BILL NUMBER: AB 2651	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Linder
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Allen, Bigelow, Conway, Beth Gaines,
Gorell, Hagman, Harkey, Jones, Melendez, Olsen, Patterson, Wagner,
and Wilk)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 9400.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2651, as introduced, Linder. Vehicle weight fees:
transportation bond debt service.
   Existing law imposes weight fees on the registration of commercial
motor vehicles and provides for the deposit of net weight fee
revenues into the State Highway Account. Existing law provides for
the transfer of certain weight fee revenues from the State Highway
Account to the Transportation Debt Service Account to reimburse the
General Fund for payment of debt service on general obligation bonds
issued for transportation purposes. Existing law also provides for
the transfer of certain weight fee revenues to the Transportation
Bond Direct Payment Account for direct payment of debt service on
designated bonds, which are defined to be certain transportation
general obligation bonds issued pursuant to Proposition 1B of 2006.
   This bill, notwithstanding these provisions or any other law,
effective January 1, 2016, would prohibit weight fee revenue from
being transferred from the State Highway Account to the
Transportation Debt Service Fund or to the Transportation Bond Direct
Payment Account, and from being used to pay the debt service on
transportation general obligation bonds.
   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 9400.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   9400.5.  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 9400.1, 9400.4, and 42205 of
this code, Sections 16773 and 16965 of the Government Code, Section
2103 of the Streets and Highways Code, or any other law, weight fee
revenue shall not be transferred from the State Highway Account to
the Transportation Debt Service Fund or to the Transportation Bond
Direct Payment Account, and shall not be used to pay the debt service
on transportation general obligation bonds.
   (b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2016.