BILL NUMBER: AB 192	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        JANUARY 26, 2011

   An act to add Section 10752.3 to the Revenue and Taxation Code,
relating to public safety, making an appropriation therefor, and
declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 192, as introduced, Logue. Public safety: Local Safety and
Protection Account: appropriation.
   The Vehicle License Fee Law, in lieu of any ad valorem property
tax upon vehicles, imposes an annual license fee for any vehicle
subject to registration in this state in the amount of 1% of the
market value of that vehicle, as provided, for a specified amount of
time. Existing law also, until July 1, 2011, imposes an additional
tax equal to 0.15% of the market value of specified vehicles, as
determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to the vehicle
license fee, to be deposited in the General Fund and transferred to
the Local Safety and Protection Account, a continuously appropriated
fund. Existing law provides that money in the account shall be
allocated for various public safety programs, as provided.
   This bill would, beginning July 1, 2011, and each July 1
thereafter for a transfer $500,000,000 from the General Fund to the
account total of 5 years, as provided. By transferring funds to a
continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an
appropriation.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 10752.3 is added to the Revenue and Taxation
Code, to read:
   10752.3.  Beginning July 1, 2011, and each July 1, thereafter for
a total of five years, the sum of five hundred million dollars
($500,000,000) shall be transferred from the General Fund to the
Local Safety and Protection Account, established in the
Transportation Tax Fund. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the
Government Code, all of those moneys are hereby continuously
appropriated, without regard to fiscal year, to the Controller for
allocation pursuant to Sections 29553, 30061, and 30070 of the
Government Code, Section 13821 of the Penal Code, and Sections 18220
and 18220.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   To ensure that funding for local public safety programs is not
interrupted, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.