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Development and Financing
SB 83 (Hancock-D) Traffic congestion: motor vehicle registration fees
Authorizes a countywide transportation planning agency to impose, upon a majority vote of the electorate, an annual fee of up to $10 on motor vehicles registered in a county for transportation-related programs and projects.
Chapter 554, Statutes of 2009
An identical bill is SB 205 (Hancock-D) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 205 (Hancock-D) Traffic congestion: motor vehicle registration fees
Allows county transportation planning agencies to place a majority vote measure on the ballot to impose an annual local vehicle registration fee of up to $10 for transportation related purposes.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 391 (Liu-D) California Transportation Plan
Requires the Department of Transportation to update its state transportation plan by 12/31/15, and every five years thereafter, and requires that the plan address how the state will meet the transportation infrastructure and mobility needs of California and attain air pollution standards required by federal and state law and achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed from the transportation sector.
Chapter 585, Statutes of 2009
SB 409 (Ducheny-D) Department of Railroads
Creates a Department of Railroads in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, consolidating the rail programs currently administered by the Department of Transportation, the High-Speed Rail Authority, and the Public Utilities Commission.
(On Senate Third Reading File)
SB 455 (Lowenthal-D) High-speed rail
Provides the High-Speed Rail Authority with certain eminent domain powers, establishes a policy for prioritizing investments, provides a process for reporting on the progress of the high-speed rail project, and requires the five gubernatorial appointees to the High-Speed Rail Authority be confirmed by the Senate.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 474* (Ducheny-D) Transportation: pilot programs
Requires a lead agency to make a finding regarding the benefits of a public-private partnership agreement or of a design-build or design-sequencing contract within 90 days of entering into the agreement or awarding the contract, and requires the California Transportation Commission to prepare and submit to the Legislature, on an annual basis, a consolidated report that describes the status of projects that involve a public-private partnership, design-build, or design-sequencing.
(Held at Assembly Desk)
SB 526 (Ashburn-R) Intercity rail: San Joaquin Corridor
Requires the Department of Transportation to ensure the operation of at least one Amtrak train on the San Joaquin route that terminates in San Francisco.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 527 (Kehoe-D) Bicycles
Allows a person to operate, on a highway, a bicycle that does not have a seat provided the bicycle was specifically designed by the manufacturer to be ridden without a seat.
Chapter 594, Statutes of 2009
SB 560 (Ashburn-R) Regional transportation plans
Provides that greenhouse gas emission credits for counties and cities that site and permit commercial wind, solar, and biomass projects may be used as credit in the formulation of the sustainable communities strategy or an alternative planning strategy.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 575 (Steinberg-D) Local planning: housing element
Revises timelines for the adoption of the fifth revision of the housing element by specified local governments, provides for timelines for subsequent housing element revisions, and makes other changes related to the clean-up of SB 375 (Steinberg-D), Chapter 728, Statutes of 2008.
Chapter 354, Statutes of 2009
SB 607 (Ducheny-D) Imperial County Transportation Commission
Creates the Imperial County Transportation Commission and provides that it is the successor agency to the Imperial Valley Association of Governments.
Chapter 56, Statutes of 2009
SB 716 (Wolk-D) Local transportation funds
Updates reference to the federal decennial census that is to be used to determine if a county is rural or urban for purposes of administering claims from its local transportation fund, and requires a regional transportation planning agency, as part of it's unmet transit needs determination process, to consider funding farm worker vanpool programs, under certain circumstances.
Chapter 609, Statutes of 2009
SB 783 (Ashburn-R) High-speed rail
Modifies the contents of the High Speed Rail Authority's business plan and requires a revised business plan to be adopted by the authority and submitted to the Legislature by 1/1/12 and biennially thereafter. Requires the business plan, in addition to the contents proscribed in current law, to also identify anticipated maintenance costs, discuss risks associated with right of way acquisition and environmental clearances, forecast high, medium and low levels of patronage for the Phase 1 corridor, identify the environmental review completion date and construction commencement and completion dates for each segment of Phase 1, identify non-bond act funding available, and identify alternative public-private development strategies for Phase 1.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2009
SB 6X (Ducheny-D) Sales tax: transportation purposes
Allows a county or city to impose an additional .25% local sales and use tax for transportation purposes subject to all applicable constitutional voter-approved requirements.
Vetoed
SB 4XX (Cogdill-R) Transportation development: design-build
Authorizes, until 1/1/14, local transportation entities to use design-build on up to five projects for local streets or road, bridge, tunnel or public transit projects, and the Department of Transportation to use design-build on up to 10 state highway, bridge, or tunnel projects. Limits potential use of design-build to projects in the existing state transportation improvement program, the Highway, Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 1B), the traffic congestion relief program, or the state highway operations and protection program.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10, Second Extraordinary Session
SB 2XXX* (Ducheny-D) Transportation Budget issue
Reduces funding for local transit operations from $306.4 million to $153.2 million resulting in a $153.2 million savings to the General Fund. Transfers $250 million from the State Highway Account, State Transportation Fund to the Transportation Debt Service Fund. Reduces the funding for the Department of Transportation by $100 million to reflect the authority granted to the Director of the Department of Finance to redirect approximately $100 million from a specified portion of tribal-gaming revenues.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session -- Item Veto
SB 7XXX* (Ducheny-D) Transportation finance
Allows the Director of the Department of Finance to use funds transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund from the State Highway Account to reimburse the General Fund to offset the cost of debt service payments for transportation-related general obligation bonds (consistent with Article XIX of the California Constitution). Suspends the allocation of transit revenue starting in 2009-10 and continuing through 2012-13, instead directing these funds to mass transit expenditures. Suspends the requirement of the State Controller to report to transportation planning agencies and county transportation commissions on estimated funds to be allocated during the next fiscal year if no funding is provided in that year.
Chapter 14, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 112 (Beall-D) Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Authorizes the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to allocate revenue to repair and maintain facilities that it has acquired or built for vehicular or pedestrian transportation.
Chapter 81, Statutes of 2009
AB 133 (Smyth-R) Subdivisions: major thoroughfares
Authorizes a local agency to establish a fund for a benefit area that covers all of the bridge and major thoroughfare projects in that benefit area when that benefit area is one in which more than one bridge or major thoroughfare is required to be constructed. Expands the definition of "construction" to include the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County for purposes of design, acquisition of rights-of-way, actual construction, and reasonable administrative expenses, as specified.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 153 (Ma-D) High-Speed Rail Authority
Clarifies the ability of the High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA) to exercise eminent domain power, authorizes the HSRA to employ its own legal staff or to contract with other state agencies for legal services, and makes changes to the HSRA's authority governing project development.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 251 (Knight-R) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Reconfigures the make-up of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board by removing one of the public members appointed by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles and adding the appointment of one member by the city councils of the Cities of Palmdale, Lancaster, and Santa Clarita.
(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 266 (Carter-D) Transportation needs assessment
Requires the California Transportation Commission to develop an assessment of transportation funding and needs, as prescribed, every five years.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 277 (Ammiano-D) Transportation: local retail transaction and use taxes
Provides that the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) shall consist of the members who are elected officials as specified in the county transportation expenditure plan, and deletes the option of specifying SFCTA membership in the retail transactions and use tax ordinance.
Vetoed
AB 282 (Assembly Transportation Committee) Transportation
Requires that any interest or other return that cities and counties earn from the investment of their allocation of local street and road funds under Proposition 1B bond funds be used for improvements to transportation facilities. Corrects an erroneous cross-reference related to the conditions under which a district may use the design-build method of procurement. Allows transit operators to file annual reports with the applicable transportation planning agencies and the State Controller's Office within 110 days of the end of the fiscal year, as opposed to the standard 90 days, if they file the reports in an electronic format prescribed by the State Controller.
Chapter 229, Statutes of 2009
AB 289* (Galgiani-D) High-speed rail
Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority, to the extent possible, to use the proceeds of bonds from the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century to match federal funds made available from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 338 (Ma-D) Transit village developments: infrastructure financing
Allows local officials to divert property tax increment revenues to pay for public facilities and amenities within transit village development districts.
Vetoed
AB 522 (Blumenfield-D) Transportation: bond funds
Requires the California Transportation Commission to ensure that bond funds previously committed to a project from the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Fund of 2006 remain available to the sponsoring agency of the project for another qualifying project, if funds from any federal economic recovery legislation enacted in 2009 are used to fund the project, as specified.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 644 (Caballero-D) Monterey-Salinas Transit District Act
Dissolves the Monterey-Salinas Transit Joint Powers Agency and creates the Monterey-Salinas Transit District.
Chapter 460, Statutes of 2009
AB 672 (Bass-D) Transportation: bond-funded projects
Allows, under specified conditions, an agency responsible for administering a Proposition 1B program to issue a "letter of no prejudice" to a local agency providing an assurance that the administrative agency will reimburse the local agency for expenditures it makes on a Proposition 1B project that has been programmed but for which funds have not yet been allocated.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2009
AB 729 (Evans-D) Public contracts: transit design-build contracts
Extends, until 1/1/15, the sunset date on provisions authorizing the use of design-build contracting by transit operators.
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2009
AB 732 (Jeffries-R) Transportation projects: design-sequencing contracts
Extends the sunset date for a pilot project that allows the Department of Transportation to use the design-sequencing method of procurement for transportation projects to 7/1/10, and limits the total number of projects for which design-sequencing may be used from 12 to nine.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 733 (Galgiani-D) High-Speed Rail Authority
Authorizes the California High-Speed Rail Authority to consider, to the extent permitted by federal law and all other applicable provisions of state law, the creation of jobs in California when awarding major contracts or purchasing high-speed trains and related equipment and supplies.
Vetoed
AB 798 (Nava-D) California Transportation Financing Authority
Establishes the California Transportation Financing Authority to assist transportation agencies in obtaining financing, primarily through issuing bonds backed by specified sources of revenue, to develop transportation projects. In doing so, allows the Authority to permit agencies to impose tolls for use of facilities constructed.
Chapter 474, Statutes of 2009
AB 810 (Caballero-D) Circulation and transportation element
Renames the circulation element in local general plans as the circulation and transportation element and makes the same change in seven other statutes that contain cross-references to the circulation element.
(In Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 949 (Logue-R) Transportation: State-Local Partnership Program
Adds mineral or resource extraction fees or taxes to the list of local matching fund sources eligible for the 95%-portion of the State-Local Partnership Program (SLPP) that is to be distributed by formula to self-help counties, and strikes the requirement that developer fees must be uniform to be eligible as local matching funds for the 5% portion of the SLPP that is to be competitively distributed.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1072* (Eng-D) Public transportation modernization, improvement, & service
Applies the process and formula used initially in the Budget to distribute transit funds under the Public Transportation Modernization, Improvement, and Service Enhancement Account to the funds remaining in this Proposition 1B bond program.
Chapter 271, Statutes of 2009
AB 1158 (Hayashi-D) Transit village plan
Adds the characteristic of other land uses, including educational facilities, which provide direct linkages for people traveling to, and from, primary and secondary education schools, community colleges, and universities, to the list of specified characteristics that a transit village plan may address.
Vetoed
AB 1203 (Ma-D) Transportation bond funds: transit system safety
Requires the California Emergency Management Agency, by February 1 of each fiscal year, to select eligible applicants for transit system safety projects from the Transit System Safety, Security, and Disaster Response Account established by the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, Proposition 1B, and provides the State Controller with a list of the projects and sponsoring agencies eligible to receive an allocation.
