BILL NUMBER: AB 1677	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ting
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Chiu)
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Hill)

                        JANUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 34505.2 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1677, as introduced, Ting. Vehicles: tour buses: safety
inspections.
   Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway
Patrol to regulate the safe operation of tour buses, as defined, and
requires the department to adopt rules and regulations relating to
the equipment and maintenance of tour buses. At least once every 13
months, existing law requires the department to inspect every
maintenance facility or terminal of any person who at any time
operates any bus, including a tour bus, and makes it unlawful for any
person to operate a bus without this inspection having been
conducted. In addition to the systematic inspection required of all
motor carriers, existing law requires tour bus operators to require
each tour bus to be inspected at least every 45 days, or more often
if necessary to ensure safe operation.
   This bill would require the department to develop protocols, in
consultation with representatives of local government, to allow for
the inspection of tour buses by a designated local agency of the
local jurisdiction in which the tour bus operates, and would require
these protocols to include, at a minimum, a requirement that, upon
completion of an inspection of a tour bus, the designated local
agency report its findings to the Public Utilities Commission. The
bill would provide that any inspection conducted by a designated
local agency pursuant to these protocols shall be in addition to, and
not in lieu of, any other inspection requirements imposed under law.

   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 34505.2 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   34505.2.  (a) The Department of the California Highway Patrol
shall develop protocols, in consultation with representatives of
local government, to allow for the inspection of tour buses by a
designated local agency of the local jurisdiction in which the tour
bus operates. The protocols shall include, at a minimum, a
requirement that, upon completion of an inspection of a tour bus, the
designated local agency report its findings to the Public Utilities
Commission.
   (b) Any inspection conducted by a designated local agency pursuant
to the protocols developed under subdivision (a) shall be in
addition to, and not in lieu of, any inspection requirements imposed
under this code or any regulations adopted under this code relating
to motor carrier safety.