Assembly Transportation Committee

1020 N Street, Room 112

Sacramento, CA

95814

Phone 916-319-2093

Fax 916-319-2193

Send a copy of your letter to your state assemblyperson. Find Your California Representative by Your Street Address: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

If your legislator is on the transportation committee, be sure to fax/write to him or her (see list that follows). Ask other people to join you in sending letters. For information about committee hearings and deadlines, contact Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft, 760-753-7518, [email protected]; or subscribe to receive email notices at the bill’s Web site http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html

SOME POSSIBLE TALKING POINTS

AB 2201 would

violate the state constitution. As specified by Article XIX of the California Constitution, revenue that funds the DMV can only be used for transportation-related infrastructure and the administration and enforcement of traffic and vehicle laws. Because AB 2201 does not provide an alternative funding source, it would use restricted DMV resources to maintain an ongoing, yet unrelated, federal program, and thus invite a constitutional challenge.

AB 2201 would

conflict with AB 60. Under AB 2201, the DMV would be required to disclose the information necessary to register license applicants with Selective Service. According to Selective Service, this information includes Social Security numbers, which the DMV also collects. Another bill, AB 60, has already been signed into law that prohibits the DMV from disclosing Social Security numbers to agencies such as Selective Service. AB 2201, therefore, would be in conflict with existing state law.

Releasing DMV data under AB 2201 would violate restrictions on disclosing citizenship status. Under the previously approved AB 60, the DMV will collect data that can be used to identify individuals who do not have proof of legal residency in the U.S. Presumably, this information will be merged with the DMV data that is necessary to register individuals with Selective Service (SS requires noncitizens to register). Selective Service, in turn, shares its registration data with U.S. Customs and Immigration Services “for collection and evaluation of data to determine a person’s eligibility for entry/reentry into the United States and for U.S. citizenship” (SSS Form 1). The state legislature has already declared that DMV data must not be used to consider an individual’s status as a basis for criminal investigation or detention. California, however, cannot dictate such a policy to the federal government, and data disclosed by the DMV under AB 2201 would be available to USCIS for purposes that were expressly prohibited by the state legislature.

Selective Service already has easy access

to reach young men through its taxpayer-funded media, Internet and high school campus registration campaigns.

Allowing the imposition of this sort of

function for the DMV could open the door to escalating federal demands to use drivers’ licenses for many other unrelated purposes, at an unknown cost and with the possible consequence that more people will elect to drive without licenses.

AB 2201 would make the state an active partner in

gender discrimination. The Dept. of Defense no longer excludes females from most military jobs, yet Congress has continued to require only males to register for a possible future draft.  AB 2201 would hand the state of California an active role in such discrimination.

Assembly

Committee on Transportation - Hearing on April 21, 2014

NOTE: Mail deliveries are slow,

so it’s best to fax letters if possible.

 

Committee Members

District

Office & Contact Information

Website

 

Bonnie Lowenthal (Chair)
Dem - 70
P.O.Box 942849, Room 3152, Sacramento, CA 94249-0070; (916) 319-2070, fax (916) 319-2170
http://assembly.ca.gov/a70

Eric Linder (Vice Chair)
Rep - 60
P.O.Box 942849, Room 2016, Sacramento, CA 94249-0060; (916) 319-2060, fax (916) 319-2160
http://assembly.ca.gov/a60

Katcho Achadjian
Rep - 35
P.O.Box 942849, Room 4098, Sacramento, CA 94249-0035; (916) 319-2035, fax (916) 319-2135
http://assembly.ca.gov/a35

Tom Ammiano
Dem - 17
P.O.Box 942849, Room 3146, Sacramento, CA 94249-0017; (916) 319-2017, fax (916) 319-2117
http://assembly.ca.gov/a17

Richard Bloom
Dem - 50
P.O.Box 942849, Room 2179, Sacramento, CA 94249-0050; (916) 319-2050, fax (916) 319-2150
http://assembly.ca.gov/a50

Rob Bonta
Dem - 18
P.O.Box 942849, Room 6025, Sacramento, CA 94249-0018; (916) 319-2018, fax (916) 319-2118
http://assembly.ca.gov/a18

Joan Buchanan
Dem - 16
P.O.Box 942849, Room 2148, Sacramento, CA 94249-0016; (916) 319-2016, fax (916) 319-2116
http://assembly.ca.gov/a16

Tom Daly
Dem - 69
P.O.Box 942849, Room 4166, Sacramento, CA 94249-0069; (916) 319-2069, fax (916) 319-2169
http://assembly.ca.gov/a69

Jim Frazier
Dem - 11
P.O.Box 942849, Room 3091, Sacramento, CA 94249-0011; (916) 319-2011, fax (916)319-2111
http://assembly.ca.gov/a11

Mike Gatto
Dem - 43
P.O.Box 942849, Room 2114, Sacramento, CA 94249-0043; (916) 319-2043, fax (916) 319-2143
http://assembly.ca.gov/a43

Chris R. Holden
Dem - 41
P.O.Box 942849, Room 5119, Sacramento, CA 94249-0041; (916) 319-2041, fax (916) 319-2141
http://assembly.ca.gov/a41

Dan Logue
Rep - 03
P.O.Box 942849, Room 4158, Sacramento, CA 94249-0003; (916) 319-2003, fax (916) 319-2103
http://assembly.ca.gov/a3

Mike Morrell
Rep - 40
P.O.Box 942849, Room 4144, Sacramento, CA 94249-0040; (916) 319-2040, fax (916) 319-2140
http://assembly.ca.gov/a40

Adrin Nazarian
Dem - 46
P.O.Box 942849, Room 4015, Sacramento, CA 94249-0046; (916) 319-2046, fax (916) 319-2146
http://assembly.ca.gov/a46

Jim Patterson
Rep - 23
P.O.Box 942849, Room 4102, Sacramento, CA 94249-0023; (916) 319-2023, fax (916) 319-2123
http://assembly.ca.gov/a2

Sharon Quirk-Silva
Dem - 65
P.O.Box 942849, Room 5175, Sacramento, CA 94249-0065; (916) 319-2065, fax (916) 319-2165
http://assembly.ca.gov/a65

 

(Alert prepared 3/27/14)