Bill Text: CA AB2469 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Specialized license plates: breast cancer awareness.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-08-30 - Consideration of Governor's veto pending. [AB2469 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2469-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2469	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 11, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 15, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 2, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 29, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Frazier

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 5156.7 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2469, Frazier.  Specialized license plates: breast cancer
awareness.
   Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles issues
environmental and other specialized license plates. The issuance of
some of those license plates is subject to additional fees. Existing
law prohibits the department from establishing a specialized license
plate program for a state agency until the department has received
not less than 7,500 applications for the plates within 12 months
after the date of the department's approval of the agency's initial
application to sponsor a specialized license plate program. Existing
law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to apply to
the department, pursuant to those provisions, to sponsor a breast
cancer awareness license plate program, pursuant to which the
Department of Motor Vehicles is required to issue specialized license
plates, if the State Department of Health Care Services complies
with the applicable requirements.
   This bill would authorize the State Department of Health Care
Services to contact the department by September 5, 2016, and indicate
its intent to undertake collection of additional applications and
fees or deposits for an additional period of 12 months in order to
obtain the minimum 7,500 applications for a special license plate the
State Department of Health Care Services is seeking to sponsor
pursuant to existing law.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 5156.7 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   5156.7.  (a) (1) The State Department of Health Care Services
shall apply to the department, pursuant to Section 5156, to sponsor a
breast cancer awareness license plate program. The department shall
issue specialized license plates for that program if the State
Department of Health Care Services complies with the requirements of
Section 5156.
   (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section
5156, the State Department of Health Care Services, by September 5,
2016, may contact the department and indicate its intent to undertake
collection of additional applications and fees or deposits for an
additional period not to exceed 12 months in order to obtain the
minimum 7,500 applications for a license plate it is sponsoring.
   (b) The State Department of Health Care Services may accept and
use donated artwork from California artists for the license plate.
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 5157, the
additional fees prescribed by Section 5157 for the issuance, renewal,
or transfer of the specialized license plates shall be deposited,
after the department deducts its administrative costs, in the Breast
Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund established pursuant
to Section 30461.6 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
   (d) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department, in
consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services, will
design and make available for issuance pursuant to this article
special breast cancer awareness license plates. Specifically, it is
the intent of the Legislature that the license plates issued pursuant
to this section consist of a pink breast cancer awareness ribbon to
the left of the numerical series and a breast cancer awareness
message, such as, "Early Detection Saves Lives," below the numerical
series.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure a successful breast cancer awareness license
plate program at the earliest possible time to provide additional
funding for breast cancer awareness programs, it is necessary for
this bill to take effect immediately.