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Bill No: SB 838
Author: Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review
Amended: 6/10/16
Vote: 21
SENATE FLOOR: 25-11, 4/14/16
AYES: Allen, Beall, Block, De León, Galgiani, Glazer, Hall,
Hancock, Hernandez, Hertzberg, Hill, Hueso, Jackson, Lara,
Leno, Leyva, Liu, Mendoza, Mitchell, Monning, Pan, Pavley,
Roth, Wieckowski, Wolk
NOES: Anderson, Bates, Berryhill, Fuller, Gaines, Moorlach,
Morrell, Nguyen, Nielsen, Stone, Vidak
NO VOTE RECORDED: Cannella, Huff, McGuire, Runner
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 49-28, 6/16/16 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT: Transportation
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill makes statutory changes necessary to enact
the transportation provisions of the Budget Act of 2016.
Assembly Amendments delete the prior version of the bill and
insert current language.
ANALYSIS: This bill makes all of the following statutory
changes:
1)State Transit Assistance Funding Allocation. Requires the
State Controller to distribute state transit assistance
funding for fiscal years 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 to the
same entities and according to the same ratios as calculated
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and published by the Controller for the fourth quarter of
2014-15. Provides that the remaining 2015-16 distributions
shall include adjustments so that the 2015-16 amounts
ultimately provided reflect the 2014-15 operator ratios.
2)Tribal Gaming Revenues. Provides for the General Fund to
retain the tribal gaming revenues anticipated in 2016-17.
Otherwise, there would be a General Fund loss resulting from
the interaction between the transportation loans that are
partially being repaid out of Proposition 2 and the tribal
gaming revenues which would not be deposited into the General
Fund because the loan was not fully repaid.
3)Vehicle Registration Fee Increase. Increases the base vehicle
registration fee by $10 (from $46 to $56), effective January
1, 2017, and indexes the base registration fee to the consumer
prices index beginning in 2017-18, allowing the fee to
automatically increase with inflation.
4)Federal Vehicle Conformity Requirements. Makes changes to the
California Vehicle Code to require motor carriers to obtain a
United States Department of Transportation number as a
condition of being assigned a California carrier
identification number.
5)Federal Driver's License and Identification Card Requirements.
Amends existing statute to conform with federal REAL ID
requirements, specifically that only one document (driver's
license or identification card) can be issued per person and
that the senior ID, which under current law expires after 10
years; but under REAL ID a card can be in effect for no more
than eight years before it expires.
6)Motor Voter Process. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles
to pilot and evaluate a process to register voters pursuant to
AB 1461 (Gonzales, Chapter 729, Statutes of 2015), to address
voters that do not fully complete the registration process and
to report on October 15, 2016, on the outcome of this pilot,
other process changes proposed to ensure the full completion
of voter registration, and an evaluation of these options.
7)High Occupancy Vehicles (HOV) Lane Stickers. Removes the cap
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on issuing Green (for plug-in electric hybrids) HOV Lane
stickers until 2019. Includes findings and declarations
related to Green and White stickers.
8)HOV Lanes. Requires the Department of Transportation to
prepare and submit to the Legislature by December 1, 2017, a
report on the degradation status of the state highway system's
high occupancy vehicle lanes.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: Yes Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: Yes
SUPPORT: (Verified8/22/16)
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified8/22/16)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 49-28, 6/16/16
AYES: Alejo, Arambula, Atkins, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brown,
Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper,
Dababneh, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Cristina Garcia,
Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray,
Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lopez, Low, McCarty, Medina,
Mullin, Nazarian, O'Donnell, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez,
Santiago, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Weber, Williams, Wood,
Rendon
NOES: Achadjian, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Chang, Chávez,
Dahle, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Jones,
Kim, Lackey, Linder, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, Melendez,
Obernolte, Olsen, Patterson, Salas, Steinorth, Wagner,
Waldron, Wilk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Brough, Roger Hernández, Irwin
Prepared by:Farra Bracht / B. & F.R. / (916) 651-4103
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