Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill that requires police to collect fingerprints and DNA samples from immigrants who are here illegally and get arrested, the governor’s office said.

The bill, by Sen. Lance Bell, a Republican from St. Clair County, adds undocumented immigrants to a state law that requires people convicted of felonies to submit DNA samples.

“Whenever a law enforcement agency in this state has an illegal alien in its custody, the agency may not release the illegal alien until the agency has collected a full set of fingerprints and a known DNA reference sample from the individual, if a sample has not previously been collected,” the bill says.

The DNA samples will be submitted to a database maintained by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences.

The fingerprint samples will be submitted to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency for cataloging.

Bell’s bill passed the House and Senate by wide margins, although many Democratic lawmakers voted against it or abstained.

The governor also signed a bill by Sen. Will Barfoot, R-Montgomery, which prohibits driver licenses issued to foreign nationals from being used for identification to vote in Alabama.

It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote. But Alabama law did not specifically prohibit using foreign national driver licenses as a former of voter identification.

“Alabama is taking steps to protect our communities from impacts on public safety and the integrity of our elections,” Ivey said in a press release.

“These bills will do just that by closing a loophole in state law concerning voter ID while also further enhancing law enforcement’s ability to effectively identify illegal immigrants with criminal records.”

Alabama lawmakers have considered several bills related to illegal immigration so far this year.

Some of those, including a bill to create a crime of human smuggling for knowingly transporting a person who is in the country illegally into Alabama, remain pending on the last day of the legislative session, which is Wednesday.