Bill Text: CA AB1677 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Vehicles: tour buses: safety inspections.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 685, Statutes of 2016. [AB1677 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1677-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1677	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  685
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 15, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 2, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ting
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Chiu)
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Hill)

                        JANUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 34505.2 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1677, Ting. Vehicles: tour buses: safety inspections.
   Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway
Patrol to regulate the safe operation of tour buses, as defined, and
requires the department to adopt rules and regulations relating to
the equipment and maintenance of tour buses. At least once every 13
months, existing law requires the department to inspect every
maintenance facility or terminal of any person who at any time
operates any bus, including a tour bus, and makes it unlawful for any
person to operate a bus without this inspection having been
conducted. In addition to the systematic inspection required of all
motor carriers, existing law requires tour bus operators to require
each tour bus to be inspected at least every 45 days, or more often
if necessary to ensure safe operation.
   This bill would require the department to, upon the request of,
and in consultation with, representatives of a local government in a
jurisdiction where tour buses operate, develop protocols for entering
into memoranda of understanding with local governments to allow the
department to increase the number of the locally operating tour buses
that are being inspected by the department. The bill would require a
memorandum of understanding entered into with a local government
pursuant to these provisions to include a provision that the local
government will reimburse the department for all actual costs
associated with conducting additional inspections. The bill would
prohibit any inspection conducted pursuant to these provisions from
being duplicative of any inspection conducted by the department to
meet those specified existing inspection requirements.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 34505.2 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   34505.2.  (a) In furtherance of the requirements specified in
subdivision (c) of Section 34501, upon the request of, and in
consultation with, representatives of a local government in a
jurisdiction where tour buses operate, the Department of the
California Highway Patrol shall develop protocols for entering into
memoranda of understanding with local governments to allow the
department to increase the number of the locally operating tour buses
that are being inspected by the department.
   (b) A memorandum of understanding entered into with a local
government pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include a provision that
the local government will reimburse the department for all actual
costs associated with conducting additional inspections.
   (c) Any inspection conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall not
be duplicative of an inspection conducted by the department to meet
the requirements specified in subdivision (c) of Section 34501.