House Bill 2136: Oppose REAL ID Act of 2005

• Bill Number: House Bill 2136
  
• Bill Status: Referred to Committee on Transportation, if favorable to Appropriations
  
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• ENC Position: Equality NC supports this bill.

Bill Summary

Introduced on May 19, 2008, by a bi-partisan coalition of progressive and conservative legislators, this bill would reject implementation of the federal REAL ID law in North Carolina while providing the Division of Motor Vehicles with freedom to ensure the integrity of drivers' licenses. Equality NC supports this bill because of the harmful effect the federal REAL ID Act would have on transgender North Carolinians.

The REAL ID Act would increase discrimination and violence against transgender people. Transgender people need ID that accurately reflects their updated information and, for safety reasons, information that reveals a gender change must be kept private. The REAL ID Act puts up additional barriers to acquiring ID that reflects a person’s new name and it makes information about a person’s former name easier to discover, potentially outing transgender people to whomever scans their ID. When transgender people do not have updated information on their ID, or when information about a gender change is made known, transgender people are vulnerable to increased discrimination and even violence.

Sponsors

Cole (D) (Primary)
Coates (D) (Primary)

Allred (R)
Bordsen (D)
Carney (D)
Church (D)
Dockham (R)
Dollar (R)
Famer-Butterfield (D)
Frye (R)
Gibson (D)
Gillespie (R)
Glazier (D)
Gulley (R)
Haire (D)
Harrell, J. (D)
Harrison (D)
Hill (D)
Hurley (R)
Insko (D)
Jeffus (D)
Love (D)
Lucas (D)
Luebke (D)
Ross (D)
Saunders (D)
Spear (D)
Tolson (D)
Weiss (D)
Williams (D)