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 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, upon entering into a memorandum of understanding with the franchise to participate in the program. The bill wouldbegin insert authorize the department to increase the additional fees for the issuance, renewal, or transfer of the specialized license plate for each specialized license plate program sponsored pursuant to these provisions, and wouldend insert require the revenue generated from the licensebegin delete plates, as specified,end deletebegin insert platesend insert to bebegin delete deposited inend deletebegin insert deposited, as
specified, intoend insert 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 grantbegin delete programs.end deletebegin insert programs, and into the California Professional Sports Franchise Nonprofit Organization Account created by the bill in the Specialized License Plate Fund, for use, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the nonprofit organization identified in the memorandum of understanding, for funding charitable purposes of the nonprofit organization.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 5165 is added to the Vehicle Code, to
2read:
(a) The Department of Parks and Recreation shall apply
4to the department, pursuant to Section 5156, to sponsor a
5professional sports franchise license plate program upon entering
6into a memorandum of understanding with a California professional
7sports franchise to participate in the program.begin insert The memorandum
8of understanding shall identify the nonprofit organization
9associated with the professional sports franchise that may be
10receiving funds generated from the program.end insert The department shall
11issue specialized license plates for that program if the Department
12of Parks and Recreation complies with the requirements of Section
135156.
14(b) Notwithstanding Section 5154, the Department of Parks and
15Recreation shall accept and use the officially licensed logos,
16emblems, and trademarks provided by California professional
17sports franchises for the license plate.
P3 1begin insert(c)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertThe department may increase the fees prescribed in
2Section 5157 for each specialized license plate program sponsored
3pursuant to subdivision (a).end insert
4(2) (A) The California State Parks Account is hereby created
5in the Specialized License Plate Fund. The funds in the account
6shall be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the
7
California State Parks Office of Grants and Local Services, for
8funding local parks and recreation grant programs.
9(B) The California Professional Sports Franchise Nonprofit
10Organization Account is hereby created in the Specialized License
11Plate Fund. The State Treasurer shall create a subaccount within
12the California Professional Sports Franchise Nonprofit
13Organization Account for each California professional sports
14franchise participating in a specialized license plate program
15sponsored pursuant to subdivision (a). The funds in the account
16shall be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the
17nonprofit organization identified in the memorandum of
18understanding specified in subdivision (a), for funding charitable
19purposes of the nonprofit organization.
15 20(c)
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21begin insert(3)end insert Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 5157,begin insert the total
22fee, which includesend insert the additional fees prescribed by Section 5157
23begin insert and any increased amountend insert for the issuance, renewal, or transfer
24of the specialized licensebegin delete platesend deletebegin insert plates,end insert shall bebegin delete deposited, after
25the department deducts its administrative costs, in the California
26State Parks Account, which is hereby created in the Specialized
27License Plate Fund. The funds in the account shall be used, upon
28appropriation by the
Legislature to the California State Parks Office
29of Grants and Local Services, for funding local parks and recreation
30grant programs.end delete
31(A) If the total fee is more than twice the amount of the
32additional fees prescribed by Section 5157, the total fee shall be
33distributed as follows:
34(i) The department shall deduct its administrative costs.
end insertbegin insert
35(ii) Fifty percent of the total fee remaining after the department
36deducts its administrative costs shall be deposited into the
37California State Parks Account.
38(iii) Fifty percent of the total fee remaining after the department
39deducts its administrative costs shall be deposited into the
P4 1California Professional Sports Franchise Nonprofit Organization
2Account.
3(B) If the total fee is twice the amount of the additional fees
4prescribed by Section 5157 or less, the total fee shall be distributed
5as follows:
6(i) The department shall deduct its administrative costs.
end insertbegin insert
7(ii) The increased amount shall be deposited into the California
8Professional Sports Franchise Nonprofit Organization Account.
9(iii) The remainder of the total fee shall be deposited into the
10California State Parks Account.
11(C) If the department does not increase the additional fees
12prescribed by Section 5157, the additional fees shall be deposited,
13after the department deducts its administrative costs, into the
14California State Parks Account.
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