BILL NUMBER: AB 27 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 3, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 24, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 21, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 13, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Medina
(Principal coauthor: Senator Roth)
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Linder)
DECEMBER 3, 2012
An act relating to the University of California, and
declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately
to amend Section 4003.5 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles .
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 27, as amended, Medina. University of California: UC
Riverside Medical School: funding. Vehicles:
registration: one-trip permits.
Existing law prohibits a person from driving any motor vehicle,
trailer, or semitrailer unless it is registered and the appropriate
fees have been paid to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), or it
is registered under the permanent trailer identification program,
except as specified. Existing law requires the DMV to issue a
one-trip permit to a vehicle manufacturer or dealer, upon payment of
a $35 fee, which authorizes an unregistered trailer, semitrailer, or
auxiliary dolly to be moved or operated laden within the state for
not more than 5 days as part of one continuous trip from the place of
manufacture, dispatch, or entry into this state to a place where the
vehicle will be offered for sale.
This bill would extend the period in which these vehicles may
operate under a permit to 30 days.
Existing provisions of the California Constitution establish the
University of California as a public trust under the administration
of the Regents of the University of California. The University of
California system includes 10 campuses, which are located in
Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego,
San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
This bill would state various legislative findings and
declarations relating to the School of Medicine at the University of
California, Riverside. The bill would request the School of Medicine
at the University of California, Riverside, to develop a program,
consistent with its mission, in conjunction with the health
facilities of its medical residency programs, to identify eligible
medical residents and to assist those medical residents to apply for
physician retention programs, including, but not limited to, the
Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Program.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3 majority . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: no yes .
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 4003.5 of the
Vehicle Code is amended to read:
4003.5. (a) Upon payment of the fee specified in Section 9258.5,
the department shall issue to a manufacturer or dealer a one-trip
permit authorizing a new trailer, semitrailer, or auxiliary dolly
which that has never been registered in
any state, or a used trailer, semitrailer, or auxiliary dolly
which that is not currently registered
, to be moved or operated laden within, entering, or
leaving this state for not more than five 30
days as part of one continuous trip from the place of
manufacture for a new vehicle, or from the place of dispatch or entry
into this state for a used vehicle, to a place where the vehicle
will be offered for sale.
(b) Any permit issued pursuant to this section authorizes the
operation of a single trailer, semitrailer, or auxiliary dolly, and
the permit shall identify the trailer, semitrailer, or auxiliary
dolly authorized by make, model, and vehicle identification number.
The permit shall include the name and license number of the
manufacturer from whom the new vehicle is sent, or the name and
license number of the dealer from whom the used vehicle is sent, the
name and address of the person or business receiving the load, a
description of the load being carried, and the name and license
number of the dealer who will be offering the trailer, semitrailer,
or auxiliary dolly for sale. Each permit shall be completed prior to
operation of the trailer or semitrailer or auxiliary dolly on a
highway. The permit shall be carried on the trailer, semitrailer, or
auxiliary dolly to which it applies in an appropriate receptacle
inaccessible from the inside of the cab and shall be readily
available for inspection by a peace officer. Each permit is valid at
the time of inspection by a peace officer only if it has been
completed as required by the department and has been placed in the
appropriate receptacle as required by this section. The manufacturer
or dealer issued the permit may allow a third party to move or
operate the vehicle.
(c) The privilege of securing and displaying a permit authorized
pursuant to this section shall not be extended to a manufacturer,
carrier, or dealer located in a jurisdiction with which the state
does not have vehicle licensing reciprocity.
(d) The privilege of securing and displaying a permit authorized
pursuant to this section shall not be granted more than once without
the sale and registration of the trailer, semitrailer, or auxiliary
dolly.
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares
all of the following:
(a) California's supply of primary care physicians is below what
is considered sufficient to meet patient needs. In the rapidly
growing and ethnically diverse area of inland southern California,
the shortage is particularly severe, with just 40 primary care
physicians per 100,000 patients, far fewer than the recommended range
of 60 to 80 primary care physicians per 100,000 patients.
Furthermore, Latinos, African Americans, and Native Americans are
vastly underrepresented in the physician workforce.
(b) California lags substantially in the number of medical school
seats per capita, having just 17.3 seats per 100,000 persons,
compared to the United States average of 31.4 seats per 100,000
persons, according to statistics published by the Association of
American Medical Colleges.
(c) According to the California HealthCare Foundation, 72 percent
of California's 58 counties have an undersupply of primary care
physicians, with primary care physicians making up just 34 percent of
California's physician workforce.
(d) The University of California, Riverside, (UCR) has had a
longstanding two-year medical education program and its independent
four-year school of medicine has received preliminary accreditation
from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the nationally
recognized accrediting body for medical education programs leading to
M.D. degrees in the United States and Canada. When this new
four-year medical school opens in August 2013, it will become the
first new public medical school in California in more than 40 years.
(e) This community-based medical school with a public mission to
expand and diversify the region's physician workforce and to improve
the health of people living in inland southern California has made a
commitment to underserved patient populations.
(f) There are two principal determinants of where a physician
practices: (1) where he or she grew up, and (2) where he or she
completes residency training following medical school graduation.
(g) The UCR medical school has strategies to capitalize on both of
these factors. Among these strategies are all of the following: (1)
developing student pipeline programs that inspire more young people
in the region to pursue careers in medicine and other allied health
professions and to recruit them to the UCR medical school; (2)
utilizing a holistic review of medical school applicants that takes
into account diverse life experiences in addition to their academic
performance; (3) teaching a curriculum that emphasizes key
competencies for primary care medicine, including wellness and
prevention, evidence-based medicine, and chronic disease management;
(4) creating new residency training programs in primary care and
those short-supply specialties that are most needed in inland
southern California; and (5) continuing UCR's commitment to the
recruitment, retention, and advancement of talented students,
faculty, and staff from historically excluded populations who are
currently underrepresented in medical education and the practice of
medicine.
(h) As a further incentive for medical students to choose primary
care specialties, the UCR medical school has developed an innovative
"loan-to-scholarship" program, is actively raising nonstate funds to
expand that program, and is educating students and graduates about
existing public and private physician recruitment and retention
programs, including, but not limited to, the Steven M. Thompson
Medical School Scholarship Program established pursuant to Article 6
(commencing with Section 128560) of Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division
107 of the Health and Safety Code.
(i) The appropriation of state funding in the annual budget, and
consistent with Section 16 of Assembly Bill 94 of the 2013-14 Regular
Session, to the UCR medical school will add more physicians to
underserved areas in inland southern California and help California
meet the objectives of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (Public Law 111-148) in the short term and the long term by
expanding the physician workforce.
SEC. 2. The School of Medicine at the University
of California, Riverside, is requested to develop a program,
consistent with its mission, in conjunction with the health
facilities of its medical residency programs, to identify eligible
medical residents and to assist those medical residents to apply for
physician retention programs, including, but not limited to, the
Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Program, established
pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 128560) of Chapter 5
of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code.
SEC. 3. 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:
In order to recruit and retain medical residents, who are vital to
the health care mission of the School of Medicine at the University
of California, Riverside, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.