The Georgia State Senate defeated legislation that would have removed verification requirements in existing state law for non-citizens, including illegal aliens, when renewing certain state benefits illegals began to access after the Obama administration created the DACA program. Under Georgia law, non-citizens must demonstrate eligibility for public benefits by presenting various documents at renewal. HB 1051 would have allowed DACA recipients, who obtain a driver's license or state ID card, to use the numbers from those documents to renew access to an array of state benefits.