State-Issued Driver's Licenses and Comparable Identification Documents

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• Document number: 98-16062
• Type: Proposed Rule
• Published: June 17, 1998
• Comments close: August 3, 1998
• Agency: Transportation Department; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Official abstract

This document proposes regulations to implement the requirements contained in section 656(b) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Section 656(b) of the Act, entitled State-Issued Driver's Licenses and Comparable Identification Documents, provides that a Federal agency may only accept as proof of identity a driver's license or identification document that conforms to specific requirements, in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of Transportation. This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposes those regulations. The agency requests comments on its proposal.

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