BILL ANALYSIS AB 2777 Page 1 Date of Hearing: April 21, 2010 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Felipe Fuentes, Chair AB 2777 (Committee on Transportation) - As Introduced: March 1, 2010 Policy Committee: TransportationVote:13-0 Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: No Reimbursable: SUMMARY This bill makes various technical changes to the Vehicle Code. Specifically, this bill: 1)Corrects an erroneous cross reference in the statute governing the Employer Notification Program for commercial driver's licenses. 2)Clarifies that disabled persons license plates and disabled veterans license plates may only be issued for motor vehicles. 3)Clarifies that Olympic License Plates and Commemorative Collegiate License Plates may be issued as environmental (or "vanity") license plates, displaying numbers and letters requested by the vehicle owner. 4)Makes California law consistent with federal law by allowing commercial vehicle owners operating under the Interstate Registration Plan 30 days to file a written appeal of an audit, rather than the current 20 days. FISCAL EFFECT No significant state costs. COMMENTS Rationale . The Transportation Committee traditionally authors an annual omnibus bill, combining various statutory modifications AB 2777 Page 2 that are technical, not controversial, and have no opposition. This year's omnibus bill contains measures suggested by the Department of Motor Vehicles to correct or clarify several sections of the California Vehicle Code or, in the instance of provision #4 described above, to achieve Vehicle Code conformity with federal statutes. Analysis Prepared by : Brad Williams / APPR. / (916) 319-2081