Amended in Assembly April 29, 2015

Amended in Assembly April 21, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 221


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 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 tobegin insert make a preliminaryend insert reportbegin insert onend insert the status of the project to the California State Assembly on or beforebegin delete July 1,end deletebegin insert April 1, 2017, a full report on the status by December 1,end insert 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:

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SECTION 1.  

Article 6 (commencing with Section 13020) is
2added to Chapter 1 of Division 6 of the Vehicle Code, to read:

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4Article 6.  Mobile Application
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13020.  

(a) The department shall conduct a pilot project to test
7the effectiveness of utilizing best practice standards for the
8assessment of creating a digital mobile driver’s license application
9for smartphone use.

10(b) The pilot project shall meet all of the following conditions:

11(1) On or before April 1, 2016, the department shall solicit
12participation in the pilot project by Department of Motor Vehicles
13and Department of Transportation employees. Department of Motor
14Vehicles and Department of Transportation employees shall be
15selected and begin operation of the pilot project on or before July
161, 2016.

17(2) The pilot project shall use an assessment protocol or process
18developed by the Department of Motor Vehicles in collaboration
19with other stakeholders to execute the pilot project.

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20(3) On or before April 1, 2017, the Department of Motor
21Vehicles shall report a preliminary status update of the pilot project
22to the Legislature. The report shall be submitted in compliance
23with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

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24(3)

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P3    1begin insert(4)end insert On or beforebegin delete July 1,end deletebegin insert December 1,end insert 2017, the Department of
2Motor Vehicles will report the status of the pilot project to the
3California State Assembly. The report shall be submitted in
4compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code. The
5requirement for submitting a report imposed by this paragraph is
6inoperative onbegin delete January 1, 2018,end deletebegin insert July 1, 2019,end insert pursuant to Section
710231.5 of the Government Code.

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8(4)

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9begin insert(5)end insert On or beforebegin delete January 1,end deletebegin insert July 1,end insert 2018, full implementation
10of digital mobile driver’s license application for smartphone use
11will go into effect.



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