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2009
AB 1219 (Evans-D) Public transportation: Solano Transportation Authority
Authorizes the Solano Transportation Authority to file a claim for Transportation Development Act revenue.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2009
AB 1243 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Strategic Area Freeway Enforcement Task Force
Establishes a Strategic Area Freeway Enforcement Task Force in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, until 1/1/12, to study issues related to commercial vehicle enforcement near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and develop a work program that implements recommendations developed pursuant to the study. The Task Force would report annually on progress achieved in improving commercial vehicle enforcement.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1375 (Galgiani-D) High-speed rail
Establishes the Department of High-Speed Trains, within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, to implement the high-speed passenger rail development policies as established by the High-Speed Rail Authority, whose existence would continue as the policy and project programming entity for high-speed rail projects of the state.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1403 (Eng-D) Local transportation funds: planning and programming
Deletes the $1 million cap on the annual allocation of Transportation Development Account funds to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) for funding SCAG's planning and programming responsibilities.
Chapter 530, Statutes of 2009
AB 1464 (Smyth-R) Bicycle routes: national, state, or regional significance
Permits, and provides guidance for the Department of Transportation to establish a process for identifying and promoting bicycle routes of national, state, or regional significance.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2009
AB 1471 (Eng-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Corrects provisions governing Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (LACMTA) procurement authority, delegates authority to LACMTA's Board of Directors for specific procurement activities, and authorizes LACMTA to participate in public auctions, such as those conducted on the Internet and with public agencies.
Chapter 536, Statutes of 2009
AB 5X (Evans-D) Transportation projects
Exempts certain transportation projects from the California Environmental Quality Act, if certain conditions are met (e.g., Department of Transportation [Caltrans] considers certain matters and conducts outreach efforts in the project vicinity, Caltrans and contractors comply with standard construction practices), provides this provision cannot be construed to overturn a final judgment entered by a court prior to its effective date, and sunsets 1/1/11.
Vetoed
AB 6X (Evans-D) State finances
Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of transportation in order to enact revisions to the 2008 Budget Act.
Vetoed
AB 8XX (Nestande-R) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions
Enacts a series of amendments to current law to relax heavy duty construction equipment standards, expedite permitting of transportation construction projects, and exempt similar construction projects for environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act.
Chapter 6, Statutes of 2009-10, Second Extraordinary Session
AB 20XXX* (Bass-D) Federal transportation economic stimulus funds
Changes how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds for highway infrastructure investment are distributed to the regions and to the state in order to facilitate the timely expenditure of federal funds under deadlines established by ARRA, to provide a significant spending boost to the State Highway and Operation Protection Program to provide short-term loans to eligible Proposition 1B projects halted due to delayed bond sales, and to ensure geographic balance such that transportation improvements and job creation occur in all regions of the state.
Chapter 21, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 10XXXX* (Assembly Budget Committee) Transportation
Provides $876 million in new General Fund relief from transit funds. Of this amount, $561 million is new transit revenue beyond the January revenue forecast, and is primarily based on higher gasoline prices. The funding for the home-to-schools program. All $876 million reimburses the General Fund for transportation-related bond debt service. Extends the period for which cities can encumber bond funds appropriated in the 2008 Budget Act. Generally, cities will encumber funds by signing a construction contract for improvement of local streets and roads.
Chapter 10, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
AB 24XXXX* (Bass-D) Transportation finance
Requires the State Controller, if a specified portion of the Highway Users Tax Account is transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund, to make certain calculations regarding the amount of funding that has been transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund. Appropriates, commencing in the 2011-12 fiscal year, and in each fiscal year thereafter, for a total of 10 years, a certain amount of revenues from the General Fund, which would be required to be apportioned to local agencies in a manner that fully restores the funds transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 104 (Oropeza-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Adds nitrogen trifluoride to the list of greenhouse gases regulated by the Air Resources Board pursuant to the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
Chapter 331, Statutes of 2009
SB 124 (Oropeza-D) Air pollution: school bus idling and idling at schools
Acknowledges the existing state regulation that limits school bus idling and idling near schools, and conforms the minimum penalty for a violation of this rule to the minimum penalty ($300) for a violation of the rule to limit the idling of commercial motor vehicles.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 2009
SB 225* (Florez-D) Emission reduction credits
Authorizes air quality management districts and air pollution control districts to create an emission reduction credit from a marine vessel or locomotive emission reduction project that is funded from both public and private monies if specified requirements are met.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 295* (Dutton-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires the Air Resources Board to complete an additional peer-reviewed study to reevaluate the evaluations made regarding the potential economic and noneconomic benefits of the plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), considering any peer-reviewed comments on the original evaluations. The study must include certain matters (e.g., estimated annual actual costs of recommendations and not averaged costs, estimates of overall costs and savings and the cost-effectiveness of identified reductions in GHG emissions, estimates of capital investment timing, sensitivity of results to changes in key inputs, small business impact, current state of California economy).
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 333 (Hancock-D) Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Offset Program Fund
Establishes a voluntary greenhouse gas emission offset program in the Natural Resources Agency. Funds given to the state on a voluntary basis would be available for projects to offset the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 435 (Pavley-D) Smog check program: motorcycles
Requires the Bureau of Automotive Repair, beginning 1/1/12, to incorporate specified motorcycles into the smog check program.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 462* (Strickland-R) Manufacturers of diesel exhaust filters
Authorizes a $10,000 credit for a manufacturer of Verified Diesel Emission Control Strategies (VDECS), defined as emissions control strategies designed primarily for the reduction of diesel particulate emission and are either approved or pending approval by the Air Resources Board (ARB). The taxpaying manufacturer must obtain a certification from ARB that it makes approved VDECS, and provides the certification to the Franchise Tax Board upon request. The credit may be carried over to subsequent taxable years.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 464* (Strickland-R) Diesel particulate matter reduction
Enacts a tax credit equal to 5% of the amount paid or incurred to purchase qualified property used to meet the Air Resources Board (ARB) off-road diesel equipment regulations, not to exceed $10,000. The taxpayer must obtain and retain a letter from ARB certifying that the qualified property assists in meeting the regulations, and provide that letter to the Franchise Tax Board upon request. The tax credit may be carried over to subsequent years, but sunsets on 1/1/19.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 507* (Cox-R) Gasoline: vapor recovery systems
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility that does not meet certain requirements from undergoing an Enhance Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until 4/1/10.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted)
Related bills are SCR 38 (Wright-D) which is in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
SB 658* (Walters-R) Sales and use taxes: exclusion: trade-in motor vehicle.
Provides that the definitions for "sales price" and "gross receipts" do not include the value of a vehicle traded-in for a new vehicle, when the value of the trade-in vehicle is separately stated on the new vehicle invoice or bill of sale or similar document provided to the purchaser.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
A similar bill is SB 714 (Walters-R) which is in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee.
SB 728 (Lowenthal-D) Air pollution: parking cash-out program
Allows cities, counties, and air districts to establish, by ordinance or resolution, a penalty or other mechanism to ensure compliance with the parking cash-out law. Provides that if the local entity establishes a penalty, it must also establish procedures for providing notice to employers and appeal by employers of any penalty imposed, and provides that if both the Air Resources Board (ARB) and a local entity impose a penalty on an employer, then only the penalty imposed by ARB shall apply.
Chapter 359, Statutes of 2009
SCR 38 (Wright-D) Gasoline: vapor recovery systems
Requests a delay in enforcement of the Air Resources Board's Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II requirements until October 2010.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
Related bills are SB 507 (Cox-R) which failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
AB 96* (Ruskin-D) Gasoline: vapor recovery systems
Provides $8 million for grants and loans to assist gas station operators in meeting the Enhanced Vapor Recovery regulations adopted by the Air Resources Board.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009
Related bills are SCR 38 (Wright-D) which is in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; SB 507 (Cox-R) which failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
AB 118 (Logue-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Repeals the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 144 (Ma-D) Vehicles: distinguishing placards and special license plates
Provides cities and counties with greater authority to cite disabled parking offenses with civil parking citations, sets minimum penalty amounts for these civil offenses, and extends an existing 10% special penalty assessment to additional criminal and civil citations.
Chapter 415, Statutes of 2009
AB 231 (Huffman-D) Climate Protection Trust Fund
Revises the extent and purpose of the Air Resources Board's authority to levy greenhouse gas emission fees, pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act, and establishes a Climate Protection Trust Fund for deposit of fee revenues.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 376 (Nava-D) Voluntary greenhouse gas emission offsets
Requires, as of 1/1/10, a person who sells a voluntary greenhouse gas emission offset in California to include in any marketing materials specified information, such as the geographic location of the offset project, the duration of the effect of the offset, the name of the certification body or governmental protocol under which the offset was certified, and the name of the registry with which the offset is registered. Prohibits, as of 1/1/11, any protocol, certification body, or registry from being used to support a voluntary offset marketing claim unless the protocol, certification body, or registry has first been validated by the Air Resources Board, with certain exceptions.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 414 (Galgiani-D) Heavy-duty fleet modernization projects
Requires the Air Resources Board to develop and implement a trade-down program that provides assistance to owners of high-use, newer model, heavy-duty fleet vehicles to convert those vehicles for lower use, commercial operations in a manner that reduces emissions of oxides of nitrogen and particulate matter.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 478 (Chesbro-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: recycling and waste management
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board, in consultation with the Air Resources Board and the State Water Resources Control Board, to adopt rules and regulations relating to recycling and solid waste management to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and subjects violators of these rules and regulations to civil and criminal penalties.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 782 (Jeffries-R) Regional transportation plans
Prohibits judicial review of specified Air Resources Board and local government decisions related to greenhouse gas emissions and land use. Expands specified California Environmental Quality Act exemptions which are currently available only to a residential project to any project.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 823 (Hill-D) Smog check: vehicle repair assistance
Revises the income eligibility level for vehicle owners requesting assistance from the Department of Consumer Affairs, Bureau of Automotive Repair.
Vetoed
AB 859 (Jones-D) Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program
Requires vehicles 15 years and older to undergo annual smog check inspections, and changes the amounts of financial assistant available for vehicle repair and the eligibility for that assistance.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 881 (Huffman-D) Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority
Creates the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Agency to assist local agencies in Sonoma County to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals.
Chapter 375, Statutes of 2009
AB 1033 (Nielsen-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Prohibits a state or local agency from adopting or amending a regulation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after 1/1/10, that imposes a greenhouse gas emission requirement on a greenhouse gas emission source that is more stringent than any regulation adopted by that state or local agency on or before 1/1/10, that is applicable to that emission source, until eight years after the date that emission source achieved compliance with that earlier regulation.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1085 (Mendoza-D) State Air Resources Board: regulations
Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to make available to the public all technical data used in the development of a proposed regulation before ARB's comment period for the proposed regulation.
Chapter 384, Statutes of 2009
AB 1188* (Ruskin-D) Hazardous materials: underground storage tanks
Revises the definition of "project tank" in the regulations for underground petroleum storage tanks to include one or more tanks that are upgraded to comply with the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II regulations, and requires a grant application to include a detailed description of the costs incurred to perform the work and complete the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade, if applicable. If the State Water Resources Control Board received an applicant's grant application on or before 4/1/09, authorizes grant funds to be used to reimburse up to 100% of the costs that the applicant incurred after the board received the grant application to comply with the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II regulations.
Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009
Related bills are SB 507 (Cox-R) which failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted; SCR 38 (Wright-D) which is in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
AB 1212 (Ruskin-D) Air resources: clean vehicle incentive program
Authorize the Air Resources Board (ARB) to adopt and implement a clean vehicle incentive, or feebate, program consisting of one-time rebates and one-time surcharges on the sale of new passenger motor vehicles, and requires the ARB to establish the program only if the ARB determines that it will be beneficial to achieving the greenhouse gas emission goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1292 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program
Requires that priority for Proposition 1B funds be given to Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program projects that secure other supplemental funding in an amount that is above a percentage requirement required by existing law.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1305 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Air pollution: imported electricity: mitigation fee
Imposes an import fee of $0.001 per kilowatt hour on electricity from new power plants in Mexico to fund air pollution control in adjacent California air districts.
(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)
AB 1404 (De Leon-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: offsets
Limits the use of compliance offsets to 10% of the greenhouse gas emission reductions expected from market mechanisms used to meet the greenhouse g-D and Pavley-D], Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006).
Vetoed
AB 1405 (De Leon-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Establishes the Community Benefits Fund, and requires a minimum of 30% of revenues generated pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 to be deposited into that Fund. The monies in the Fund will be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in the most impacted and disadvantaged communities in California to accelerate greenhouse gas emission reductions or mitigate direct health impacts of climate change in those communities.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 1416 (Galgiani-D) Emission control regulations: groundwater drilling
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from imposing specified emission control requirements on portable engines, off-road vehicles, or on-road vehicles used by a person holding a C-57 or C-61 (D-21 subcategory) license issued by the Contractors State License Board for water well drilling, reconstruction, or maintenance, or water pump installation, repair, or maintenance, until five years after the emergency declared by the Governor on 2/27/09, relating to a statewide water drought, has been proclaimed terminated.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1431 (Hill-D) Air quality: Port of Oakland
Requires the Port of Oakland and entities involved in goods movement at the Port to establish emission reduction strategies that are no less stringent than emission reduction strategies employed at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach (San Pedro Ports). Requires the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to determine, after consultation with the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the Air Resources Board, whether the Port and the entities involved in goods movement at the Port have established emission reduction strategies that are no less stringent than those employed by the San Pedro Ports.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1452 (Skinner-D) Air Resources Board: cement
Requires the Air Resources Board, on or before 1/1/11, to develop and adopt limitations on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from the production of cement sold in the state, regardless of the cement's origin and including GHG emission resulting from transportation.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1527 (Lieu-D) Motor vehicle emission reduction projects
Requires the Air Resources Board to revise project guidelines for specified emission reduction programs by 1/1/11, to allow certain federal and state funds to be used on a project without being factored into criteria emission reduction cost-effectiveness calculations.
Vetoed
AB 1530 (Skinner-D) Greenhouse gas emission reduction measures
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt protocols for the evaluation, measurement, and verification of any greenhouse gas reduction measure that relies on energy efficiency, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, California Energy Commission, and energy efficiency experts.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 20XXXX (Audra Strickland-R) Vehicle smog inspection/maintenance: committee
Among other provisions, establishes a sunset date of 1/1/12 on the Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee (IMRC). The IMRC is an advisory body established to review and evaluate the vehicle inspection and maintenance program (Smog Check) and to recommend program improvements to the Administration and the Legislature.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
ACR 14 (Niello-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Calls upon the Air Resources Board to perform a more accurate and complete economic analysis prior to proceeding with regulations to implement AB 32. Calls upon the Governor to use his authority under AB 32 (Nunez), Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006, to adjust deadlines for adoption of regulations.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)
Highways
SB 65* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Highway User Tax Account payments: deferral
Among other provisions, modifies the deferral of Highway User Tax Account payments such that July and August 2009 payments shall be made in September 2009. Additionally, payments for November 2009 through March 2010 shall be paid on, or within two working days of 4/28/10. Exempts counties with a population of less than 40,000 from the deferral. Allows locals to utilize other fund reserves to meet cash obligations during the deferral period.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2009
SB 146 (Cox-R) State Highway Route 49: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish a segment of State Highway Route 49 in the Town of Downieville to the County of Sierra.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 485 (Wright-D) State Highway Operation and Protection Program
Enacts the State Highway Operation and Protection Program Emergency Funding Act and states the intent of the Legislature to provide adequate funding to meet the needs of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program in the 2009-10 fiscal year.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 528 (Negrete McLeod-D) Toll facilities: comprehensive development lease agreements
Prohibits the payment of just compensation to the lessee of a transportation facility for the loss of revenue due to the development, operation, or lease of supplemental transportation projects.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 532 (Cogdill-R) State Highway Routes 1, 108, 132, and 201
Allows for the relinquishment to the City of Kingsburg of that portion of State Highway Route (SR) 201 that is located within the city, allows for the relinquishment of portions of SR 1 that is located within the city of Santa Monica, and adds portions of SR 108 in Stanislaus County to the state network of interregional roads.
Chapter 189, Statutes of 2009
SB 535 (Yee-D) Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes
Allows certain highly fuel-efficient vehicles to travel in high-occupancy vehicle lanes without the required number of passengers, beginning in 2011.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 545 (Cedillo-D) Freeway construction
Prohibits the Interstate 710 freeway gap closure project from being constructed as a surface or above-grade highway.
Vetoed
SB 567 (Dutton-R) Outdoor advertising displays
Authorizes an advertising display adjacent to a section of a landscaped freeway by a city, county, or public education facility subject to specified conditions.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 690 (Leno-D) Outdoor advertising
Eases the circumstances under which a governmental entity may, without payment of just compensation, order the removal of signs that were not erected in conformance with laws and ordinances in effect at the time of their erection and signs that were in conformance but have subsequently been altered in violation of their building permit.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCR 4 (DeSaulnier-D) Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway
Designates State Highway Route (SR) 680 between the Benicia-Martinez Bridge in Contra Costa County and SR 24 in the City of Walnut Creek as the "Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway."
Resolution Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009
SCR 5 (Runner-R) Marine Corporal Christopher D. Leon Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of State Highway Route 14 in the City of Lancaster as the "Marine Corporal Christopher D. Leon Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 2009
SCR 9 (Wiggins-D) The James F. McManus Memorial Bridge
Designates the Salmon Creek Bridge on State Highway Route 101 in Humboldt County as the "James F. McManus Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 71, Statutes of 2009
SCR 12 (Dutton-R) Steve Faris Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of State Highway Route 330 as the "Steve Faris Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 72, Statutes of 2009
SCR 30 (Simitian-D) Betty Meltzer Memorial Highway
Names a portion of State Highway Route 82 in the City of Palo Alto as the "Betty Meltzer Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 74, Statutes of 2009
SCR 37 (Wiggins-D) The Silverado Trail
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 29 in Napa County as the "Silverado Trail."
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SCR 50 (Cox-R) CHP Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial Interchange
Designates the Rocklin Road interchange on State Highway Route 80 in Placer County as the "California Highway Patrol Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial Interchange."
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SCR 54 (Cogdill-R) Kirk Lindsey Memorial Highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 108 in Modesto as the "Kirk Lindsey Memorial Highway."
(In Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 57 (Calderon-D) The CHP Officer David M. Romero Memorial Highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 60 in Los Angeles County as the "CHP Officer David M. Romero Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 123, Statutes of 2009
AB 109 (Feuer-D) Outdoor advertising: digital advertising displays
Prohibits an advertising display that is visible from a state, county, or city highway, from being constructed as, or converted, enhanced, improved, modified, modernized, or altered, unless it complies with a municipalities (permitting authority) specified permitting process, as described in state law. Prohibits, until 1/1/12, any highway changeable message sign from displaying messages other than official traffic operations or public safety messages.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 113* (Portantino-D) Highways: Route 710: sale of property
Requires the Department of Transportation to sell real property it owns in the unconstructed portion of the State Highway Route 710 corridor in Los Angeles County.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 263 (Miller-R) Riverside County Transportation Commission
Authorizes, until 1/1/20, the Riverside County Transportation Commission to approve and award one best-value design build contract for transportation improvements on the State Highway Route 91 corridor based on criteria established by the Commission, as specified.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 344 (Caballero-D) State highways: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish segments of State Highway Route (SR) 146 to the City of Soledad and the counties of Monterey and San Benito respectively, and a segment of SR 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) and a portion of SR 55 to the City of Newport Beach.
Chapter 238, Statutes of 2009
AB 439 (Miller-R) Highways: encroachment permits
Modifies the process for reviewing applications to the Department of Transportation for encroachment permits.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 497 (Block-D) Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: used by physicians
Allows the Department of Transportation and local transportation agencies to permit physicians, when traveling in response to an emergency call, to access high-occupancy vehicle lanes.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 628 (Block-D) Vehicles: toll evasion violations
Defines pay-by-plate toll payment and establishes what constitutes as evidence of a toll evasion violation where a toll operator offers this method of toll payment, and provides that a toll operator offering pay-by-plate toll payment must communicate the amount of toll in the same manner as it does for other methods of toll payment.
Chapter 459, Statutes of 2009
AB 670 (Bill Berryhill-R) Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: veterans
Permits a veteran or active duty member of the United States Armed Forces to use high-occupancy vehicle lanes, regardless of occupancy level.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 744 (Torrico-D) Transportation: toll lanes: Express Lane Network
Authorizes the Bay Area Toll Authority to develop, administer, operate, and maintain a network of high-occupancy toll lanes in the Bay Area, provides authority to finance the development of the network using toll revenues, and establishes a process for regional cooperation.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 882 (Fuller-R) Highways: victim memorial signs
Allows the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to erect up to 24 signs per year, with no more than two signs in each of Caltrans districts, in memory of non-driving-under-the-influence accident victims to read "Please Drive Safely - In Memory of (victim's name)."
Vetoed
AB 1175 (Torlakson-D) Toll facilities
Adds the Antioch and Dumbarton Bridges to the Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program and grants authorization for voter-approved toll increases.
Chapter 515, Statutes of 2009
AB 1381 (John Perez-D) High-occupancy toll lanes
Requires, rather than permits, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) to implement a value-pricing and transit development demonstration program in cooperation with the Department of Transportation and adds the Department of the California Highway Patrol as an agency with which LACMTA must work to implement the program.
Chapter 289, Statutes of 2009
AB 1409 (John Perez-D) Public contracts: county highways: work authorizations
Changes the authorization for a county board of supervisors to direct a road commissioner or a registered civil engineer under the direction of the county director of transportation to enter into contracts for work upon county highways, as specified.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1500 (Lieu-D) High-occupancy lanes: single occupancy vehicles
Extends the sunset date, from 1/1/11 to 1/1/14, on the law that allows certain low-emission vehicles to access high-occupancy vehicle lanes.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 1502 (Eng-D) Vehicles: HOV lanes
Provides that existing law, which authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate certain lanes for the exclusive use of high-occupancy vehicles, shall remain in effect until 1/1/17, or until the Secretary of State receives a specified notice.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 35XXXX (Jeffries-R) State highways: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish any portion of a state highway within a county or city to that county or city, subject to an agreement between the Department of Transportation and the local agency, without requiring a legislative enactment deleting the state highway segment from the state highway system.
(Unassigned to a committee)
ACR 12 (Blakeslee-R) National Purple Heart Trail
Designates a segment of State Highway Route 101 in Monterey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties for inclusion in the National Purple Heart Trail.
