SEC. 2. FEDERAL IDENTIFICATION CARDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of 
the Social Security Administration shall produce and 
make available at no cost to individuals in the United 
States who submit an application under subsection (f) an 
identification pursuant to the requirements in the report 
issued by the Task Force on Federal Identification Cards 
under section 3(i) that can be presented by such individ-
uals to satisfy certain identification requirements. 
(b) USE OF IDENTIFICATION.—With respect to an in-
dividual, the identification described in subsection (a) shall 
be deemed sufficient to satisfy identification requirements 
to the same extent and for the same purposes that any 
driver’s license or identification card issued by a State is 
accepted to satisfy such requirements. 
(c) CONTENT OF IDENTIFICATION.—With respect to 
an individual, the identification described in subsection (a) 
shall include— 
(1) the full name of the individual; 
(2) the date of birth of the individual; 
(3) the gender of the individual, which shall in-
clude an option for male, female, and X (rep-
resenting an unspecified or other gender identity), as 
attested by the individual; 
(4) a photograph of the individual; 
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(5) a unique identification number; 
(6) the date the identification was issued to the 
individual; and 
(7) the date on which the identification is no 
longer valid. 
(d) SECURITY FEATURES OF IDENTIFICATION.—The 
identification described in subsection (a) shall include— 
(1) physical security features to make the iden-
tification resistant to tampering, counterfeiting, du-
plicating, and fraudulent use; and 
(2) common machine-readable identity informa-
tion based on defined minimum data elements as de-
termined by the Task Force on Federal Identifica-
tion Cards established under section 3(a). 
(e) PERIOD OF VALIDITY OF IDENTIFICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), with respect to an individual, the identi-
fication described in subsection (a) shall be valid for 
the 10-year period which begins on the date the 
identification is issued by the Commissioner of the 
Social Security Administration to the individual. 
(2) SPECIAL
RULE
FOR
CERTAIN
INDIVID-
UALS.—Notwithstanding paragraph (1), in the case 
of an individual with a valid identification— 
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(A) who is under the age of 18, such iden-
tification shall only be valid during the period 
beginning on the date the identification is 
issued to the individual and ending on the date 
the individual reaches the age of 18, after 
which the individual may submit an application 
for a renewal under subsection (f)(2); and 
(B) who reaches 65 years of age or older 
during the period the identification is valid, the 
identification of such individual shall be deemed 
valid upon the expiration of the 10-year validity 
period for such identification without requiring 
a renewal of such identification. 
(f) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—To receive an identification 
under this section, an individual who is at least 14 
years of age or older shall submit an application at 
such time and containing such information as the 
Task Force on Federal Identification Cards estab-
lished under section 3(a) determines appropriate. 
(2) RENEWAL APPLICATION.—To receive a re-
newal of the identification described in subsection 
(a), an individual shall submit an application at such 
time and containing such information as the Task 
Force on Federal Identification Cards established 
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under section 3(a) determines appropriate, except 
that an individual shall not be required to provide 
documents that include the personally identifiable in-
formation of such individual unless any of such per-
sonally identifiable information has changed with re-
spect to the most recent application submitted by 
the individual. 
(g) PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN.—Not later than 
6 months before the date the identification is made avail-
able to individuals under subsection (a), the Commissioner 
of the Social Security Administration shall develop and 
implement a campaign to educate the public with respect 
to the identification described in subsection (a), including 
how an individual can receive and use such an identifica-
tion to satisfy certain identification requirements. 
(h) POSTAL SERVICE APPLICATION PROCESS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Post-
master General of the United States Postal Service 
shall, in consultation with the Commissioner of the 
Social Security Administration, develop and imple-
ment a process pursuant to the requirements of 
paragraph (2) that enables individuals to apply for 
the identification described in subsection (a) through 
the United States Postal Service, including a process 
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with respect to an application for a first-time identi-
fication and a renewal of such identification, which 
shall be modeled after the process with respect to 
applications for a passport through the Postal Serv-
ice. 
(2) PROCESS REQUIREMENTS.—The process de-
veloped under paragraph (1) shall include, with re-
spect to an individual, an option to— 
(A) receive full service at a post office loca-
tion, including by providing photography serv-
ices at no cost to the individual; 
(B) submit an application online through 
the website of the Postal Service; 
(C) mail a written application described in 
subsection (f) through the mail service of the 
Postal Service at no cost to the individual; and 
(D) with respect to an approved identifica-
tion of an individual, receive such identification 
through mail service to the individual’s address 
or a post office location, at the option of the in-
dividual. 
(i) STATE DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘‘State’’ means each of the several States, the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United 
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States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 
SEC. 3. TASK FORCE ON FEDERAL IDENTIFICATION CARDS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a Task 
Force on Federal Identification Cards (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Task Force’’) for the purpose of deter-
mining the requirements to produce and make available 
the identification described in section 2(a). 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The Task Force shall be com-
posed of at least 9 members as follows: 
(1) The Commissioner of the Social Security 
Administration. 
(2) At least 1 representative from the Election 
Assistance Commission. 
(3) At least 1 representative from the Domestic 
Policy Council. 
(4) At least 1 representative from the United 
States Postal Service. 
(5) At least 1 representative from the Con-
sumer Financial Protection Bureau. 
(6) At least 1 representative from the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development. 
(7) At least 1 representative from the Depart-
ment of Education. 
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