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          Date of Hearing:   May 12, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                   AB 2151 (Torres) - As Amended:  March 24, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                               
          InsuranceVote:12-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill expands an exemption from mandatory reporting of  
          traffic accidents to a private insurer for public safety  
          professionals when accidents occur when using a personal vehicle  
          at the direction of an employer. Specifically, this bill: 

          1)Adds private vehicles to the kinds of vehicles for which  
            accidents are not required to be reported.

          2)Requires private vehicles to be used at the request or  
            direction of an employer in order to be covered by the  
            exemption expansion established in this bill. 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          No direct fiscal impact is established by the expansion of the  
          exemption established in this bill. 

           COMMENTS  

           Rationale  . This bill is sponsored by the California Professional  
          Firefighters to expand a current law exemption to mandatory  
          reporting of motor vehicle accidents for certain public safety  
          professionals. Under current law, peace officers, California  
          Highway Patrol officers, and firefighters are not required to  
          report traffic accidents to a private insurer if these incidents  
          occur while driving an employer-leased or an employer-rented  
          vehicle.   

          This bill ensures a peace officer or a firefighter is held  
          harmless with respect to mandatory reporting of traffic  








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          accidents if an accident occurs while operating a private  
          vehicle at the request or direction of their employer.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Mary Ader / APPR. / (916) 319-2081