Scripted by Chad Ludwig:


Hello Community!

On Friday, May 7, 2021, the governor signed HB 2498 into law.

Provides that the registered owner may request that registration cards issued for the vehicle include that owner, or person operating the vehicle, may be deaf or hard of hearing.

This provides Oregon's deaf and hard of hearing to optionally disclose that they are deaf and hard of hearing to be documented in the DMV system.

This includes registration card, registered owner, drivers license, and state issued license. This information will be available in Oregon State Law Enforcement Data System (LEDS) and this is a-plus!

This marks Oregon as a 3rd state to have this into law after Kentucky and North Carolina. Great news for all of us, Oregonians!

Oregon Association of the Deaf thanks to everyone who were involved in this process by advocating this Bill to turn into law.

At this time, we do not have the timeline when the Oregon Dept. of Transportation will have this option available in their DMV system.

Please communicate and share this exciting news with everyone within your network. Thank you!

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