BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING
Senator Jim Beall, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular
Bill No: AB 1015 Hearing Date: 6/9/2015
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|Author: |Bloom |
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|Version: |4/23/2015 |
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|Urgency: |No |Fiscal: |No |
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|Consultant|Randy Chinn |
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SUBJECT: Parking: car share vehicles
DIGEST: This bill allows local governments to designate parking
spaces for the exclusive or non-exclusive use of a car-sharing
or ride-sharing program.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law allows local governments to designate parking
spaces for the exclusive use of a car-sharing or ride-sharing
program.
This bill allows local governments to designate parking spaces
for the exclusive or non-exclusive use of a car-sharing or
ride-sharing program.
COMMENTS:
The recent proliferation of new mobility options (e.g., car
sharing, Network Transportation Companies) has forced an
updating of California's transportation statutes. This bill
represents the second generation of those updates as it revises
legislation that facilitated car sharing (AB 2154, Goldberg,
Chapter 189, Statutes of 2006).
Car-sharing services, such as Zipcar and City CarShare,
typically allow customers to rent cars for short time periods -
as little as 15 minutes in some cases - and require that the
cars be picked up and dropped off in specific, designated
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parking places. A new car-sharing service, car2go, the sponsor
of this bill, operates on a slightly different model, allowing
customers to pick up and drop off cars in parking spaces which
aren't specifically designated. Rather than leaving the rental
car in a designated space, a car2go customer could leave the car
virtually anywhere, including residential neighborhoods. By
revising current law to allow local governments to designate
parking spaces for either the exclusive or non-exclusive use of
car sharing companies, this bill clears up some uncertainty at
the local level.
Assembly Votes:
Floor: 78-0
Trans: 16-0
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local:
No
POSITIONS: (Communicated to the committee before noon on
Wednesday,
June 3, 2015.)
SUPPORT:
car2go North America (sponsor)
OPPOSITION:
None received
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