Lawmakers want enhanced license

Lawmakers propose creating an enhanced driver's license to ease travel across the Canadian and Mexican borders.

A Senate transportation bill near final passage would create the special driver's license that will include an embedded radio chip identifying the license holder as a U.S. citizen.

U.S. citizens crossing the Mexican or Canadian borders will be required to prove citizenship beginning in June. The enhanced license will cost $15 more than a regular license.

The Senate bill also would allow the governor to order that the biodiesel fuel content used in Twin Cities-area public buses be lowered in cold-weather months. There are concerns the fuel, stored in large tanks, can clog engines in the cold.

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