Amended in Assembly June 25, 2014

Amended in Senate May 27, 2014

Amended in Senate April 21, 2014

Amended in Senate March 24, 2014

Senate Bill No. 1183

Introduced by Senator DeSaulnier

February 20, 2014

An act to add begin insert and repeal end insert Section 9251 begin delete to end delete begin insert of end insert the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1183, as amended, DeSaulnier. Vehicle registration fees: surcharge for bicycle infrastructure.

Existing law provides for the imposition of begin delete certain end delete registration fees on motor vehicles, including begin delete certain end delete begin insert additional, specified end insert fees imposed by local agencies for begin delete various specified end delete begin insert transportation-related end insert purposes.

This bill would authorize a city, county, or regional park district to impose begin insert and collect end insert , as a special tax, a motor vehicle registration surcharge of not more than $5 for bicycle infrastructure purposes begin insert until January 1, 2025 end insert . The bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to administer the surcharge and to transmit the net revenues from the surcharge to the local agency. The bill would require the local agency to use these revenues for improvements to paved and natural surface trails and bikeways, including existing and new trails and bikeways and other bicycle facilities, and for associated maintenance purposes. The bill would limit to 5% the amount of net revenues that may be used by the local agency for its administrative expenses in implementing these provisions.

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The bill would require a local agency that imposes the $5 surcharge to submit an annual fiscal year-end report to the Legislature that includes, among other things, the total net revenues received and expended during the previous fiscal year and a summary of the infrastructure and projects funded by the surcharge.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 9251 is added to the Vehicle Code, to
read:

9251.  

(a) In addition to any other fees specified in this code,
a city, county, or regional park district may impose, as a special
tax subject to two-thirds voter approval in the jurisdiction in which
it is imposed, pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 2 of Article
XIII C of the California Constitution, a local motor vehicle
registration surcharge, in whole dollars not to exceed five dollars
($5), on each vehicle registered within the jurisdiction of the
agency imposing the surcharge, except vehicles that are expressly
exempted from payment of registration fees. The amount of the
surcharge shall be specified in an ordinance adopted by the local
agency. begin insert The surcharge shall terminate on January 1, 2025. end insert The
surcharge shall be administered by the department, with revenues,
after deduction of collection costs, to be distributed to the local
agency, for expenditure pursuant to subdivision (b).

(b) The net revenues from the surcharge shall be used by the
local agency for improvements to paved and natural surface trails
and bikeways, including the rehabilitation, restoration, and
expansion of existing trails and bikeways, the development of new
trails and bikeways, the improvement and development of other
bicycle facilities, including, but not limited to, bicycle parking
facilities, and the maintenance and upkeep of local and regional
trail and bikeway systems, networks, and other bicycle facilities.
Not more than 5 percent of the net revenues may be used by the
local agency for its administrative expenses in implementing this
section.

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(c) Any local agency that imposes a surcharge pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall provide an annual fiscal year-end report to
the Legislature that shall include the following information:

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(1) The total net revenues received from the surcharge and
expended during the previous fiscal year.

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(2) A summary of the infrastructure and projects funded
pursuant to subdivision (b).

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(c)

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begin insert (d) end insert  For purposes of this section, “regional park district” shall
have the same meaning as “district” as defined in Section 5500 of
the Public Resources Code.

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(e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2025,
and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that
is enacted before January 1, 2025, deletes or extends that date.

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