Bill Text: CA AB259 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
Bill Title: Vehicle registration: Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB259 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB259-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Vehicle registration: Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB259 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB259-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 259 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Calderon |
January 23, 2019 |
An act to add Article 5.4 (commencing with Section 4630) to Chapter 1 of Division 3 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 259, as introduced, Calderon.
Vehicle registration: Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program.
Existing law generally prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving a vehicle upon a highway or in an offstreet public parking facility, unless it is registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles and the appropriate fees have been paid.
This bill would establish and require the department, on and after July 1, 2022, to administer the Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program. The program would allow a person at the time of the original or renewal of registration of a vehicle to voluntarily indicate that a driver of the vehicle may be deaf or hard of hearing and further allow a peace officer to access that information when accessing other information about the vehicle. The department would be prohibited from indicating, in any manner, the information provided pursuant to the program on a driver’s license, certificate of
ownership, registration card, or license plate.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 5.4 (commencing with Section 4630) is added to Chapter 1 of Division 3 of the Vehicle Code, to read:Article 5.4. Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program
4630.
(a) There is, within the department, the Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program.(b) For purposes of this article, “program” shall mean the Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program.
4632.
The department shall administer the program to do all of the following:(a) Allow a person at the time of the original or renewal of registration of a vehicle to voluntarily indicate that a driver of the vehicle may be deaf or hard of hearing.
(b) Place a notification in the record of the vehicle registration consistent with the information provided pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c) Provide a peace officer access to the information provided pursuant to subdivision (a) when accessing other information about the vehicle.
