No. SB 1328
Filed under Transportation.
Release of Driver License Information; Authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide state agencies and certain third parties with access to certain driver license information for specified purposes with the licensee’s consent; authorizing such third parties to use licensee images, signatures, and data in a certain manner under certain circumstances; prohibiting such third parties from retaining or selling certain data and information, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDFor the first time, a private company under contract with the department can receive a driver's license photo, signature, and data, if the driver consents, to verify that person's identity.
That third party may not keep or sell the photo, signature, or data without separate consent, and may not retain IP addresses or location data from anyone using the verification service.
State agencies also gain a broader route to this data: an interagency agreement now covers any purpose tied to fraud prevention or identity verification, not just the specific uses listed elsewhere in the law.
Money the department earns from these new agreements and contracts goes into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund, the same fund that pays for the department's own operations.
AICreates a new basis for the department to share driver license digital images, signatures, and data with a private company under contract to perform identity verification, a recipient category the current list does not include at all.
AIA company performing identity verification may not keep or resell a driver's photo, signature, or other data without the driver's separate consent, closing off resale of this information by default.
AIThe new state-agency and third-party disclosure channel is conditioned on the driver's consent, a requirement the older, narrower recipient categories, such as courts or child-support enforcement, do not carry.
AIBeyond the image and signature themselves, a contracted third party may not keep Internet protocol addresses, geolocation data, or other information describing the location or computer used to access the verification service.
AIAny state agency with an interagency agreement can now receive this data for fraud prevention, identity verification, or protecting the integrity of individual identities, a broader standard than the law's older, agency-specific purposes.
AIMoney the department earns from the new state-agency interagency agreements or third-party identity-verification contracts must be deposited into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund rather than kept as general revenue.