Senate Bill sb0486

    Florida Senate - 2006                                   SB 486

    By Senator Haridopolos





    26-517-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to verification of identity;

  3         prohibiting a state agency, political

  4         subdivision, or officer or employee thereof

  5         from recognizing documents other than the

  6         documents specified in the act for purposes of

  7         proving the identity of an applicant for a

  8         public benefit, license, or permit or proving

  9         the identity of a person registering to vote;

10         providing specified documents that are

11         acceptable to prove identification of the

12         person; providing an effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Verification of identity for public

17  benefits, licenses, permits, and voter registration.--

18         (1)  A department, agency, commission, or other entity

19  of the state, a political subdivision, or an officer or

20  employee thereof may not recognize or rely upon, or authorize

21  the recognition of or reliance upon, any document that is not

22  described in subsection (3) when the document is offered to

23  prove the identity of a person applying for a public benefit,

24  license, or permit.

25         (2)  Notwithstanding part II of chapter 97, Florida

26  Statutes, a department or other entity of the state, a

27  political subdivision, or any agency or employee thereof

28  authorized to register a person to vote in any federal, state,

29  or local election may not recognize or rely upon, or authorize

30  the recognition of or reliance upon, any document that is not

31  described in subsection (3) when the document is offered to

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                   SB 486
    26-517-06




 1  prove the identity of a person attempting to register to vote

 2  in this state.

 3         (3)  Documents acceptable to prove the identity of a

 4  person are limited to:

 5         (a)  A valid, unexpired passport issued by the United

 6  States, an immigration document issued by the Federal

 7  Government, and any document issued by an agency of the

 8  Federal Government or the Armed Services of the United States

 9  which bears a photograph of the person.

10         (b)  A valid, unexpired passport issued by a foreign

11  government if the passport includes or is accompanied by a

12  document proving that the alien is lawfully in the United

13  States.

14         (c)  A valid, unexpired identification document issued

15  by a state or political subdivision if the document bears a

16  recent photograph of the individual, the issuing state or

17  political subdivision prohibits the issuance of the

18  identification document to an alien who is unlawfully in the

19  United States, and the state or political subdivision requires

20  independent verification of the records offered by the person

21  to prove identity when applying for the identification

22  document.

23         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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26                          SENATE SUMMARY

27    Prohibits a state agency or political subdivision from
      recognizing documents offered to prove the identity of an
28    applicant for a public benefit, license, or permit, or to
      allow the person to register to vote. Specifies documents
29    that are acceptable to prove the identity of the person.

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