BILL NUMBER: AB 932	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 15, 2015
	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 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 would  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
would  require the revenue generated from the license 
plates, as specified,   plates  to be 
deposited in   deposited, as   specified, into
 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.   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. 
   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 upon entering into a
memorandum of understanding with a California professional sports
franchise to participate in the program.  The memorandum of
understanding shall identify the nonprofit organization associated
with the professional sports franchise that may be receiving funds
generated from 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)     (1)     The
department may increase the fees prescribed in Section 5157 for each
specialized license plate program sponsored pursuant to subdivision
(a).  
   (2) (A) The California State Parks Account 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.  
   (B) The California Professional Sports Franchise Nonprofit
Organization Account is hereby created in the Specialized License
Plate Fund. The State Treasurer shall create a subaccount within the
California Professional Sports Franchise Nonprofit Organization
Account for each California professional sports franchise
participating in a specialized license plate program sponsored
pursuant to subdivision (a). The funds in the account shall be used,
upon appropriation by the Legislature to the nonprofit organization
identified in the memorandum of understanding specified in
subdivision (a), for funding charitable purposes of the nonprofit
organization.  
   (c) 
    (3)  Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 5157,
 the total fee, which includes  the additional fees
prescribed by Section 5157  and any increased amount  for
the issuance, renewal, or transfer of the specialized license
 plates   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.   distributed as follows:
 
   (A) If the total fee is more than twice the amount of the
additional fees prescribed by Section 5157, the total fee shall be
distributed as follows:  
   (i) The department shall deduct its administrative costs. 

   (ii) Fifty percent of the total fee remaining after the department
deducts its administrative costs shall be deposited into the
California State Parks Account.  
   (iii) Fifty percent of the total fee remaining after the
department deducts its administrative costs shall be deposited into
the California Professional Sports Franchise Nonprofit Organization
Account.  
   (B) If the total fee is twice the amount of the additional fees
prescribed by Section 5157 or less, the total fee shall be
distributed as follows:  
   (i) The department shall deduct its administrative costs. 

   (ii) The increased amount shall be deposited into the California
Professional Sports Franchise Nonprofit Organization Account. 

   (iii) The remainder of the total fee shall be deposited into the
California State Parks Account.  
   (C) If the department does not increase the additional fees
prescribed by Section 5157, the additional fees shall be deposited,
after the department deducts its administrative costs, into the
California State Parks Account.