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 03/26/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/02/26 - Introduced

 AB-1685 Driving privilege: points.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/13/2026 09:00 PM

AB1685:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 April 21, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 13, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 26, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1685

Introduced by Assembly Members Lackey and Petrie-Norris
(Principal coauthor: Senator Archuleta)
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Hadwick)

February 02, 2026

 An act to amend Section Sections 1808 and 12810 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1685, as amended, Lackey.
 Driving privilege: points.

Existing law requires all records of the Department of Motor Vehicles relating to the registration of vehicles, other information contained on an application for a driver’s license, abstracts of convictions, and certain abstracts of accident reports to be open to public inspection during office hours, except when a specific provision of law prohibits the disclosure of records or information or provides for confidentiality. Of these records, existing law requires the department to make available or disclose abstracts of convictions and abstracts of accident reports if, for driving under the influence-related violations, the date of occurrence is not later than 10 years.

This bill would also require the department to make available or disclose these abstracts or reports within 10 years of the occurrence for a violation of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and with gross negligence.

Existing law establishes that specified convictions, violations, and traffic-related incidents count as points against a driver’s record for purposes of the suspension or revocation of the privilege to drive. Existing law imposes 2 violation points each against a driver’s record for purposes of the suspension or revocation of the privilege to drive if a driver is convicted of vehicular manslaughter, including driving a vehicle in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony, and with gross negligence, or driving a vehicle in connection with automobile insurance fraud where the vehicular collision or accident was knowingly caused for financial gain and proximately resulted in the death of any person.
 manslaughter while intoxicated but without gross negligence.

This bill would increase the violation
 points to 3 impose 3 violation points against a driver’s record for a conviction of the above-described driving offenses. gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and with gross negligence.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 1808 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

1808.

 (a) Except where a specific provision of law prohibits the disclosure of records or information or provides for confidentiality, all records of the department relating to the registration of vehicles, other information contained on an application for a driver’s license, abstracts of convictions, and abstracts of accident reports required to be sent to the department in Sacramento, except for abstracts of accidents where, in the opinion of a reporting officer, another individual was at fault, shall be open to public inspection during office hours. All abstracts of accident reports shall be available to law enforcement agencies and courts of competent jurisdiction.

(b) The department shall make available or disclose abstracts of convictions and abstracts of accident
 reports required to be sent to the department in Sacramento, as described in subdivision (a), if the date of the occurrence is not later than the following:

(1) Ten years for a violation pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 191.5 of the Penal Code, or Section 23140, 23152, or 23153.

(2) Seven years for a violation designated as two points pursuant to Section 12810, except as provided in paragraph (1) of this subdivision.

(3) Three years for accidents and all other violations.

(c) The department shall make available or disclose suspensions and revocations of the driving privilege while the suspension or revocation is in effect and for th