BILL NUMBER: AB 221	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dababneh

                        FEBRUARY 3, 2015

   An act to add Article 6 (commencing with Section 13020) to Chapter
1 of Division 6 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 221, as introduced, Dababneh. Mobile application: driver's
licenses and identification cards.
   Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue to
a person a driver's license as applied for when the department
determines that the applicant is lawfully entitled to a license.
Existing law requires the license to state specified information,
including the true full name, age, and mailing address of the
licensee and a brief description and engraved picture or photograph
of the licensee for the purpose of identification.
   Existing law authorizes the department to issue an identification
card to any person attesting to his or her true full name, correct
age, and other identifying data as certified by the applicant for the
identification card.
   This bill would authorize the department to develop a mobile
application whereby a person may access a digital copy of his or her
driver's license or identification card issued by the department. The
bill would state that a person is required to apply to the
department for a secure personal identification number (PIN) in order
to obtain access to his or her digital driver's license or
identification card. The bill would require that a digital driver's
license or identification card presented on the mobile application
developed pursuant to these provisions be accepted as a valid
government-issued identification.
   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.  Article 6 (commencing with Section 13020) is added to
Chapter 1 of Division 6 of the Vehicle Code, to read:

      Article 6.  Mobile Application


   13020.  (a) The department may develop a mobile application
whereby a person may access a digital copy of his or her driver's
license or identification card issued by the department.
   (b) In order to obtain access to his or her digital driver's
license or identification card on the mobile application, a person
shall apply to the department for a secure personal identification
number (PIN). A person with a PIN from the department may use the PIN
to access his or her digital driver's license or identification on
the mobile application.
   (c) A digital driver's license or identification card presented on
the mobile application developed pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
be accepted as a valid government-issued identification.