Bill Text: CA AB2260 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Vehicles: registration fraud.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-20 - Referred to Com. on TRANS. [AB2260 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2260-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2260
| Introduced by Assembly Member Fong |
February 13, 2020 |
An act to amend Section 4024 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2260, as introduced, Fong.
Vehicles: registration fraud.
Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway or offstreet public parking facility any motor vehicle or other specified vehicle, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid. Existing law makes it a felony for a person who, with the intent to prejudice, damage, or defraud, alters, forges, counterfeits, or falsifies a registration card or who utters, publishes, passes, or attempts to pass, as true and genuine, a false, altered, forged, or counterfeited registration card knowing it to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited.
Existing law, until January 1, 2021, requests the University of California to conduct a study on motor vehicle registration fraud and failure to register a motor vehicle, and requires the study to include specified information, including quantification of the
magnitude of the problem, the costs to the state and local governments in lost revenues, and recommended strategies for increasing compliance with registration requirements. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to enter into an agreement with the University of California to share its vehicle registration information for purposes of conducting the study and requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to provide specified information to the University of California researchers who are conducting the study. Existing law requests the University of California to post a report of the study on its internet website no later than January 1, 2018.
This bill would extend the request of the University of California to conduct a study on motor vehicle registration fraud and failure to register a motor vehicle to January 1, 2025. The bill would also extend the requirement for the Department of Motor Vehicles to enter into an agreement with the
University of California to share its vehicle registration information for purposes of conducting the study and the requirement for the Department of the California Highway Patrol to provide specified information to the University of California researchers who are conducting the study to January 1, 2025. The bill would also extend the date of the request for the University of California to post a report of the study on its internet website to no later than January 1, 2022.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 4024 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:4024.
(a) The University of California is requested to conduct a study on motor vehicle registration fraud and failure to register a motor vehicle. The study shall include all of the following:(1) Quantification of the magnitude of the problem.
(2) The strategies being used by motorists to commit motor vehicle registration fraud.
(3) The reasons for the behaviors of motorists who commit fraud in registration of, or who fail to register, their motor vehicles.
(4) The costs to the state and local governments in lost revenues.
(5) Increases in air pollution.
(6) Other costs and consequences of these behaviors.
(7) Recommended strategies for increasing compliance with registration requirements.
(b) The Department of Motor Vehicles shall enter into an agreement with the University of California to share its vehicle registration information with the University of California researchers for the purposes of conducting the study. The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall share information on its efforts to combat registration fraud, including the CHEATERS program, with the University of California researchers who are conducting the study.
(c) The University of California is requested to post a report of the
study on its Internet Web site internet website no later than January 1, 2018.
2022.
(d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2021, 2025, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2021, 2025, deletes or extends that date.
