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ACT Relating to facilitating compliance with the federal REAL
ID act by modifying driver's license and identicard design and fees;
amending RCW 46.20.202; adding a new section to chapter 46.20 

and repealing RCW 43.41.390 and 46.20.191.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF 

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section_is added to chapter 46.20

RCW to read as follows:

(1) Beginning July 1, 2018, except for enhanced drivers' licenses

'and identicards issued under RCW 46.20.202, the department must mark

or identicard issued under this chapter in

a driver's .license
37.71 as it existed

accordance with the requirements of 6 C.F.R. Sec.
on the effective date of this section, or such subsequent date as may

be provided by the department by rule, consistent with the purposes

of this section.
(2) The department may adopt rules necessary to implement this

section.

Sec. 2. RCW 46.20.202 and 2016 32 2 are each amended to read
as follows:

(1) The department may enter into a memorandum of understanding
with any federal agency for the purposes of facilitating the crossing

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of the border between the state of Washington and the Canadian
province of British Columbia.

(2) The department may enter into an agreement with the Canadian
province of British Columbia for the purposes of implementing a
border?crossing initiative.

The department may issue an enhanced driver's license or
identicard for the purposes of crossing the border between the state
of Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia to an
applicant who provides the department with proof of: United States
citizenship, identity, and state residency. The department shall
continue to offer a standard driver's license and identicard. If the
department chooses to issue an enhanced driver's license, the
department must allow each applicant txa choose between ea standard
driver's license or identicard, or an enhanced driver's license or
identicard.

The department shall implement a one?to?many biometric
matching system for the enhanced driver's license or identicard. An
applicant for an enhanced driver's license or identicard shall submit
a biometric identifier as designated by the department. The biometric
identifier must be used solely for the purpose of verifying the
identity of the holders and for any purpose set out in RCW 46.20.037.
Applicants are required to sign a: declaration acknowledging their
understanding of the one?to?many biometric match.

(0) The enhanced driver's license or identicard must include
reasonable security Ineasures to protect the privacy" of? Washington
state residents, including reasonable safeguards to protect against
unauthorized disclosure of data about Washington state residents. If
the enhanced driver's license or identicard includes a radio
frequency identification chip, or similar technology, the department
shall ensure that the technology is or otherwise secure
from unauthorized data access.

The requirements of this subsection are in addition to the
requirements otherwise imposed on applicants for a driver's license
or identicard. The department shall adopt such rules as necessary to
meet the requirements of this subsection. From time to time the
department shall reView technological innovations related to the
security of identity cards and amend the rules related to enhanced
driver's licenses and identicards as the director deems consistent
with this section and appropriate to protect the privacy of

Washington state residents.

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mdmmewMI??Notwithstanding RCW 46.20.118, the department may make images
associated 1Mith enhanced <drivers? licenses or identicards from the
negative file available to United States customs and border agents
for the purposes of verifying identity.

(4) Egginninw
the effective date of this section and for the next four years
immediately following that. date, the fee for' an enhanced driver's
license or enhanced identicard is thirty-six dollars,
which is in addition to the fees for any regular driver's license or
identicard. If the enhanced driver's license or enhanced identicard
is issued, renewed, or extended for a period other than six years,
the fee for each class is gig dollars for each year that
the enhanced driver's license or enhanced identicard is issued,

 

renewed, or extended.
Beginning on the date immediately following
the four?year period referenced in of this subsection, the fee

 

for an enhanced driver's license or enhanced identicard is fifty~four
dollars, which is in addition to the fees for any regular driver's
license or identicard. If the enhanced driver's license or enhanced
identicard is issued, renewed, or extended for a period other than
six years, the fee for each class is nine dollars for each year that
the enhanced driver's license or enhanced identicard is issued,
renewed, or extended.

(5) The enhanced driver's license and enhanced identicard fee
under this section 'must be deposited into the highway safety fund
unless prior to July 1, 2023, the actions described in or of

this subsection occur,rin which case the portion of the revenue that

-is the result of the fee increased in section 209, chapter 44, Laws

of 2015 3rd' sp. sess. must be distributed to the connecting
Washington account created under RCW 46.68.395.

Any state agency files a notice of rule making under chapter
34.05 RCW for a rule regarding a fuel standard based upon or defined
by the carbon intensity of fuel, including a low carbon fuel standard
or clean fuel standard.

Any state agency otherwise enacts, adopts, orders, or in any

way implements a fuel standard based upon or defined by the carbon

intensity of fuel, including a low carbon fuel standard or clean fuel

standard.
Nothing in this subsection acknowledges, establishes, or
creates legal authority for the department of ecology or any other

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state agency to enact, adopt, order, or in any way implement a fuel
standard based .upon or defined by the carbon intensity of fuel,
including a low carbon fuel standard or clean fuel standard.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. The following acts or parts of acts are

each repealed:
RCW 43.41.390 (Implementation of federal REAL ID Act of 2005)

and 2007 85 l; and
(2) RCW 46.20.191 (Compliance with federal REAL ID Act.of 2005

requirements) and 2007 85 2.

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