Veterans ID Card

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Do All States Issue Veterans ID Cards?

Your Veterans ID card is a convenient way to show proof of your veteran status so you can enjoy the benefits you deserve.

 

[Miss Marty]

Status of Veterans Designations on Drivers Licenses:

There are currently 32 states that feature a veterans designation on drivers licenses or have legislation that permit the issuance of a separate veterans ID card at the state or county level.


•Alabama – None
•Alaska – Pending Legislation (HB 180)
•Arizona – Pending Legislation
•Arkansas – Drivers License Designation
•California – Pending Legislation (SB 1355)
•Colorado – Drivers License Designation (more info)
•Connecticut – Drivers License Designation

•Delaware – Drivers License Designation
•Florida – Drivers License Designation

•Georgia – Drivers License Designation
•Hawaii – Pending (SB 2677 – January 2012)
•Idaho – Drivers License Designation – Passed, will go live November 2014.
•Illinois – Drivers License Designation (beginning July 2015)
•Indiana – Drivers License Designation
•Iowa – Drivers License Designation (starting 2013)
•Kansas – None
•Kentucky – Drivers License Designation
•Louisiana – Drivers License Designation
•Maine – Drivers License Designation

•Maryland – Drivers License Designation (enacted Jan. 1, 2013)

•Massachusetts – Drivers License Designation
•Michigan – Pending Legislation (House Bill 4127)
•Minnesota – Drivers License Designation
•Mississippi – Drivers License Designation
•Missouri – Drivers License Designation
•Montana – None
•Nebraska – Legislature Bill LB93 introduced in January 2013.
•Nevada – Pending Proposal in 2013
•New Hampshire – Pending Legislation (HB 1629) – Division of Motor Vehicles has until July 2014 to implement the law.

•New Jersey – Veterans ID Cards Available at County Level (Pending Legislation at the state level: A691, and S717)

•New Mexico – Drivers License Designation
•New York – Drivers License Designation
•North Carolina – Drivers License Designation (law passed; not yet available).
•North Dakota – Drivers License Designation
•Ohio – Drivers License Designation
•Oklahoma – Drivers License Designation
•Oregon – Drivers License Designation
•Puerto Rico – Drivers License Designation

•Pennsylvania – Drivers License Legislation (HB 2428)

•Rhode Island – Pending Legislation
•South Carolina – Drivers License Designation
•South Dakota – Drivers License Designation
•Tennessee – Drivers License Designation (fall 2012)
•Texas – Drivers License Designation
•Utah – Drivers License Designation
•Vermont – None

•Virginia – Separate Veterans ID Card

•Washington – Pending Legislation (House Bill 2378)
•Washington D.C. – None
•West Virgina – Drivers License Designation
•Wisconsin – Pending Legislation
•Wyoming – None

 

[AwayWeGo]

I Resemble That Remark.

•Virginia – Separate Veterans ID Card

I got 1 of those -- applied on line, then mailed copy of Form DD-214 to DMV.

Official veteran card came back pronto via USPS -- with the same (ugly) photo on it that's on my driver license.

Is this a great country or what ?

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​