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Rep. Tillman’s bill would let people add optional ‘invisible disability’ designation to state IDs
Summary
House Bill 66 would allow people to request an optional designation on driver’s licenses and state IDs indicating certain invisible medical disabilities; sponsors said the mark is voluntary, requires documentation at the DMV, and would be further revised after committee review.
Representative Jeremy Tillman introduced House Bill 66, saying the measure would create an optional designation on state driver’s licenses and identification cards to indicate certain "invisible" medical conditions. "House bill 66 deals with, creating a designation for your driver's license," Tillman told the committee, and he said the designation would be optional rather than mandated.
The bill, Tillman said, would let a person "take the medical diagnosis to the DMV and say they would like to have this designation placed on their license." He cited examples of conditions the bill would cover, saying the legislation is intended to reflect "invisible disability or invisible medical disabilities, such as autism, schizophrenia" and to give people a way to signal those conditions in encounters where presenting an ID matters.
Tillman said he worked with an individual named Aaliyah and with groups "like Culture City" while drafting the bill. The committee considered two amendments. The first amendment discussed and adopted in committee would add epilepsy to the list of conditions; Tillman confirmed the language change and the committee adopted that amendment by voice vote. The second amendment would remove a reference in the bill to the "state flower" as the symbol and instead give "Aaliyah" discretion to create a symbol for the designation; the committee paused to review that second amendment before acting.
Because members had not had time to examine the second amendment, the chair moved to carry the bill over to the next meeting. The motion carried by voice vote and the committee left HB 66 "carried over" for additional review and to receive the final amendment text.
What happens next: HB 66 will return to committee with the proposed second amendment text for review. The transcript does not record numeric vote tallies or a final committee action on the second amendment; the committee recorded that the bill was carried over to a future meeting.
