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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 157
BY SENATORS ADLEY, ALARIO, BROWN, BUFFINGTON, ERDEY, HEITMEIER,
NEVERS AND GARY SMITH
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 color12
black below the person's photograph on the driver's license regardless of its13
class, upon presentation of a copy of the person's DD Form 214, issued by the14
United States Department of Defense. No additional fee shall be charged to15
include such designation. The deputy secretary of the Department of Public16
Safety and Corrections, public safety services, shall comply with the provisions17 SB NO. 157
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of this Subsection. The deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety and1
Corrections, public safety services, shall establish rules and regulations as are2
necessary to implement the provisions of this Subsection.3
Section 2. R.S. 40:1321(K) is hereby enacted to read as follows:4
§1321. Special identification cards; issuance; veteran designation; fees; expiration5
and renewal; exceptions; promulgation of rules; promotion of use;6
persons less than twenty-one years of age; the Protect and Save our7
Children Program; Selective Service Registration8
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K. Upon request, the word "Veteran" shall be exhibited in the color10
black below the person's photograph on an identification card, upon11
presentation of a copy of the person's DD Form 214, issued by the United States12
Department of Defense. No additional fee shall be charged to include such13
designation. The deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety and14
Corrections, public safety services, shall comply with the provisions of this15
Subsection. The deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety and16
Corrections, public safety services, shall establish rules and regulations as are17
necessary to implement the provisions of this Subsection.18
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Sharon F. Lyles.
DIGEST
Adley (SB 157)
Proposed law provides for the exhibition of the word "Veteran" in the color black 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))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Transportation,
Highways, and Public Works to the original bill.
1. Changes exhibition color of the word "Veteran" from red to black.