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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1986
Author: Linder (R)
Amended: 4/21/14 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 10-0, 6/26/14
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Beall, Cannella, Galgiani, Hueso,
Lara, Liu, Roth, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Pavley
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 73-0, 5/23/14 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT : Traffic violator school program
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill changes the date by which the Department of
Motor Vehicles (DMV) is required to submit its annual traffic
violator school (TVS) report to the Legislature and makes a
technical correction related to the TVS list maintained by DMV.
ANALYSIS : Existing law defines a TVS as a business that, for
compensation, provides traffic safety instruction for
individuals who are referred by a court or who choose, if
allowed, to attend. Existing law authorizes a court to order or
allow certain traffic violators to attend a TVS.
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Existing law requires DMV to provide a list of licensed TVSs on
its Web site. For each licensed school, the list must indicate
the modalities of instruction offered (e.g., classroom-based,
home-based, and Internet-based), and specify the cities where
classroom instruction is offered. The sequential listing of
licensed schools shall be randomized daily.
Existing law requires a court or traffic assistance program,
when providing a hard copy list of licensed TVSs to a traffic
violator, to provide only a current date-stamped list downloaded
from DMV's Web site. The hard copy list shall be as current as
practicable, but not more than 60 days old.
Existing law requires DMV to develop a web-based database to
enable DMV, the courts, and TVSs to monitor, report, and track
participation and course completion. TVSs shall update course
information within three business days of class completion and
provide class completion information to the courts on a daily
basis.
Existing law requires DMV to report annually to the Legislature,
by December 31 of each year, the following information related
to implementation of AB 2499 (Portantino, Chapter 599, Statutes
of 2010):
The number and type of TVS programs DMV has licensed.
The average number of days required to process each licensing
application.
The performance measures DMV has established for monitoring
activities, including those DMV has contracted out to third
parties.
Details relating to costs to show how fees were spent.
A breakdown of all complaints DMV has received and how DMV
disposed of or resolved them.
This bill:
Changes the date by which DMV is required to submit the TVS
report to the Legislature from December 31 of each year to
December 15 of each year.
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Makes a technical correction to existing law relating to the
TVS list maintained by DMV.
Background
According to the DMV's 2013 TVS report to the Legislature, at
the end of fiscal year 2012-13 there were 537 licensed
businesses offering TVS services, including 292 classroom
courses, 129 home study courses, and 283 Internet courses. A
school may offer one or more modality options once the
curriculum for each modality has been approved by DMV.
AB 2499 enacted a regulatory scheme to help provide consistency
among TVSs. Among other things, the bill established DMV
oversight over all types of TVSs (e.g., classroom-based,
home-based, and Internet-based); required DMV to develop a
web-based database, accessible to the courts and TVSs, to
monitor, report, and track participation and course completion;
and required DMV to provide on its Web site a randomized list of
all TVSs. It also required DMV to report annually to the
Legislature on the status and progress of AB 2499
implementation. The bill took effect on September 1, 2011.
Subsequently, AB 383 (Wagner, Chapter 76, Statutes of 2013) an
annual "maintenance of the codes" bill, made numerous
non-substantive changes in various provisions of law to
implement recommendations made by Legislative Counsel. Among
other things, the bill aimed to delete an obsolete, permanently
inoperative version of the Vehicle Code relating to the TVS list
maintained by DMV. Instead, however, the bill erroneously
deleted only the sunset clause, causing the provision to again
become operative. As a result, two incompatible versions of the
same section in the Vehicle Code now exist. This bill deletes
the entire obsolete section.
Comments
The author's office states that moving the TVS report date to
earlier in December will provide more time for the Legislature
to review any recommendations in the report before the start of
the new legislative session.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
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Local: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 73-0, 5/23/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon,
Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Dababneh,
Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier,
Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell,
Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer,
Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor,
Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Olsen, Pan, Patterson,
Perea, John A. P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bonilla, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez, Melendez,
Nestande, V. Manuel P�rez, Vacancy
JA:k 8/6/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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