HB 570 - AS INTRODUCED

2023 SESSION

23-0354

02/05

HOUSE BILL 570

AN ACT relative to Real ID compliant New Hampshire driver's licenses.

SPONSORS: Rep. Sykes, Graf. 14

COMMITTEE: Transportation

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ANALYSIS

This bill authorizes the department of safety to issue Real ID driver's licenses to noncitizen aliens with lawful status.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0354

02/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

AN ACT relative to Real ID compliant New Hampshire driver's licenses.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 License for Aliens Temporarily Residing in New Hampshire. Amend RSA 263:39-a, I to read as follows:

I. The director may issue a New Hampshire driver's license to a nonresident alien who is living in New Hampshire on a temporary basis:

(a) For the purposes of attending a public or private educational institution which has a regular faculty, curriculum, and organized body of pupils or students in attendance and is enrolled in such education institution;

(b) For the purposes of engaging in lawful employment, occupational, or business activity, and is engaged in such activity; [or]

(d) If the person is otherwise eligible for a driver's license which meets the standards of the Real ID Act of 2005, Public Law 109-13.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.