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Relating to driver’s licenses and nonoperator’s identification cards, including personal information required for associated applications, and making penalties applicable
Topics:TransportationImmigration
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 23, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
Under current law, a person is required to make an application for a driver’s license on a form provided by the department of transportation (DOT). The person must provide the person’s full name, signature, current mailing address, current residential address, date of birth, social security number, and physical description including sex, height, and eye color. The DOT may waive the requirement that a foreign national provide a social security number, and if the requirement is waived, pursuant to administrative rules, the DOT will only accept certain documents issued by foreign governments and federal immigration authorities in lieu of the social security number.
Read the full explanation
190. This bill strikes the requirement that a person provide the person’s social security number. The bill also strikes the DOT’s authorization to require other information by rule. The bill makes conforming Code changes to specify that a person’s citizenship status is considered personal information that the DOT is prohibited from disclosing without the person’s written consent, unless required by law. The bill also prohibits a person from using information contained on an application for a driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card (application) as evidence of the applicant’s citizenship or lawful presence in the United States, or as the primary basis for immigration-related investigation, detention, or arrest. By operation of law, a person who violates this provision commits a simple misdemeanor. A simple misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than days and a fine of at least $105 but not more than $855. The bill strikes provisions requiring a driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card to be issued to a foreign national who is authorized to be present in Iowa temporarily only for the length of time the foreign national is authorized to be present.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Iowa Code it changes
Creates§321.11B
Amends§321.11§321.182§321.190§321.196
Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works
Lobbying
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