BILL NUMBER: AB 1002	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 9250.20 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1002, as introduced, Bloom. Vehicles: registration fee:
sustainable communities strategies.
   Existing law imposes a registration fee to be paid to the
Department of Motor Vehicles for the registration of every vehicle or
trailer coach of a type subject to registration, except those
vehicles that are expressly exempted from the payment of registration
fees. Existing law, until January 1, 2016, imposes a $3 increase on
that fee, $2 of which is to be deposited into the Alternative and
Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund and $1 of which is to be
deposited into the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount.
   Existing law requires designated transportation planning agencies,
some of which are metropolitan planning organization, under federal
law, to prepare and adopt a regional transportation plan directed at
achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system,
including, but not limited to, mass transportation and highway,
railroad, bicycle, and pedestrian facilities and services. Existing
law requires each metropolitan planning organization to include,
among other things, a sustainable communities strategy in the
regional transportation plan.
   This bill would, in addition to any other fees specified in the
Vehicle Code and the Revenue and Taxation Code, impose a fee of $6 to
be paid at the time of registration or renewal of registration of
every vehicle subject to registration under the Vehicle Code, except
as specified. This bill would require the Department of Motor
Vehicles, after deducting all costs incurred pursuant to that
provision, to remit all moneys realized pursuant to that provision
for deposit in the Sustainable Communities Strategy Subaccount which
is hereby established in the Motor Vehicle Account and made
available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for implementation
of sustainable communities strategies.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 9250.20 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   9250.20.  (a) In addition to any other fees specified in this code
and the Revenue and Taxation Code, a fee of six dollars ($6) shall
be paid at the time of registration or renewal of registration of
every vehicle subject to registration under this code, except
vehicles described in subdivision (a) of Section 5014.1 and those
vehicles that are expressly exempted from the payment of registration
fees under this code.
   (b) After deducting all costs incurred pursuant to this section,
the department shall remit all money realized pursuant to this
section for deposit in the Sustainable Communities Strategy
Subaccount which is hereby established in the Motor Vehicle Account
and made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for
implementation of sustainable communities strategies adopted pursuant
to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 65080 of the
Government 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:
   In order to provide immediate funds for agencies and communities
seeking to implement sustainable communities strategies, it is
necessary that this act take effect immediately.