Maine Disses RealID

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I hope they don't get their machinery working correctly before we have a chance to get rid of them.

[Dreepa]

If NH doesn't reject REAL ID, the FSP might fold...

I doubt it.

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If NH doesn't reject REAL ID, I foresee protests where people light bonfires on the public sidewalks and throw in their ID cards.

[Tyler Stearns]

We lost the race to reject it using a resolution but we can still be the first to do it in bill format! 

Do any "insiders" know the text of this years anti-Real ID bill (LSR 2007-H-0297-R)?  Same as last year?

I wrote a bill for Youth and Government that I am going to submit.  It is based upon HB 1582 with a few additions.  Maybe if it passes through the Youth Government it can send a message to the real elected officials.

Here is the text, tell me if it needs improvement:

AN  ACT            

Relative to: prohibiting New Hampshire from participating in a national identification card system

Be it enacted by the YMCA Youth Legislature of New Hampshire as follows:

1.  Section I: The government of the State of New Hampshire finds that the Congressional Real ID
2.  Act of 2005, Public Law 109-13, is in direct violation of both the New Hampshire and United
3.  States Constitutions.
3.  Section II: The State of New Hampshire shall not participate in any national identification card
4.  system established under federal law.
5.  (a) Neither the State nor the Department of Safety shall amend the applicable driver?s license
6.  statutes or accept any money to implement a national ID system.
7.  (b) The State shall not appropriate any funds to the implementation of a national ID system.
8.  (c) The State shall not provide any information from driver?s licenses to any national database
9.  that may hold such information.
10.  Section III: This bill shall take effect 30 days after passage.