Resolution Chapter 84, Statutes of 2009
ACR 15 (Furutani-D) John Sanford Todd Memorial Highway
Names a segment of Interstate 605 in Los Angeles County as the "John Sanford Todd Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 76, Statutes of 2009
ACR 20 (Bill Berryhill-R) Sergeant Howard K. Stevenson Memorial Interchange
Designates the interchange between State Highway Route 99 and Whitmore Avenue in the City of Ceres as the "Sergeant Howard K. Stevenson Memorial Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2009
ACR 24 (Carter-D) John Knabenbauer Fifth Street Bridge
Designates the Fifth Street Bridge, which crosses Interstate 215 in San Bernardino, as the "John Knabenbauer Fifth Street Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 66, Statutes of 2009
ACR 30 (Mendoza-D) L.A. County Deputy Sheriff David Powell Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 91 in Los Angeles County as the "Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff David Powell Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 47, Statutes of 2009
ACR 33 (Jeffries-R) Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of State Highway Route 15 in Riverside County as the "Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 89, Statutes of 2009
ACR 34 (Furutani-D) L. A. County Deputy Sheriff Maria Cecilia Rosa Memorial Hwy
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 710 in Los Angeles County as the "Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Maria Cecilia Rosa Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 48, Statutes of 2009
ACR 36 (Conway-R) Greatest Generation Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of State Highway Route 63 in the City of Visalia as the "Greatest Generation Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 78, Statutes of 2009
ACR 48 (Gilmore-R) Deputy James Throne Memorial Highway
Designates State Highway Route 184 in Kern County as the "Deputy James Throne Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 2009
ACR 60 (Gilmore-R) Medal of Honor Recipient Larry Stanley Pierce Memorial Hwy
Designates the portion of State Highway Route 46, within the city limits of Wasco in Kern County, as "The Medal of Honor Recipient Larry Stanley Pierce Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2009
ACR 61 (Villines-R) Deputy David G. Graves Memorial Freeway
Names a segment of State Highway Route 41 in Fresno and Madera counties as the "Deputy David G. Graves Memorial Freeway."
Resolution Chapter 90, Statutes of 2009
ACR 71 (Nielsen-R) Milton La Malfa Memorial Highway
Designates, as the "Milton La Malfa Memorial Highway," the portion of State Highway Route 99 between Oroville Dam Boulevard West and Nelson Avenue in Oroville.
Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2009
ACR 78 (Buchanan-D) The CHP Officer John P. Miller Memorial Highway
Designates, as the "CHP Officer John P. Miller Memorial Highway" the portion of State Highway Route 580 between Airway Boulevard and North Flynn Road in Livermore.
Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2009
ACR 79 (Hayashi-D) Sergeant Daniel Sakai Memorial Highway
Designates, as the "Sergeant Daniel Sakai Memorial Highway" the segment of State Highway Route 580 between Strobridge Avenue and East Castro Valley Boulevard in Castro Valley (Alameda County).
Resolution Chapter 111, Statutes of 2009
ACR 94 (Charles Calderon-D) CHP Officer Joseph P. Sanders Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of State Highway Route 60 as the "CHP Officer Joseph P. Sanders Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 116, Statutes of 2009
Miscellaneous
SB 60 (Cedillo-D) Vehicles: driver's licenses
Requires the State of California to comply with the federal Real ID (identification) Act of 2005, a measure that establishes standards for the issuance of drivers licenses and identification cards that may be used by federal agencies for official purposes. In complying with the Real ID Act, requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue two types of driver's licenses and identification cards: cards that may be used for official federal purposes, and cards that may be used by persons who are not able to demonstrate legal presence status.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 95 (Corbett-D) California Car Buyers' Protection Act of 2009
Enacts the California Car Buyers Protection Act of 2009. Imposes certain requirements when a dealer purchases or obtains a vehicle in trade in a retail sale or lease transaction and the vehicle is subject to a prior credit or lease balance, relating to the discharge of the credit or balance, increases dealer's license and renewal fees to $175 and $125, respectively, and increases auto broker's endorsement and renewal fees to $100 and $75, respectively.
Chapter 556, Statutes of 2009
SB 154 (Benoit-R) Vessels: operation of vessel
Requires drivers' license suspension for a conviction of boating under the influence (BUI) with a prior BUI or DUI (driving under the influence) offense within seven years, and requires, rather than authorizes, courts to impose, as a condition of probation, that every person convicted of BUI complete a licensed DUI program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 159 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: emergency vehicles
Makes permanent the "move over" law, which prescribes, until 2010, actions that drivers must take on a freeway when passing a stopped emergency vehicle or tow truck with its warning lights flashing.
Chapter 33, Statutes of 2009
SB 165 (Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: parking violation
Establishes a schedule of penalties, which are collected as civil penalties, for a person cited for parking or leaving standing a vehicle in a stall or space designated for disabled persons and disabled veterans for which the vehicle does not display a special identification license plate or a distinguishing placard.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 177 (Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: child passengers
Provides that a child who is six years of age or younger or who weighs less than 60 pounds may be seated in the front seat of a vehicle when all of the back seats are already occupied by children under age eight.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 184 (Benoit-R) Biennial inspection of terminals: fee schedule
Provides that a motor carrier who owns, leases, or otherwise operates not more than one power unit and not more than three towed vehicles shall be considered to have a terminal fleet size of "1."
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 201 (Oropeza-D) Vehicles: illegal taxicabs
Establishes increased fines to a legal vehicle owner and clarifies impoundment procedures for the release of an illegally operated and unlicensed (bandit taxi) cab to a registered vehicle owner who is not licensed to operate a taxi.
Vetoed
SB 232 (Benoit-R) Vehicles: specially constructed vehicles
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide registration to any specially constructed vehicle that meets the specified criteria, and provides that the registered owner of a specially constructed vehicle that is currently registered or incorrectly registered may change the vehicle's registration by complying with those specified criteria.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 240 (Wright-D) Vehicles: Department of Transportation vehicles
Makes permanent the "move over" law, which prescribes, until 2010, actions that drivers must take on a freeway when passing a stopped emergency vehicle or tow truck with its warning lights flashing, and adds Department of Transportation vehicles, under specified conditions, to the move over law.
Chapter 175, Statutes of 2009
SB 256 (Aanestad-R) State property: Department of the California Highway Patrol
Authorizes the Department of General Services to sell, lease, exchange, or any combination thereof, all or a portion of approximately 1.69 acres of state-owned real property located at 995 Fir Street, in the City of Chico, that is specifically not declared surplus to the state's needs, and is used by the Department of the California Highway Patrol as its area office, in order to relocate and expand the office.
Chapter 572, Statutes of 2009
SB 346 (Kehoe-D) Hazardous materials: motor vehicle brake friction materials
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to conduct a baseline survey, on or before 1/1/13, of the concentration levels of nickel, zinc, copper, and antimony in motor vehicle brake friction materials, and requires the department, commencing on 1/1/13, and at least every three years thereafter, to monitor the concentration levels of those metals in motor vehicle brake friction materials to ensure that those levels do not increase by more than 50% above the baseline levels established through the baseline survey.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
SB 348* (Cogdill-R) Passenger vehicle rentals: advertising
Permits a rental car company to recover the actual costs incurred by the company for the payment of that increased vehicle license fee from rental car customers, revises how this fee is calculated, and specifies the manner in which a rental company calculates the increased vehicle license recovery fee.
Chapter 156, Statutes of 2009
SB 350 (Yee-D) Aftermarket crash parts
Prohibits an insurer from requiring the use of nonoriginal equipment manufacturer aftermarket crash parts in the repair of an automobile unless specified standards are met and specified disclosures are made.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 373* (Walters-R) Vehicle license fees: new vehicles
Provides that for all new vehicles, including motorcycles, the annual license fee is 0.65% of the market value of the vehicle, and provides legislative intent that the funding levels for local law enforcement be kept whole and not be reduced.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 385 (Wright-D) Historic motor vehicles: preservation
Exempts vehicles from the smog check program provided the vehicle has a historic license plate, the registered owner of the vehicle owns two or more currently registered vehicles that are not registered as historic vehicles, the registered owner of the vehicle signs a statement under penalty of perjury that the vehicle will be used principally for the purpose of exhibition and historic vehicle club activities, and the vehicle has not been driven more than an average of 150 miles per month during the previous two-year cycle minus any mileage accrued from driving to and from events sponsored by charitable organizations, provided the mileage is documented by a receipt issued by the organization in accordance with Internal Revenue Service regulations.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 424* (Padilla-D) Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors
Regulates actions that vehicle manufacturers may take with regard to their franchised dealers, and allows franchisees that have contracts terminated because of a manufacturer's or distributor's bankruptcy to continue to sell new cars in their inventory for up to six months.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009
SB 425* (Simitian-D) Parking: credits: ridesharing expenses
Authorizes a new tax credit of up to 80% of costs incurred by small businesses for qualified commute reduction expenditures, as specified, and prohibits taxpayers from claiming a business expense deduction for parking subsidies unless employees provided with a parking subsidy are offered a cash allowance in lieu of a parking space (parking cash-out program).
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 427 (Negrete McLeod-D) Automotive repair: crash parts
Requires an automotive repair dealer to include the phone number of the Bureau of Automotive Repair for consumers to contact for a free inspection if they suspect auto repair fraud or the unlawful pre-installation of auto body parts without consent, on a written estimate and repair final invoice.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 433 (Harman-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to submit a report to the Legislature on 1/1/11 regarding all requests made to it in the 2010 calendar year, pursuant to the exemptions in the requirement that the residence address in a record of the Department of Motor Vehicles be kept confidential.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 466 (Oropeza-D) Hazardous waste: transportation
Revises the condition for exempting manifest and transporter requirements pertaining to hazardous waste to an increased maximum weight of 10,000 pounds and increases the maximum 1,600 gallon hazardous wastewater exception for certain generators to a maximum of 5,000 gallons, as specified.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 481 (Cox-R) Airports: wildlife
Provides that a taking of birds by a federally certified airport in compliance with a federal depredation permit for public safety purposes does not violate state fish and game laws if certain conditions are met.
Chapter 186, Statutes of 2009
SB 483* (Corbett-D) Corporation tax credit: automobile manufacturing
Allows, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/10, to a qualified taxpayer, a credit, not to exceed $10,000,000, for specified percentages of qualified expenditures, as defined. In general, the credit will be allowed to automobile manufacturers in this state that employ a specified number of qualified employees.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 518 (Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: parking services and fees
Limits funding for subsidized parking and provides incentives for adopting certain measures that account for the full cost of parking.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 546 (Lowenthal-D) Used oil
Raises the fee paid by lubricating oil manufacturers from $0.16 to $0.26 per gallon, increases the incentives paid for recycling used oil, increases the testing requirements for used oil transporters, and requires a life cycle analysis of used oil.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2009
SB 614 (Simitian-D) Vessels
Clarifies that a vessel is engaged in innocent passage when operating in "marine waters of the state" rather than state waters," and revises the California Clean Coast Act, including extending the sunset date, from 1/1/10 to 1/1/14, relating to the prohibition of release of sewage, sewage sludge and oily bilgewater from large passenger vessels and oceangoing ships, as specified.
