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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 674
Author: Bonilla (D)
Amended: 4/6/11 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 5-2, 6/21/11
AYES: DeSaulnier, Kehoe, Lowenthal, Rubio, Simitian
NOES: Gaines, Huff
NO VOTE RECORDED: Harman, Pavley
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 8-1, 7/11/11
AYES: Kehoe, Alquist, Emmerson, Lieu, Pavley, Price,
Runner, Steinberg
NOES: Walters
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 53-24, 5/31/11 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Vehicles registration surcharge: fingerprint
identification
systems
SOURCE : California State Sheriffs Association
Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department
DIGEST : This bill repeals the January 1, 2012 sunset
date on law that allows counties to impose a $1 surcharge
on vehicle registration fees to fund fingerprint
identification systems.
ANALYSIS : Existing law establishes a basic vehicle
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registration fee of $34, plus a $22 surcharge for
additional personnel for the Department of the California
Highway Patrol, and authorizes local agencies to impose
separate vehicle registration fee surcharges in their
respective jurisdictions for a variety of special programs,
including $1 for fingerprint identification programs.
County boards of supervisors adopt resolutions imposing the
surcharge and declaring the purpose of and need for the
surcharge. In counties that have imposed the surcharge,
commercial vehicles pay an additional $2 and other vehicles
pay an additional $1 with their vehicle registrations for
the fingerprint program.
Existing law continuously appropriates the funds generated
by the $1 and $2 surcharges, which are collected by the
Department of Motor Vehicles and disbursed by the State
Controller to each county that has adopted the required
resolution. Counties may only spend these revenues to fund
programs that enhance the capacity of local law enforcement
to provide automated mobile and fixed location fingerprint
identification of individuals who may be involved in
driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, vehicular
manslaughter, and other vehicle-related crimes, as well as
other crimes committed while operating a motor vehicle.
Every participating county must issue a fiscal year-end
report to the State Controller, and the State Controller
must annually submit to the Legislature a revenue and
expenditure summary for each participating county.
Existing law repeals the provisions authorizing and
governing the fingerprint identification program on January
1, 2012.
This bill repeals the January 1, 2012 sunset date, thereby
making this program permanent.
Background
Purpose of the bill . Since 1986, the California Department
of Justice has operated an automated fingerprint
identification program, known as Cal-ID. This program is
designed to assist law enforcement agencies in various
ways, including verifying the identity of persons placed
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under arrest, identifying human remains, and identifying
criminal suspects, by the use of fingerprints.
Local law enforcement agencies have access to the Cal-ID
system, but many agencies had, in the past, reported that
the necessary access equipment was antiquated and they were
not financially able to take full advantage of the
significant advances in the related technology.
In light of these shortcomings, the Legislature enacted SB
720 (Lockyer), Chapter 587, Statutes of 1997, which
authorized, until January 1, 2003, participating counties
to impose the $1 annual surcharge to fund local law
enforcement use of automated mobile and fixed-location
fingerprint identification equipment (live-scan). AB 879
(Keeley), Chapter 986, Statutes of 2002, extended the
sunset date to 2006 and added requirements for
participating counties to report to the State Controller
and for the State Controller to report to the Legislature
on the program. In 2005, AB 857 (Bass), Chapter 470,
extended the sunset date until January 1, 2012. This bill
repeals that sunset date.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 Fund
Fee revenue gain ($14,522) ($29,044)
($29,044) Local
DMV programming moderate one-time programming
costs,Special*
fully offset by fee revenues
DMV/SCO administration all ongoing costs are fully
offset by fee Special*/
revenues General
* Motor Vehicle Account
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SUPPORT : (Verified 7/12/11)
California State Sheriffs' Association (co-source)
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (co-source)
Alameda County Sheriff's Office
Amador County Sheriff-Coroner
Butte County Office of the Sheriff
California Association of Crime Lab Directors
California District Attorneys Association
California Peace Officers' Association
California Police Chiefs Association Inc.
California State Association of Counties
California State Sheriffs' Association
Chief Probation Officers of California
Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors
County of San Luis Obispo
County of Santa Clara
Mono County Sheriff's Office
Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department
Placer County Sheriff Coroner-Marshal
Sacramento County Board of Supervisors
Sacramento County Sheriff's Department
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors
Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department
Solano County Sheriff's Office
Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department
State Coalition of Probation Organizations of California
OPPOSITION : (Verified 7/12/11)
California Taxpayers Association
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 53-24, 5/31/11
AYES: Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Block,
Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan,
Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter, Cedillo,
Chesbro, Davis, Dickinson, Eng, Feuer, Fong, Fuentes,
Furutani, Galgiani, Gatto, Gordon, Hall, Hayashi, Roger
Hern�ndez, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Lara, Bonnie
Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Mitchell, Monning, Norby, Pan,
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Perea, V. Manuel P�rez, Portantino, Skinner, Solorio,
Swanson, Torres, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A.
P�rez
NOES: Achadjian, Conway, Donnelly, Fletcher, Beth Gaines,
Garrick, Grove, Hagman, Halderman, Harkey, Jeffries,
Jones, Knight, Logue, Mansoor, Miller, Morrell, Nestande,
Nielsen, Olsen, Silva, Smyth, Valadao, Wagner
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bill Berryhill, Cook, Gorell
JJA:mw 7/12/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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