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Bill No: SB 565
Author: DeSaulnier (D)
Amended: 8/22/11
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 9-0, 3/29/11
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Harman, Huff, Kehoe, Lowenthal,
Pavley, Rubio, Simitian
SENATE FLOOR : 36-0, 04/07/11 (Consent)
AYES: Alquist, Anderson, Berryhill, Blakeslee, Calderon,
Cannella, Corbett, Correa, De Le�n, DeSaulnier, Dutton,
Emmerson, Evans, Fuller, Hancock, Harman, Hernandez,
Huff, Kehoe, La Malfa, Leno, Liu, Negrete McLeod,
Padilla, Pavley, Price, Rubio, Runner, Simitian,
Steinberg, Strickland, Vargas, Walters, Wright, Wyland,
Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Gaines, Lieu, Lowenthal, Wolk
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 55-23, 08/25/11 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Vehicles
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill makes technical changes to various
Vehicle Code and Public Utility Code provisions.
Assembly Amendment s correct a drafting error in a statute
dealing with the rights of the legal owner of a vehicle
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that has been impounded, clarify that a local authority may
enforce restrictions against the fraudulent use of disabled
placards in any and all parking spaces, provide that a
repossessor is not required to pay delinquent registration
fees on an impounded vehicle as specified, require a
transit bus operated by a motor carrier that provides
public transportation services to be equipped with a
speedometer that is maintained in good working order, and
modify the current state transit assistance operator
eligibility.
ANALYSIS : Existing law requires the clerk of the court
to collect a fee from a person ordered or permitted by the
court to attend a traffic violator school and authorizes
the clerk to accept a payment of at least 10 percent of a
specified amount upon filing a written agreement by the
defendant to pay the remainder of the fee according to an
installment payment schedule of no more than 90 days as
agreed upon with the court.
This bill:
1.Corrects a drafting error in a statute dealing with the
rights of the legal owner of a vehicle that has been
impounded.
2.Clarifies that a local authority may enforce restrictions
against the fraudulent use of disabled placards in any
and all parking spaces.
3.Provides that a repossessor is not required to pay
delinquent registration fees on an impounded vehicle,
provided the vehicle is to be towed to an auction for
resale at which time the delinquent fees will be
collected and remitted to the Department of Motor
Vehicles.
4.Requires a transit bus operated by a motor carrier that
provides public transportation services to be equipped
with a speedometer that is maintained in good working
order.
5.Modifies the current state transit assistance operator
eligibility standards by extending the current efficiency
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criteria exemption from fiscal year 2011-12 to fiscal
year 2014-15.
6.Corrects a chaptering-out error that occurred when two
bills last year - SB 857 (Budget and Fiscal Review
Committee), Chapter 720, Statutes of 2010, and AB 2499
(Portantino), Chapter 599, Statutes of 2010 - both
amended Vehicle Code Section 42007.
7.Includes provisions to avoid inadvertently chaptering out
AB 1298 (Blumenfield), a bill dealing with mobile
billboards displayed on parked vehicles.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/25/11)
Judicial Council
California Transit Association
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 55-23, 08/25/11
AYES: Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford, Brownley,
Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter,
Cedillo, Chesbro, Davis, Dickinson, Eng, Feuer, Fong,
Fuentes, Furutani, Galgiani, Gatto, Gordon, Hagman, Hall,
Hayashi, Roger Hern�ndez, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman,
Lara, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Mitchell, Monning,
Nielsen, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez, Portantino,
Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, Torres, Wieckowski,
Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
NOES: Achadjian, Conway, Cook, Donnelly, Fletcher, Beth
Gaines, Garrick, Grove, Halderman, Harkey, Jeffries,
Jones, Knight, Logue, Mansoor, Miller, Morrell, Nestande,
Norby, Olsen, Silva, Valadao, Wagner
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bonilla, Gorell
JJA:nl 8/26/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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