Amended in Assembly March 12, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1002

Introduced by Assembly Member Bloom

February 22, 2013

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

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1002, as amended, 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 begin delete organization, end delete begin insert organizations end insert 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 begin insert taxes and end insert fees specified in the Vehicle Code and the Revenue and Taxation Code, impose a begin delete fee end delete begin insert tax end insert 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 begin delete costs incurred pursuant to that provision, end delete begin insert reasonable administrative costs, end insert to remit begin delete all moneys realized pursuant to that provision end delete begin insert the money generated by the tax end insert for deposit in the Sustainable Communities Strategy Subaccount begin insert , end insert which begin delete is hereby established end delete begin insert the bill would establish end insert in the Motor Vehicle Account begin delete and made end delete begin insert . The bill would make funds in the subaccount end insert available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, begin delete for implementation of sustainable communities strategies end delete begin insert for specified purposes end insert .

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This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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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 begin insert reasonable administrative end insert costs incurred
pursuant to this section, the department shall remit all begin delete money
realized end delete begin insert revenue generated end insert 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 begin delete implementation of
sustainable communities strategies adopted pursuant to paragraph
(2) of subdivision (b) of Section 65080 of the Government Code. end delete begin insert : end insert

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(1) Fifty percent shall be appropriated to cities and counties
on a per capita basis for planning and implementation of projects
consistent with the purposes of sustainable communities strategies
and approved sustainable communities plans, including, but not
limited to, first-mile-last-mile bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure
projects that are intended to improve transit access in transit
priority zones, and bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure as part
of complete streets projects, and road and highway maintenance
and repair that also facilitates transit and bicycle use.

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(2) Forty percent shall be appropriated to transportation
commissions and transit operators to support transit operations
and maintain and expand reduced fare programs, including, but
not limited to, transit passes for students, low-income youth,
seniors, and persons with disabilities.

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(3) Ten percent shall be appropriated to Metropolitan
Transportation Organizations and Regional Transportation
Planning Associations for competitive grants for implementation
of sustainable communities strategies, including, but not limited
to, competitive planning and implementation grants to cities and
counties on a per capita basis for planning and implementing
livable communities and transit-oriented development and urban
infill projects, and to complete streets, and bicycle or pedestrian
projects, consistent with an approved sustainable communities
plan.

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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.

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