BILL NUMBER: AB 2303	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Holden
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gatto)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 5004.4 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2303, as introduced, Holden. Vehicles: specialized license
plates.
   Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to
establish a California Legacy License Plate Program that creates a
series of specialized license plates that replicate plates from the
state's past.
   This bill would require the department, if 7,500 applications are
received before January 1, 2019, to add a specified license plate
design utilized by the department between 1982 and 1987 to the
California Legacy License Plate Program.
   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 5004.4 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   5004.4.  (a) Subject to subdivision (c), the department shall add
to the California Legacy License Plate Program, authorized pursuant
to Section 5004.3, the license plate design utilized by the
department between 1982 and 1987 that featured blue, orange, and red
lettering, a white background, the phrase "Golden State" and a sunset
design.
   (b) An applicant for the specialized license plates described in
subdivision (a), who shall be the owner or lessee of the vehicle on
which the plates will be displayed, may choose to either accept a
license plate character sequence assigned by the department or
request a combination of letters or numbers or both.
   (c) In addition to the regular fees for an original registration
or renewal of registration, the following additional fees shall be
paid for the issuance, renewal, retention, or transfer of the
specialized license plates:
   (1) Fifty dollars ($50) for the original issuance of the plates.
   (2) Forty dollars ($40) for a renewal of registration with the
plates.
   (3) Fifteen dollars ($15) for transfer of the plates to another
vehicle.
   (4) Thirty-five dollars ($35) for each substitute replacement
plate.
   (5) Thirty-eight dollars ($38), when the payment of renewal fees
is not required as specified in Section 4000 and the holder of the
specialized license plates retains the plates. The fee shall be due
at the expiration of the registration year of the vehicle to which
the specialized license plates were assigned. This paragraph shall
not apply when a plate character sequence is assigned by the
department pursuant to subdivision (b).
   (d) The department shall not issue California Legacy License
Plates for a vehicle that is exempt from the payment of registration
fees pursuant to Section 9101 or 9103.
   (e) (1) The department shall not add the license plate authorized
by subdivision (a) until the department has received not less than
7,500 paid applications for plates. The department shall collect and
hold applications for the plates. The department shall not issue the
specialized plate authorized by subdivision (a) until it has received
not less than 7,500 paid applications for plates within the time
period prescribed in paragraph (2).
   (2) The department shall have until January 1, 2019, to receive
the required number of applications. If, after that date, 7,500 paid
applications have not been received for the plate described in
subdivision (a), the department shall immediately refund to all
applicants all fees or deposits that have been collected.
   (f) (1) Upon determination by the department that there are
sufficient funds for the program, moneys gathered pursuant to this
section shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to
the department for the necessary administrative costs incurred
pursuant to this section.
   (2) After deducting its administrative costs pursuant to paragraph
(1), the department shall deposit any additional revenue derived
from the issuance, renewal, retention, transfer, and substitution of
the specialized license plates into the State Highway Account in the
State Transportation Fund, to be available upon appropriation by the
Legislature for the purpose of funding bikeways through the Active
Transportation Program.