BILL ANALYSIS Ó SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW Senator Mark Leno, Chair 2015 - 2016 Regular Bill No: AB 1610 Hearing Date: June 15, 2016 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Author: |Committee on Budget | |----------+------------------------------------------------------| |Version: |June 13, 2016 Amended | ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- |Urgency: |Yes |Fiscal: |Yes | ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Consultant|Farra Bracht | |: | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Transportation Summary: This measure makes statutory changes necessary to enact the transportation provisions of the Budget Act of 2016. Background: As part of the 2016-17 budget package, Assembly Bill 1610 makes various statutory changes to implement the budget act. Proposed Law: This bill makes all of the following statutory changes: 1.State Transit Assistance Funding Allocation. Requires the Controller to distribute state transit assistance funding for fiscal years 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 to the same entities and according to the same ratios as calculated and published by the Controller for the fourth quarter of 2014-15. Provides that the remaining 2015-16 distributions shall include adjustments so that the 2015-16 amounts ultimately provided reflect the 2014-15 operator ratios. 2.Tribal Gaming Revenues. Provides for the General Fund to retain the tribal gaming revenues anticipated in 2016-17. Otherwise, there would be a General Fund loss resulting from the interaction between the transportation loans that are partially being repaid out of Proposition 2 and the tribal gaming revenues which would not be deposited into the General Fund because the loan was not fully repaid. AB 1610 (Committee on Budget) Page 2 of ? 3.Vehicle Registration Fee Increase. Increases the base vehicle registration fee by $10 (from $46 to $56), effective January 1, 2017, and indexes the base registration fee to the consumer prices index (CPI) beginning in 2017-18, allowing the fee to automatically increase with inflation. 4.Federal Vehicle Conformity Requirements. Makes changes to the California Vehicle Code to require motor carriers to obtain a United States Department of Transportation number as a condition of being assigned a California carrier identification number. 5.Federal Driver's License and Identification Card Requirements. Amends existing statute to conform with federal REAL ID requirements, specifically that only one document (driver's license or identification card) can be issued per person and that the senior ID, which under current law expires after 10 years; but under REAL ID a card can be in effect for no more than eight years before it expires. 6.Motor Voter Process. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to pilot and evaluate a process to register voters pursuant to AB 1461 (Gonzales), Chapter 729, Statutes of 2015, to address voters that do not fully complete the registration process and to report on October 15, 2016, on the outcome of this pilot, other process changes proposed to ensure the full completion of voter registration, and an evaluation of these options. Fiscal Effect: The funding related to the changes in this bill is contained in the 2016-17 budget. Support: None on file. Opposed: None on file. -- END --