BILL NUMBER: AB 1054	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Coto

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 11629.79 of the Insurance Code, relating
to motor vehicle insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1054, as introduced, Coto. Motor vehicle insurance: assigned
risk.
   Existing law establishes a low-cost automobile insurance program
for all counties, as specified. Under existing law, the certain
counties were authorized to commence operations on January 1, 2000
and January 1, 2006, and also authorized the commissioner to adopt
emergency regulations in order to implement those programs.
   This bill would delete the authorization for the commissioner to
adopt those regulations as emergency regulations.
   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 11629.79 of the Insurance Code is amended to
read:
   11629.79.  (a) The program for the County of Los Angeles and the
City and County of San Francisco is authorized to commence operations
on January 1, 2000, but shall be fully operational no later than
July 1, 2000.
   (b) To this end, the commissioner, in consultation with the
California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan, shall adopt regulations to
implement the provisions of this article within 60 days of its
effective date.  The regulations shall be adopted as
emergency regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with
Section 11340) of the Government Code, and for purposes of that
chapter, the adoption of the regulations shall be considered by the
Office of Administrative Law to be necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and general
welfare. 
   (c) The program for the Counties of Alameda, Fresno, Orange,
Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego shall commence operations on
April 1, 2006, and shall be made operational in all other counties
of California according to the discretion of the commissioner. The
commissioner, in consultation with the California Automobile Assigned
Risk Plan, shall adopt regulations to implement the expansion of the
program to these counties.  The regulations shall be adopted
as emergency regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing
with Section 11340) of the Government Code, and for purposes of that
chapter, the adoption of the regulations shall be considered by the
Office of Administrative Law to be necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and general
welfare.