SB 32 – AS INTRODUCED
2013 SESSION
03/04
SENATE BILL 32
AN ACT relative to Selective Service registration upon driver’s license application or renewal.
SPONSORS: Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Cataldo, Dist 6; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Rep. Lundgren, Rock 5; Rep. Notter, Hills 21; Rep. Christiansen, Hills 37
This bill updates the law relative to Selective Service registration upon driver’s license application or renewal and allows persons to opt out of automatic registration upon driver’s license application or renewal.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
13-0891
03/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT relative to Selective Service registration upon driver’s license application or renewal.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Compliance With Federal Selective Service Requirements. Amend RSA 263:5-c to read as follows:
263:5-c Compliance With Federal Selective Service Requirements.
I. When applying for a driver’s license or driver’s license renewal, any male United States citizen or immigrant who is at least 18 years of age but less than 26 years of age [may authorize] authorizes the department to register him with the Selective Service System in compliance with the requirements of section 3 of the “Military Selective Service Act,” 50 U.S.C. app. section 451 et seq., as amended. The application form for driver’s license or driver’s license renewal shall contain a provision which allows persons to opt out of automatic registration with the Selective Service System. The department shall notify the applicant of the legal effect of opting out, and shall notify the applicant that his decision to opt out of automatic registration shall not be a basis for denying driving privileges to the applicant.
II. [The application form for a driver’s license or driver’s license renewal shall include a box to check off if the applicant is 18 years of age and wishes to authorize the department to submit the necessary information to the Selective Service System to register the applicant with the Selective Service System in compliance with federal law.] The applicant shall not be required to provide his social security number for Selective Service registration purposes. The department shall not release any information pursuant to this section unless the Selective Service System has provided assurance to the department that the Selective Service System shall not transfer to any nongovernmental agency any information which the applicant submitted to the department for registration purposes.
[III. Failure to authorize Selective Service registration as provided in this section shall not be a basis for denying driving privileges to the applicant.
IV. The commissioner may charge reasonable fees pursuant to RSA 260:14, XIII, for the collection and release of information to the Selective Service System under this section, provided that no such fee shall be charged to the applicant authorizing registration.]
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.