State

Citation

Summary

Status

California

AB 1474

Requires the DMV to cross-reference thumb or fingerprints collected at application for driver's licenses or identification cards with state Department of Justice database to prevent fraud. Increases driver's license fees to pay for system. Bill also prohibits use of this information by third parties.

Passed Assembly June 4, 2001. July 18, 2001: do pass from Senate Transportation Committee, to Committee on Privacy.

SB 661

Directs DMV to create a biometric identifier from the collected thumbprint at application for driver's license or identification card.

Died Feb. 4, 2002.

Connecticut

HB 5759

Allows the commissioner of Motor Vehicles to fingerprint applicants for driver's licenses. Substitute bill deleted this provision.

Signed by governor: June 3, 2002.

Florida

SB 520

HB 223

Revises application requirements for driver's licenses and identification cards including use of out-of-state licenses from states that require submission of documentation of legal presence in the United States. Applicants may include submission of fingerprints. If nonimmigrant status is documented, expiration of the license is the date of expiration of those documents with a maximum of two years duration. If green card is used for identification the license shall expire on the fourth birthday after issue and individual is exempted from renewal in person. If identity is established by employment authorization card or any document for showing nonimmigrant classification, expiration is four years (or on the expiration of the document if sooner) after issue and requires renewal in person (changes of name or address must also be made in person). Also, amends statutes related to fraudulent manufacture and sale of driver's licenses and identification cards.

Passed Senate: Feb. 20, 2002. Passed House as amended: March 20, 2002. Senate concurred: March 22, 2002. Presented to governor: April 30, 2002. Signed May 15, 2002.

Illinois

HB 4174

As amended, requires Department of State Police and Secretary of State to develop a policy for collecting and encoding fingerprint information on driver's licenses and identification cards. Requires report to be submitted by April 1, 2003, on proposed policy, fiscal impact and suggested legislative measures.

April 5, 2002: in House Rules Committee.

Kansas

SB 559

Requires facial recognition identifier. Requires Social Security number. Requires legal presence in the United States. Temporary driving permit can be issued to an individual not lawfully present in the United States who possesses an IRS taxpayer identification number and can show Kansas residency. The temporary permit is revoked on expiration of visa and must be renewed annually.

Passes Senate: March 12, 2002. Failed in House: April 11, 2002.

Michigan

SB 935

Requires criminal background check and submission of fingerprints at application for group designation license.

Dec. 11, 2001: in Senate Committee on Transportation and Tourism.

Nebraska

LB 924

Authorizes the use of biometric identifiers on driver's licenses and identification cards.

Died April 19, 2002.

New Jersey

SB 2708

Driver's license and identification cards will expire at the end of legal presence in the United States. Director may refuse to grant a license if there is reason to suspect any identification documents are false until they are verified. Requires the use of digital pictures on driver's licenses. Allows the use of non-laminated licenses if they are secure. Allows the storage of motor vehicle information, digital photo and digital signature on a magnetic strip on the license.

Jan. 8, 2002: Approved (P.L.2001, c.391).

Oklahoma

HB 2887

Requires an applicant for a driver's license or identification card to submit fingerprint to be placed on driver's license.

Failed: March 6, 2002.

SB 982

Requires an applicant for a driver's license or identification card to submit fingerprint to be placed on driver's license.

Passed Senate: Feb. 28, 2002. Failed in House: April 16, 2002.

HB 1308

Authorizes the use of fingerprints to prove identity for license or identification card. Adds fingerprint image to personal identifying information exception for state open records act. Also requires $1 of license renewal fees, $3 of identification card renewal fees and $5 of license replacement fees to be deposited into a Department of Public Safety Computer Imaging System Revolving Fund to be used solely for the purpose of administration and maintenance of the computerized imaging system of the department. Requires for licenses that bear the Social Security number to be replaced with a computer generated number.

Signed by governor: June 4, 2001.

Pennsylvania

HB 2416

SB 457

Establishes thumbprint or other biometric database to be used for authentication of an individual's identification for driver's licensing purposes only.

Referred to Transportation Committee: March 13, 2002.

HB 714

Established fingerprint or other biometric system as part of a statewide database. System will be administered by the attorney general.

Died.

Virginia

SB 62

Requires thumbprint or other biometric identifier for application for a driver's license

Passed Senate: Jan. 30, 2002. Failed in House: February 21, 2002. Died.

Wisconsin

AB 789

Requires DOT to take a thumbprint of all applicants for driver's licenses and identification cards.

March 26, 2002: failed to pass.