Ah $h!t, not again..... I looked at Sennsebrenner's bill (HR418), the same obnoxious driver license provisions especially mandating that states must participate in the Driver License Agreement (DLA) that were stripped out of last year's signed Intel bill. Why are they so insistent on the DLA. I talked to staff with the Judiciary Committee and the staff member mentioned that the DLA is going to be insisted on.
The DLA has nothing to do with terrorism and I mentioned it. It is about forcing states to punish their drivers for getting a traffic violation in another state/Canada/Mexico with license suspension points. The bill also micromanages how states must run their driver license programs such as the maximum time a license is good for before expiration. It also requires states to post ALL violations to your driving record. The state I live in - Colorado does not penalize for out of state tickets and does not post zero point violations to your record like a ticket for no front license plate for example or no seat-belt. Colorado should be allowed to continue their policy and not be dictated to by Congress.
The DLA will make personal information available not only between the US states but also with Mexico and Canada. It is defined in the DLA. Can you imagine some corrupt Mexican cops accessing driver's license databases and getting people's SS#'s and using them for identity theft ! The linking of databases through the DLA as defined in Sec. 203 of HR418 is bad ! It needs to be stripped out of the bill !
Also while we are at it, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) should be required to open their books to public scrutiny and same with their web site -
http://www.aamva.org. Their web site has many protected pages especially when it comes to conference notes related to their Driver License Compact (DLC) meetings where this DLA has been discussed. If they are involved in making public policy, then the open door/sunshine laws should apply to them or they should be disbanded !