NCSL Testimony & Letters Regarding REAL ID
This is an archive of NCSL testimony, letters, and selected federal statements relating to the REAL ID Act. To see the analysis upon which much of the testimony is based, click here. To view PDF files, you must install Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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April 2008
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NCSL President, Delaware State Representative Donna Stone's testimony before a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia - April 29, 2008  Summary: Delaware Representative Donna Stone, NCSL’s president, testified before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on the REAL ID Act and the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. This was only the second time Congress has taken testimony on the 2005 REAL ID Act. Speaking from NCSL policy, Representative Stone recommended the passage of Senate Bill 717, bipartisan legislation that would repeal the REAL ID Act and reinstitute a negotiated rulemaking process. She also urged full funding of the REAL ID Act’s federal mandates ($1 billion for the initial year of implementation). While crediting the administration with providing states additional time and flexibility to implement the REAL ID, Representative Stone stated that a negotiated rulemaking, that would include state legislators, “could address … issues … such as verification requirement waivers, transaction fees, privacy protections [and] governance of databases.” These issues did not receive the attention needed or were overlooked in the Department of Homeland Security’s final regulations issued three months ago. Representative Stone also called on Congress and the administration to “cease cost-shifts to states and fund mandated standards like REAL ID.” S. 717 is in the jurisdiction of the Senate Judiciary Committee, some of whose members received visits from state legislators during NCSL’s 2008 Spring Forum.
Further details on the hearing, including the testimony of all of the panelists, can be found here.
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NCSL supports the Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2007 - April 4, 2008 Summary: NCSL wrote a letter to U.S. Senators Akaka and Sununu expressing its support for their legislation – S. 717, the Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2007 – that would repeal the REAL ID Act and reinstitute the negotiated rulemaking process that preceded it.
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