Congress passed the Real ID Act in 2005.
They finally had the notion that since drivers have the unlimited ability to cross the lower 48 states without getting any state specific driving training or licenses, then individual states licensing needed an overhaul, to standardize the criteria used to issue driver's licenses and other state IDs across the country.
Tori Emerson Barnes, the U.S. Travel Association executive vice president for public affairs and policy, said in a statement. "Significant travel disruption was likely if the deadline were allowed to hit, which the U.S. economy can’t afford after a $500 billion decline in travel spending last year and millions of travel jobs lost to the pandemic.”
According to the Department of Homeland Security, “The Act established minimum security standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards and prohibits federal agencies from accepting for official purposes licenses and identification cards from states that do not meet these standards.”
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