Vehicles: digital electronic license plates.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon the registration of a vehicle, to issue to the owner of the vehicle license plates meeting specified requirements for the vehicle. This bill would authorize the department to take specified actions for the purposes of developing and evaluating the potential use of digital electronic license plates, as defined. The bill would authorize the department to contract with a private vendor for the purposes of researching, reporting, developing, acquiring, and exploring the utilization of digital electronic license plates. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2013, if it enters into a contract with a private vendor, to submit to the Legislature a report on its investigation on the utilization of digital electronic license plates.