Chapter 194, Statutes of 2009
SB 615 (Ashburn-R) Vehicles: off-highway motor vehicles
Authorizes a local jurisdiction to close its streets to regular vehicular traffic and instead allow off-highway motor vehicles to use those streets.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 627 (Calderon-D) Catalytic converters: junk dealers and recyclers
Requires core recyclers to comply with additional recordkeeping and identification procedures and new payment restrictions when purchasing catalytic converters.
Chapter 603, Statutes of 2009
SB 636 (Ashburn-R) Vehicle license fees
States, that for Nevada County, the additional revenue resulting from the increase in vehicle license fees enacted as a part of the State Budget, approved by legislators in February, is not revenue derived from taxes imposed pursuant to the vehicle license fee statutes that is subject to subdivision (a) of Section 15 of Article XI of the California Constitution, for purposes of a local ordinance that governs the expenditure of vehicle license fee funds received.
Chapter 605, Statutes of 2009
SB 649 (Ashburn-R) Transportation
Requires the Department of Transportation to transfer, for fair market value, on or before 6/30/10, ownership of 577 acres known as Site A of the Mojave Bypass property in Kern County to the East Kern Airport District for open-space purposes.
Chapter 59, Statutes of 2009
SB 652* (Huff-R) Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority
Declares that the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments and the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority are political subdivisions of the state, states that this provision is declaratory of existing law, and states that the San Gabriel Valley Council of Government and the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority are eligible to apply for state and federal funds, including the Federal Railroad Administration Capital Grants Program for Rail Line Relocation and Improvement Projects.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 663 (Benoit-R) Neighborhood electric vehicles
Authorizes the City of Palm Desert to establish a neighborhood electric vehicle transportation plan.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 714* (Dutton-R) Sales and use taxes: exclusion: trade-in vehicle
Provides that the definitions for "sales price" and "gross receipts" do not include the value of a vehicle traded-in for a new vehicle, when the value of the trade-in vehicle is separately stated on the new vehicle invoice or bill of sale or similar document provided to the purchaser.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
A similar bill is SB 658 (Walters-R) which is in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee.
SB 717 (Runner-R) Boating and waterways
Makes numerous changes to the Harbors and Navigation Code relating to the Department of Boating and Waterway loans from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund, modifies the penalties for misdemeanor and felony convictions of boating violations, modifies the age requirement for use of personal flotation devices, and makes other related changes.
Chapter 610, Statutes of 2009
SB 734 (Lowenthal-D) Transportation
Makes several clean-up, clarifying, and non-controversial changes related to transportation law.
Chapter 200, Statutes of 2009
SB 737 (Negrete McLeod-D) Airports: airport land use commissions
Repeals specified exemptions from the requirement for counties that contain an airport to establish an Airport Land Use Commission.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 811 (DeSaulnier-D) Vehicles: specially constructed vehicles
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to register specially constructed vehicles previously registered outside this state that apply for registration in California and be assigned the model year of the calendar year the vehicle was first registered outside the state.
Vetoed
SB 10XX (Oropeza-D) Vehicle license fees
Allows car rental companies to pass through to consumers the higher cost of the increased vehicle license fee (VLF), as a separately stated, unbundled charge that is not bundled with the current bundled rental rate. Currently, the VLF that rental car companies pay on their rental cars is "bundled" into the daily or weekly "rental rate" that is advertised, quoted, and charged to consumers of rental cars. Specified add-on fees are "unbundled," such as taxes, a customer facility fee, or mileage charges, and are permitted to be quoted and charged separately from the otherwise "bundled" quoted or advertised rental rate.
Chapter 8, Statutes of 2009-10, Second Extraordinary Session
SCA 3 (Wyland-R) Transportation Investment Fund
Deletes provisions of existing law allowing the transfer of revenues to the Transportation Investment Fund (TIF) to be suspended during a fiscal emergency, prohibits a loan of TIF revenues under any circumstances, and prohibits any statute that would reduce the extent to which these tax revenues are deposited into the General Fund for transfer to the TIF for transportation purposes.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SCR 10 (Liu-D) Railroad Safety Month
Designates September of each year as Railroad Safety Month in California, and commends local, state, and federal government, industry, and citizen efforts to improve railroad crossing safety and support increased funding for rail safety, and strongly urges all Californians to be cautious and safe around all railroad tracks.
Resolution Chapter 42, Statutes of 2009
SJR 6 (Lowenthal-D) Pedestrian safety
Calls on the Congress and the President of the United States to support efforts to conduct appropriate research and develop minimum noise standards for new motor vehicles.
Resolution Chapter 60, Statutes of 2009
SR 14 (Lowenthal-D) Teen Driving Safety Week
Proclaims the week of 3/9/09 as Teen Driving Safety Week, and urges Californians, with the help of law enforcement organizations, teachers, parents, students, and the IMPACT Teen Driver's Campaign, to observe Teen Driving Safety Week with appropriate activities that promote safe driving practices among teenage drivers.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 14 (Fuentes-D) Vehicles: nuisance abatement: impoundment
Authorizes a local government entity to enact a nuisance abatement ordinance under which a vehicle used in illegal dumping or prostitution will be subject to seizure and impoundment for up to 30 days if the operator of the vehicle has a prior conviction for the same offense within the past three years, and the person was validly arrested in the current matter.
Chapter 210, Statutes of 2009
AB 62 (Portantino-D) Vehicles: television broadcast or video signal displays
Permits a person to drive a motor vehicle if a video screen displaying a video signal or television broadcast is operating in the front seat area under specified conditions.
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2009
AB 77 (Jeffries-R) Vehicles: notice of delinquent parking violation
Requires a parking processing agency to verify that all notices of delinquent parking violations substantially match the corresponding information on the registration of the vehicle and to cancel the parking violation if the information is not a match. Deletes the requirement that a person provide a written request for cancellation of the parking violation to the parking processing agency.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 86 (Nava-D) Public employees' retirement: airport police officers
Allows local contracting agencies of the Public Employees' Retirement System to reclassify specified airport law enforcement officers as local safety members.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2009
AB 91 (Feuer-D) Vehicles: driving under the influence (DUI)
Creates, within the Department of Motor Vehicles, a pilot project mandating the installation of an ignition interlock device on every vehicle owned or operated by all driving under the influence offenders in the counties of Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Tulare.
Chapter 217, Statutes of 2009
AB 116 (Beall-D) Transportation authorities and districts: contracts
Increases the minimum value for which the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority, and the San Mateo County Transit District must award bids to the lowest responsible bidder from $25,000 to $100,000, and increases the minimum value for which the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District must award bids to the lowest responsible bidder from $20,000 to $100,000.
Chapter 408, Statutes of 2009
AB 134 (Blakeslee-R) Vehicles: off-highway motor vehicles
Prohibits a parent, guardian, or other authorized adult from granting permission or knowingly allowing a child who is under age 14 to operate an off-highway motor vehicle on which the child cannot reach the controls necessary to safely operate the vehicle.
Chapter 414, Statutes of 2009
AB 145 (De Leon-D) Motor carriers: construction transportation brokers
Prohibits a construction transportation broker from contracting or engaging the services of a motor carrier of property that is out of compliance with existing law.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 166 (Lieu-D) Vessels: abandonment: abatement
Establishes a pilot program that authorizes the sale of surrendered vessels prior to their potential or eventual abandonment, and authorizes local agencies to accept title of vessels from willing owners for the purposes of disposal.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2009
AB 213 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Long Beach: vehicles: parking
Allows the City of Long Beach, under specified conditions, to permit parking on the left side of two-way local residential streets that dead-end with no cul-de-sac or other designated turnaround area.
Vetoed
AB 237 (Carter-D) Vehicles: inspection of loads
Gives local law enforcement, as specified, the same authority as the Department of the California Highway Patrol to stop any vehicle transporting specified products without cause and conduct an inspection to determine whether the driver is in lawful possession of the load, and expands the list of transported products which subject a driver to being stopped and a vehicle inspected by law enforcement without cause, to include metal and metal alloy products.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 254 (Jeffries-R) Emergency vehicles: payment of tolls: exemptions
Establishes the circumstances under which an authorized emergency vehicle is exempt from paying a toll on a tolled facility.
Chapter 425, Statutes of 2009
AB 286 (Salas-D) Vehicles: additional registration fees
Extends until 2018 the existing provisions that allow counties to impose a $1 vehicle registration fee, and adds additional reporting requirements for those counties that have adopted a resolution to impose the fee.
Chapter 230, Statutes of 2009
AB 311 (Ma-D) Property taxation: certificated aircraft assessment
Extends the Centralized Fleet Calculation Program for statewide assessment of certificated aircraft for property tax purposes until fiscal year 2014-15.
Vetoed
AB 312 (Ammiano-D) San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Creates an Office of Citizen Complaints to review and investigate allegations of misconduct filed against peace officers in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 318 (Emmerson-R) Bureau of Automotive Repair: inspection fees
Permits the Bureau of Automotive Repair to charge a vehicle owner who applies to participate in a vehicle registration amnesty program a fee of $160 for each inspection conducted by a referee station as required by the amnesty program.
Chapter 235, Statutes of 2009
AB 323 (Yamada-D) Automobile tires
Requires auto body repair shops to display a sign about tire degradation and to provide a consumer disclosure notice on a tire's manufacture date.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 393 (Yamada-D) Vehicle warranties: disabled rights
Requires any vehicle manufacturer who modifies new vehicles into vehicles useable by persons with disabilities to assume any warranty responsibility of the original vehicle manufacturer for any and all components of the finished product that are, by virtue of any act of the alterer, no longer covered by the warranty issued by the original vehicle manufacturer.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 394 (Torrico-D) Sales and use taxes: exemption: automobile manufacturing
Enacts a sales and use tax exemption for tangible personal property used in the process of manufacturing an automobile in City of Fremont.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 425 (Cook-R) Vehicles: registration: reissuance fee exemption: military
Exempts, beginning 1/1/11, members of the California National Guard and the United States Armed Forces from the fee for reinstating the registration of a vehicle, if the cancellation of the vehicle registration occurred while the service member was on active duty outside of California during a time of war.
Chapter 107, Statutes of 2009
AB 463 (Tran-R) Vehicles: hazardous materials
Allows the Department of the California Highway Patrol to issue a license to a transporter of hazardous materials after the licensee has failed an inspection, provided that the licensee has corrected the reason for the failure.
Chapter 111, Statutes of 2009
AB 496 (Davis-D) Tire age degradation: consumer disclosure
Enacts provisions requiring a tire retailer to disclose a tire's manufacture date upon sale, and requires a consumer to acknowledge receipt of such information by initialing and dating a statement to that effect.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 508 (Torlakson-D) Vehicles: driver education: provisional licenses
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, when issuing a provisional driver's license, to impose, until 1/1/14, an additional fee to generate revenue to fund driver education and training programs at public schools and to support the activities of a related advisory group.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 519 (Duvall-R) Vehicles: Towing Fees and Access Notice
Requires towing companies to provide consumers with a Towing Fees and Access Notice and an itemized invoice of all towing and storage fees, specifies who is authorized to retrieve or inspect a towed vehicle, and relieves the towing company of responsibility for determining the authenticity of documents provided to demonstrate a person's authority.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 584 (Huber-D) Vehicles: windshield or side window view
Exempts emergency vehicles from the prohibition against affixing any object or material upon a windshield or side window, if it does not interfere with the driver's clear view of approaching traffic.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 592 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: Department of Motor Vehicles: records
Adds Board of Equalization investigators to the list of peace officers and other public officials who may request the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide enhanced confidentiality of their home addresses.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 601 (Garrick-R) Motor vehicle insurance: special assessments
Extends the sunset on a 30-cent assessment per vehicle insured in California from 1/1/10 to 1/1/15, to support a variety of consumer protection functions of the Department of Insurance and to support public outreach concerning California's low-cost automobile insurance program.
