BILL NUMBER: AB 1002	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 12, 2013

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