Citizen Portal
Sign In

Judiciary committee advances bill authorizing mobile driver’s licenses with privacy protections

3136668 · April 25, 2025

Get AI-powered insights, summaries, and transcripts

Subscribe
AI-Generated Content: All content on this page was generated by AI to highlight key points from the meeting. For complete details and context, we recommend watching the full video. so we can fix them.

Summary

House Bill 180, a mobile driver’s license measure from the governor, moved from the House Judiciary Committee on April 25 with no recorded objection. Committee testimony described privacy protections for citizens and limited liability protections for officers.

The Alaska House Judiciary Committee moved House Bill 180 out of committee with attached fiscal notes on April 25, 2025, after brief testimony from the Department of Administration’s legislative liaison.

Forrest Wolf, legislative liaison for the Department of Administration, told the committee the bill ‘‘is our mobile driver's license bill’’ and highlighted privacy protections for people who present a mobile ID to law enforcement. ‘‘When they're receiving your mobile driver's license, they can't rifle through your phone or find anything else to use against you,’’ Wolf said. He also noted a limited liability protection in the draft that would shield an officer from certain claims if a phone were accidentally damaged while handling it, unless the damage was malicious or intentional. Beyond those protections, Wolf said the bill authorizes the commissioner to issue mobile IDs.

A committee member said they supported the bill and moved that ‘‘house bill 180 work order 34/GH1033 backslash A’’ move from committee with attached fiscal notes. Chairman Gray noted there was no objection, and the clerk and staff completed paperwork; the committee signed the bill following the hearing. The sponsor and committee indicated the measure will proceed with fiscal notes and administrative processing.