BILL NUMBER: AB 461	CHAPTERED  07/18/05

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	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 18, 2005
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 18, 2005
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 1, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Shirley Horton

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2005

   An act to amend Section 1801.1 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 461, Shirley Horton  Department of Motor Vehicles:
transactions: electronic transmissions.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to allow
a person to submit any document required to be submitted to the
department by using electronic media deemed feasible by the
department instead of requiring the actual submittal of the original
document. Existing law authorizes the department, under certain
circumstances, to waive for electronically submitted documents any
legal requirement that the document be signed in order to complete a
transaction.
   This bill, instead of authorizing the department to waive the
signature requirement specified above, would authorize that
requirement to be satisfied for an electronically submitted document
if the signature is also submitted electronically and the department
retains information verifying the identity of the person submitting
the electronic signature. The bill would make a conforming change.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 1801.1 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

   1801.1.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
department may allow a person to submit any document required to be
submitted to the department by using electronic media deemed feasible
by the department instead of requiring the actual submittal of the
original document.
   (b) If a signature on a document is required by law in order to
complete a transaction, and the document is submitted electronically,
that signature requirement may be met by an electronically submitted
signature, if the department retains information verifying the
identity of the person submitting the electronic signature.
   (c) The department may establish minimum transaction volume
levels, audit and security standards, and technological requirements,
or terms and conditions, including methods of authentication for
electronically submitted signatures, it deems necessary for the
approval of this process.
   (d) An electronically submitted document, once accepted by the
department, shall be deemed the same as an original document, and
shall be admissible in all administrative, quasi-judicial, and
judicial proceedings.