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Utah House votes to eliminate driver's privilege card after heated debate over insurance and immigration
Summary
The Utah House passed House Bill 239 to eliminate the state's driver's privilege card in a 39-35 vote after extended debate over whether the cards improve insurance coverage and public safety or enable identity fraud and encourage illegal immigration.
The Utah House passed House Bill 239, the driver license qualification amendments, eliminating the state's driver's privilege card in a 39-35 vote after more than an hour of debate over insurance coverage, identity verification and immigration policy.
Representative L. Donaldson, the bill sponsor, framed the measure as a security and identification problem, saying the state's privilege card "undermine[s] the federal effort to enforce immigration laws" and arguing that cards issued using IRS ITIN numbers provide weak identity verification. Quoting remarks attributed to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Donaldson told colleagues: "I do not think it's a good idea to give…
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