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 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 tax of $6 to be paid at the time of registration or renewal of registration of every vehicle subject to registration under the Vehiclebegin delete Code,end deletebegin insert Code end insertbegin insertin a county that is in a metropolitan planning organization required to prepare a sustainable communities strategy as part of its regional transportation plan,end insert except as
specified. This bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles, after deducting all reasonable administrative costs, to remit the money generated by the tax for deposit in the Sustainable Communities Strategy Subaccount, which the bill would establish in the Motor Vehicle Account. The bill would make funds in the subaccount available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes.
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 9250.20 is added to the Vehicle Code,
2to read:
(a) In addition to any other fees specified in this code
4and the Revenue and Taxation Code, a fee of six dollars ($6) shall
5be paid at the time of registration or renewal of registration of
6every vehicle subject to registration under thisbegin delete code,end deletebegin insert code in a
7county that is in a metropolitan planning organization required
8to prepare a sustainable communities strategy as part of its
9regional transportation plan pursuant to paragraph (2) of
10subdivision (b) of Section 65080 of the Government Code,end insert except
11vehicles described in subdivision (a) of Section 5014.1 and those
12vehicles that are expressly
exempted from the payment of
13registration fees under this code.
14(b) After deducting all reasonable administrative costs incurred
15pursuant to this section, the department shall remit all
revenue
16generated pursuant to this section for deposit in the Sustainable
17Communities Strategy Subaccount which is hereby established in
18the Motor Vehicle Account and made available, upon appropriation
19by the Legislature,begin delete for :end deletebegin insert for the following:end insert
20(1) Fifty percent shall be appropriated to cities and counties on
21a per capita basis for planning and implementation of projects
22consistent with the purposes of sustainable communities strategies
P3 1and approved sustainable communities plans, including, but not
2limited to, first-mile-last-mile bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure
3projects that are intended to improve transit access in transit priority
4
zones, and bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure as part of complete
5streets projects, and road and highway maintenance and repair that
6also facilitates transit and bicycle use.
7(2) Forty percent shall be appropriated to transportation
8commissions and transit operators to support transit operations
9and maintain and expand reduced fare programs, including, but
10not limited to, transit passes for students, low-income youth,
11seniors, and persons with disabilities.
12(3) Ten percent shall be appropriated tobegin delete Metropolitan begin insert metropolitan planning organizationsend insert
13Transportation Organizationsend delete
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andbegin delete Regional Transportation Planning Associationsend deletebegin insert
transportation
15planning agenciesend insert for competitive grants for implementation of
16sustainable communities strategies, including, but not limited to,
17competitive planning and implementation grants to cities and
18counties on a per capita basis for planning and implementing
19livable communities and transit-oriented development and urban
20infill projects, and to complete streets, and bicycle or pedestrian
21projects, consistent with an approved sustainable communities
22plan.
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