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Committee refines H.549 to speed IDs for people leaving custody, delays detainee expansion
Summary
The House Corrections & Institutions committee agreed to tighten H.549’s language so DOC and DMV coordinate to provide non‑driver IDs and, when eligible, driver credentials to people leaving custody; members removed detainees from the immediate expansion for logistical and IT reasons and asked counsel to redraft.
The House Corrections & Institutions committee on Friday moved to refine draft language for H.549 so the Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) can better coordinate issuance of identification for people leaving custody.
Legislative counsel Damon Leonard told the committee the DMV proposal would “expand the existing program that DOC and DMV have, which allows a person who’s been sentenced to receive a non‑driver identification card” so that, in some circumstances, people could leave custody with a driver’s license or learner’s permit instead of having to get a separate credential after release. He added the initial draft “inadvertently swept in detainees,” language counsel has since clarified to focus on sentenced individuals.
DMV director-level staff (identified in the hearing as Nancy Prescott) explained the difference between Real ID‑compliant credentials and non‑Real ID identification and summarized…
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