Bill Text: CA AB1325 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Parking penalties: community service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1325 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1325-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 11, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 26, 2019 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1325 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer |
February 22, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law imposes penalties in various amounts for parking violations. Existing law allows a person convicted of an infraction, upon showing that payment of the total fine would pose a hardship on the person or the person’s family, to elect to perform community service in lieu of the total fine that would otherwise be imposed.
The bill would allow a person participating in a safe parking program, as defined, to perform community service in lieu of any unpaid fines for parking violations committed prior to the person’s participation in the safe parking program. The bill would define community service for these purposes to include time spent seeking or obtaining services from a safe parking program or other social service provider.
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 40220.7 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:40220.7.
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 40220 and 40220.5, beginning July 1, 2020, a processing agency shall not file an itemization of unpaid parking penalties and related service fees with the department for collection with the registration of the vehicle pursuant to Section 4760 unless all of the following conditions are met:(a)Notwithstanding any other law, a person participating in a safe parking program shall be permitted to perform community service in lieu of any unpaid fine imposed for a parking violation provided in this code that was committed prior to the person’s participation in the safe parking program.
(b)For purposes of this section, community service includes time spent seeking or obtaining services from a safe parking program or other public or private social service provider.
(c)For purposes of this section, “safe parking program” means a program operated by a service provider that is funded by a city, county, or city and county and provides a designated area for homeless persons and
families enrolled in the program to park their vehicles, and provides persons enrolled in the program on-site case management support or linkage and referrals to housing navigation or the Coordinated Entry System.