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Committee advances bill to modernize 1938 driver-services law; strips concealed-carry endorsement requirement
Summary
Commissioner Tyndall told the Senate Public Safety Committee that Senate Bill 2190 updates the Driver Services Act of 1938 for digital records, online appointments and mobile-ID notices. The committee adopted an amendment to remove a provision that would put concealed-carry endorsements on driver's licenses and voted the bill out as amended.
Commissioner Tyndall, commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, told the Senate Public Safety Committee that Senate Bill 2190 would modernize the Driver Services Act of 1938 and related statutes.
"Senate bill 2190 basically takes a look at the driver services act of, 1938," Commissioner Tyndall said, describing changes that replace archaic terms, update punctuation, remove an obsolete reference to the highway patrol as administrator and modernize record-keeping and notice procedures.
The bill removes the year "1938" from the statutory titles, deletes references to the highway patrol as the driver-services administrator, replaces older document-delivery methods with…
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