BILL ANALYSIS Ó SB 565 Page 1 Date of Hearing: June 27, 2011 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair SB 565 (DeSaulnier) - As Amended: June 13, 2011 SENATE VOTE : 36-0 SUBJECT : Updates to transportation statutes SUMMARY : Makes technical changes to various Vehicle Code provisions. Specifically, this bill : 1)Corrects a drafting error in a statute dealing with the rights of the legal owner of a vehicle that has been impounded. 2)Clarifies that a local authority may enforce restrictions against the fraudulent use of disabled placards in any and all parking spaces. 3)Provides that a repossessor is not required to pay delinquent registration fees on an impounded vehicle, provided the vehicle is to be towed to an auction for resale at which time the delinquent fees will be collected and remitted to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). 4)Requires a transit bus operated by a motor carrier that provides public transportation services to be equipped with a speedometer that is maintained in good working order. 5)Corrects a chaptering-out error that occurred when two bills last year - SB 857 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review), Chapter 720, Statutes of 2010, and AB 2499 (Portantino), Chapter 599, Statutes of 2010 - both amended Vehicle Code section 42007. EXISTING LAW : Contains statutes in the Vehicle Code dealing with various transportation-related topics. FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown. This bill was withdrawn from the Senate Appropriations Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. COMMENTS : This is the Senate's annual transportation omnibus bill. It combines several technical, noncontroversial items into one legislative vehicle. Its various provisions correct a SB 565 Page 2 drafting error in prior legislation, clarify a local authority's ability to prohibit or regulate the parking of vehicles in a disabled person's parking stall or space, make it easier for a repossessor to obtain a vehicle from impoundment on behalf of its legal owner, require a transit bus operated by a motor carrier to be equipped with a working speedometer, and correct a chaptering-out error that occurred when two bills amended the same section of the Vehicle Code. REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION : Support California Association of Licensed Repossessors Judicial Council Opposition None received Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093