BILL NUMBER: AB 932	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 28, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 8, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

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  12 month
  12-month  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 
franchise.   franchise, upon entering into a memorandum
of understanding with the franchise to participate in the program.
 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  program.  
program upon entering into a memorandum of understanding with a
California professional sports franchise to participate in the
program.  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.