Chapter 247, Statutes of 2009
AB 614 (Miller-R) Driving under the influence
Creates a crime against any person who refuses to submit to a chemical test as requested by an officer upon reasonable suspicion that he/she is driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs and or alcohol.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 619 (Blumenfield-D) Transportation projects: federal funds: delays
Requires the Department of Transportation to notify the Legislature within 30 days of determining that a project will be delayed, because of cash flow or other funding issues, if the delay places receipt of federal funds at risk.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 636 (Jones-D) Charter-party carriers: bus drivers
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to permanently revoke the authority of a charter-party carrier if the carrier knowingly employs a non-licensed or inappropriately licensed driver, suspend the license for five years of a person who drives a bus for a charter-party carrier who lacks the proper license of the proper class, requires a California Highway Patrol officer to impound the bus if driven by a non-licensed driver, and imposes other new restrictions and requirements on charter-party carriers.
Chapter 248, Statutes of 2009
AB 647 (Yamada-D) Vehicles: registration and title information
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, by 1/1/10, to comply fully with the federal law creating and governing the National Motor Vehicle Title Information Service.
Chapter 461, Statutes of 2009
AB 652 (Skinner-D) Vehicles: vehicle length limitation
Extends the length of a public bus owned and operated by the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit), by four inches, for a bike rack mounted on the front of it. The additional length will be allowed for the installation of 40-inch bike racks on AC Transit buses so that three bikes, instead of two, can be loaded and transported in the front of the buses.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2009
AB 709 (Lieu-D) Charter-party carriers of passengers
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt and enforce rules requiring drivers for charter party carriers serving airports to undergo criminal background checks.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 725 (Jones-D) Auto insurance: low-cost automobile insurance
Extends the sunset date for California's Low Cost Auto Insurance program, from 1/1/11 to 1/1/16, and renames this insurance program the Martha Escutia and Jackie Speier low-cost automobile insurance program.
Vetoed
AB 726 (Nielsen-R) Transportation capital improvement projects
Clarifies that local road rehabilitation projects are eligible for funding through the State Transportation Improvement Program process.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 766 (Krekorian-D) Vehicles: speed limits
Allows a local city or county to retain a prima facie speed limit on any street, other than a state highway, if it makes a finding after a public hearing and determines that a higher speed limit is not appropriate and does not promote safety.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 805 (Fuentes-D) Vehicles: automobile dismantlers: license: applications
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to investigate thoroughly all the information contained in an application for a license submitted by an automobile dismantler.
Chapter 475, Statutes of 2009
AB 808 (Fuentes-D) Driving under the influence: administrative hearing
Increases to 90 days, from the current 10-day allowance, the period of time during which a person arrested for driving with an unlawful blood alcohol content or for refusing to submit to alcohol screening may request a hearing to appeal his/her driver's license being suspended or revoked.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 833 (John Perez-D) Rental passenger vehicles: contracts
Allows car rental companies to shift the burden of proof from the rental company to the renter to establish whether there is clear and convincing evidence that the renter or authorized driver failed to exercise ordinary care while in possession of the vehicle if the vehicle is stolen, making the renter responsible for the theft up to the fair market vale of the vehicle. Authorizes a car rental company to make the renter responsible for the replacement cost of the vehicle ignition key or remote keyless entry system if the renter fails to return them, as well as actual towing, storage, or impound costs incurred by the car rental company associated with the renter's failure to return the ignition key or remote keyless entry system.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 873 (Price-D) Duplicate/substitute certificate of title or license plate
Allows a registration service to apply for a duplicate or substitute certificate of title or license plate in cases where the address of the applicant for the replacement title or plate does not match the address in state records.
Chapter 481, Statutes of 2009
AB 923 (Swanson-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: public records
Adds Board of Equalization members, zoo veterinarians, employees of certain animal control shelters, and code enforcement officers, to the list of peace officers and other public officials who may request the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide enhanced confidentiality of their home addresses.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 951 (Lieu-D) Charter-party carriers
Increases the range of various fines the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) can impose on charter-party carriers who knowingly violate state laws and PUC regulations.
Chapter 263, Statutes of 2009
AB 953 (Eng-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality
Expands the exceptions to the law requiring the residence address in a record of the Department of Motor Vehicles be kept confidential to include an employee or an authorized agent of a financial institution and an employee or an authorized agent of an insurance company.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 959 (Garrick-R) Vehicles: instruction permits: provisional licenses
Reduces the number of alternative programs of driver's education and training programs from three to two and revises the requirements of those programs. Requires that the instruction permit not be issued until the person is enrolled in an approved driver training course and completes the first two-hours of behind-the-wheel instruction. The instruction permit is not valid until the permit is signed by the instructor.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 986 (Mendoza-D) Vehicles: motor vehicle speed contests
Requires that a motor vehicle engaged in an illegal speed contest be impounded and inspected by the California Highway Patrol to determine whether the motor vehicle has been modified for speed enhancement beyond the manufacturer's original equipment specifications, and requires, beginning 7/1/10, that an additional registration fee of $30 be collected for a motor vehicle so seized and that the motor vehicle be designated as speed enhanced on the certificate of registration for that motor vehicle.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1014 (Galgiani-D) Vehicles: driver's licenses: farmers
Allows a restricted Class A or restricted Class B driver's license to be issued for the operation of any vehicle in the production, harvesting, or transportation of silage in specified counties.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1030 (Blumenfield-D) Renewable energy projects: Department of Transportation
Authorizes the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles to map the renewable energy development potential of property owned or controlled by the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), upon receipt of funding for the project, and requires Caltrans to cooperate with the Institute on the mapping project and respond to proposals to develop renewable energy facilities on Caltrans property within 90 days.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1054 (Coto-D) Motor vehicle insurance: rates
Provides that credit card expenses incurred by an insurer are not part of an "efficiency standard" adopted by the Insurance Commissioner for rate making purposes, and specifies that no retrospective adjustment of an approved rate may be ordered by a court if the insurer has complied with the rate approval order of the Commissioner.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1097 (Eng-D) State contracts: motor vehicles: fuel efficiency
Requires a state agency, department, officer, or other entity to only purchase or lease a motor vehicle that has a fuel efficiency of at least 35 miles per gallon of gasoline.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1104 (Monning-D) Vehicles: parking violations
Excludes from the time period allowed to request a review of a parking violation the time between the day a processing agency receives a request for a copy or facsimile of the original notice of parking violation and the day the processing agency complies with the request.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1135 (Skinner-D) Vehicles: registration renewal
Requires vehicle owners to record their odometer readings when applying for registration renewal, provides that this information, except for the name and address of the vehicle owner and the license plate number of the vehicle, is public information, and requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to group the information into census blocks and create a database that can sort the data by block group, census tract, city and county.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1155 (Audra Strickland-R) Vehicles: private parking facilities
Makes certain traffics laws enforceable on off-street private parking facilities.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1179 (Jones-D) Motor vehicle insurance: damage assessments
Modifies the required content of the Auto Body Repair Consumer Bill of Rights, which the Department of Insurance must then incorporate into future editions, to include information informing consumers that they have a right, including when pursuing an insurance claim for repair of that vehicle, to seek and obtain an independent repair estimate directly from a registered auto body repair shop.
Chapter 141, Statutes of 2009
AB 1189 (Skinner-D) Department of Transportation: fish passages
Requires the Department of Transportation to assess and remediate fish barriers associated with any state or federally funded transportation project, including repairs, retrofits, alterations, maintenance and construction, if the project affects a stream crossing on a stream where anadromous fish are or historically were found.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1200 (Hayashi-D) Motor vehicle insurance: direct repair programs
Adds to the Insurance Code's anti-steering in auto body repair law a new subdivision to the effect that "An insurer may provide the claimant with specific truthful and nondeceptive information regarding the services and benefits available to the claimant during the claims process pursuant to the policy. This may include, but is not limited to, information about the repair warranties offered, the type of replacement parts to be used, the anticipated time to repair the damaged vehicle, and the quality of the workmanship available to the claimant."
Chapter 387, Statutes of 2009
AB 1205 (Logue-R) Vehicles: motorcycles: safety helmets: exceptions
Exempts from the requirement to wear a helmet, motorcycle drivers who are 18 or older and have either completed a motorcyclist safety training program meeting standards established by the Department of the California Highway Patrol or been issued a class M1 license or endorsement, or a comparable license from another jurisdiction, for two years or more.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1220 (Huffman-D) Vehicles: supervised driving: young drivers
Expands the 50-hour supervised training requirement currently applicable to driver's license applicants aged 16 and 17 to applicants who are 18 to 24 years of age.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1224 (Eng-D) Vehicles: hit and run violations: animals
Requires a driver involved in an accident resulting in an injury to a dog, a cat, or livestock to immediately stop the vehicle at the nearest location that will not jeopardize safety and comply with specific notification requirements.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1237 (Garrick-R) Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors
Makes it unlawful for a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch, after written demand, to fail to repurchase a noncompliant new motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle, or item of related merchandise originally purchased by a franchisee from the manufacturer or from another franchisee.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1275 (Anderson-R) Vehicles: driving under the influence
Mandates an arresting authority to report to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement the presence of an arrestee when the arrestee is arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) or DUI causing bodily injury, and the arrestee fails to provide the arresting authority with appropriate documentation demonstrating his/her legal presence in the United States.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1304* (Saldana-D) Sales taxes: exemption: electric vehicles
Exempts electric vehicles from the sales and use tax until 1/1/15, limits the exemption to 100 electric vehicles per manufacturer, and defines an "electric vehicle" as a passenger vehicle that uses electricity as its sole source of propulsion (thus hybrids will not qualify).
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1336 (Eng-D) Vehicles: parking violations: digital photograph recordings
Allows, until 1/1/15, a local public agency to issue parking citations for violation of street sweeping parking restrictions based on digital photographs collected by an automated parking enforcement system installed on street sweepers.
Vetoed
AB 1342 (Evans-D) Local taxation: income taxes: vehicle license fees
Authorizes a board of supervisors of any county, by ordinance, to place on the ballot a local personal income tax or local vehicle license fee, or both, in accordance with all constitutional and statutory requirements. Subjects the local license fee on vehicles to the following conditions: (1) the total annual amount of the license fee for any vehicle shall not exceed 2% of the market value of that vehicle, and (2) the local license fee shall be assessed and collected in the manner as the fee imposed by the Vehicle License Fee law, and administered by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1358* (Feuer-D) Vehicles: driving under the influence
Ensures that the first offender driving under the influence and the ignition interlock device pilot program contained in AB 91 (Feuer), Chapter 217, Statutes of 2009, becomes operative by making a technical correction relevant to the date of operation.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2009
AB 1361* (Portantino-D) Vehicles: commercial vehicle ban: State Route 2
Prohibits commercial vehicles with a gross vehicle weight exceeding 9,000 pounds from being operated on State Route 2, between Interstate Route 210 in the City of La Canada Flintridge and County Route N4 (Big Pine Highway) in Los Angeles County, with exceptions.
