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2002 SESSION

01-2097

03/09

HOUSE BILL 1357-FN

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill permits a driver's license holder to determine whether his or her mailing address shall be printed on the driver's license instead of his or her home address. This bill also clarifies that a driver's license applicant must provide his or her social security number to the department of safety, but may determine whether the social security number appears on the license.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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03/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two

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

214:1 Motor Vehicles; Drivers' Licenses; Form of License; Social Security Numbers, Application Form Options; Addresses. RSA 263:40-a is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

263:40-a Social Security Numbers; Addresses; Application Form Options.

I.(a) An applicant for a driver's license who has not previously been licensed to drive a motor vehicle in this state shall provide his or her social security number in the application. The applicant shall be given the opportunity to determine whether to have his or her social security number retained in the records of the department of safety. The application form shall include a box to check off if the applicant does not wish to have his or her social security number retained in the records of the department.

(b) The application form for a renewal of a driver's license may request the social security number of the applicant. An applicant who is a resident of New Hampshire shall be given the opportunity to determine whether to provide the social security number. The application form shall include a box to check off if the applicant does not wish to provide his or her social security number pursuant to this paragraph.

(c) The application form for an initial driver's license or a renewal of a driver's license shall include a box to check off if the applicant does not wish to have his or her social security number appear on the license, a box to check off if the applicant wishes to have his or her mailing address appear on the license instead of his or her home address, and a box to check off if the applicant does not wish to have his or her computerized image, likeness, or photograph retained in the records of the department of safety.

II. Notwithstanding RSA 91-A, RSA 260:14, RSA 261:60, or any other provision of law to the contrary, the social security number shall not be a public record open to the inspection of any person. The department shall not sell or otherwise provide individual social security numbers or lists of social security numbers for any purpose which is not stated in this paragraph. The department shall only make the social security number available to other states for driver record purposes, to any national driver information repository established pursuant to federal law, or, on their request on a case by case basis (a) to a law enforcement agency that requires the social security number for investigative purposes, or (b) to the department of health and human services for use only in the administration of child support enforcement.

III. At the time that an individual provides the social security number to the department, the individual shall be given the opportunity to determine whether he or she desires to have the number printed on his or her license. If the individual desires not to have the social security number printed on his or her license, it shall not be printed on the license.

IV. An individual shall be given an opportunity to determine whether his or her mailing address shall be printed on the license instead of his or her home address. If the individual desires to have the mailing address printed on his or her license, the home address shall not be printed on the license. The individual's home address shall be retained in the department's records.

214:2 Applicability; Current License Holders. Any holder of a New Hampshire driver's license valid on the effective date of this act shall be entitled to a driver's license on which his or her mailing address is printed instead of his or her home address. Such person may exchange his or her license for a license on which the mailing address is printed instead of the home address at the cost of a duplicate license established in RSA 263:42, IV.

214:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2003.

(Approved: May 16, 2002)

(Effective Date: January 1, 2003)