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Minimum Standards for Driver's Licenses and Identification Cards Acceptable by Federal Agencies for Official Purposes; Waiver for Mobile Driver's Licenses
The Homeland Security Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on October 25, 2024. It took effect on November 25, 2024.
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What the agency says
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending the REAL ID regulations to waive, on a temporary and State-by-State basis, the regulatory requirement that mobile or digital driver's licenses or identification cards (collectively "mobile driver's licenses" or "mDLs") must be compliant with REAL ID requirements to be accepted by Federal agencies for official purposes, as defined by the REAL ID Act, when full enforcement of the REAL ID Act and regulations begins on May 7, 2025.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-23881
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Homeland Security Department
- Published
- October 25, 2024
- Takes effect
- November 25, 2024
- Dates
- Effective date: This rule is effective November 25, 2024.
- Docket
- Docket No. TSA-2023-0002
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1652-AA76
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 6 CFR 37
- Topics
- Incorporation by reference; Licensing and registration; Motor vehicle safety; Motor vehicles; Personally identifiable information; Privacy; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Security measures
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 47
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