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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.

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 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 Vehicle Code in a county that is in a metropolitan planning organization required to prepare a sustainable communities strategy as part of its regional transportation plan, 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 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 in a county
that is in a metropolitan planning organization required to prepare
a sustainable communities strategy as part of its regional
transportation plan pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of
Section 65080 of the Government 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 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 the following:

(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 begin delete , but not
limited to, end delete first-mile-last-mile bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure
projects that are intended to improve transit access in transit priority
zones, begin delete and end delete bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure begin delete as part of end delete complete
streets projects, begin delete and end delete begin insert end insert begin insert Safe end insert begin insert Routes to end insert begin insert School end insert begin insert projects, end insert road and
highway maintenance and repair that also facilitates transit and
bicycle use begin insert , and pedestrian safety projects if the road and highway
maintenance and repair costs make up no more than 20 percent
of the total pedestrian safety project cost. These funds may also
be used for the construction and planning of, and as local matching
funds for purposes of applying for federal or state transportation
grants for, projects that are consistent with the purposes specified
in this paragraph end insert .

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

(3) Ten percent shall be appropriated to metropolitan planning
organizations and transportation planning agencies for competitive
grants for implementation of sustainable communities strategies,
begin delete including, but not limited to, end delete begin insert including end insert 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 begin insert and plans end insert ,
consistent with an approved sustainable communities plan.