BILL NUMBER: AB 2262	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Bass and Block

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to add Section 3001.1 to the Penal Code, relating to
inmates.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2262, as introduced, Bass. Inmates: identification cards.
   Existing law provides that after inmates are released from the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, they are generally
placed on parole, as specified.
   This bill would require the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to establish a pilot program at Folsom State Prison,
the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility, the California Institution
for Women, and the Preston Youth Correctional Facility, for the
purpose of providing each inmate at those facilities, prior to his or
her release, a valid California identification card, as defined,
issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
   This bill would require the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the DMV, to allow the DMV to
make biannual visits to the department's facilities to provide
state-issued identification cards to inmates upon their release and
to inmates who are eligible to be released or released on parole
within 6 months.
   This bill would specify the department's duties in providing and
obtaining the information necessary for eligible inmates to obtain
identification cards.
   This bill would make its provisions operative on January 1, 2012.

   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 3001.1 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   3001.1.  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
shall establish a pilot program at Folsom State Prison, the R.J.
Donovan Correctional Facility, the California Institution for Women,
and the Preston Youth Correctional Facility, for the purpose of
providing each inmate at those facilities, prior to his or her
release, with a valid California identification card issued by the
Department of Motor Vehicles.
   (b) The department, in collaboration with the Department of Motor
Vehicles (DMV), shall allow the DMV to make biannual visits to the
department's facilities at the prisons specified in subdivision (a)
for the purpose of providing state-issued identification cards to
inmates upon their release and to inmates who are eligible to be
released or released on parole within six months.
   (c) The department shall verify inmate eligibility for the
identification card by obtaining the inmate's birth date and legal
presence information through the inmate's file.
   (d) Identification cards shall be issued pursuant to subdivision
(a) of Section 13005 of the Vehicle Code.
   (e) All identification cards will be subject to Section 13004 of
the Vehicle Code.
   (f) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2012.