{"id":2531,"date":"2026-05-28T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:22:29","slug":"history-of-the-non-drivers-id-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/2026\/05\/government-politics\/history-of-the-non-drivers-id-card\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the non-Driver\u2019s ID card"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]History of the non-Driver\u2019s ID card<\/p>\n<p>The Savvy Senior<\/p>\n<p>By Robert Goodman, MSW<\/p>\n<p>Personal Issues can result in enactment of state law. I have a visual impairment and cannot drive. At age eighteen, I could not cash a check since I did not have a driver\u2019s\u00a0license to use as proof of identity, nor did I have\u00a0a\u00a0credit\u00a0card.<\/p>\n<p>I was a student at Florida State University in Tallahassee, our state capital. I spoke to Representative John Savage and Senator Bruce Smathers about this problem. Their staffs researched how other states resolved this issue. As a result, Florida created the non-driver\u2019s\u00a0identification\u00a0card\u00a0(SB\u00a01086)\u00a0based\u00a0on\u00a0a\u00a0Maryland\u00a0law. The law was beneficial for people with disabilities as well as for non-drivers of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0attended\u00a0a\u00a0lecture\u00a0by\u00a0an\u00a0employee\u00a0of\u00a0the Division of\u00a0Motor\u00a0Vehicles\u00a0who\u00a0said\u00a0that\u00a0the\u00a0non-drivers\u00a0ID\u00a0card saved lives by offering an alternative to driver\u2019s license ID, because it provided people who should give up driving an alternative means of identification.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s world, it allows entry onto airplanes and trains with the Real ID.<\/p>\n<p>To make an appointment (no walk ins) to apply for or renew an ID card in Delray Beach call 561-355-2264. The address is 501 South Congress Avenue.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]History of the non-Driver\u2019s ID card The Savvy Senior By Robert Goodman, MSW Personal Issues can result in enactment of state law. I have a visual impairment and cannot drive. At age eighteen, I could not cash a check since I did not have a driver\u2019s\u00a0license to use as proof of identity, nor did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30],"tags":[76,121],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-politics","category-the-savvy-senior","tag-driver-licence","tag-identification"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flnavigator.com\/healthfairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}