| 1 | The Governmental Operations Committee recommends the following: |
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| 3 | Council/Committee Substitute |
| 4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 5 | A bill to be entitled |
| 6 | An act relating to verification of identity; requiring the |
| 7 | Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, or its |
| 8 | agent, to verify social security numbers of driver's |
| 9 | license or identity card applicants; providing specified |
| 10 | documents that are acceptable to prove identification of a |
| 11 | person; providing that the act does not apply to part II |
| 12 | of ch. 97, F.S., relating to the Florida Voter |
| 13 | Registration Act; providing an effective date. |
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| 15 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 17 | Section 1. Verification of identity.-- |
| 18 | (1) The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, |
| 19 | or its approved designated agent, shall verify that the social |
| 20 | security number submitted by the applicant for a driver's |
| 21 | license or state identification card does belong to the |
| 22 | applicant and is not a duplicated or fraudulent number through |
| 23 | verification by the Social Security Administration and |
| 24 | Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles records. |
| 25 | (2) Documents acceptable to prove the identity of a person |
| 26 | are limited to: |
| 27 | (a) A valid, unexpired passport issued by the United |
| 28 | States, an immigration document issued by the Federal |
| 29 | Government, and any document issued by an agency of the Federal |
| 30 | Government or the Armed Services of the United States that bears |
| 31 | a photograph of the person. |
| 32 | (b) A valid, unexpired passport issued by a foreign |
| 33 | government if the passport includes or is accompanied by a |
| 34 | document proving that the alien is lawfully in the United |
| 35 | States. |
| 36 | (c) An authentic identification document issued by a state |
| 37 | or political subdivision if the document bears a recent |
| 38 | photograph of the individual, the issuing state or political |
| 39 | subdivision prohibits the issuance of the identification |
| 40 | document to an alien who is unlawfully in the United States, and |
| 41 | the state or political subdivision requires independent |
| 42 | verification of the records offered by the person to prove |
| 43 | identity when applying for the identification document. |
| 44 | (d) A document that satisfies the verification process |
| 45 | specified in the REAL ID Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-13, Div. |
| 46 | B, 119 Stat. 302. |
| 47 | (3) This section does not apply to part II of chapter 97, |
| 48 | Florida Statutes. |
| 49 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006. |