Bay State licenses have stayed off the list of those no longer accepted by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles because Massachusetts issues the same standard driver's license to everyone regardless of their legal status in the U.S.
Bay State licenses have stayed off the list of those no longer accepted by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, because Massachusetts issues the same standard driver's license to everyoneMassachusetts driver's licenses will remain valid in Florida, despite the Sunshine State's new law prohibiting recognition of some licenses from states that allow undocumented immigrants to legally drive.
Bay State licenses have stayed off the list of those no longer accepted by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, because Massachusetts issues the same standard driver's license to everyone -- regardless of their legal status in the U.S. In fact, the new Massachusetts license law explicitly prohibits the Registry of Motor Vehicles from tracking data on whether a person applying for a license is documented or not.
Whether to issue the same, indistinguishable, standard license to everyone or create a new type of permit for undocumented immigrants was one of the major points of debate during the process of passing the so-called Work and Family Mobility Act last year. "It is our highest responsibility to ensure that when we act in this chamber, in order to remedy one thing, that we do not cause problems for public safety, and our voting system, and identification, because the instrumentality we talk about today, the driver's license, is the most recognizable and most relied upon instrument of identification in our society," Tarr said during a debate over the bill last May.
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