ENGROSSED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR


Senate Bill No. 162

(By Senator Rowe)

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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;

reported January 28, 2003.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section fourteen, article two, chapter seventeen-b of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to motor vehicles; and expunging motor vehicle license information for nineteen- year-olds when denials, suspensions or revocations of their licenses are due to school attendance.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section fourteen, article two, chapter seventeen-b of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. ISSUANCE OF LICENSE, EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL.

§17B-2-14. Records and indices to be kept by the division.

The division shall file every application for a license received by it and shall maintain suitable indices containing, in alphabetical order:
(1) All applications denied and on each a notation of the reasons for such denial;
(2) All applications granted; and
(3) The name of every licensee whose license has been suspended or revoked by the division and after each such name a notation of the reasons for such the action: Provided, That upon application for a license by an individual eighteen years of age or older, any record of a previous license denial, suspension or revocation related solely to the school attendance of the applicant may not be released to any third party.
The division shall also file all abstracts of court records of convictions received by it under the laws of this state and in connection therewith maintain convenient records or make suitable notations in order that an individual record of each licensee showing the convictions of such licensee shall be readily ascertainable and available for the consideration of the division upon any application for renewal of license and at other suitable times.