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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Author: |Bloom | |----------+------------------------------------------------------| |Version: |4/23/2015 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Urgency: |No |Fiscal: |No | ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Consultant|Randy Chinn | |: | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 AB 1015 (Bloom) Page 2 of ? 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 -- END --