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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 157
BY SENATORS ADLEY AND ALARIO
MOTOR VEHICLES. Provides for veteran designation on driver's license and identification
card. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 32:412(K) and R.S. 40:1321(K), relative to veteran designation on a driver's2
license and identification card; to provide for the exhibition of the word "Veteran"3
on a driver's license and identification card; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 32:412(K) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
§412. Amount of fees; credit or refund; duration of license; veteran designation;7
disbursement of funds; renewal by mail or electronic commerce of8
Class "D" or "E" drivers' licenses; disposition of certain fees;9
exception10
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(K) Upon request, the word "Veteran" shall be exhibited in the color red12
below the person's photograph on the driver's license regardless of its class,13
upon presentation of a copy of the person's DD Form 214, issued by the United14
States Department of Defense. No additional fee shall be charged to include such15
designation. The deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety and16
Corrections, public safety services, shall comply with the provisions of this17
Subsection. The deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety and18
Corrections, public safety services, shall establish rules and regulations as are19 SB NO. 157
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necessary to implement the provisions of this Subsection.1
Section 2. R.S. 40:1321(K) is hereby enacted to read as follows:2
§1321. Special identification cards; issuance; veteran designation; fees; expiration3
and renewal; exceptions; promulgation of rules; promotion of use;4
persons less than twenty-one years of age; the Protect and Save our5
Children Program; Selective Service Registration6
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(K) Upon request, the word "Veteran" shall be exhibited in the color red9
below the person's photograph on an identification card, upon presentation of10
a copy of the person's DD Form 214, issued by the United States Department of11
Defense. No additional fee shall be charged to include such designation. The12
deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, public13
safety services, shall comply with the provisions of this Subsection. The deputy14
secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, public safety15
services, shall establish rules and regulations as are necessary to implement the16
provisions of this Subsection.17
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Sharon F. Lyles
DIGEST
Proposed law provides for the exhibition of the word "Veteran" in the color red below the
person's photograph on a driver's license or identification card, upon request and presentation
of a copy of the person's DD Form 214, issued by the United States Department of Defense,
without additional charge.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Adds R.S. 32:412(K); R.S. 40:1321(K))