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Committee advances bill to allow state access to limited‑term ID data, and to make license format more visible
Summary
Representative Wayne Long brought House Bill 1422 to give the Secretary of State access to DFA data on limited‑term driver's licenses and to require limited‑term IDs be printed in a vertical format to aid poll workers in identifying noncitizen IDs.
Representative Wayne Long presented House Bill 1422, which the sponsor described as an effort to let the Secretary of State query DFA data on limited‑term (noncitizen) driver's licenses and to require those limited‑term cards to be more visually distinct — printed in a vertical (portrait) format so poll workers can identify them more easily.
Long told the committee DFA data show tens of thousands of limited‑term licenses are in circulation and that those cards, combined with a Social Security number and a state ID, provide the documents someone would need to register to vote only if they falsely mark themselves a citizen. The bill would authorize the Secretary of State to access DFA data to cross‑check whether holders of limited‑term licenses are registered to vote.
The Secretary of State’s office told the…
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