By Ben Giles | Arizona Capitol Times
A Senate committee advanced legislation that would preempt efforts in Phoenix to create a city photo-identification card over protests from Phoenix residents, who labeled the effort an anti-immigrant bill in the vein of SB1070.
Sen. John Kavanagh said his bill, SB1017, protects the sanctity of the “gold standard” of identification: state-government-issued IDs, which require another form of identification in the first place to obtain.