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                                                                  AB 2768
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          Date of Hearing:   May 5, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

           AB 2768 (Committee on Utilities and Commerce) - As Introduced:   
                                 February 25, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                               
          UtilitiesVote:14-0 (Consent)

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill:

          1)Requires the clerk of a court, when a person is convicted of  
            driving a bus for a charter-party carrier without a valid  
            license, to forward an abstract of the court case to the  
            Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) within five days after  
            conviction, or five days after sentencing if not done  
            concurrently with the conviction.

          2)Makes numerous technical amendments to various sections of the  
            Public Resources code, including providing the gender-neutral  
            term "chair" in lieu of "chairman."

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Minor absorbable one-time costs for the courts to re-program  
          court case processing systems in order to implement the DMV  
          reporting requirement.

           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  .  This committee bill is is intended to make minor  
          technical changes to update code to reflect the population being  
          appointed to or being elected to positions.  For example, the  
          last two chairmen of the California Energy Commission have not  
          been men.

          The bill also makes a minor change to the Vehicle Code that  
          specifically references a section of the Public Utilities Code.   








                                                                  AB 2768
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          Last year, AB 134 (Blakeslee)/Chapter 414 and AB 636 (Jones)/  
          Chapter 248 both addressed the same code section. AB 636 was  
          amended near the end of session and the members requested that  
          AB 134 be signed first, and AB 636 signed second because it  
          included the most current language. The bills were signed in  
          reverse order, however, so AB 2768 corrects the signing order  
          problem.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081