Bills · 2009-2010 Regular Session

AB 456

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self-authentication by electronic certification of certain Department of Transportation records.

Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, documentary evidence offered before a court must meet

certain requirements of authentication as a condition precedent to admissibility.

Some documents, including official records, reports, and data compilations, are

self-authenticating if specified requirements are met, so that extrinsic evidence of

authentication is not required. Driver records maintained by the Department of

Transportation (DOT) may be certified electronically by DOT as public records

qualifying for self-authentication if the electronic certification is made in a manner

determined by DOT to satisfactorily support a finding that the document is what it

purports to be.

This bill allows DOT to electronically certify additional records, in the same

manner that DOT electronically certifies driver records, so that these records are

self-authenticating. The additional records that DOT may electronically certify for

self-authentication purposes include motor vehicle title and registration records,

motor vehicle dealer records, and motor carrier records.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DOT

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by committee on Transportation, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Oct 27, 2009 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by committee on Transportation, Tourism, Forestry, and Natural Resources, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Jan 20, 2010 official source full page