Two Republican lawmakers say they will introduce legislation to bring Oklahoma into compliance with the Real ID Act, nine years after the Legislature passed a bill forbidding the state from meeting provisions of the congressional action.

Congress passed the act in 2005 to make driver's licenses harder to forge. Fraudulent ID's were used by the 9/11 terrorists to carry out their attacks.

Oklahoma lawmakers have been reluctant to allow the state to comply with the act, citing concerns over privacy and federal overreach.

Failure to comply with the act means Oklahoma driver's licenses could stop being accepted as sufficient identification to get on a commercial airliner beginning on Jan. 22, 2018.