BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 1610| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: AB 1610 Author: Committee on Budget Amended: 6/13/16 in Senate Vote: 21 SENATE BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW COMMITTEE: 10-5, 6/15/16 AYES: Leno, Beall, Block, Glazer, Hancock, Mitchell, Monning, Pan, Pavley, Wolk NOES: Nielsen, Anderson, Moorlach, Nguyen, Stone NO VOTE RECORDED: Allen, Roth ASSEMBLY FLOOR: Not relevant SUBJECT: Transportation SOURCE: Author DIGEST: This bill makes statutory changes necessary to enact the transportation provisions of the Budget Act of 2016. ANALYSIS: This bill makes all of the following statutory changes: 1)State Transit Assistance Funding Allocation. Requires the State 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. AB 1610 Page 2 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. 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 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: Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.:YesLocal: Yes SUPPORT: (Verified6/14/16) AB 1610 Page 3 None received OPPOSITION: (Verified6/14/16) None received Prepared by:Farra Bracht / B. & F.R. / (916) 651-4103 6/16/16 8:55:20 **** END ****