{"id":178614,"date":"2026-04-28T21:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178614\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:13:06","slug":"pennsylvania-house-votes-to-allow-electronic-drivers-licenses-and-id-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178614\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania House votes to allow electronic driver&#8217;s licenses and ID cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania House lawmakers voted Tuesday afternoon to allow PennDOT to offer electronic forms of driver&#8217;s licenses and ID cards.  The bill would give Pennsylvanians the option to obtain an electronic driver&#8217;s license and ID card in addition to physical ones.Available through digital wallet on your smartphoneThese electronic versions would be available through a digital wallet on a smartphone and would not simply be a photo of an ID.  &#8220;It&#8217;s going to have a footprint of you on it. Say you&#8217;re going into a liquor establishment, you&#8217;re not showing them everything. You&#8217;re just showing them what they need to allow you to come in. So there&#8217;s no way. And every 30 days, PennDOT will update this product to make sure that you are who you are and it is on your device,&#8221; said Rep. Ed Neilson, D-Philadelphia.  Drivers would still need a physical copy of their license during a traffic stop by police.  The legislation passed 186 to 15 and now heads to the state Senate for consideration.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania House lawmakers voted Tuesday afternoon to allow PennDOT to offer electronic forms of driver&#8217;s licenses and ID cards.  <\/p>\n<p>The bill would give Pennsylvanians the option to obtain an electronic driver&#8217;s license and ID card in addition to physical ones.<\/p>\n<p>Available through digital wallet on your smartphone<\/p>\n<p>These electronic versions would be available through a digital wallet on a smartphone and would not simply be a photo of an ID.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to have a footprint of you on it. Say you&#8217;re going into a liquor establishment, you&#8217;re not showing them everything. You&#8217;re just showing them what they need to allow you to come in. So there&#8217;s no way. And every 30 days, PennDOT will update this product to make sure that you are who you are and it is on your device,&#8221; said Rep. Ed Neilson, D-Philadelphia.  <\/p>\n<p>Drivers would still need a physical copy of their license during a traffic stop by police.  <\/p>\n<p>The legislation passed 186 to 15 and now heads to the state Senate for consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania House lawmakers voted Tuesday afternoon to allow PennDOT to offer electronic forms of driver&#8217;s licenses and ID&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19476,529,60846,79756,79759,79760,79758,79753,79757,13210,21211,12207,3431,28,30,9116,79754,29,7924,79761,79755,40139,22473],"class_list":["post-178614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-addition","tag-bill","tag-d-philadelphia","tag-digital-wallet","tag-electronic-driver","tag-electronic-form","tag-id-card","tag-id-cards","tag-lectronic-forms-of-drivers-licenses","tag-license","tag-option","tag-pa-lawmaker","tag-penndot","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-house","tag-pennsylvania-house-lawmakers","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvanians","tag-physical-one","tag-rep-ed-neilson","tag-state-senate","tag-tuesday-afternoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}