BILL NUMBER: AB 445	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alejo

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2015

   An act to amend Section 12815 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
driver's licenses.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 445, as introduced, Alejo. Driver's licenses.
   Existing law requires that each application for an original or a
renewal of a driver's license contain certain information, including
the applicant's true full name, age, and gender. Existing law also
provides that if a driver's license is lost, destroyed or mutilated,
or if a new true full name is acquired, the person to whom the driver'
s license was issued shall obtain a duplicate if the person provides
satisfactory proof of the loss, destruction, or mutilation.
   This bill would authorize the department to accept a marriage
license issued by a tribal court to verify a new true full name.
   This bill would make conforming changes.
   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 12815 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   12815.  (a)  (1)    If a driver's license issued
under this code is lost, destroyed or mutilated, or a new 
true, full   true full  name is acquired, the
person to whom it was issued shall obtain a duplicate upon furnishing
to the department  (1)   (A)  satisfactory
proof of that loss,  destruction, or mutilation
 destruction or mutilation, or new true full name  and
 (2)   (B)  if the licensee is a minor,
evidence of permission to obtain a duplicate secured from the
parents, guardian, or person having custody of the minor. Any person
who loses a driver's license and who, after obtaining a duplicate,
finds the original license shall immediately destroy the original
license. 
   (2) The department may accept a marriage license issued by a
tribal court to verify a new true full name. 
   (b) A person in possession of a valid driver's license who has
been informed either by the department or by a law enforcement agency
that the document is mutilated shall surrender the license to the
department not later than 10 days after that notification.
   (c) For purposes of this section, a mutilated license is one that
has been damaged sufficiently to render any or all of the elements of
identity set forth in Sections 12800.5 and 12811 unreadable or
unidentifiable through visual, mechanical, or electronic means.