AB1687 - Driver’s licenses: revocation.

Amended IN Senate August 27, 2026 Amended IN Senate August 21, 2026 Amended IN Senate June 04, 2026 Amended IN Assembly March 26, 2026 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1687 Introduced by Assembly Member Lackey (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Petrie-Norris) (Principal coauthor: Senator Archuleta) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Davies and Hadwick) February 02, 2026 An act to amend, add, and repeal, Sections 13352 and 23575.3 of add Section 13352.7 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1687, as amended, Lackey. Driver’s licenses: revocation. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to immediately revoke the driving privilege of a person upon receipt of a duly certified abstract of the record of a court showing that the person has been convicted of, among other things, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. Existing law requires a person who has been convicted of driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated, as specified, to install an interlock ignition device on the vehicle they operate for a mandatory period of time as ordered by the court. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2031, bill, Irene’s Law, would require the department department, commencing on January 1, 2031, to revoke the driving privilege of a person upon a showing that the person has been convicted of a violation of driving while intoxicated that proximately causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver and has 4 or more prior convictions within a 10-year period for, among other things, driving while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage. The bill would additionally prohibit the department from reinstating that person’s driving privileges until the expiration of 72 months after the date of revocation, subject to certain requirements, including, among others, agreeing to install and maintain a functioning, certified ignition interlock device. The bill would, until January 1, 2033, require a person convicted of a specified violation of driving while intoxicated that proximately causes bodily injury to a person other than the driver, with 4 prior qualifying convictions within a 10-year period, to install and maintain an ignition interlock device for 72 months, as specified. device, for a mandatory term of 72 months. 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. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as Irene’s Law. SEC. 2. Section 13352.7 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read: 13352.7. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, upon a conviction or finding of a violation of subdivision (a), (b), (d), (e), or (g) of Section 23153 and if the offense occurred within 10 years of four or more separate violations of Section 23103, as specified in Section 23103.5, 23152, 23153, or any combination thereof, that resulted in a conviction, the privilege of a person to operate a motor vehicle shall be suspended for 72 months. (b) (1) The privilege shall not be reinstated until the person files proof of financial responsibility and gives proof satisfactory to the department of successful completion any of the following: (A) A 30-month driving-under-the-influence program in the person’s county of residence or employment licensed pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 11836) of Part 2 of Division 10.5 of the Health and Safety Code. (B) If a 30-month program is unavailable in the person’s county of residence or employment, an 18-month driving-under-the-influence program licensed pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 11836) of Part 2 of Division 10.5 of the Health and Safety Code. (C) A program specified in Section 8001 of the Penal Code. (2) Credit shall not be given to program activities completed prior to the date of the current violation. (3) For the purposes of this subdivision, enrollment in, participation in, and completion of an approved program shall occur subsequent to the date of the current violation. (c) The department shall advise the person that after completion of 12 months of the revocation period, which may include credit for a suspension period served under subdivision (c) of Section 13353.3, they may apply to the department for a restricted driver’s license if they meet all of the following requirements: (1) The person satisfactorily provides, subsequent to the violation date of the current underlying conviction, either of the following: (A) The initial 12 months of an 18-month driving-under-the-influence program licensed pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 11836) of Part 2 of Division 10.5 of the Health and Safety Code, if a 30-month program is unavailable in the person’s county of residence or employment. (B) The initial 12 months of a 30-month driving-under-the-influence program licensed pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 11836) of Part 2 of Division 10.5 of the Health and Safety Code, if available in the county of the person’s residence or employment. (2) The person agrees, as a condition of the restriction, to continue satisfactory participation in the program described in paragraph (1). (3) The person submits the “Verification of Installation” form described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (g) of Section 13386. (4) The person agrees to maintain a functioning, certified ignition interlock device for a mandatory term of 72 months. (5) The person provides proof of financial responsibility as defined in Section 16430. (6) The person pays all applicable reinstatement or reissue fees and any restriction fee required by the department. (d) This section shall become operative January 1, 2031.