(1) Existing law requires an applicant for the issuance or renewal by the Department of Motor Vehicles of a driver’s license or identification card to provide his or her social security account number. Existing law requires an applicant for an original driver’s license or identification card to submit satisfactory proof that the applicant’s presence in the United States is authorized under federal law, and prohibits the department from issuing a license or card to a person who does not do so. Existing law also requires the department to adopt regulations including procedures for verifying the legal presence of applicants for driver’s licenses and identification cards.
Effective January 1, 2004, Chapter 326 of the Statutes of 2003 (SB 60) would, among other things, allow an applicant for a driver’s license or identification card, except an applicant for a commercial driver’s license, who submits an affidavit, signed under penalty of perjury, attesting that he or she is presently not eligible for a social security account number, but who submits a federal individual taxpayer identification number or other number or identifier that is deemed appropriate by the department, to submit those documents to the department in lieu of a social security account number, and those documents would be deemed acceptable until the applicant obtains a social security account number. Chapter 326 of the Statutes of 2003 would delete the requirement that an applicant for an original driver’s license or identification card submit satisfactory proof that the applicant’s presence in the United States is authorized under federal law.
This bill would repeal the substantive changes that would be made by Chapter 326 of the Statutes of 2003 and would reinstate the existing law.
(2) Chapter 326 of the Statutes of 2003 would have amended Section 12814.5 of the Vehicle Code relating to the renewal of a driver’s license by mail, but that amendment will be superseded by a later unrelated enactment with a higher chapter number. Effective January 1, 2004, Chapter 326 would also make a technical, nonsubstantive change in Section 13000 of the Vehicle Code.
This bill would not affect either of those provisions.
(3) The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute, and would become operative on January 1, 2004.