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SB492: Vital Records, Office of, et al.; development of alternative verification system.

SENATE BILL NO. 492
Offered January 9, 2008
Prefiled January 9, 2008
A BILL to require the Office of Vital Records to develop a Virginia Resident verification system.
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Patron-- Hanger
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Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. That the Department of Health's Office of Vital Records, along with the Department of Motor Vehicles and other appropriate state and local agencies, shall develop and implement a plan to provide Virginia Resident verification, as an alternative to the requirements of the federal Real ID Act of 2005, P.L. 109-13. Virginia shall not comply with the unfunded mandates of the Real ID Act.

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