SB 5364-S.E - DIGEST

(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 3/09/01)

     Provides that any contract entered into between the department and a private vendor in which the vendor provides services involving drivers' licenses or identicards must contain the following language: "Drivers' licenses and identicards must not contain: (1) Driver social security numbers in either visible or machine readable form; or (2) driver fingerprints or thumbprints."

     Provides that the governor, through the department of social and health services, shall seek a waiver to the federal mandate to record social security numbers on applications for professional, driver's, occupational, and recreational licenses, and, if such a waiver is obtained, then RCW 26.23.150, as amended, shall be null and void.