Relating to driver’s licenses and nonoperator’s identification cards, including personal information required for associated applications, and making penalties applicable

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. 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 30 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.