Bill Text: CA AB1002 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicles: registration fee: sustainable communities strategies.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1002 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1002-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1002	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 12, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 9250.20 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1002, as amended, Bloom. Vehicles: registration fee:
sustainable communities strategies.
   Existing law imposes a registration fee to be paid to the
Department of Motor Vehicles for the registration of every vehicle or
trailer coach of a type subject to registration, except those
vehicles that are expressly exempted from the payment of registration
fees. Existing law, until January 1, 2016, imposes a $3 increase on
that fee, $2 of which is to be deposited into the Alternative and
Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund and $1 of which is to be
deposited into the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount.
   Existing law requires designated transportation planning agencies,
some of which are metropolitan planning organizations under federal
law, to prepare and adopt a regional transportation plan directed at
achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system,
including, but not limited to, mass transportation and highway,
railroad, bicycle, and pedestrian facilities and services. Existing
law requires each metropolitan planning organization to include,
among other things, a sustainable communities strategy in the
regional transportation plan.
   This bill would, in addition to any other taxes and fees specified
in the Vehicle Code and the Revenue and Taxation Code, impose a tax
of $6 to be paid at the time of registration or renewal of
registration of every vehicle subject to registration under the
Vehicle Code in a county that is in a metropolitan planning
organization required to prepare a sustainable communities strategy
as part of its regional transportation plan, except as specified.
This bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles, after
deducting all reasonable administrative costs, to remit the money
generated by the tax for deposit in the Sustainable Communities
Strategy Subaccount, which the bill would establish in the Motor
Vehicle Account. The bill would make funds in the subaccount
available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified
purposes.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 9250.20 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   9250.20.  (a) In addition to any other fees specified in this code
and the Revenue and Taxation Code, a fee of six dollars ($6) shall
be paid at the time of registration or renewal of registration of
every vehicle subject to registration under this code in a county
that is in a metropolitan planning organization required to prepare a
sustainable communities strategy as part of its regional
transportation plan pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of
Section 65080 of the Government Code, except vehicles described in
subdivision (a) of Section 5014.1 and those vehicles that are
expressly exempted from the payment of registration fees under this
code.
   (b) After deducting all reasonable administrative costs incurred
pursuant to this section, the department shall remit all revenue
generated pursuant to this section for deposit in the Sustainable
Communities Strategy Subaccount which is hereby established in the
Motor Vehicle Account and made available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, for the following:
   (1) Fifty percent shall be appropriated to cities and counties on
a per capita basis for planning and implementation of projects
consistent with the purposes of sustainable communities strategies
and approved sustainable communities plans, including  , but
not limited to,  first-mile-last-mile bicycle and pedestrian
infrastructure projects that are intended to improve transit access
in transit priority zones,  and  bicycle and
pedestrian infrastructure  as part of  complete
streets projects,  and     Safe 
 Routes to   School   projects,  road and
highway maintenance and repair that also facilitates transit and
bicycle use  , and pedestrian safety projects if the road and
highway maintenance and repair costs make up no more than 20 percent
of the total pedestrian safety project cost. These funds may also be
used for the construction and planning of, and as local matching
funds for purposes of applying for federal or state transportation
grants for, projects that are consistent with the purposes specified
in this paragraph  .
   (2) Forty percent shall be appropriated to transportation
commissions and transit operators to support transit operations and
maintain and expand reduced fare programs, including  , but
not limited to,  transit passes for students, low-income
youth, seniors, and persons with disabilities.
   (3) Ten percent shall be appropriated to metropolitan planning
organizations and transportation planning agencies for competitive
grants for implementation of sustainable communities strategies,
 including, but not limited to,   including
 competitive planning and implementation grants to cities and
counties on a per capita basis for planning and implementing livable
communities and transit-oriented development and urban infill
projects, and to complete streets, and bicycle or pedestrian projects
 and plans  , consistent with an approved sustainable
communities plan.