But student license proposal rejectedThursday, June 15, 2006
By Ed Anderson
Capital bureau
BATON ROUGE -- The House said Wednesday that convicted sex offenders should have special orange driver's licenses as a way to better track them, but lawmakers refused to go along with a separate proposal to tie issuance or retention of a driver's license to school attendance.
The House approved Senate Bill 612 by Sen. Willie Mount, D-Lake Charles, 96-0, mandating that convicted sex offenders carry orange identification cards and driver's licenses with the words "sex offender" stamped on them as part of a "predator alert system."
But in a 42-48 vote, the House killed Senate Bill 284 by Sen. Heulette "Clo" Fontenot, R-Livingston, that would have allowed school boards to decide whether or not to participate in a two-year pilot program designed to use students' driver's licenses as leverage to keep them in class.
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Erdey said Louisiana, which has the second-highest dropout rate in the nation, needs to take steps to give students 15 to 18 years old an incentive to stay in school.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1150356204188590.xml&coll=1Yellow Stars, Anyone? Considering how many times and places you are asked for your Driver's License, this is disturbing.