A Los Angeles city panel on Tuesday took another step toward a city services card, a photo identification card to be issued by the library department that could also serve as debit card.

“The federal government has failed on immigration and we have hundreds of thousands of people living in the shadows,” said Councilman Richard Alarcon, who authored the proposal with support form Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

The Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee asked that the Library Department be authorized by the City Council to report back on firms that could help develop the city services card.

Alarcon aides said a full report will be sent to the City Council within the next three weeks on the program designed to help provide local identity cards to illegal immigrants, the elderly, students and the transgender.

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