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Bill	Privacy: driver's license information.	Existing law authorizes a business to swipe a driver's license or identification card issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles in any electronic device for prescribed verification and informational purposes. Existing law prohibits a business that swipes a driver's license or identification card in an electronic device from maintaining or using that information for any other purpose. A violation of those provisions is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2769	California AB 2769 (20172018)	bill	Privacy: driver's license information.	enacted	Cooper	8	27	9	2018-02-16	2018-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/36ba3d76-d36f-4094-8621-5b81afe6f055	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2769	69d5a9ab4cdd0164db96710561d21346fde8c495cd127bca4eb31f1785bcb682	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2769 (20172018) — Privacy: driver's license information.

Existing law authorizes a business to swipe a driver's license or identification card issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles in any electronic device for prescribed verification and informational purposes. Existing law prohibits a business that swipes a driver's license or identification card in an electronic device from maintaining or using that information for any other purpose. A violation of those provisions is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/28/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/19/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2769 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2769 Cooper et al. By Hueso — 26–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2769 COOPER Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2769 Cooper Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cooper — primary (person)
• Grayson — principal coauthor (person)
• Hueso — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-19 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5216.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-06-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 6124.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2018-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 548, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/36ba3d76-d36f-4094-8621-5b81afe6f055. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).