Amended in Assembly March 18, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2469

Introduced by Assembly Member Frazier

February 19, 2016

An act to amend Section begin delete 11402 end delete begin insert 5156.7 end insert of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2469, as amended, Frazier. begin delete Vehicle registration services. end delete begin insert Specialized license plates: breast cancer awareness. end insert

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Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles issues environmental and other specialized license plates. The issuance of some of those license plates is subject to additional fees. Existing law prohibits the department from establishing a specialized license plate program for a state agency until the department has received not less than 7,500 applications for the plates within 12 months after the date of the department’s approval of the agency’s initial application to sponsor a specialized license plate program. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to apply to the department, pursuant to those provisions, to sponsor a breast cancer awareness license plate program, pursuant to which the Department of Motor Vehicles is required to issue specialized license plates, if the State Department of Health Care Services complies with the applicable requirements.

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This bill would authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to contact the department by July 1, 2017, and indicate its intent to undertake collection of additional applications and fees or deposits for an additional period of 12 months in order to obtain the minimum 7,500 applications for a special license plate the State Department of Health Care Services is seeking to sponsor pursuant to existing law.

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Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles licenses and regulates vehicle registration services. Existing law requires an applicant for a license to be a registration service, or for the renewal of that license, to submit to the department a bond in the amount of $25,000.

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This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 5156.7 of the end insert begin insert Vehicle Code end insert begin insert is amended
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5156.7.  

(a)  begin insert (1) end insert begin insert   end insert The State Department of Health Care Services
shall apply to the department, pursuant to Section 5156, to sponsor
a breast cancer awareness license plate program. The department
shall issue specialized license plates for that program if the State
Department of Health Care Services complies with the
requirements of Section 5156.

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(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section
5156, the State Department of Health Care Services, by July 1,
2017, may contact the department and indicate its intent to
undertake collection of additional applications and fees or deposits
for an additional period not to exceed 12 months in order to obtain
the minimum 7,500 applications for a license plate it is sponsoring.

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(b) The State Department of Health Care Services may accept
and use donated artwork from California artists for the license
plate.

(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 deducts its administrative costs, in
the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund
established pursuant to Section 30461.6 of the Revenue and
Taxation Code.

(d) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department, in
consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services,
will design and make available for issuance pursuant to this article
special breast cancer awareness license plates. Specifically, it is
the intent of the Legislature that the license plates issued pursuant
to this section consist of a pink breast cancer awareness ribbon to
the left of the numerical series and a breast cancer awareness
message, such as, “Early Detection Saves Lives,” below the
numerical series.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 11402 of the Vehicle Code is amended
to read:

11402.  

(a) The amount of the bond required by subdivision
(e) of Section 11401 for the issuance of a registration service
license, or for the renewal of that license, is twenty-five thousand
dollars ($25,000). Liability under the bond shall remain at that
amount.

(b) If the amount of the liability under the bond is decreased,
or there is outstanding a final court judgment arising out of a
violation of any provision of this code for which the registration
service is liable, the license of the registration service shall be
automatically suspended. In order to reinstate the license, the
registration service shall either file an additional bond or restore
the bond on file to the original amount, or shall satisfy the
outstanding judgment for which the registration service and surety
are liable.

(c) The bond shall remain in effect for three years after cessation
of business of the registration service.

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