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Committee backs future legislation to tighten privacy for information on licenses and IDs
Summary
The Transportation Committee voted to recommend further legislation on House Bill 1273 to examine and potentially tighten protections for personal data scanned from driver's licenses and ID cards, though several members urged redrafting a narrower bill addressing post-scan data use.
The committee voted to recommend future legislation on House Bill 1273, which seeks to protect personal information contained on driver's licenses and nondriver IDs.
Representative Gorski, who moved the recommendation, said he was concerned about businesses scanning licenses and not knowing how the scanned information is handled. "I'm more concerned with what they're doing with that personal information," he said, arguing the concept merits further study.
Several members said they could not support the bill as written and urged a fresh draft focused specifically on allowable data uses after information is scanned or captured. Representative Lavin suggested starting with a blank sheet and drafting new legislation targeted to post-scan data handling. Representative Sykes said the bill in its current form had "inherent flaws" and recommended a fresh look.
The clerk then called the roll and the committee adopted the recommendation to pursue future legislation (roll-call result recorded in transcript as 11–6). Members supporting the motion said the concept of protecting personal data on IDs is sound but needs careful, targeted drafting to avoid unintended consequences for businesses and services that rely on scanned ID data.
