(a) Initial responsibilities of department.-- The Department of Transportation shall: (1) Within 18 months of enactment of this act, investigate the methods by which other states provide decentralized vehicle and driver license transaction services. (2) Within 18 months of enactment of this act, investigate opportunities available to provide decentralized motor vehicle and driver license transaction services through private entities. (3) Within 18 months of enactment of this act, investigate available technological means by which citizens may routinely obtain motor vehicle and driver license transaction services through self-service terminals, direct or indirect telephone linkage to departmental computers or similar systems. (4) (Repealed). (5) (Repealed). (b) Electronic transactions.-- In pursuing the directives of subsection (a), the department is authorized to do the following: (1) (Repealed). (2) Conduct transactions by electronic means through real time access if the department determines that electronic transactions will improve service to the public without adversely affecting the security and accuracy of departmental records. (3) Implement procedures to certify the accuracy of electronic transactions. (c) Certification.-- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a written or printed report of an electronic transaction permitted under this section if certified as true and correct by the department may serve as evidence of any signature, acknowledgment or information which was provided to the department by electronic means, and such certification shall be admissible in any legal proceeding as evidence of the facts stated within the certification. (d) Expansion of pilot program.-- After submitting the written report to the Transportation Committee of the Senate and the Transportation Committee of the House of Representatives as required under subsection (a)(5), the department shall be authorized to and may take the necessary steps to expand the pilot program required under subsection (a)(4) on a permanent Statewide basis, unless otherwise directed to terminate the program through a concurrent resolution enacted by the General Assembly. (e) Nonseverability.-- If subsection (c) or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remaining provisions or applications of this section are void.
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