California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 4


Introduced by Assembly Member Linder

December 1, 2014


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

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 4, 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 Fund 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. Existing law also provides for loans of weight fee revenues to the General Fund to the extent the revenues are not needed for bond debt service purposes, with the loans to be repaid when the revenues are later needed for those purposes, as specified.

This bill, notwithstanding these provisions or any other law, until January 1, 2020, would prohibit weight fee revenues from being transferred from the State Highway Account to the Transportation Debt Service Fund, the Transportation Bond Direct Payment Account, or any other fund or account for the purpose of payment of the debt service on transportation general obligation bonds, and would also prohibit loans of weight fee revenues to the General Fund.

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

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

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SECTION 1.  

Section 9400.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to
2read:

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9400.5.  

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 9400.1, 9400.4, and
442205 of this code, Sections 16773 and 16965 of the Government
5Code, Section 2103 of the Streets and Highways Code, or any
6other law, weight fee revenues shall not be transferred from the
7State Highway Account to the Transportation Debt Service Fund,
8the Transportation Bond Direct Payment Account, or any other
9fund or account for the purpose of payment of the debt service on
10transportation general obligation bonds, and shall not be loaned
11to the General Fund.

12(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2020,
13and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that
14is enacted before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends that date.



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