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                                                                  SB 734
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          Date of Hearing:   July 8, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Kevin De Leon, Chair

                   SB 734 (Lowenthal) - As Amended:  June 22, 2009 

          Policy Committee:                               
          TransportationVote:13-0 (Consent)

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          Yes    Reimbursable:              Yes

           SUMMARY  

          This bill enacts numerous clarifying and technical changes to  
          transportation-related statutes, including:

          1)Clarifying that any interest earned on the investment of funds  
            from the Local Streets and Road Improvement, Congestion  
            Relief, and Traffic Safety Account, as established by  
            Proposition 1B of 2006, must be used for transportation  
            facilities.

          2)Adjusting weight thresholds related to emissions inspections  
            of diesel-powered vehicles in order to correspond to weight  
            classification data maintained by the DMV.

          3)Clarifies the time period during which a person may request an  
            initial review of a parking violation notice.

          4)Requiring an agency issuing or processing a parking violation,  
            when notifying a person, following an initial review, that  
            their violation has not been cancelled, to also notify the  
            person of (a) their ability to request an administrative  
            hearing and (b) the procedure for receiving a waiver, based on  
            inability to pay, of the prepayment of the parking penalty.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Minor reimbursable costs for local agencies to modify the  
          contents of their notifications following an initial review of a  
          parking violation.

          All other costs are negligible.








                                                                  SB 734
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           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  .  This is the Senate Transportation and Housing  
          Committee's annual omnibus transportation bill, combining a  
          number of technical, clarifying provisions dealing with a  
          variety of transportation-related topics.  Each provision is  
          noncontroversial and has no opposition.  Several of these  
          provisions appeared last year in AB 3064 (Transportation  
          Committee) or SB 432 (Lowenthal), which were two of numerous  
          bills summarily vetoed by the governor without a stated reason.

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