BILL NUMBER: SB 720	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Runner

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 12817 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 720, as introduced, Runner. Vehicles: drivers' licenses:
military personnel and their dependents.
   Existing law requires a California driver's license held by a
person who enters or is in the United States Armed Forces to continue
in full force and effect, so long as the service continues and the
person remains absent from this state, and for a period not to exceed
30 days following the date the holder of the license is honorably
separated from service or returns to this state, among other things.
   This bill would extend the above benefit to a dependent, as
defined, of the person who enters or is in the United States Armed
Forces, as specified.
   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 12817 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   12817.   (a)    A California driver's license
held by  any   a  person who enters or is
in the United States  armed forces   Armed
Forces  shall continue in full force and effect  ,  so
long as the service continues and the person remains absent from this
 State   state  , and for  a period
 not to exceed 30 days following the date  on which
 the holder of  such   the 
license is honorably separated from  such   that
 service or returns to this  State   state
 , unless the license  is sooner   was
 suspended, canceled, or revoked for cause as provided by law.
The license is valid only  when   if it is 
in the immediate possession of the licensee while driving and the
licensee has  in  his  or her immediate possession 
discharge or separation papers  ,  if  he
  the licensee  has been discharged or separated
from the service  , in his immediate possession  .

   (b) (1) A California driver's license held by a dependent of a
person described in subdivision (a) shall continue in full force and
effect, so long as the person described in subdivision (a) continues
in service and remains absent from this state and the dependent
remains absent from this state, and for a period not to exceed 30
days following the date the person described in subdivision (a) is
honorably separated from that service or the date that that person or
the dependent returns to this state, whichever is earlier, unless
the dependent's license was suspended, canceled, or revoked for cause
provided by law. The license is valid only when in the immediate
possession of the licensee while driving.  
   (2) For purposes of this subdivision, a dependent means the wife
or minor child of the person described in subdivision (a).