Select Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Transportation Committee
Appropriations Committee
AN ACT CONCERNING A STATE IDENTIFICATION CARD FEE WAIVER FOR BLIND VETERANS
SUMMARY: This act authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles commissioner to waive the $22. 50 non-driver identification card fee for any applicant who is a blind veteran. For eligibility purposes:
1. a “veteran” is an individual honorably discharged or released under honorable conditions from active service in the U. S. armed forces (CGS § 27-103) and
2. someone is considered blind if his or her central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses, or if it is better than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation in his or her fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle of no more than 20 degrees (CGS § 1-1f).
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2011
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