erties and protection of constitutional rights, 
experts in immigration law, experts in fraud de-
tection, and experts in vital records manage-
ment. 
(4) CONTENT OF REGULATIONS.—The regula-
tions required by subsection (b)(2)— 
(A) shall facilitate communication between 
the chief driver licensing official of a State, an 
appropriate official of a Federal agency and 
other relevant officials, to verify the authen-
ticity of documents, as appropriate, issued by 
such Federal agency or entity and presented to 
prove the identity of an individual; 
(B) may not infringe on a State’s power to 
set criteria concerning what categories of indi-
viduals are eligible to obtain a driver’s license 
or personal identification card from that State; 
(C) may not require a State to comply with 
any such regulation that conflicts with or other-
wise interferes with the full enforcement of 
State criteria concerning the categories of indi-
viduals that are eligible to obtain a driver’s li-
cense or personal identification card from that 
State; 
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(D) may not require a single design to 
which driver’s licenses or personal identification 
cards issued by all States must conform; 
(E) shall include procedures and require-
ments to protect the privacy rights of individ-
uals who apply for and hold driver’s licenses 
and personal identification cards; 
(F) shall include procedures and require-
ments to protect the Federal and State con-
stitutional rights and civil liberties of individ-
uals who apply for and hold driver’s licenses 
and personal identification cards; 
(G) shall not permit the transmission of 
any personally identifiable information except 
for in encrypted format; 
(H) shall provide individuals with proce-
dural and substantive due process, including 
promulgating rules and rights of appeal, to 
challenge errors in data records contained with-
in the databases created to implement this Act; 
(I) shall not permit private entities to scan 
the information contained on the face of a li-
cense, or in the machine readable component of 
the license, and resell, share, or trade that in-
formation with any other third parties, nor 
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shall private entities be permitted to store the 
information collected for any other than fraud 
prevention purposes; 
(J) shall not preempt State privacy laws 
that are more protective of personal privacy 
than the standards, or regulations promulgated 
to implement this Act; 
(K) may provide for excluding from a driv-
er’s license or personal identification card an 
address of principal residence in circumstances 
which justify such an exclusion, such as for rea-
sons of personal security of domestic violence 
victims or judges or other law enforcement offi-
cials; 
(L) shall not infringe on a State’s power to 
reasonably accommodate a person’s sincerely 
held religious belief in granting a driver’s li-
cense or personal identification card; and 
(M) shall not require verification of birth 
certificates until a nationwide system is de-
signed and implemented to facilitate such 
verification. 
(d) GRANTS TO STATES.— 
(1) ASSISTANCE IN MEETING FEDERAL STAND-
ARDS.—Beginning on the date a final regulation is 
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promulgated under subsection (b)(2), the Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall award grants to States 
to assist them in conforming to the minimum stand-
ards for driver’s licenses and personal identification 
cards set forth in the regulation. 
(2) ALLOCATION OF GRANTS.—The Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall award grants to States 
under this subsection based on the proportion that 
the estimated average annual number of driver’s li-
censes and personal identification cards issued by a 
State applying for a grant bears to the average an-
nual number of such documents issued by all States. 
(3) MINIMUM
ALLOCATION.—Notwithstanding 
paragraph (2), each State shall receive not less than 
0.5 percent of the grant funds made available under 
this subsection. 
(4) SEPARATE FUNDING.—Funds appropriated 
for grants under this section may not be commingled 
with other grant funds administered by the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security and may not be used for 
any purpose other than the purpose set forth in 
paragraph (1). 
(e) EXTENSION
OF EFFECTIVE DATE.—The Sec-
retary of Homeland Security may extend the date specified 
under subsection (b)(1)(A) for up to 2 years for driver’s 
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licenses issued by a State if the Secretary determines that 
the State made reasonable efforts to comply with the date 
under such subsection but was unable to do so. 
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security $300,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2010 through 2017 to carry out this Act. 
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