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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – If you don’t have an Enhanced Driver’s License or passport, and plan to travel by air next year later, you will have to get one of those documents before you can take off.

It’s all about Homeland Security, and New York’s standard driver’s license might not cut it, when those new regulations take effect.

The law known as the REAL ID Act is designed to protect federal facilities from terrorist attacks, and it narrows acceptable forms of identification down to those with security features like the safeguards in your passport.

REAL ID became law in 2005, but its provisions have been phased in over a 10-year period.

For the rest of 2015, you can still use your driver’s license as identification on flights within the United States, but sometime next year, Homeland Security is set to change that, and will require enhanced ID on all commercial flights–foreign and domestic.

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