SB 277 Virginia Senate · 2022 Regular Session

DMV; applicants for driver's licenses, etc., to provide his race & ethnicity.

Summary
Department of Motor Vehicles; Virginia Community Policing Act; race and ethnicity data. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to require an applicant for an original driver's license, driver privilege card, special identification card with or without a photograph, and identification privilege card or the renewal or reissue of such license or card to provide his race and ethnicity. The bill prohibits displaying any such data in a readable form on a credential issued by the Department and requires such data to be encoded in the barcode on the back of such license or card. The bill prohibits the release of such data to any entity other than the Department of State Police to be used exclusively for the Virginia Community Policing Act Database.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
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Jan 2022
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Governor
Introduced Jan 11, 2022 Last action Feb 3, 2022
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Jan 11, 2022
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
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Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104166D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Adam Ebbin
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