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Lawmaker proposes raising age for senior drivers who must get annual license renewals (SF New Mex)

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Lawmaker proposes raising age for senior drivers who must get annual license renewals

Posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:45 pm | Updated: 6:55 am, Wed Jan 28, 2015.

Lawmaker proposes raising age for senior drivers who must get annual license renewals Milan Simonich | The New Mexican The Taos News | 0 comments

One silver-haired, silver-tongued New Mexico legislator wonders if the state is practicing ageism by requiring drivers 75 and older to renew their licenses in person every year.

Sen. John Arthur Smith introduced a bill Tuesday to raise the age threshold for annual license renewals to 79.

Smith, D-Deming, said residents in his Southern New Mexico district lobbied him for a higher age limit, and his first instinct is that they have a point.

Read more here: http://www.taosnews.com/news/article_859fd3d2-a693-11e4-b304-5b6f47615064.html