BILL NUMBER: AB 1677	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2016

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 amended, 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.
  governments in jurisdictions where tour buses
operate, for entering into memoranda of understand   ing
with local governments to allow the department to, upon the request
of the local government, increase the number of the locally operating
tour buses that are being   inspected by the department.
The bill would prohibit any inspection conducted pursuant to these
provisions from being duplicative of any inspection conducted by the
department to meet those specified existing inspection requirements.

   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   In furtherance of the
requirements specified in subdivision (c) of Section 34501, 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.
  governments in jurisdictions where tour buses operate,
for entering into memoranda of understanding with local governments
to allow the department to, upon the request of the local government,
increase the number of the locally operating tour buses that are
being inspected by the department. 
   (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.   not be duplicative of an inspection conducted
by the department to meet the requirements specified in subdivision
(c) of Section 34501.