SB 1323, as amended, Lieu. Specialized license plates: Pet Lover’s License Plate Program.
Existing law establishes a specialized license plate program and requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue specialized license plates to a sponsoring state agency that meets certain requirements. Existing law requires the DMV to charge specified additional fees for the issuance, renewal, or transfer of specialized license plates, and requires that these additional fees, less the DMV’s administrative costs, be deposited in the Specialized License Plate Fund for appropriation and allocation to each sponsoring state agency, as specified.
This bill would require the DMV to deposit the additional feesbegin insert, less the DMV’s administrative costs,end insert for abegin delete specialtyend deletebegin insert
specializedend insert license plate issued under the Pet Lover’s License Plate Program sponsored by the Veterinary Medical Board, or a successorbegin delete specialtyend deletebegin insert specializedend insert license plate program sponsored by the board, into the Pet Lover’s Specialized License Plate Fund, which the bill would establish. The bill would require that these funds be continuously appropriated to the Veterinary Medical Board for the sole and exclusive purpose of funding grants to providers of no-cost or low-cost animal sterilization services, as specified. By continuously appropriating moneys in the fund to the board, the bill would make an appropriation.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2⁄3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 5157 of the Vehicle Code is amended to
2read:
(a) In addition to the regular fees for an original
4registration or renewal of registration, the following additional
5fees shall be paid for the issuance, renewal, or transfer of the
6specialized license plates:
7(1) For the original issuance of the plates, fifty dollars ($50).
8(2) For a renewal of registration with the plates, forty dollars
9($40).
10(3) For transfer of the plates to another vehicle, fifteen dollars
11($15).
12(4) For each substitute replacement plate, thirty-five
dollars
13($35).
14(5) In addition, for the issuance of environmental license plates,
15as defined in Section 5103, with a specialized license plate design,
16the additional fees prescribed in Sections 5106 and 5108. The
17additional fees prescribed in Sections 5106 and 5108 shall be
18deposited in the California Environmental License Plate Fund.
19(b) The Gold Star Family specialized license plate program as
20provided in subdivision (d) of Section 5156 shall not be subject
21to the fees specified in paragraphs (1), (2), and (5) of subdivision
22(a) and shall only be issued in a sequential series.
P3 1(c) Except as provided in paragraph (5) of subdivision (a), and
2after deducting its administrative costs under this section, the
3department
shall deposit the additional revenue derived from the
4issuance, renewal, transfer, and substitution of the specialized
5
license plates in the Specialized License Plate Fund, which is
6hereby established in the State Treasury. Upon appropriation by
7the Legislature, the moneys in that fund shall be allocated to each
8sponsoring agency, in proportion to the amount in the fund that is
9attributable to the agency’s specialized license plate program.
10Except as authorized under Section 5159, the sponsoring agency
11shall expend all funds received under this section exclusively for
12projects and programs that promote the state agency’s official
13policy, mission, or work.
14(d) (1) The Department of Veterans Affairs may actively request
15and receive donations for the Gold Star Family License Plate
16
Account, which is hereby created in the Specialized License Plate
17Fund and which may consist of donations from public and private
18entities. Earnings generated by the Gold Star Family License Plate
19Account shall be retained by the account.
20(2) Upon the determination of the department that there are
21sufficient funds in the Gold Star Family License Plate Account
22for this purpose, moneys in the Gold Star Family License Plate
23Account shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
24to the department for the necessary administrative costs of
25establishing the Gold Star Family specialized license plate program.
26(e) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insertNotwithstanding subdivision (c),begin insert
and after deducting
27its administrative costs under this section,end insert the department shall
28deposit the additional revenue derived from the issuance, renewal,
29transfer, and substitution of abegin delete specialtyend deletebegin insert specializedend insert license plate
30issued under the Pet Lover’s License Plate Program sponsored by
31the Veterinary Medical Board, or a successorbegin delete specialtyend deletebegin insert specializedend insert
32 license plate program sponsored by the Veterinary Medical Board,
33in the Pet Lover’s Specialized License Plate Fund, which is hereby
34established in the State Treasury.begin delete Notwithstandingend delete
35(2) Any moneys in the Specialized License Plate Fund derived
36from the issuance, renewal, transfer, and substitution of a
37specialized license plate issued under the Pet Lover’s License
38Plate Program sponsored by the Veterinary Medical Board prior
39to the operative date of Senate Bill 1323 of the 2013-14 Regular
P4 1Session shall be transferred to the Pet Lover’s Specialized License
2Plate Fund.
3begin insert(3)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertNotwithstandingend insert Section 13340 of the Government Code,
4all of the moneys in the Pet Lover’s Specialized License Plate
5Fund are continuously appropriated to the Veterinary Medical
6Board, without regard to fiscal years, for the sole and exclusive
7purpose of funding grants to providers of no-cost or low-cost
8animal sterilization
services.begin delete The Veterinary Medical Board shall
9consider the recommendations of the California Spay and Neuter
10License Plate Fund, Inc., in determining how to award grant funds.end delete
11(4) The Veterinary Medical Board shall adopt regulations that
12govern the Pet Lover’s License Plate Program and specify the
13manner in which moneys in the Pet Lover’s Specialized License
14Plate Fund are awarded consistent with this subdivision. These
15regulations may include, but are not limited to, the designation of
16a nonprofit corporation to administer the Pet Lover’s License
17Plate Program consistent with this article and the regulations
18adopted by the Veterinary Medical Board.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
20immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
21the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
22immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
23In order to ensure that funds from a specialized license plate
24program are available as soon as possible to allow the Veterinary
25Medical Board to support the critically important efforts of city
26and county animal shelters to address serious animal care and
27control problems facing the state, it is necessary that this act go
28into effect immediately.
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