---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: driver's licenses: identification cards: photographs and physical characteristics."
description: "Vehicles: driver's licenses: identification cards: photographs and physical characteristics."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 771"
citation: "California AB 771 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: driver's licenses: identification cards: photographs and physical characteristics."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Briggs"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1999-02-24"
last_action: "1999-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ac1aa90-b21a-4a90-8c26-098b417b517e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB771"
source_hash: "632393b37cbaf0b13d64136e1c398a0d8ad7553aa32115994ec5f1c15288ebb4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 771 (19992000) — Vehicles: driver's licenses: identification cards: photographs and physical characteristics.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/24/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB771&version=19990AB77199INT)
2. **05/28/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB771&version=19990AB77198AMD)
3. **06/30/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB771&version=19990AB77197AMD)
4. **08/17/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB771&version=19990AB77196AMD)
5. **08/24/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB771&version=19990AB77195AMD)
6. **09/27/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB771&version=19990AB77193CHP)
7. **AB771** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB771)
8. **09/08/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB771&version=19990AB77194ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Transportation Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 771 BRIGGS THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #29 AB771 Briggs — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Briggs — primary (person)
- Aanestad — coauthor (person)
- Battin — coauthor (person)
- Campbell — coauthor (person)
- Dickerson — coauthor (person)
- House — coauthor (person)
- Johannessen — coauthor (person)
- Knight — coauthor (person)
- Leach — coauthor (person)
- Oller — coauthor (person)
- Peace — principal coauthor (person)
- Robert Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
- Zettel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **1999-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 489, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **1999-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4127.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **1999-09-03** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2909.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-24** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-23** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 11. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-17** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Transportation Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Transportation with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary and Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2468.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 26). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **1999-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ac1aa90-b21a-4a90-8c26-098b417b517e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).