Mobile driver’s licenses coming to North Carolina in 2025

RALEIGH, N.C. (WBTV) – Mobile driver’s licenses will be coming to North Carolina in 2025 after former Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill into law this past summer.

The law, which Cooper signed on July 2, 2024, will make the mobile licenses available on July 1, 2025. According to the law, the digital licenses will be the “legal equivalent” of traditional, hard-card licenses.

The mobile licenses will be issued along with the physical copy, but based on the law, the mobile version seems as though it will have to be requested in order to receive it. Steps on how to request one have not yet been made public.

Once the new licenses become available, they will have the same information listed as traditional ones.

When Cooper signed the law this past summer, it ordered the DMV and North Carolina Department of Transportation to begin a study and plan for implementing the digital cards. Among the items to be studied and planned were renewal processes, costs, and security and confidentiality of information.

The DMV and Department of Transportation were required to report back to the state legislature by Jan. 1, 2025. Support for the bill was nearly unanimous in both chambers of the General Assembly.

According to identity verification company IDScan.net, at least 15 American states have active mobile driver’s license programs. Dozens more are either considering legalizing them or developing apps.

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