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BILL · 2015–16 SESSION

HB 2209: Driver's license applicants

Verifying that an applicant for a driver's license or identicard is lawfully within the United States.

Summary

  • Requires the department of licensing to adopt rules to establish procedures for verifying that a driver's license or identicard applicant is a United States citizen or that the applicant's presence in the United States is authorized under federal law, including determining which documents are adequate to provide proof of citizenship or legal presence.

From the Bill Digest (HB 2209), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedMar 25, 2015
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Graham Hunt (R-2)
Introduced
March 25, 2015 in the House
Last action
March 10, 2016

AN ACT Relating to verification that an applicant for a driver's license or identicard is lawfully within the United States;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Graham Hunt (R-2)

7 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 7 Republicans)

Representative R-26Matt Shea R-4David Taylor R-15Elizabeth Scott R-39Cary Condotta R-12Mark Harmsworth R-44Bob McCaslin R-4

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  5. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  6. First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2209 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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