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Hearing change delays Real ID driver's licenses
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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU
Updated: Apr. 28, 2010 | 8:05 a.m.
CARSON CITY -- A hearing to adopt DMV regulations that make the Real ID driver's license optional in Nevada has been delayed until next week.
As a result, none of the high-security licenses will be available Saturday or Monday.
The Legislature's Subcommittee on Regulations will act on the rules developed by the Department of Motor Vehicles during a 2 p.m. Monday meeting. The panel had been scheduled to act on the regulations today .
DMV Director Edgar Roberts has proposed changes to clarify the new driver's license regulations. He will discuss those changes during a 9 a.m. Friday public hearing in room 4412 of the Sawyer Building in Las Vegas and by teleconference at the Legislative Building in Carson City.
"We feel these latest changes satisfy the concerns of legislators and the public alike," Roberts said. "They contain provisions to protect privacy and offer Nevadans a choice on the type of license or ID card they carry."
The temporary rules that have allowed the DMV to issue the Advance Secure Issuance, or Real ID licenses, since January expire on Friday. That means the DMV will not be permitted to offer these licenses to drivers at its offices Saturday and Monday.
The Department of Motor Vehicles will process license renewals, duplicates and address changes, but not first-time licenses or ID cards or name changes on these two days.
Customers with test drive appointments should keep those appointments, officials said.
About 46,000 people have received the new driver's licenses since Gov. Jim Gibbons issued the temporary, 120-day regulation allowing them in late December.
The first of these licenses were issued in January.
Gibbons issued the regulation, despite rejection by the Legislature of an enabling bill last year and the refusal of the regulation committee to adopt the rule in November.
To receive a Real ID license, motorists must show several pieces of identification, such as a birth certificate and Social Security card and proof of residency.
Congress passed the Real ID law in 2005 in an attempt to prevent terrorists from acquiring legitimate driver's licenses and IDs, but many states have refused to adopt its provisions because of public concerns that they are an intrusion on their privacy.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly postponed taking any discipline against states that do not comply with the law.
Contact Capital Bureau Chief Ed Vogel at evogel@reviewjournal.com or 775-687-3901.
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will they warn us when it is time to stop using our fake IDs?
Those real ID requirements are a pain. Not because of the social or the birth certificate. It's the proof of residency documents.
My son went to get his license the other day. He had his birth cert, his social, his expired learner's permit, and mail addressed to him from the selective service (you know, the draft, the federal govt.)
Nope. Those proofs of residence weren't good enough. They needed utility bills. so I had to spen three hours at the dmv with him because the utilities are in my name.
God help you if the utilities are in some bed-ridden person's name I guess.
How a cox cable bill trumps a draft letter from the feds....I just don't get it.
"To receive a Real ID license, motorists must show several pieces of identification, such as a birth certificate and Social Security card and proof of residency." Hardly seems like an invasion of privacy or an onerous burden for a first time applicant.
Nevada needs to press ahead with this and copy Arizona's law, especially the employer penalties parts. Too many legal residents are looking for work, the narco-terrorism along the southern border continues to expand, and our social services are stretched too far to continue to accomodate an uncontrolled and unmanaged flood of illegals.
We need to secure the border & ports of entry, really penalize employers who profit off the illegals, expeditiously arrest & deport the violent & criminal, and humanely treat those with a genuine desire to remain, integrate, and follow the law.
Aside from the gruesome wait at the DMV, the Real ID may be an important step in weeding out those not entitled to be in the USA or access welfare- an issue of epidemic & violitile proportions. Immigration "reform" advocates are fighting it the hardest. What is the big deal? Our SS number is all the gov. needs to virtually track our every move already though I imagine the vast majority of legal residents are a huge snore to them & remain well under the radar. Currently all a foreign national needs to register their child in school is a utility bill ( citizens need a birth certificate). You need the same kind of documents to get a passport & I think the real ID will also subsititute for that as expedite airport security. There is also widespread fraud in voting 9 No id needed & feds want to make it even easier to vote illegally) & securing government benefits- In this electronic & counterfit ready age, it would just be one more tool to control illegal immigration and fraud of all stripes. An unfortunate & terribly uneasy reality is that Big Brother has already been snooping for decades- this would simply substitute methods to HOPEFULLY & securely eliminate most fakers in a country that is VERY unsecured & insecure now. Just an opinion.