SF 303 (LSB 1303SV (4) 88)

RELATING TO THE REPLACEMENT OF A PERSON’S DRIVER’S  LICENSE OR NONOPERATOR’S IDENTIFICATION CARD ON THE PERSON’S  TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.189, subsection 6, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   6.  Licenses issued to persons under age twenty-one.  A driver’s license issued to a person under eighteen years of age shall contain the same information as any other driver’s license except that the words “under eighteen” shall appear prominently on the face of the license. A driver’s license issued to a person eighteen years of age or older but less than twenty-one years of age shall contain the same information as any other driver’s license except that the words “under twenty-one” shall appear prominently on the face of the license. Upon attaining the age of eighteen or upon attaining the age of twenty-one, and upon payment of a ten dollar fee, the person shall be entitled to a new driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card for the unexpired months of the driver’s license or card.  Upon attaining the age of twenty-one, a person who is otherwise eligible to be issued a driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card shall be eligible to apply electronically for issuance of a replacement license or card for the unexpired months of the license or card, regardless of whether the most recent previous issuance of the license or card occurred electronically. The department shall, within a reasonable time period prior to a person’s twenty-first birthday anniversary, notify the person of the person’s eligibility to apply for a replacement driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card electronically upon attaining the age of twenty-one. The department shall develop educational media to raise awareness of a person’s eligibility to apply for a replacement driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card electronically upon attaining the age of twenty-one. An instruction permit or intermediate license issued under section 321.180B, subsection 1 or 2, shall include a distinctive color bar. An intermediate license issued under section 321.180B, subsection 2, shall include the words “intermediate license” printed prominently on the face of the license.

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CHARLES SCHNEIDER
President of the Senate

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LINDA UPMEYER
Speaker of the House

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and is known as Senate File 303, Eighty-eighth General Assembly.

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W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Secretary of the Senate

Approved _______________, 2019

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KIM REYNOLDS
Governor