Bill Text: CA SB789 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Vehicles: special interest license plates: California

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 221, Statutes of 2013. [SB789 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB789-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 789	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  221
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2013
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 24, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Liu

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 5074 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 789, Liu. Vehicles: special interest license plates: California
Arts Council.
   Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue,
for fees in specified amounts, a special interest license plate
bearing a full-plate graphic design that depicts a significant
feature or quality of the State of California and is approved by the
department in consultation with the California Arts Council. Existing
law requires the California Arts Council to use the revenue derived
from fee increases authorized during the 2003-04 Regular Session
exclusively for arts education and local arts programming, and
prohibits the council from using this revenue for administrative
costs.
   This bill would delete the provision prohibiting the California
Arts Council from using this revenue for administrative costs.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 5074 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   5074.  (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the
Polanco-Bates License Plates for the Arts Act of 1993. The California
Arts Council shall participate in the special interest license plate
program.
   (b) In addition to the regular fees for an original registration
or renewal of registration, the following additional fees shall be
paid for the issuance, transfer, or renewal of license plates
bearing, notwithstanding Section 5060, a full-plate graphic design
that depicts a significant feature or quality of the State of
California, approved by the department in consultation with the
California Arts Council:
   (1) For the original issuance of the plates, fifty dollars ($50).
   (2) For a renewal of registration of the plates, forty dollars
($40).
   (3) For the transfer of the special plates to another vehicle,
fifteen dollars ($15).
   (4) In addition, for the issuance of an environmental license
plate, as defined in Section 5103, with a full-plate graphic design,
the additional fees prescribed in Sections 5106 and 5108. The
additional fees prescribed in Sections 5106 and 5108 shall be
deposited in the California Environmental License Plate Fund.
   (c) Except as provided in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b), all
fees collected under this section, after deduction of the department'
s costs in administering this section, shall be deposited in the
Graphic Design License Plate Account, which is hereby established in
the General Fund. The funds in the account shall be used by the
California Arts Council, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for
arts education and local arts programming.
   (d) The California Arts Council shall use the revenue derived from
the fee increases authorized by amendment of this section during the
2003-04 Regular Session exclusively for arts education and local
arts programming.