Amended in Assembly April 21, 2014

Amended in Assembly March 20, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2450

Introduced by Assembly Members Logue and John A. Pérez

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(Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian and Wieckowski)

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February 21, 2014

An act to add Section 5162 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2450, as amended, Logue. Specialized license plates: kidney disease awareness.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue specialty license plates, including environmental license plates and specified special environmental design license plates. Under existing law, a state agency is authorized to apply to the DMV to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and the DMV is required to issue those license plates if the agency meets certain requirements.

This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to apply to the DMV to sponsor a specialized license plate that promotes awareness of kidney disease begin delete and bears the name and official logo of the National Kidney Foundation end delete .

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 5162 is added to the Vehicle Code, to
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5162.  

begin delete (a) end delete begin delete   end delete The State Department of Public Health shall apply
to the department to sponsor a kidney disease awareness license
plate program pursuant to this article.

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(b) Notwithstanding Section 5154, a license plate issued
pursuant to this section shall bear the name and official logo of
the National Kidney Foundation.

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