attained his or her twenty-first birthday
expires thirty days after the licensee's
twenty-first birthday, except as provided in section three-a of this article.
(3) The driver's license of
any person in the Armed Forces of the United States, including family
members of that person who have a West Virginia driver’s license, expires
six months after the date on which the person is separated from active duty in
the Armed Forces under honorable circumstances.
(4) The driver's
license, of any person who is working on behalf of West Virginia or the United
States for more than six months out of the United States, expires six months
after the date on which that person returns to West Virginia.
(c) A license issued to a
person who is not a citizen of the United States may only be issued for the
time the person is legally authorized to be in the United States, not to exceed
eight years. If the time the person is authorized to be in the United States is
extended, the commissioner may renew the license in accordance with section
twelve-a of this article for the time extended, not to exceed eight years.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to provide that the license of any person who is working on behalf of West
Virginia or the United States out of the United States does not expire until
six months after that person returns to West Virginia. The bill also provides that the driver’s
license of family members of persons in the Armed Forces of the United States
do not expire until six months after separation from the service by the
military member.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring
indicates new language that would be added.
