BILL NUMBER: AB 2469	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Frazier

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section  11402   5156.7 
of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2469, as amended, Frazier.  Vehicle registration
services.   Specialized license plates: breast cancer
awareness.  
   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.  
   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.  
   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. 
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those
provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 5156.7 of the  
Vehicle Code   is amended to read: 
   5156.7.  (a)  (1)    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. 
   (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.

   (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. 
  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.