Bill Text: CA AB2775 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Automobiles and recreational vehicles: registration fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2022-09-29 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB2775 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB2775-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  June 29, 2022

Amended  IN  Assembly  April 18, 2022

Amended  IN  Assembly  March 31, 2022

Amended  IN  Assembly  March 17, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2775

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Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk-Silva

February 18, 2022

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An act to add Section 9105.1 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2775, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Automobiles and recreational vehicles: registration fees.

Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle or trailer, including recreational vehicle, unless it is registered, and requires a registration fee to be paid to the Department of Motor Vehicles for the registration of each vehicle or trailer coach, except those vehicles that are expressly exempted from the payment of registration fees.

This bill would exempt from the payment of registration fees an automobile or recreational vehicle vehicle, as defined, owned by a person who verifies to the department, on an annual basis, that they are homeless and using the automobile or recreational vehicle as their residence. The bill would authorize a homeless services provider, as defined, that has knowledge of the person’s housing status to verify that status for this purpose.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 9105.1 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

9105.1.

 (a) The registration fees required pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 9250) need not be paid for an automobile or recreational vehicle owned by a person who verifies to the department, on an annual basis, that they are homeless and using the automobile or recreational vehicle as their residence. A homeless services provider that has knowledge of the person’s housing status may verify the person’s status for the purposes of this subdivision. A determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision shall be subject to regulations adopted by the department.

(b) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) “Automobile” means a self-propelled motor vehicle, with neither more than nor less than four wheels, designed for use principally upon streets and highways. has the same meaning as the term defined by Section 465.

(2) “Homeless” has the same meaning as defined in Section 578.3 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(3) A “homeless services provider” includes all of the following:

(A) A governmental or nonprofit agency receiving federal, state, or county or municipal funding to provide services to a homeless person or homeless child or youth, or that is otherwise sanctioned to provide those services by a local homeless continuum of care organization.

(B) An attorney licensed to practice law in this state.

(C) A human services provider or public social services provider funded by the State of California to provide homeless children or youth health services, mental or behavioral health services, substance use disorder services, or public assistance or employment services.

(D) A law enforcement officer designated as a liaison to the homeless population by a local police department or sheriff’s department within the state.

(E) Any other homeless services provider that is qualified to verify an individual’s housing status, as determined by the department.

(4) “Recreational vehicle” has the same meaning as defined in Section 18010 of the Health and Safety Code.