BILL NUMBER: AB 221	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2015

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 amended, 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.  
   This bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to
conduct a pilot project to test the effectiveness of utilizing best
practice standards for the assessment of creating a digital mobile
driver's license application for smartphone use. The bill would
require the pilot project to use an assessment protocol or process
developed by the Department of Motor Vehicles in collaboration with
other stakeholders to execute the pilot project. The bill would
require the department to solicit participation in the pilot project
by Department of Motor Vehicles and Department of Transportation
employees on or before April 1, 2016, and would require that those
employees be selected and begin operation of the pilot project on or
before July 1, 2016. The bill would require the department to report
the status of the project to the California State Assembly on or
before July 1, 2017, and to have full implementation of the
application on or before July 1, 2018. 
   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. 

   13020.  (a) The department shall conduct a pilot project to test
the effectiveness of utilizing best practice standards for the
assessment of creating a digital mobile driver's license application
for smartphone use.
   (b) The pilot project shall meet all of the following conditions:
   (1) On or before April 1, 2016, the department shall solicit
participation in the pilot project by Department of Motor Vehicles
and Department of Transportation employees. Department of Motor
Vehicles and Department of Transportation employees shall be selected
and begin operation of the pilot project on or before July 1, 2016.
   (2) The pilot project shall use an assessment protocol or process
developed by the Department of Motor Vehicles in collaboration with
other stakeholders to execute the pilot project.
   (3) On or before July 1, 2017, the Department of Motor Vehicles
will report the status of the pilot project to the California State
Assembly. The report shall be submitted in compliance with Section
9795 of the Government Code. The requirement for submitting a report
imposed by this paragraph is inoperative on January 1, 2018, pursuant
to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
   (4) On or before January 1, 2018, full implementation of digital
mobile driver's license application for smartphone use will go into
effect.