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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 807
Author: Solorio (D)
Amended: 6/7/11 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 8-0, 6/14/11
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Harman, Huff, Kehoe, Lowenthal,
Pavley, Simitian
NO VOTE RECORDED: Rubio
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 4/11/11 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Taxicab drivers: driver reports
SOURCE : Orange County Transportation Authority
DIGEST : This bill allows local agencies that regulate
taxicab services to have access to employer-maintained
driving records of taxicab drivers.
ANALYSIS : Existing law requires every city or county to
adopt an ordinance or resolution establishing a policy
governing how businesses enter into the taxicab
transportation service business and how the jurisdiction
will issue permits to taxicab drivers. The law defines
taxicab transportation service as being rendered in
vehicles designed for carrying not more than eight persons,
excluding the driver, which are operated within the
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jurisdiction of the city or county. Existing law also
establishes minimum standards that a local government must
include in its policy but allows a city or county to adopt
additional requirements for a taxicab to operate within its
jurisdiction.
Existing law also establishes the employer pull-notice
system, through which the Department of Motor Vehicles
(DMV) provides an employer of a driver with a report at
least once a year that shows the driver's full driving
record as well as notification of any subsequent
convictions, driver's license revocations, failures to
appear, accidents, driver's license suspensions, driver's
license revocations, or any other actions taken against the
driving privilege. The pull-notice program allows an
employer to monitor the driver's license records of its
drivers. Existing law requires employers of drivers of
specified vehicles, such as commercial trucks, school
buses, farm labor vehicles, and vehicles that transport
hazardous materials, to participate in the pull-notice
program. Other employers may participate voluntarily.
When the employer receives reports on its drivers under the
pull-notice program, the employer must sign, date, and
maintain the reports and then present them upon receiving a
request from a representative of the California Highway
Patrol.
This bill requires that the employer of a taxicab driver
that participates in DMV's pull-notice program must in
addition make the reports available upon request from the
local agency that regulates taxicab services.
Comments
The author notes that currently local agencies regulating
taxicabs within their jurisdictions cannot directly access
the driving records of the taxicab drivers they permit.
The proponents believe that access to these driving records
is necessary to ensure that each taxicab driver maintains a
valid driver's license and has not been involved in a
disqualifying incident, such as a
driving-under-the-influence conviction. The author notes
that this is particularly important as taxicabs are
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increasingly being used in a variety of purposes, including
as a supplement to paratransit services.
The author introduced this bill to provide local regulators
with access to taxicab driver records and thereby provide
additional safeguards to the traveling public. With access
to the information from DMV's voluntary pull-notice
program, the administrative agencies responsible for
permitting taxicabs could act quickly to prevent drivers
with unsafe driving habits or who lack a current license
from continuing to transport passengers.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/27/11)
Orange County Transportation Authority (source)
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 4/11/11
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall,
Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos,
Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson,
Eng, Feuer, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, Galgiani, Garrick,
Gatto, Gordon, Grove, Hagman, Halderman, Hall, Harkey,
Hayashi, Roger Hernández, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman,
Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal,
Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, Miller, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell,
Nestande, Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel
Pérez, Portantino, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio,
Swanson, Torres, Valadao, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams,
Yamada, John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Donnelly, Fletcher, Gorell, Vacancy
JJA:kc 6/27/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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