BILL ANALYSIS
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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 2777
Author: Assembly Transportation Committee
Amended: 8/12/10 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 8-0, 6/29/10
AYES: Lowenthal, Huff, DeSaulnier, Harman, Kehoe, Pavley,
Simitian, Wolk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Ashburn
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-0, 4/29/10 (Consent) - See last page
for vote
SUBJECT : Transportation: omnibus bill
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill makes non-controversial changes to
sections of law relating to transportation.
ANALYSIS : This bill includes the following provisions:
1. Deleting obsolete reporting requirements . [Sections 1,
2, and 3] Current law includes a number of reporting
requirements and an advisory committee that are no
longer relevant. This bill deletes the following
obsolete requirements.
A. A requirement that the California Highway Patrol
submit a risk assessment of California
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transportation's system to the Legislature by
January 1, 2003.
B. A requirement that the Department of
Transportation (Caltrans) establish an advisory
committee to develop recommendations on ways to
upgrade and modernize Caltrans' data automation
system to better track project delivery.
C. A requirement that the California Transportation
Commission report to the Legislature by September
1, 2002, on the impact of adding an advance project
development element to the State Transportation
Improvement Program.
D. A requirement that the Department of Motor
Vehicles (DMV) submit an annual consolidated report
to the Legislature regarding the revenues and
expenditures related to special interest license
plates for non-profit organizations.
2. California Transportation Financing Authority (CTFA)
vote threshold . [Section 4] AB 798 (Nava), Chapter
474, Statutes of 2009, establishes the CTFA to assist
transportation agencies in obtaining financing,
primarily through issuing bonds backed by specified
sources of revenue, to develop transportation projects.
The CTFA board consists of seven members: five
ex-officio members and one member each appointed by the
Assembly Speaker and Senate Rules Committee. AB 798
established a quorum as four members and requires a vote
of a quorum to approve any action. Consistent with all
of the other boards and commissions housed within the
Treasurer's Office, this bill instead requires a
majority vote of present members to approve an action
after a quorum has been established.
3. Grammatical corrections . [Section 5] Legislative
Counsel has identified some grammatical errors in a
section of law proscribing transit-related crimes. The
amendments correct these errors.
4. Correcting a cross-reference relating to ambulance
drivers . [Section 6] Current law establishes the
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pull-notice system, which provides the employer of a
driver who drives a specified type of vehicle, including
an ambulance driver, with a report showing the driver's
current public record and any subsequent convictions,
driver's license revocations, failures to appear,
accidents, driver's license suspensions, driver's
license revocations, or any other actions taken against
the driving privilege. With respect to ambulance
drivers, current law cross-references the incorrect
section. The bill corrects the mistaken
cross-reference.
5. Disabled license plates . [Sections 7 and 11] Current
law requires the DMV to issue special license plates to
disabled persons and disabled veterans. Current law
also allows a disabled person or disabled veteran
displaying such a plate to park for unlimited periods in
time-restricted spaces and for free at metered spaces.
This bill clarifies that disabled persons license plates
and disabled veterans license plates may only be issued
for motor vehicles, as opposed to vehicles, a term which
includes trailers.
6. Commemorative license plates . [Sections 8 and 9]
Current law authorizes DMV to issue both commemorative
Olympic license plates and commemorative collegiate
license plates. This bill clarifies that DMV may issue
Olympic and commemorative collegiate license plates as
environmental (or "vanity") license plates, displaying
numbers and letters requested by the vehicle owner.
7. Apportionately registered fleet vehicles . [Section 10]
Current law requires DMV to apportionately register and
tax commercial vehicles that are based in other states
or countries and that use California highways. DMV may
make these apportionment calculations on a fleet-wide
basis and may place a lien upon all the vehicles of the
fleet if the taxes are not paid. If a fleet owner
contests the amount or existence of a lien, DMV must
issue its findings, and the fleet owner then has 20 days
to request an administrative hearing. This bill
conforms California law to federal law by allowing
commercial vehicle fleet owners 30 days, rather than the
current 20 days, to request an administrative hearing of
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a fleet apportionment lien.
8. Contains double-jointing language with AB 1648
(Jeffries) and AB 1944 (Fletcher).
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, 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, Knight, Lieu, Logue, Ma,
Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello,
Nielsen, Norby, V. Manuel Perez, Portantino, Ruskin,
Salas, Saldana, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra
Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Tran, Villines,
Yamada, John A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bass, Caballero, Jones, Bonnie
Lowenthal, Torrico, Vacancy
JJA:do 8/12/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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