Chapter 147, Statutes of 2009
AB 1379 (Hill-D) Cargo loads: spilling
Modifies statutes of regarding commercial motor transportation and spilled loads to provide that a person that is in violation of preventing the escape of materials from a vehicle is subject to a base fine of $50, not to exceed $100.
Vetoed
AB 1385 (Miller-R) Vehicles: authorized emergency vehicles: blue warning lights
Authorizes certain members of an arson-investigating unit, regularly paid and employed in that capacity whose primary duty is the detection and apprehension of persons who have violated any fire law, or committed insurance fraud, to display a steady or flashing blue warning light from their vehicle in the performance of his/her duties.
Vetoed
AB 1403 (Eng-D) Local transportation funds: planning and programming
Deletes the $1 million cap on the annual allocation of Transportation Development Account funds to the Southern California Association of Governments for funding the Association's planning and programming responsibilities.
Chapter 530, Statutes of 2009
AB 1473 (Cook-R) Vehicles: load length
Exempts from the limitation on vehicle length and loads, the return of vehicles used in the transportation of poles and the tools and materials incidental to the work to its point of origin or yard.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1492 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: wireless telephones and communication devices
Prohibits a person from using a wireless telephone or other communication device, as defined, during a vehicle stop made by a law enforcement officer for a violation of the Vehicle Code.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1515 (Eng-D) Vehicles: Electronic Lien and Title Program
Requires that by 1/1/12, the Department of Motor Vehicles develop a mandatory Electronic Lien and Title Program.
Chapter 540, Statutes of 2009
AB 1522 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Vehicles: school zones
Authorizes a local authority in a rural area, as defined, that establishes a prima facie speed limit in a school zone to include a state highway if the highway is within 1,000 feet of a school building or the grounds of a school building, including school grounds that are not separated from the highway by a fence, gate, or other physical barrier while the grounds are in use by children and the highway is posted with a school warning sign that indicates the posted speed limit.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1586 (Swanson-D) San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Authorizes the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District's board of directors to establish an office of independent police auditor that will report directly to the board and investigate complaints filed by members of the public against district police officers relative to on-duty misconduct, as specified.
(Unassigned to a committee)
AB 6X (Evans-D) State finances
Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of transportation in order to enact revisions to the 2008 Budget Act.
Vetoed
AB 3XXX* (Evans-D) Vehicle license fees
Among other provisions, increases, temporarily, the rate of the vehicle license fee from the current rate of 0.65% to a rate of 1.15%, except for commercial vehicles with a gross weight of 10,000 pounds or more. Revenue from the portion of the increase from 0.65% to 1% will be retained by the General Fund ($121 million in 2008-09 and $1.2 billion in 2009-10) and revenue from the additional increase of 0.15% will be transferred to a newly created Local Safety and Protection Account, which is continuously appropriated for specific local public safety programs ($82 million in 2008-09 and $502 million in 2009-10).
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
The increase in the tax was for three years, however, the voters refused passage of the propositions on the 5/23/09 special election, which would have provided for a third year.
AB 4XXX (Evans-D) Transportation finance
Shifts $986 million in gasoline fee revenue from cities and counties to the General Fund for reimbursement of transportation-related general-obligation bond payments. In 2010-11, an additional $745 million will be shifted for the same purpose, but in 2011-12, and thereafter, the full current-law allocation would be made to cities and counties. The amount shifted is within the limit set by Article XIX of the California Constitution - no more that 25% of specified transportation revenue can be directed to bond debt service.
(On Assembly Unfinished Business File)
AB 39XXX* (Evans-D) VLF: state parks fee: fuel taxes
Establishes a $15 vehicle license fee surcharge to be deposited into a dedicated account for state parks. The funds generated will be used for parks operations and maintenance. This provision will result in revenue of approximately $200 million in 2009-10, increasing to $400 million in 2010-11.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 40XXX (Evans-D) Fuel user fee: vehicle fees
Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of driver's license and identification card fees in order to amend the 2009 Budget Act.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
ACR 43 (Duvall-R) Motorcycle Awareness Month
Designates the month of May 2009 as Motorcycle Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 67, Statutes of 2009
ACR 58 (Nestande-R) School Bus Drivers' Day
Designates 4/28/09 as School Bus Drivers' Day in California, in order to draw special public attention to school bus drivers for their continued and excellent services to pupils in California.
Resolution Chapter 32, Statutes of 2009
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 60 | Cedillo-D Vehicles: driver's licenses | Miscellaneous |
| SB 65* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Highway User Tax Account payments: deferral | Highways |
| SB 83 | Hancock-D Traffic congestion: motor vehicle registration fees | Development and Financing |
| SB 95 | Corbett-D California Car Buyers' Protection Act of 2009 | Miscellaneous |
| SB 104 | Oropeza-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 124 | Oropeza-D Air pollution: school bus idling and idling at schools | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 146 | Cox-R State Highway Route 49: relinquishment | Highways |
| SB 154 | Benoit-R Vessels: operation of vessel | Miscellaneous |
| SB 159 | Simitian-D Vehicles: emergency vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 165 | Lowenthal-D Vehicles: parking violation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 177 | Lowenthal-D Vehicles: child passengers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 184 | Benoit-R Biennial inspection of terminals: fee schedule | Miscellaneous |
| SB 201 | Oropeza-D Vehicles: illegal taxicabs | Miscellaneous |
| SB 205 | Hancock-D Traffic congestion: motor vehicle registration fees | Development and Financing |
| SB 225* | Florez-D Emission reduction credits | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 232 | Benoit-R Vehicles: specially constructed vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 240 | Wright-D Vehicles: Department of Transportation vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 256 | Aanestad-R State property: Department of the California Highway Patrol | Miscellaneous |
| SB 295* | Dutton-R California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 333 | Hancock-D Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Offset Program Fund | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 346 | Kehoe-D Hazardous materials: motor vehicle brake friction materials | Miscellaneous |
| SB 348* | Cogdill-R Passenger vehicle rentals: advertising | Miscellaneous |
| SB 350 | Yee-D Aftermarket crash parts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 373* | Walters-R Vehicle license fees: new vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 385 | Wright-D Historic motor vehicles: preservation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 391 | Liu-D California Transportation Plan | Development and Financing |
| SB 409 | Ducheny-D Department of Railroads | Development and Financing |
| SB 424* | Padilla-D Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors | Miscellaneous |
| SB 425* | Simitian-D Parking: credits: ridesharing expenses | Miscellaneous |
| SB 427 | Negrete McLeod-D Automotive repair: crash parts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 433 | Harman-R Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality | Miscellaneous |
| SB 435 | Pavley-D Smog check program: motorcycles | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 455 | Lowenthal-D High-speed rail | Development and Financing |
| SB 462* | Strickland-R Manufacturers of diesel exhaust filters | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 464* | Strickland-R Diesel particulate matter reduction | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 466 | Oropeza-D Hazardous waste: transportation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 474* | Ducheny-D Transportation: pilot programs | Development and Financing |
| SB 481 | Cox-R Airports: wildlife | Miscellaneous |
| SB 483* | Corbett-D Corporation tax credit: automobile manufacturing | Miscellaneous |
| SB 485 | Wright-D State Highway Operation and Protection Program | Highways |
| SB 507* | Cox-R Gasoline: vapor recovery systems | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 518 | Lowenthal-D Vehicles: parking services and fees | Miscellaneous |
| SB 526 | Ashburn-R Intercity rail: San Joaquin Corridor | Development and Financing |
| SB 527 | Kehoe-D Bicycles | Development and Financing |
| SB 528 | Negrete McLeod-D Toll facilities: comprehensive development lease agreements | Highways |
| SB 532 | Cogdill-R State Highway Routes 1, 108, 132, and 201 | Highways |
| SB 535 | Yee-D Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes | Highways |
| SB 545 | Cedillo-D Freeway construction | Highways |
| SB 546 | Lowenthal-D Used oil | Miscellaneous |
| SB 560 | Ashburn-R Regional transportation plans | Development and Financing |
| SB 567 | Dutton-R Outdoor advertising displays | Highways |
| SB 575 | Steinberg-D Local planning: housing element | Development and Financing |
| SB 607 | Ducheny-D Imperial County Transportation Commission | Development and Financing |
| SB 614 | Simitian-D Vessels | Miscellaneous |
| SB 615 | Ashburn-R Vehicles: off-highway motor vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 627 | Calderon-D Catalytic converters: junk dealers and recyclers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 636 | Ashburn-R Vehicle license fees | Miscellaneous |
| SB 649 | Ashburn-R Transportation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 652* | Huff-R Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority | Miscellaneous |
| SB 658* | Walters-R Sales and use taxes: exclusion: trade-in motor vehicle. | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 663 | Benoit-R Neighborhood electric vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 690 | Leno-D Outdoor advertising | Highways |
| SB 714* | Dutton-R Sales and use taxes: exclusion: trade-in vehicle | Miscellaneous |
| SB 716 | Wolk-D Local transportation funds | Development and Financing |
| SB 717 | Runner-R Boating and waterways | Miscellaneous |
| SB 728 | Lowenthal-D Air pollution: parking cash-out program | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 734 | Lowenthal-D Transportation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 737 | Negrete McLeod-D Airports: airport land use commissions | Miscellaneous |
| SB 783 | Ashburn-R High-speed rail | Development and Financing |
| SB 811 | DeSaulnier-D Vehicles: specially constructed vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SCA 3 | Wyland-R Transportation Investment Fund | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 4 | DeSaulnier-D Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway | Highways |
| SCR 5 | Runner-R Marine Corporal Christopher D. Leon Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SCR 9 | Wiggins-D The James F. McManus Memorial Bridge | Highways |
| SCR 10 | Liu-D Railroad Safety Month | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 12 | Dutton-R Steve Faris Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SCR 30 | Simitian-D Betty Meltzer Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SCR 37 | Wiggins-D The Silverado Trail | Highways |
| SCR 38 | Wright-D Gasoline: vapor recovery systems | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SCR 50 | Cox-R CHP Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial Interchange | Highways |
| SCR 54 | Cogdill-R Kirk Lindsey Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SCR 57 | Calderon-D The CHP Officer David M. Romero Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SJR 6 | Lowenthal-D Pedestrian safety | Miscellaneous |
| SR 14 | Lowenthal-D Teen Driving Safety Week | Miscellaneous |
| SB 6X | Ducheny-D Sales tax: transportation purposes | Development and Financing |
| SB 4XX | Cogdill-R Transportation development: design-build | Development and Financing |
| SB 10XX | Oropeza-D Vehicle license fees | Miscellaneous |
| SB 2XXX* | Ducheny-D Transportation Budget issue | Development and Financing |
| SB 7XXX* | Ducheny-D Transportation finance | Development and Financing |
| AB 14 | Fuentes-D Vehicles: nuisance abatement: impoundment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 62 | Portantino-D Vehicles: television broadcast or video signal displays | Miscellaneous |
| AB 77 | Jeffries-R Vehicles: notice of delinquent parking violation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 86 | Nava-D Public employees' retirement: airport police officers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 91 | Feuer-D Vehicles: driving under the influence (DUI) | Miscellaneous |
| AB 96* | Ruskin-D Gasoline: vapor recovery systems | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 109 | Feuer-D Outdoor advertising: digital advertising displays | Highways |
| AB 112 | Beall-D Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority | Development and Financing |
| AB 113* | Portantino-D Highways: Route 710: sale of property | Highways |
| AB 116 | Beall-D Transportation authorities and districts: contracts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 118 | Logue-R California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 133 | Smyth-R Subdivisions: major thoroughfares | Development and Financing |
