BILL NUMBER: AB 2383	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 14, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section  1810.5   1808.51
 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2383, as amended, Ammiano. Vehicles:  public 
 confidential  records: access by certain  public 
officials.
   Existing law requires that the Attorney General, district
attorneys, law enforcement agencies, city attorneys prosecuting
specified misdemeanor actions, public defenders, and public defender
investigators have access, including, but not limited to, telephone
access, to specified records of the Department of Motor Vehicles.

   This bill would additionally require that a city attorney of a
city and county and his or her investigators have access to those
records of the department.  
   Existing law requires a driver's license to bear a fullface
engraved picture or photograph of the licensee and prohibits the
department, unless requested by the licensee, from distributing or
selling the licensee's picture or photograph or any information
pertaining to the licensee's physical characteristics to any private
individual, other than the licensee, or to any firm, copartnership,
association, or corporation, except as specified.  
   This bill would authorize the department to provide copies of
fullface engraved pictures or photographs of individuals directly to
a city attorney of a city and county and his or her investigators for
purposes of performing functions related to city and county
operations. 
   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 1808.51 of the  
Vehicle Code   is amended to read: 
   1808.51.  Notwithstanding  Section   Sections
 1808.5  and 12800.5  ,  both of  the
 Department   following may obtain copies of
fullface engraved pictures   or photographs of individuals
directly from the department: 
    (a)     The Department  of Real
Estate, as a department, individually, or through its staff, 
may obtain copies of fullface engraved pictures or photographs of
individuals directly from the Department of Motor Vehicles, 
for  the  purposes of enforcing the Real Estate Law
(Part 1 (commencing with Section 10000) of Division 4 of the
Business and Professions Code) or the Subdivided Lands Law (Chapter 1
(commencing with Section 11000) of Part 2 of Division 4 of the
Business and Professions Code). 
   (b) The city attorney of a city and county and his or her
investigators for purposes of performing functions related to city
and county operations.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 1810.5 of the Vehicle Code
is amended to read:
   1810.5.  The Attorney General, district attorneys, law enforcement
agencies, city attorneys prosecuting misdemeanor actions under
Section 41803.5 of the Government Code, a city attorney of a city and
county and his or her investigators, public defenders, and public
defender investigators shall have access, including, but not limited
to, telephone access, to the records of the department. For purposes
of obtaining a governmental entity requester code from the
department, the office of a city attorney engaged in the prosecution
of criminal actions and a city attorney of a city and county shall be
deemed a law enforcement entity.