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AB 1255: Mobile application: driver's licenses and identification cards.

  • Session Year: 2017-2018
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2017-04-06
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Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue to a person a drivers 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 to conduct a pilot project to test the effectiveness of utilizing best practice standards for the assessment of creating a digital mobile drivers license application for smartphone use. The bill would require the pilot project to use an assessment protocol or process developed by the department 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 and Department of Transportation employees on or before April 1, 2018, and would require that those employees be selected and begin operation of the pilot project on or before July 1, 2018. The bill would require the department to report the status of the project to the California State Assembly on or before July 1, 2019, and to have full implementation of the application on or before January 1, 2020. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations.

This bill would require the department to conduct a pilot program to evaluate the use of a digital mobile drivers license application for smartphone use. The bill would require the department to issue a request for proposal for a digital mobile drivers license vendor at the same time it issues a request for proposal for a traditional drivers license vendor and would require the department to select a digital mobile drivers license vendor on or before October 1, 2019. The bill would specify that any data exchanged between the department and the digital mobile drivers license application or the digital mobile drivers license vendor is limited to the types of data accessible on a traditional drivers license and would prohibit the department from receiving or retaining any information generated during the pilot program regarding the movement, location, or use of a person participating in the program. The bill would require the department to submit a report of the results of the program, as specified, to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2023. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations. The bill would provide that its provisions will remain in effect only until January 1, 2025, and as of that date are repealed.

Discussed in Hearing

Assembly Standing Committee on Appropriations1H
May 26, 2017

Assembly Standing Committee on Appropriations

Assembly Standing Committee on Transportation19MIN
Apr 17, 2017

Assembly Standing Committee on Transportation

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