CHAPTER 235
SB 406 - FINAL VERSION
2022 SESSION
22-3055
12/05
SENATE BILL 406
AN ACT relative to driver's license reciprocity.
SPONSORS: Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Watters, Dist 4
COMMITTEE: Transportation
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ANALYSIS
This bill directs the commissioner of safety to adopt rules relative to driver education reciprocity, including procedures for determining whether the education meets the state’s minimum standards. This bill also authorizes the director of the division of motor vehicles to impose suspensions, revocations, or other limitations on a driver convicted of certain offenses out of state, as if such conduct had occurred in this state.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
22-3055
12/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two
AN ACT relative to driver's license reciprocity.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
235:1 Conditions and Requirements for a License; Driver Education; Reciprocity. Amend RSA 263:20 to read as follows:
263:20 Driver Education; Reciprocity.
I. The provisions of RSA 263:19 shall not prevent the issuance of a driver's license to any individual who can provide satisfactory evidence of completion of a course of driver education, approved by the state in which the course is offered, provided that the commissioner of safety shall determine that such course is essentially equivalent to the state's minimum standards. The commissioner shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate appropriate interstate driver education. The commissioner shall include in its report pursuant to RSA 20:7, a report to the general court on the progress of reciprocal driver education.
II. The commissioner of safety shall develop and adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to driver education reciprocity, including procedures for submitting a request for reciprocal recognition of driver education and the evaluation of such requests, including criteria for determining whether the education meets the state’s minimum standards.
235:2 Driver License Compact; License Authority. Amend RSA 263:78 to read as follows:
263:78 Licensing Authority [Defined].
I. As used in the compact, the term "licensing authority", with reference to this state, shall mean the division of motor vehicles of the department of safety. The division of motor vehicles shall furnish to the appropriate authorities of any other party state any information or documents reasonably necessary to facilitate the administration of articles III, IV, and V of the compact, except as otherwise prohibited by law.
II. When discharging his or her duties under article IV of the compact, the director, or designee, as head of the licensing authority of this state, is authorized to impose the suspensions, revocations, or other limitations upon the driver's licenses of New Hampshire residents convicted of offenses identified in article IV, as if such conduct had occurred in this state. The director, or designee, is authorized to exercise the discretion accorded by state law exclusively related to the extension and suspension of the periods of driver's license revocation authorized by state law for convictions for offenses identified in article IV. The commissioner of safety shall develop and adopt rules, under RSA 541-A, to implement the authority provided under RSA 263:77, as described in this paragraph.
235:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 17, 2022
Effective Date: August 16, 2022