Amended in Senate July 1, 2013

Amended in Assembly April 18, 2013

Amended in Assembly April 8, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 49

Introduced by Assembly Member Buchanan

(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Perea and Quirk-Silva)

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, begin insert Alejo, Allen, end insert Ammiano, Atkins, begin insert Bigelow, Bloom, end insert Blumenfield, begin insert Bocanegra, end insert Bonilla, begin insert Bonta, end insert Bradford, Brown, begin insert Ian end insert begin insert  Calderon, end insert Campos, begin insert Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, end insert Conway, Cooley, begin insert Dahle, end insert Daly, begin insert Dickinson, Donnelly, end insert Eggman, begin insert Fong, Fox, end insert Frazier, Beth Gaines, begin insert Garcia, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gorell, Gray, end insert Hagman, begin insert Hall, end insert Harkey, begin insert Roger end insert begin insert  Hernández, end insert Holden, begin insert Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, end insert Logue, Maienschein, Mansoor, begin insert Medina, end insert Melendez, Mitchell, Morrell, Mullin, begin insert Muratsuchi, end insert Nazarian, begin insert Nestande, end insert Olsen, begin insert Pan, end insert Patterson, begin insert John end insert begin insert  A. Pérez, V. Manuel end insert begin insert  Pérez, Quirk, Rendon, Salas, end insert Skinner, begin delete Torres, end delete begin insert Stone, Ting, end insert begin insert Wagner, end insert Waldron, Weber, begin insert Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, end insert and Yamada)

(Coauthors: Senators begin insert Beall, Block, end insert Cannella, Corbett, begin insert Correa, Emmerson, end insert Fuller, begin insert Gaines, end insert Hancock, Jackson, begin delete and end delete begin insert Knight, end insert Pavley begin insert , Torres, Wright, and Yee end insert )

December 21, 2012

An act to add Section 5156.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to license plates.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 49, as amended, Buchanan. License plates: breast cancer awareness.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue specialty license plates, including environmental license plates and specified special environmental design license plates. Under existing law, a state agency is authorized to apply to the DMV to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and the DMV is required to issue those license plates if the agency meets certain requirements. The DMV is required to charge specified fees for certain services related to the issuance of those plates.

Existing law establishes the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund, and requires that funds in that account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated for the provision of early breast cancer detection services for uninsured and underinsured women.

This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to apply to sponsor a breast cancer awareness license plate program, and would require the DMV to issue the license plates if the State Department of Health Care Services meets certain requirements. The bill would begin delete require the plates issued under the program to bear a full-plate graphic design that includes the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon on a pink background, as specified end delete begin insert authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to accept and use donated artwork from California artists for the license plate end insert , and would require the revenue generated from the license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 5156.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to
read:

5156.5.  

(a) The State Department of Health Care Services
shall apply to the department, pursuant to Section 5156, to sponsor
a breast cancer awareness license plate program. The department
shall issue specialized license plates for that program if the State
Department of Health Care Services complies with the
requirements of Section 5156.

(b)  begin delete Notwithstanding Section 5155, the breast cancer awareness
license plates shall bear a full-plate graphic that the department
determines, in consultation with the Department of the California
Highway Patrol, does not obscure the readability of the license
plate, and that includes a pink background and the pink breast
cancer awareness ribbon, as approved by the State Department of
Health Care Services. end delete The State Department of Health Care
Services may accept and use donated artwork from California
artists for begin delete purposes of this requirement end delete begin insert the license plate end insert .

(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 5157, the
additional fees prescribed by Section 5157 for the issuance,
renewal, or transfer of the specialized license plates shall be
deposited, after the department deducts its administrative costs, in
the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund
established pursuant to Section 30461.6 of the Revenue and
Taxation Code.