1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to identification documents; providing for
1.3 	uniform standards for drivers' licenses and other
1.4 	documents; prohibiting certain acts; providing for an
1.5 	audit; providing penalties; appropriating money;
1.6 	amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 144.05, by
1.7 	adding a subdivision; 144.227, subdivision 2; 171.07,
1.8 	subdivision 9, by adding a subdivision.
1.9 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.10 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 144.05, is
1.11 	amended by adding a subdivision to read:
1.12 		Subd. 5.Documents standards. The Department of Health
1.13 	shall, by rule, provide uniform standards for the creation of
1.14 	birth certificates and other vital statistics documents.  The
1.15 	standards shall be adopted in accordance with chapter 14.  In
1.16 	preparing the standards, the commissioner of health shall
1.17 	consult the commissioner of public safety and other affected
1.18 	state departments and local authorities.  The commissioner of
1.19 	health shall consider security requirements, the practices of
1.20 	other states, the proposals of state associations, and federal
1.21 	recommendations.  Documents and replacements of documents issued
1.22 	in 2008 and thereafter shall conform to the standards.

1.23 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 144.227,
1.24 	subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.25 		Subd. 2.Fraud.  A person who, without lawful authority
1.26 	and with the intent to deceive, willfully and knowingly makes,
1.27 	counterfeits, alters, obtains, possesses, uses, or sells a
2.1 	certificate, vital record, or report required to be filed under
2.2 	sections 144.211 to 144.227 or a certified certificate, vital
2.3 	record, or report, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2.4 	A public employee who willfully and knowingly issues a
2.5 	counterfeited or altered certificate, vital record, report, or
2.6 	copy of a certificate, vital record, or report filed under
2.7 	sections 144.211 to 144.227 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2.8 	A person who willfully and knowingly provides a blank
2.9 	document or other material for use in a counterfeited or altered
2.10 	certificate, vital record, or report of a kind required to be
2.11 	filed under sections 144.211 to 144.227 is guilty of a gross
2.12 	misdemeanor.

2.13 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 171.07,
2.14 	subdivision 9, is amended to read:
2.15 		Subd. 9.Improved security.  The commissioner shall
2.16 	develop new drivers' licenses and identification cards, to be
2.17 	issued beginning January 1, 1994,that must be as impervious to
2.18 	alteration as is reasonably practicable in their design and
2.19 	quality of material and technology. In the development of the
2.20 	licenses and cards, the commissioner shall consider the
2.21 	standards for documents provided under section 144.05,
2.22 	subdivision 5, security requirements, the practices of other
2.23 	states, the proposals of state associations, and federal
2.24 	recommendations.The driver's license security laminate shall
2.25 	be made from materials not readily available to the general
2.26 	public.  The design and technology employed must enable the
2.27 	driver's license and identification card to be subject to two or
2.28 	more methods of visual verification capable of clearly
2.29 	indicating the presence of tampering or counterfeiting.  The
2.30 	driver's license and identification card must not be susceptible
2.31 	to reproduction by photocopying or simulation and must be highly
2.32 	resistant to data or photograph substitution and other tampering.

2.33 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 171.07, is
2.34 	amended by adding a subdivision to read:
2.35 		Subd. 9a.Information documents. In 2009 and thereafter,
2.36 	a birth certificate or other document provided by a Minnesota
3.1 	authority and presented in an application for a driver's license
3.2 	must conform to the standards provided under section 144.05,
3.3 	subdivision 5.  A birth certificate or other document from
3.4 	another state or country must provide equivalent assurance of
3.5 	its authenticity.  The commissioner may, by rule, provide
3.6 	detailed standards for the enforcement of this subdivision.

3.7 	Sec. 5. DOCUMENT PROCESS AUDIT; APPROPRIATION.
 3.8 	$200,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the
3.9 	Department of Public Safety for an audit of the processes for
3.10 	the issuance of drivers' licenses, birth certificates, and other
3.11 	vital statistics and similar documents in Minnesota to suggest
3.12 	improvements in those processes to better assure the accuracy of
3.13 	the documents, the security of their use for identification, and
3.14 	the avoidance of fraud.  The commissioner shall report the
3.15 	results of the audit to the legislature and the governor.