Vehicles: driving offenses: prosecution.

Existing law prevents a person committed to the custody of the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from being subject to prosecution for a nonfelony offense arising out of, among other things, the operation of a motor vehicle, that is pending against him or her at the time of commitment. Similarly, the driver's license of that person is prohibited from being suspended, revoked, or application therefor denied, as a result of a nonfelony offense pending against him or her at the time of commitment that occurred prior to the time of commitment, or as a result of a failure to appear notice received by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law requires Department of Motor Vehicles to remove from its records a failure to appear notice upon receipt of satisfactory evidence that a person was committed to custody. This bill would additionally extend the above immunity from prosecution and the prohibitions regarding suspending the person's driver's license to a person upon completion of a sentence of 7 days or longer in a county jail, work alternative program, or other alternative to incarceration as a condition of probation. The bill would make these protections applicable to an offense committed while the person is temporarily released from custody, or on parole or postrelease community supervision. The bill would make that person immune from prosecution for an outstanding infraction or failure to appear, from liability for any unpaid fine or assessments, and from having his or her driver's license affected, once the person has been incarcerated for a cumulative 30 or more days in jail in any consecutive 12-month period subsequent to the date of the violation. The bill would authorize an incarcerated, previously incarcerated, or previously convicted person to request the above-described relief directly through the department or the courts, and would prescribe the duties of the department and the courts in that regard.