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          Date of Hearing:   May 18, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                      AB 28 (Huber) - As Amended:  May 10, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              
          TransportationVote:14-0

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

           SUMMARY  

          As proposed to be amended, this bill eliminates from statute the 
          largely obsolete Reciprocity Commission and transfers its 
          duties, should they become needed, to the director of the 
          Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).  The proposed amendments 
          make additional deletions of reference to the commission in 
          statute and, where appropriate, replace those references with 
          reference to the director of DMV.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible costs, if any, to DMV.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale.   The author contends it appropriate to eliminate 
            the commission and statutory reference to it because its 
            duties are obsolete.

           2)Background.    Statute established the commission in 1959 to 
            examine requirements for commercial vehicle registration of 
            foreign jurisdictions and to grant reciprocal privileges to 
            out-of-state vehicles.  Commission membership is comprised of 
            the Lieutenant Governor, the State Controller, DMV, California 
            Department of Transportation and California Highway Patrol.  
            The commission entered into agreements with foreign 
            jurisdictions regarding the payment of license, registration, 
            and regulatory fees for commercial vehicles travelling across 
            states, but registered in only one state.  At that time, 
            reciprocal agreements existed between individual states and 
            foreign jurisdictions (Canada).  








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            In 1985, California entered into International Registration 
            Plan (IRP) agreements, which facilitate commercial vehicle 
            registration and operation among states and Canadian provinces 
            and which made the work the commission obsolete.
           
           3)The policy committee did not receive letters in support or in 
            opposition to this bill.  

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081