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SB-251 Vehicles: driver’s license: selective service. (2011-2012)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.
 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) California has one of the lowest Selective Service System registration compliance rates in the nation.
(b) Males who are between 18 and 26 years of age who fail to register with the Selective Service System, as required by federal law, face possible federal penalties and loss of federal benefits, including student financial assistance, federal employment, such as employment with the United States Postal Service, job training under the Workforce Investment Act (28 U.S.C. Sec. 2801 et seq.), and citizenship for immigrants.
(c) The failure of young men to register with the Selective Service System has resulted in the lifetime loss of over $100,000,000 in potential benefits over the last three years for young men in California.
(d) At least 37 states, three territories, and the District of Columbia have enacted legislation related to the issuance of a driver’s license in support of the Selective Service System registration.
(e) To promote the fairness and equity of any future draft, to ensure that important benefits associated with the registration requirement are not lost, and to promote compliance with federal law, the driver’s license application process should be revised so that every male applicant for an original driver’s license or renewal who is between 18 and 26 years of age consents to his registration with the Selective Service System, as required by federal law.

SEC. 2.

 Section 12801.3 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

12801.3.
 (a) On the application for an original or a renewal of a driver’s license, in a place deemed appropriate by the department, the department shall include a statement that allows an applicant to register with the federal Selective Service System and a place by the statement for the applicant’s signature. The statement shall read as follows:

“I am a man between 18 and 25 years of age and I consent to register with the Selective Service System. Consent to register with the Selective Service System is not necessary in order to be granted a driver’s license.”

(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a person who is required to be registered with the federal Selective Service System pursuant to the federal Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. Sec. 451 et seq.) and who consents to registration with the federal Selective Service System on an application for an original or renewal of a driver’s license is deemed to have consented to registration with the federal Selective Service System.
(c) The submission of an application for an original or a renewal of a driver’s license on which a person consents to registration pursuant to subdivision (a) shall establish a conclusive presumption that the person has authorized the department to forward to the federal Selective Service System the necessary information for the Selective Service System registration when that person is required to register under the federal Military Selective Service Act.

(d) The department shall forward to the federal Selective Service System, in an electronic format, the necessary personal information required for the registration of a person who consents to registration pursuant to subdivision (a).
(e) The department shall not forward to the federal Selective Service System personal information of a person who did not consent to registration pursuant to subdivision (a), except that the department may provide to the federal Selective Service System that personal information as provided in accordance with a memorandum of understanding between the department and the federal Selective Service System for the purpose of the memorandum of understanding.