Bill Text: CA AB1325 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended

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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

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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 26, 2019

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1325

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Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawye

February 22, 2019

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An act to amend Section 1656 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. An act to add Section 42011 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicle parking violations.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1325, as amended, Jones-Sawy eVehicles: Department of Motor Vehicles. Safe parking program participants: community service.

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.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to publish a synopsis or summary of laws regulating the operation of vehicles and the use of highways, and requires the department to furnish copies of the publication to its field offices for general distribution at no charge.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 42011 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

42011.

 (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.

SECTION 1.Section 1656 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

1656.

(a)The department shall publish the complete text of the California Vehicle Code together with other laws relating to the use of highways or the operation of motor vehicles once every two years. The department, upon written request of any state or local governmental officer or agency, any federal agency, any public secondary school in this state, or any other person, shall distribute the California Vehicle Code at a charge sufficient to pay the entire cost of publishing and distributing the code. With regard to public secondary schools, the quantities shall be sufficient to provide one copy for each driver training and education instructor and one copy for each public secondary school library. In determining the amount of the charge, a fraction of a dollar shall be disregarded, unless it exceeds fifty cents ($0.50), in which case it shall be treated as one full dollar ($1). The receipts from the sale of those publications shall be deposited in the Motor Vehicle Account, with the intent to reimburse the department for the entire cost to print and distribute the Vehicle Code.

(b)The department shall publish a synopsis or summary of the laws regulating the operation of vehicles and the use of the highways and may deliver a copy thereof without charge with each original vehicle registration and with each original driver’s license. The department shall publish the number of copies of the synopsis or summary in the Spanish language as the director determines are needed to meet the demand for those copies. The department shall furnish both English and Spanish copies to its field offices and to law enforcement agencies for general distribution and, when it does so, shall furnish the copies without charge.