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SB-1061 Elections: voter registration.(2013-2014)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 2102.5 is added to the Elections Code, to read:

2102.5.
 (a) A person may apply to register to vote by completing the affidavit of registration portion of an application for a new or renewed California driver’s license, instruction permit, junior permit, or identification card, as described in Section 13050 of the Vehicle Code. Except as otherwise provided in this section and Section 13050 of the Vehicle Code, the affidavit of registration portion of the application shall be treated in all respects under this code as an affidavit of registration, as described in Section 2150.
(b) If a person who does not satisfy the requirements to be registered to vote is registered to vote pursuant to subdivision (a), he or she shall not suffer any legal penalty or loss of any benefit to which he or she may otherwise be entitled unless he or she intended to fraudulently register to vote.
(c) An application that is completed pursuant to subdivision (a), by a person who is currently registered to vote but failed to indicate that fact on the application, shall be construed as updating the person’s previous voter registration.

SEC. 2.

 Article 6 (commencing with Section 13050) is added to Chapter 1 of Division 6 of the Vehicle Code, to read:

Article  6. Voter Registration
13050.
 (a) In addition to any other requirements set forth in this division, an application for a new or renewed California driver’s license, instruction permit, junior permit, or identification card shall do all of the following:
(1) Contain a method by which the applicant shall indicate whether he or she is registered to vote.
(2) Contain an affidavit of registration, as described in Section 2150 of the Elections Code.
(3) Contain a statement that, if the applicant satisfies the requirements to be entitled to register to vote pursuant to Section 2101 of the Elections Code, and provides written consent by signing the affidavit of registration portion of the application, he or she shall be registered to vote.
(4) Comply with the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1973gg et seq.).
(b) The affidavit of registration portion of the application described in subdivision (a) shall not require an applicant to duplicate any information provided in any other portion of the application, except that a second signature may be required in the affidavit of registration portion of the application.
(c) Except where a duty imposed by law requires otherwise, in implementing this section, the Department of Motor Vehicles shall comply with applicable federal and state law relating to privacy and confidentiality of the information collected, shall collect only the information necessary to implement this section, and shall not share the information collected pursuant to this section with another agency or person except for a purpose directly related to voter registration.
(d) The Department of Motor Vehicles shall confer with the Secretary of State and shall develop applications for a new or renewed California driver’s license, instruction permit, junior permit, and identification card that are in compliance with this section and the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1973gg et seq.). The Department of Motor Vehicles shall obtain the approval of the Secretary of State for an application developed pursuant to this section.
13051.
 (a) (1) The Department of Motor Vehicles shall transmit to the county elections official for the county in which the applicant resides an electronic copy of the completed application for a new or renewed California driver’s license, instruction permit, junior permit, or identification card of the applicant, excluding any information that is not required to register to voter, if the applicant has completed the affidavit of registration portion of the application pursuant to 2102.5 of the Elections Code.
(2) The Department of Motor Vehicles shall transmit the electronic copy of the completed application, excluding any information that is not required to register to vote, no later than 10 days after the department receives the application. However, if the application is received within five days before the last day to register to vote in an election, the application shall be transmitted no later than five days after the date the application is received by the department.
(b) The Department of Motor Vehicles and the Secretary of State shall develop a process and the infrastructure to allow the electronic copy of the applicant’s completed application for a new or renewed California driver’s license, instruction permit, junior permit, or identification card of the applicant, excluding any information that is not required to register to vote, to be transmitted to the county elections officials.

SEC. 3.

 Section 12950.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

12950.5.
 (a) The department shall require a  digitized signatures signature  on each driver’s license.  California driver’s license and on each application for a new or renewed California driver’s license, instruction permit, junior permit, or identification card.  A digitized signature is an electronic representation of a handwritten signature.
(b) The department shall provide to the Secretary of State the digitized signature of every a  person who registers applies  to register to  vote on the voter registration card provided by the department. department or who completes the affidavit of registration portion of an application for a new or renewed California driver’s license, instruction permit, junior permit, or identification card. 
(c) The department shall provide the Secretary of State with change-of-address information for every a  voter who indicates that he or she desires to have his or her address changed for voter registration purposes.
SEC. 4.
 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
SEC. 5.
 This act shall become operative on the date the Department of Motor Vehicles certifies to the Secretary of State that the department has an automated application process for a new or renewed California driver’s license, instruction permit, junior permit, and identification card that allows the department to transmit voter registration information electronically to county elections officials.