| AB 134 | Blakeslee-R Vehicles: off-highway motor vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| AB 144 | Ma-D Vehicles: distinguishing placards and special license plates | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 145 | De Leon-D Motor carriers: construction transportation brokers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 153 | Ma-D High-Speed Rail Authority | Development and Financing |
| AB 166 | Lieu-D Vessels: abandonment: abatement | Miscellaneous |
| AB 213 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Long Beach: vehicles: parking | Miscellaneous |
| AB 231 | Huffman-D Climate Protection Trust Fund | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 237 | Carter-D Vehicles: inspection of loads | Miscellaneous |
| AB 251 | Knight-R Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Development and Financing |
| AB 254 | Jeffries-R Emergency vehicles: payment of tolls: exemptions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 263 | Miller-R Riverside County Transportation Commission | Highways |
| AB 266 | Carter-D Transportation needs assessment | Development and Financing |
| AB 277 | Ammiano-D Transportation: local retail transaction and use taxes | Development and Financing |
| AB 282 | Assembly Transportation Committee Transportation | Development and Financing |
| AB 286 | Salas-D Vehicles: additional registration fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 289* | Galgiani-D High-speed rail | Development and Financing |
| AB 311 | Ma-D Property taxation: certificated aircraft assessment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 312 | Ammiano-D San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District | Miscellaneous |
| AB 318 | Emmerson-R Bureau of Automotive Repair: inspection fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 323 | Yamada-D Automobile tires | Miscellaneous |
| AB 338 | Ma-D Transit village developments: infrastructure financing | Development and Financing |
| AB 344 | Caballero-D State highways: relinquishment | Highways |
| AB 376 | Nava-D Voluntary greenhouse gas emission offsets | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 393 | Yamada-D Vehicle warranties: disabled rights | Miscellaneous |
| AB 394 | Torrico-D Sales and use taxes: exemption: automobile manufacturing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 414 | Galgiani-D Heavy-duty fleet modernization projects | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 425 | Cook-R Vehicles: registration: reissuance fee exemption: military | Miscellaneous |
| AB 439 | Miller-R Highways: encroachment permits | Highways |
| AB 463 | Tran-R Vehicles: hazardous materials | Miscellaneous |
| AB 478 | Chesbro-D Greenhouse gas emissions: recycling and waste management | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 496 | Davis-D Tire age degradation: consumer disclosure | Miscellaneous |
| AB 497 | Block-D Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: used by physicians | Highways |
| AB 508 | Torlakson-D Vehicles: driver education: provisional licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 519 | Duvall-R Vehicles: Towing Fees and Access Notice | Miscellaneous |
| AB 522 | Blumenfield-D Transportation: bond funds | Development and Financing |
| AB 584 | Huber-D Vehicles: windshield or side window view | Miscellaneous |
| AB 592 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Vehicles: Department of Motor Vehicles: records | Miscellaneous |
| AB 601 | Garrick-R Motor vehicle insurance: special assessments | Miscellaneous |
| AB 614 | Miller-R Driving under the influence | Miscellaneous |
| AB 619 | Blumenfield-D Transportation projects: federal funds: delays | Miscellaneous |
| AB 628 | Block-D Vehicles: toll evasion violations | Highways |
| AB 636 | Jones-D Charter-party carriers: bus drivers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 644 | Caballero-D Monterey-Salinas Transit District Act | Development and Financing |
| AB 647 | Yamada-D Vehicles: registration and title information | Miscellaneous |
| AB 652 | Skinner-D Vehicles: vehicle length limitation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 670 | Bill Berryhill-R Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: veterans | Highways |
| AB 672 | Bass-D Transportation: bond-funded projects | Development and Financing |
| AB 709 | Lieu-D Charter-party carriers of passengers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 725 | Jones-D Auto insurance: low-cost automobile insurance | Miscellaneous |
| AB 726 | Nielsen-R Transportation capital improvement projects | Miscellaneous |
| AB 729 | Evans-D Public contracts: transit design-build contracts | Development and Financing |
| AB 732 | Jeffries-R Transportation projects: design-sequencing contracts | Development and Financing |
| AB 733 | Galgiani-D High-Speed Rail Authority | Development and Financing |
| AB 744 | Torrico-D Transportation: toll lanes: Express Lane Network | Highways |
| AB 766 | Krekorian-D Vehicles: speed limits | Miscellaneous |
| AB 782 | Jeffries-R Regional transportation plans | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 798 | Nava-D California Transportation Financing Authority | Development and Financing |
| AB 805 | Fuentes-D Vehicles: automobile dismantlers: license: applications | Miscellaneous |
| AB 808 | Fuentes-D Driving under the influence: administrative hearing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 810 | Caballero-D Circulation and transportation element | Development and Financing |
| AB 823 | Hill-D Smog check: vehicle repair assistance | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 833 | John Perez-D Rental passenger vehicles: contracts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 859 | Jones-D Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 873 | Price-D Duplicate/substitute certificate of title or license plate | Miscellaneous |
| AB 881 | Huffman-D Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 882 | Fuller-R Highways: victim memorial signs | Highways |
| AB 923 | Swanson-D Department of Motor Vehicles: public records | Miscellaneous |
| AB 949 | Logue-R Transportation: State-Local Partnership Program | Development and Financing |
| AB 951 | Lieu-D Charter-party carriers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 953 | Eng-D Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality | Miscellaneous |
| AB 959 | Garrick-R Vehicles: instruction permits: provisional licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 986 | Mendoza-D Vehicles: motor vehicle speed contests | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1014 | Galgiani-D Vehicles: driver's licenses: farmers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1030 | Blumenfield-D Renewable energy projects: Department of Transportation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1033 | Nielsen-R California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1054 | Coto-D Motor vehicle insurance: rates | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1072* | Eng-D Public transportation modernization, improvement, & service | Development and Financing |
| AB 1085 | Mendoza-D State Air Resources Board: regulations | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1097 | Eng-D State contracts: motor vehicles: fuel efficiency | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1104 | Monning-D Vehicles: parking violations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1135 | Skinner-D Vehicles: registration renewal | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1155 | Audra Strickland-R Vehicles: private parking facilities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1158 | Hayashi-D Transit village plan | Development and Financing |
| AB 1175 | Torlakson-D Toll facilities | Highways |
| AB 1179 | Jones-D Motor vehicle insurance: damage assessments | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1188* | Ruskin-D Hazardous materials: underground storage tanks | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1189 | Skinner-D Department of Transportation: fish passages | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1200 | Hayashi-D Motor vehicle insurance: direct repair programs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1203 | Ma-D Transportation bond funds: transit system safety | Development and Financing |
| AB 1205 | Logue-R Vehicles: motorcycles: safety helmets: exceptions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1212 | Ruskin-D Air resources: clean vehicle incentive program | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1219 | Evans-D Public transportation: Solano Transportation Authority | Development and Financing |
| AB 1220 | Huffman-D Vehicles: supervised driving: young drivers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1224 | Eng-D Vehicles: hit and run violations: animals | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1237 | Garrick-R Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1243 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Strategic Area Freeway Enforcement Task Force | Development and Financing |
| AB 1275 | Anderson-R Vehicles: driving under the influence | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1292 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1304* | Saldana-D Sales taxes: exemption: electric vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1305 | V. Manuel Perez-D Air pollution: imported electricity: mitigation fee | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1336 | Eng-D Vehicles: parking violations: digital photograph recordings | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1342 | Evans-D Local taxation: income taxes: vehicle license fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1358* | Feuer-D Vehicles: driving under the influence | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1361* | Portantino-D Vehicles: commercial vehicle ban: State Route 2 | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1375 | Galgiani-D High-speed rail | Development and Financing |
| AB 1379 | Hill-D Cargo loads: spilling | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1381 | John Perez-D High-occupancy toll lanes | Highways |
| AB 1385 | Miller-R Vehicles: authorized emergency vehicles: blue warning lights | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1403 | Eng-D Local transportation funds: planning and programming | Development and Financing Miscellaneous |
| AB 1404 | De Leon-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: offsets | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1405 | De Leon-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1409 | John Perez-D Public contracts: county highways: work authorizations | Highways |
| AB 1416 | Galgiani-D Emission control regulations: groundwater drilling | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1431 | Hill-D Air quality: Port of Oakland | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1452 | Skinner-D Air Resources Board: cement | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1464 | Smyth-R Bicycle routes: national, state, or regional significance | Development and Financing |
| AB 1471 | Eng-D Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Development and Financing |
| AB 1473 | Cook-R Vehicles: load length | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1492 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Vehicles: wireless telephones and communication devices | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1500 | Lieu-D High-occupancy lanes: single occupancy vehicles | Highways |
| AB 1502 | Eng-D Vehicles: HOV lanes | Highways |
| AB 1515 | Eng-D Vehicles: Electronic Lien and Title Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1522 | V. Manuel Perez-D Vehicles: school zones | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1527 | Lieu-D Motor vehicle emission reduction projects | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1530 | Skinner-D Greenhouse gas emission reduction measures | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1586 | Swanson-D San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 12 | Blakeslee-R National Purple Heart Trail | Highways |
| ACR 14 | Niello-R California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| ACR 15 | Furutani-D John Sanford Todd Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 20 | Bill Berryhill-R Sergeant Howard K. Stevenson Memorial Interchange | Highways |
| ACR 24 | Carter-D John Knabenbauer Fifth Street Bridge | Highways |
| ACR 30 | Mendoza-D L.A. County Deputy Sheriff David Powell Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 33 | Jeffries-R Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 34 | Furutani-D L. A. County Deputy Sheriff Maria Cecilia Rosa Memorial Hwy | Highways |
| ACR 36 | Conway-R Greatest Generation Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 43 | Duvall-R Motorcycle Awareness Month | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 48 | Gilmore-R Deputy James Throne Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 58 | Nestande-R School Bus Drivers' Day | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 60 | Gilmore-R Medal of Honor Recipient Larry Stanley Pierce Memorial Hwy | Highways |
| ACR 61 | Villines-R Deputy David G. Graves Memorial Freeway | Highways |
| ACR 71 | Nielsen-R Milton La Malfa Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 78 | Buchanan-D The CHP Officer John P. Miller Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 79 | Hayashi-D Sergeant Daniel Sakai Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 94 | Charles Calderon-D CHP Officer Joseph P. Sanders Memorial Highway | Highways |
| AB 5X | Evans-D Transportation projects | Development and Financing |
| AB 6X | Evans-D State finances | Development and Financing Miscellaneous |
| AB 8XX | Nestande-R California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions | Development and Financing |
| AB 3XXX* | Evans-D Vehicle license fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 4XXX | Evans-D Transportation finance | Miscellaneous |
| AB 20XXX* | Bass-D Federal transportation economic stimulus funds | Development and Financing |
| AB 39XXX* | Evans-D VLF: state parks fee: fuel taxes | Miscellaneous |
| AB 40XXX | Evans-D Fuel user fee: vehicle fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 10XXXX* | Assembly Budget Committee Transportation | Development and Financing |
| AB 20XXXX | Audra Strickland-R Vehicle smog inspection/maintenance: committee | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 24XXXX* | Bass-D Transportation finance | Development and Financing |
| AB 35XXXX | Jeffries-R State highways: relinquishment | Highways |