AB 1149: Driver’s licenses.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a drivers license to an applicant when the department determines that the applicant is lawfully entitled to a license. Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish a pilot program to evaluate the use of optional mobile or digital alternatives to drivers licenses and identification cards, subject to certain requirements, and authorizes the pilot program to include the issuance of mobile or digital Real ID drivers licenses or identification cards upon authorization of the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. Existing law prohibits a person from possessing, or having under their control, more than one drivers license.

This bill would, until July 1, 2026, would exempt from that multiple drivers licenses prohibition a person who possesses, or otherwise has under their control, a digital drivers license issued pursuant to the above-described pilot program and a physical drivers license.