Bill Text: CA AB1244 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Parolee: driver's licenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1244 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1244-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1244	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 15, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Block

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 3007.5 to the Penal Code, relating to
parolees.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1244, as amended, Block. Parolee: driver's licenses.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to
require a person applying for a driver's license or an identification
card to provide any identification that it determines is necessary
to ensure the identity of the applicant.
   This bill would require the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to provide an offender with a Parolee Identification
Card and would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to honor that
card as a valid source of identification for the purposes of
applying for a driver's license or an identification card.
   The bill would authorize the above-referenced departments to
jointly adopt rules and enter into interagency agreements necessary
to establish the identities of offenders for the purposes of
assisting offenders in obtaining a driver's license or identification
card immediately upon the offender's release.  The bill would
specify that it is not intended to abrogate any requirement set forth
in the Vehicle Code. 
   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 3007.5 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   3007.5.  (a) The Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall jointly adopt rules and enter
into interagency agreements necessary to establish the identity of
an offender for the purpose of assisting the offender in obtaining a
driver's license or identification card immediately upon the offender'
s release from an institution of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation.
   (b) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may provide
an offender a Parolee Identification Card that shall be honored by
the Department of Motor Vehicles as a valid source of identification
for the purposes of applying for a driver's license or an
identification card. 
   (c) Nothing in this section is intended to abrogate any
requirement set forth in the Vehicle Code.