BILL NUMBER: AB 2383	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 1810.5 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2383, as amended, Ammiano. Vehicles: public records: access by
certain officials.
   Existing law requires that the Attorney General, district
attorneys, law enforcement agencies, city attorneys prosecuting
specified misdemeanor actions, public defenders, and public defender
investigators have access, including, but not limited to, telephone
access, to specified records of the Department of Motor Vehicles.
   This bill would additionally require that a city attorney of a
city and county  and his or her investigators  have access
to those records of the department.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1810.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   1810.5.  The Attorney General, district attorneys, law enforcement
agencies, city attorneys prosecuting misdemeanor actions under
Section 41803.5 of the Government Code, a city attorney of a city and
county  and his or her investigators  , public defenders,
and public defender investigators shall have access, including, but
not limited to, telephone access, to the records of the department.
For purposes of obtaining a governmental entity requester code from
the department, the office of a city attorney engaged in the
prosecution of criminal actions and a city attorney of a city and
county shall be deemed a law enforcement entity.