BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 28 Page 1 Date of Hearing: May 18, 2011 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Felipe Fuentes, Chair AB 28 (Huber) - As Amended: May 10, 2011 Policy Committee: TransportationVote:14-0 Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: No Reimbursable: No SUMMARY As proposed to be amended, this bill eliminates from statute the largely obsolete Reciprocity Commission and transfers its duties, should they become needed, to the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). The proposed amendments make additional deletions of reference to the commission in statute and, where appropriate, replace those references with reference to the director of DMV. FISCAL EFFECT Negligible costs, if any, to DMV. COMMENTS 1)Rationale. The author contends it appropriate to eliminate the commission and statutory reference to it because its duties are obsolete. 2)Background. Statute established the commission in 1959 to examine requirements for commercial vehicle registration of foreign jurisdictions and to grant reciprocal privileges to out-of-state vehicles. Commission membership is comprised of the Lieutenant Governor, the State Controller, DMV, California Department of Transportation and California Highway Patrol. The commission entered into agreements with foreign jurisdictions regarding the payment of license, registration, and regulatory fees for commercial vehicles travelling across states, but registered in only one state. At that time, reciprocal agreements existed between individual states and foreign jurisdictions (Canada). AB 28 Page 2 In 1985, California entered into International Registration Plan (IRP) agreements, which facilitate commercial vehicle registration and operation among states and Canadian provinces and which made the work the commission obsolete. 3)The policy committee did not receive letters in support or in opposition to this bill. Analysis Prepared by : Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081