Amended in Assembly May 28, 2015

Amended in Assembly April 8, 2015

Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 932

Introduced by Assembly Members Daly and Thurmond

February 26, 2015

An act to add Section 5165 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 932, as amended, Daly. Specialized license plates: professional sports.

Existing law authorizes a state agency to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and requires the DMV to issue those license plates if the agency receives 7,500 applications within a begin delete 12 month end delete begin insert 12-month end insert period, among other requirements. Existing law requires those license plates to have a design or contain a message that publicizes or promotes the state agency, or the official policy, mission, or work of the state agency. Existing law requires the DMV to charge certain additional fees for specialized license plates and deposit those fees in the Specialized License Plate Fund for allocation to the sponsoring agency, as specified.

This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation to apply to the DMV to sponsor a license plate program for the issuance of license plates bearing the officially licensed logo, emblem, or trademark provided by a California professional sports begin delete franchise. end delete begin insert franchise, upon entering into a memorandum of understanding with the franchise to participate in the program. end insert The bill would require the revenue generated from the license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the California State Parks Account created by the bill in the Specialized License Plate Fund, for use, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the California State Parks Office of Grants and Local Services, for funding local parks and recreation grant programs.

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 5165 is added to the Vehicle Code, to
read:

5165.  

(a) The Department of Parks and Recreation shall apply
to the department, pursuant to Section 5156, to sponsor a
professional sports franchise license plate begin delete program. end delete begin insert program upon
entering into a memorandum of understanding with a California
professional sports franchise to participate in the program. end insert The
department shall issue specialized license plates for that program
if the Department of Parks and Recreation complies with the
requirements of Section 5156.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 5154, the Department of Parks and
Recreation shall accept and use the officially licensed logos,
emblems, and trademarks provided by California professional
sports franchises for the license plate.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 5157, the
additional fees prescribed by Section 5157 for the issuance,
renewal, or transfer of the specialized license plates shall be
deposited, after the department deducts its administrative costs, in
the California State Parks Account, which is hereby created in the
Specialized License Plate Fund. The funds in the account shall be
used, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the California State
Parks Office of Grants and Local Services, for funding local parks
and recreation grant programs.