A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to clarify the statewide treatment applicable to community action identification cards.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 15A‑311 reads as rewritten:
"Article 18.
"Identification Documents.
"§ 15A‑311.  Consulate documents not acceptable as identification.
(a)	The following documents are not acceptable for use in determining a person's actual identity or residency by a justice, judge, clerk, magistrate, law enforcement officer, or other government official:
(1)	A matricula consular or other similar document, other than a valid passport, issued by a consulate or embassy of another country.
(2)	An identity document, including a Community Action ID, issued or created by any person, organization, county, city, or other local authority, except where expressly authorized to be used for this purpose by the General Assembly.
(b)	No local government or law enforcement agency may establish, by policy or ordinance, the acceptability of any of the documents described in subsection (a) of this section as a form of identification to be used to determine the identity or residency of any person. Any local government policy or ordinance that contradicts this section is hereby repealed.
(c)	Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, documents described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section may be used by a law enforcement officer to assist in determining the identity or residency of a person when they are the only documents providing an indication of identity or residency available to the law enforcement officer at the time."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.