4948375 Resolution 20-484, "“Driver’s Safety Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”

A RESOLUTION

 

20-484 

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

June 3, 2014

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to amend the District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925, to allow a person who was previously assigned a social security number but who can no longer establish legal presence in the United States to be eligible to obtain a limited purpose driver’s license, permit, or identification card.

 

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Driver’s Safety Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.

 

            Sec. 2.  Section 8c of the District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925, effective January 17, 2014 (D.C. Law 20-62; D.C. Official Code § 50-1401.05), provides for the issuance of a limited purpose driver’s license, permit, or identification card to individuals who had not been assigned a social security number or could not establish legal presence in the United States. The unintended result is that an individual who was assigned a social security number at one point but can no longer establish legal presence in the United States would be precluded from obtaining a limited purpose driver’s license, permit, or identification card. This amendment would allow for such an individual to be eligible to obtain a limited purpose driver’s license, permit, or identification card. Furthermore, this congressional review emergency legislation is necessary to ensure that there is no gap between when the original emergency legislation expires and when the temporary version of this legislation becomes effective.

 

            Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances

enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Driver’s Safety Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.           

 

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.