BILL NUMBER: AB 2253	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 25, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Grove
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Gallagher, Mathis, Melendez, and
Olsen)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 5163.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2253, as amended, Grove. Specialized license  plates:
In God We Trust.   plates. 
   Existing law authorizes a state agency to apply to the Department
of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to sponsor a specialized license plate
program and requires the DMV to issue those license plates if the
sponsoring state agency meets certain requirements. Existing law
requires the DMV to charge specified fees related to the issuance of
those plates and to deposit the fees, less the DMV's costs, in the
Specialized License Plate Fund. Existing law requires that moneys in
the fund be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the
sponsoring agency in proportion to the amount that is attributable to
the agency's specialized license plate program. Existing law
authorizes the sponsoring agency to use these moneys to fund projects
and programs that promote the state agency's official policy,
mission, or work.
   This bill would require the Department of Veterans 
Affairs   Affairs, in consultation with the State
Treasurer,  to apply to the DMV to sponsor  an In God We
Trust   specified historic state and federal motto
 license plate  program   programs 
and would require the DMV to issue those specialized license plates
for  that program   those programs  if the
Department of Veterans Affairs satisfies certain requirements.
Notwithstanding the above-described provisions regarding fees for
specialized license  plates, the bill would require the
additional fees for the issuance, renewal, or transfer of these
specialized license plates to be deposited, after the DMV deducts its
administrative costs, in a newly created fund, to be available upon
appropriation by the Legislature for the purpose of funding specified
veterans  programs.   programs and services.

   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 5163.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   5163.5.  (a) The Department of Veterans  Affairs 
 Affairs, in consultation with the State Treasurer,  shall
apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles, pursuant to Section 5156,
to sponsor  an In God We Trust license plate program. The
Department of Motor Vehicles shall issue specialized license plates
for that program if the Department of Veterans Affairs complies with
the requirements of this article.   the  
following historic state and federal motto license plate programs:
 
   (1) E Pluribus Unum. 
   (2) Liberty.  
   (3) In God We Trust.  
   (4) We the People.  
   (5) Eureka! I have found it!  
   (b) The Department of Motor Vehicles shall issue specialized
license plates for each program provided in subdivision (a) if the
Department of Veterans Affairs complies with the requirements of this
article.  
   (b) 
    (c)  Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 5157,
the additional fees prescribed by Section 5157 for the issuance,
renewal, or transfer of the specialized license plates shall be
deposited, after the Department of Motor Vehicles deducts its
administrative costs, in the Veterans Housing and Homelessness
Prevention Fund, which is hereby established in the State Treasury.
The funds in the account shall be used, upon appropriation by the
Legislature to the Department of Veterans Affairs, to support the
Veterans Housing and Homelessness Prevention Program and the
development of  affordable   supportive 
services for  veterans.   veterans living in
those units funded by the Veterans Housing and Homelessness
Prevention Program.