Tri-National Driver Database (Driver License Agreement)

In the recent Immigration Bill (HR4437) as passed by the US House,
there is a posion pill provision. Under Section 606 (c) 2, there is a
requirement for states to sign-on to the International Driver License
Agreement, one of the provisions dropped in the Real ID Act and the
Intel Bill as passed by the 108th Congress.

The tri-national portion is found in Page 4, item 11 in the DLA
document http://tinyurl.com/633y5. This document was written by the
American Assoc. of Motor Vehicle Administrators. Other countries can be
added later.

Concerning driver's databases, some states have strong privacy laws and
others have weak laws. If this DLA is required by Congress in this
legislation when it becomes law, it doesn't matter how strong a given
states' privacy law is, a way around the strong privacy law is to
access the given database from a different state or even better, pay
off some officials off in Mexico without fear of accountability.

For a third time, it is time to let Congress know that we don't want
the DLA. Congress can be contacted at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress
.. Right now, Congress is now in recess but theis will be taken up by
the Senate come January/February. It is expected to be taken up by the
Senate Judiciary Committee.

A suggested solution would be change the wording of the legislation to
refer to the "National Driver Register (NDR) as operated by the NHSTA
within the US-DOT" instead of the "Driver License Agreement (DLA) as
operated by the AAMVA" for states to share drunk driver information.
The NDR is already in place and working.