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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 2768
Author: Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee
Amended: 6/2/10 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMM : 8-0, 6/15/10
AYES: Lowenthal, Huff, Ashburn, DeSaulnier, Harman, Kehoe,
Pavley, Simitian
NO VOTE RECORDED: Oropeza
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 5/13/10 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Vehicles: charter-party carriers: busdrivers
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill ensures that specified acts that
result in a license suspension for a bus driver are
reported to the Department of Motor Vehicles and makes
other minor, technical changes to provisions of law
governing various state boards, commissions, and agencies.
ANALYSIS : Existing law:
1.Under AB 636 (Jones), Chapter 248, Statutes of 2009,
suspends a person from driving any kind of bus for five
years if the person drove a charter bus without having
been issued the proper driver's license, endorsement, or
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certificate to do so. The bill also permanently bans a
business from operating as a charter bus company if the
business knowingly employed such a driver or the business
operated without a current permit from the Public
Utilities Commission.
2.Requires the Secretary of the California Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to address various issues
concerning the cost-shifting between classes of utility
ratepayers and to provide reports to the Legislature no
later than 1997 and 2001.
3.Creates and specifies the membership and duties of the
State Parks and Recreation Commission, the State Mining
and Geology Board, State Board of Forestry and Fire
Protection, the California Recreational Trails Committee,
the Parklands Program Finance Committee, the State Lands
Commission, the State Resource Conservation Commission,
Resource Improvement Districts, the Ventura-Los Angeles
Mountain and Coastal Study Commission, the California
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission,
the State Coastal Conservancy, and the California Urban
Waterfront Area Restoration Financing Authority.
This bill:
1.Ensures that suspensions of a bus driver's license
resulting from violations under AB 636 are reported to
the Department of Motor Vehicles.
2.Deletes the obsolete existing law requiring the Secretary
of EPA to address cost-shifting between classes of
utility ratepayers and to report to the Legislature.
3.Makes minor, technical changes to provisions of law
governing commissions, boards, committees, districts, and
authority listed above in #3.
Comments
This bill makes a minor change to the Vehicle Code to
address a chaptering problem that arose last year between
AB 134 (Blakeslee) Chapter 414, Statutes of 2009, and AB
636. The author amended AB 636 to avoid chaptering out
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provisions of AB 134. In addition, the authors requested
that the Governor sign AB 134 before AB 636 so that AB 134
would not chapter out a provision of AB 636. The Governor
signed the bills in the reverse order (i.e., AB 134 first
and AB 636 second). AB 134 chaptered out a change to law
made by AB 636 relating to the court reporting offenses to
the Department of Motor Vehicles. This bill corrects that
chaptering out problem by restoring the change AB 636 made.
This bill also makes minor technical changes and deletes
obsolete language in state law, including changing the term
"chairman" to "chair" for various entities created in state
statute to reflect better those who are actually filling
these positions. For example, the last two chairmen of the
California Energy Commission have not been men.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified >)
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OPPOSITION : (Verified >)
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ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : >
ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION : >
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield,
Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Charles Calderon, Carter,
Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon,
DeVore, Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong,
Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick,
Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill,
Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lieu, Logue,
Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava,
Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, V. Manuel Perez, Portantino,
Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva, Smyth, Solorio, Audra
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Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Tran,
Villines, Yamada, John A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Caballero, Norby, Skinner
JA:nl 6/29/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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