HB0130 • 2024

Driver's license renewal amendments.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; extending the expiration date for driver's licenses as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Labor

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor: Representative Jennings
Last action: 2024-02-16
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2024

Plain English Breakdown

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Driver's License Renewal Changes

The bill changes the expiration period of driver's licenses and allows extensions for certain individuals.

What This Bill Does

Changes the expiration period of a driver's license from five years to seven years after it is issued.
Allows the state division to extend or renew the license of someone on active duty in the military or working for a government agency outside Wyoming, if required by their employer.
Permits an extension without requiring a new test once every fourteen years instead of ten years, provided the driver's license has not been suspended or revoked.

Who It Names or Affects

People who have driver’s licenses in Wyoming
Active military personnel and government employees working outside Wyoming

Terms To Know

Division: The state agency responsible for issuing and managing driver's licenses.
Suspension or revocation: Actions taken by the government to cancel or restrict a person’s driving privileges due to violations of traffic laws.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill is marked as inactive and was withdrawn by its sponsor, so it will not become law in this session.
It only applies to licenses issued or renewed on or after July 1, 2024.

Bill History

2024-02-16 House
H Withdrawn by Sponsor
2024-02-09 House
H Received for Introduction
2024-02-07 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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24LSO-0115
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0115
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0130

Driver's license renewal amendments.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Jennings, Allemand, Angelos, Banks, Davis, Heiner, Pendergraft, Singh and Strock and Senator(s) Brennan, Hutchings, Ide and Salazar

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; extending the expiration date for driver's licenses as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 31
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7
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119(a), (c), (f)(intro) and (i) is amended to read:

31
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7
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119.

Expiration and renewal; required tests; extension.

(a)

Every driver's license shall expire on the licensee's birthday in the
fifth
seventh
year following the issuance of the license.

(c)

Notwithstanding subsection (f) of this section, the division may defer for successive
five (5)
seven (7)
year periods the expiration of or renew the license of a licensee who is on active duty in the armed forces of the United States or of a licensee employed by a federal, state or local government agency, where the federal, state or local government agency requires the licensee's physical presence in another state or foreign country, upon terms and conditions as the division may prescribe. The division may similarly defer the expiration of or renew the license of the spouse or dependent child of the person in the armed forces or the federal, state or local government agency if residing with that person.

(f)

Once in any
ten (10)
fourteen (14)
year period, a driver's license may be extended for a
five (5)
seven (7)
year period without the examination required by subsection (b) of this section for a licensee:

(i)

Whose license has not been suspended or revoked in the
five (5)
seven (7)
years immediately preceding the date of license expiration;

Section 2.

This act applies to licenses issued or renewed on or after July 1, 2024.

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2024
.

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