BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    �



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          Date of Hearing:   August 17, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                    SB 859 (Padilla) - As Amended:  July 5, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                             
          TransportationVote:10-3
                        Judiciary                             8-1

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          Yes    Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          As proposed to be amended, this bill allows the Department of 
          Motor Vehicles (DMV) to disclose to electrical utilities 
          otherwise confidential information regarding the residential 
          addresses of owners of electric vehicles.  Specifically, this 
          bill:

          1)Authorizes DMV to release the residential address, but not the 
            name, of the owner of an electric vehicle to an electric 
            utility, upon request, if the electric utility agrees, under 
            penalty of perjury, to use the information only to identify 
            where an electric vehicle is registered.

          2)As proposed to be amended, requires the electric utility, 
            within 15 days of receiving residential information, to 
            disclose to the registered vehicle owner that the utility is 
            authorized by law to receive the vehicle owner's residential 
            information.  (As written, the bill requires the electric 
            utility to disclose to the registered vehicle owner that the 
            utility is required by law to receive the vehicle owner's 
            residential information, a disclosure that inaccurately 
            describes the law.)

          3)Expressly prohibits the electric utility from using a 
            registered vehicles owner's residential address information 
            for any purpose other than identifying the address at which an 
            electric vehicle is registered and from selling or otherwise 










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            sharing the information.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Minor, absorbable costs to DMV.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  .  The author intends this bill to make information, 
            currently confidential, available to electricity corporations 
            and local publicly owned utilities so they may better plan for 
            load demand resulting from the potential increased use of 
            electric vehicles.

           2)Background  .  Until 1989, DMV records were generally considered 
            public records and any person who had a legitimate reason to 
            seek a home address of a particular person in the DMV files 
            could obtain it simply by producing the relevant driver's 
            license number or a license plate number.  In 1986, 
            legislation created a list of public officials whose home 
            addresses were to be kept confidential by the DMV.  In 
            response to a stalking and murder case, the Legislature passed 
            AB 1779 (Roos), Chapter 1213, Statutes of 1989, which made 
            confidential the home addresses of all individuals with 
            records at the DMV.  Statute provides for specific exemptions 
            to the confidentiality requirement.
           
           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081