Researcher: KLM Page 1 3/30/22
OLR Bill Analysis
SB 345
AN ACT EXEMPTING VETERANS FROM PAYMENT OF THE FARES
FOR BUS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SERVICES.
SUMMARY
This bill exempts veterans from paying the fare to ride on state-
owned or -controlled public bus transportation services, if they present
to the fare inspector or bus driver, as applicable, a driver’s license or
identity card showing their status as veterans.
By law, a veteran is anyone honorably discharged from or released
under honorable conditions, or released with an other than honorable
discharge based on a qualifying condition, from active service in the
armed forces (CGS § 27-103, as amended by PA 21-79).
Existing law allows veterans to ask the Department of Veterans
Affairs (DVA) to have their status as a veteran included on their driver’s
license or identity card. DVA must verify the status within 30 after
receiving the request and notify the Department of Motor Vehicles
(DMV) about it. The status must then be included on each original,
renewal, or duplicate driver’s license or identity card DMV issues to the
veteran (CGS § 14-36h(e)).
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2022
COMMITTEE ACTION
Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Joint Favorable
Yea 16 Nay 1 (03/15/2022)