HB 5775 Summary

• Allows prisoners to apply for operator's licenses before release and requires the Secretary of State to issue licenses to eligible prisoners beginning October 1, 2022.

• Requires delivery or mailing of issued operator's licenses to the Department of Corrections before or immediately after a prisoner's projected parole or discharge date.

• Clarifies that non-citizen applicants for driver's licenses must provide documents demonstrating legal presence in the United States, with license terms not exceeding the duration of their legal presence.

• Makes technical corrections to existing driver's license application requirements, including changing "indorsement" to "endorsement" throughout the statute.

• Ties enactment to passage of HB 5382 and either SB ____ or HB 5774, preventing the bill from taking effect unless all related bills are enacted.