AAMVA CDS Versions

The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) DL/ID Card Design Standards document provides a standard for the design of driver licenses (DL) and identification (ID) cards issued by AAMVA member jurisdictions. The intent of the standard is to improve the security of the DL/ID cards issued by AAMVA’s members and to improve the level of interoperability among cards issued by all jurisdictions. AAMVA respects the fact that each jurisdiction’s laws and regulations determine its driver license issuance process and its associated card requirements. As a result, the intent of this document is to provide jurisdictions with guidance on the driver license/ID card design standards in order to provide a reliable source of identification and, at the same time, reduce a cardholder’s exposure to identity theft and fraud.

AAMVA Barcode Version

This is a decimal value between 00 and 99 that specifies the version level of the PDF417 barcode format. Should a need arise requiring major revision to the format, this field provides the means to accommodate additional revisions.

Version	AAMVA CDS	Date
00	Before Adoption	Before 2000
01	AAMVA DL/ID-2000	2000
02	AAMVA DL/ID CDS version 1.0	09-2003
03	AAMVA DL/ID CDS version 2.0	03-2005
04	AAMVA DL/ID CDS version 3.0	07-2009
05	AAMVA DL/ID CDS version 4.0	07-2010
06	AAMVA DL/ID CDS version 5.0	07-2011
07	AAMVA DL/ID CDS version 6.0	06-2012
08	AAMVA DL/ID CDS version 7.0	08-2013
09	AAMVA DL/ID CDS version 8.0	09-2016
10	AAMVA DL/ID CDS version 9.0	10-2020