A bipartisan, multistate effort for digital ID people control
Why the consortium exists.
In 2025, Utah wrote its principles for state-endorsed digital identity into law with SB 260. In 2026 it passed the full framework, SB 275, 25 to 0 in the Senate and 70 to 0 in the House.
Utah could not do this alone. A digital ID is more useful when it works across state lines, and states have more say with the companies that build wallets and check IDs when they act together. So at the first SEDI Summit, in October 2025, Utah invited other states to form a consortium and do the work with it.
Utah leads the consortium, and every state is invited to take part. Representatives from more than 25 states attended the April 2026 Summit. States work together at the Summits and in working sessions on legislation and implementation, and SEDI 101 sessions for legislators and state agencies are starting soon.
The aim is that any state can adopt SEDI, in whole or in part, starting from shared principles, a model bill, and common technical approaches, so that digital IDs from different states protect people the same way and work together.
Four areas of work.
Shared principles
A common starting point for what a state-endorsed digital identity must protect, beginning with the eleven rights in the model bill.
Model legislation
A model bill any state can adapt to its own agencies and laws.
Common technical approaches
Open standards so credentials can work across states and wallets, with no favored vendor.
The SEDI Summit
Lawmakers, agencies, civil liberties advocates, and industry work through the hard questions together.
Five principles.
Rights first
Every decision starts from the rights of the person the ID belongs to.
Privacy by design
Share only what is needed, and no tracking of where an ID is used.
Open and neutral
Open standards and published rules, with no favored company.
Choice, not compulsion
The state cannot make you use a digital ID, and physical IDs keep working.
Built by states, for states
Each state sets its own rules through its own legislature.
[E]ssentially we're saying public policy should dictate the technology we need and let the free market come forward with solutions
To the Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee, September 2025
Get involved
Ways for states, organizations, and individuals to take part.