1995 Significant Legislation
Pages 700-768
Index by Bill Number
[PAGE 700]
AB 336* (Villaraigosa-D) - Oil Severance Tax
Imposes a 6 % severance tax on oil production.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 485* (Villaraigosa-D) - Alcoholic Beverage Tax
Allows counties to levy on a countywide basis for revenue, a tax on the sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits when the beer, wine, and distilled spirits are sold for consumption on the premises of the seller of the beer, wine, or distilled spirits.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 861 (Ducheny-D) - Federal Block Grant Funds
Establishes general procedures for the state's administration of federal block grants funding for various health and welfare and education programs currently under review by the 104th Congress.
(In Conference)
AB 1199* (Gallegos-D) - Cigarette Tax Increase: School Nurses
Increases cigarette tax by one mill per cigarette or cents per package of 20 cigarettes. Revenue would go to fund nurses in schools.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1339 (Sweeney-D) - Development Taxes
Prohibits local agencies from exempting or reducing an existing tax for a proposed development.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1426* (Pringle-R) - Private Railroad Car Tax
Replaces the current method of valuing private railroad cars with an acquisition-cost-less-depreciation method.
Chapter 220, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1475 (Pringle-R) - Regulatory Fees
Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency to establish and maintain a regulatory fee register and inventory.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1672 (Takasugi-R) - Diesel Tax
Creates a 2-tier system of security deposits for sellers of diesel fuel.
(On Senate Third Reading File)
AB 1817 (Bowler-R) - Fuel Tax and Cigarette Tax
Makes it a crime to willfully evade or attempt to evade or defeat the payment of motor vehicle fuel license tax or the use fuel tax as specified. Makes it a crime to knowingly posses, sell, or offer to sell any counterfeit stamp or meter or any paraphernalia intended or designed for use in producing counterfeit stamps or meter impressions which are to be affixed to cigarette packages.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1830 (Mazzoni-D) - Marin County Open-Space District
Allows for formation of a regional park and open-space district in Marin or Sonoma Counties which would have the power to levy assessments.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1906 (Sher-D) - Hazardous Waste Fees: Billings
Requires the State Board of Equalization to establish and submit annually to hazardous waster generators a fee statement consolidating the hazardous waste facility fee, hazardous waste generator fee, hazardous waste generator surcharge fee and corporate hazardous materials fees.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1964 (Figueroa-D) - Hazardous Waste Fees
Makes a variety of largely technical changes in the collection of hazardous waste fees by the State Board of Equalization. Modifies the base for adjusting hazardous waste facility fees to reflect inflation from changes in the U.S. Consumer Price Index to changes in the California Consumer Price Index. Double-joined with AB 1906 (Sher-D).
Chapter 630, Statutes of 1995
ACA 3 (McDonald-D) - Motor Vehicle Fuels: Tax Revenues
Allows motor vehicle tax revenues to be used for the research, planning, construction, and improvement of designated intermodal corridors of economic significance, upon appropriation of the legislature.
(Failed passage in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)
AB 51XX* (W. Brown-D) - Cigarette Tax: Local Levies
Allows counties to impose their own excise tax on cigarettes.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 714 (Watson-D) contained a similar provision before it was amended out on the Assembly Floor.
AB 55XX (Friedman-D) - Cigarette Tax Increase
Increases the cigarette tax by 7 mills per cigarette or 37 cents per package of 20 cigarettes to fund public safety or health care services.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
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SENIOR CITIZENS
NOTE: *DENOTES URGENCY LEGISLATION
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Senior Citizens
SB 311* (O'Connell-D) - Sales and Use Tax Exemption
Exempts meals delivered to homebound elderly or disabled persons by a nonprofit, volunteer home delivery meal provider from the Sales and Use Tax Law.
Chapter 240, Statutes of 1995
SB 320 (Petris-D) - Unfair Trade Practices
Provides that it is a deceptive or unfair act for a person or business to make a home solicitation of a senior citizen for a loan encumbering the person's primary residence for the purpose of home improvement and where the transaction is part of a pattern or practice in violation of specified provisions of the federal Truth in Lending Act.
Chapter 255, Statutes of 1995
SB 332 (Campbell-R) - Senior Citizen Housing Developments
Changes the definition of "senior citizen housing development," as it relates to minimum size requirements, in heavily populated urban areas.
Chapter 147, Statutes of 1995
SB 548* (Mello-D) - California Senior Legislature
Suspends elections of the Senior Legislature in 1995 and the allocation of funds for elections. Specifies that any balance in the election fund will be allocated to the Commission on Aging to support the activities of the Senior Legislature.
Chapter 7, Statutes of 1995
SB 731 (Mello-D) - Conservatorships: Alzheimer's Disease
Provides for conservatorships known as the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Conservatorship.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
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SB 732* (Mello-D) - Residential Care Facilities
Authorizes the use of locked and secured perimeters that meet specified safeguards in residential care facilities for the elderly that care for persons with dementia.
Chapter 550, Statutes of 1995
SB 895 (Leslie-R) - Civil Rights: Senior Housing
Changes the definition of "qualified permanent resident" to allow dependent disabled adults to live in senior citizen housing developments.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
SB 1161 (Leslie-R) - Offenses Against Dependent Adults
Creates penalties for lewd and lascivious acts committed by any caretaker against a dependent adult.
Chapter 890, Statutes of 1995
AB 402 (Hannigan-D) - Residential Care Facilities
Imposes specified requirements on administrators of residential care facilities for the elderly related to their certification by the Department of Social Services (DSS). Also allows DSS to charge a fee for the reissuance of certificates and makes clean-up changes to current statutes.
Chapter 224, Statutes of 1995
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AB 827 (Speier-D) - Continuing Care Contracts
Makes numerous changes in statutes regulating the operation of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs). Among other things the bill:
1. Authorizes specific staff in the Department of Social Services to regulate CCRCs.
2. Authorizes new penalties for failure to file annual reports on a CCRCs financial condition.
3. Changes the life expectancy tables required to be used in determining the financial condition of a CCRC.
4. Permits the formation of resident councils in these communities.
Chapter 920, Statutes of 1995
AB 908* (Brulte-R) - Budget Implementation
Beginning in 1996-97, creates the community care licensing Technical Assistance Fund to fund licensing staff positions to provide technical assistance to licensees paying fees for various social services program licenses. Also creates the Certification Fund, and transfers the monies contained in the Residential Care Facility for the Elderly Fund to this new fund to be used for administrative costs for the certification programs. Appropriates $134,000 from this fund during the 1995-96 fiscal year to administer the program.
Chapter 307, Statutes of 1995
AB 911* (Vasconcellos-D) - Budget Implementation: Long-Term Care Pilot Project
Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to select up to 5 counties to integrate the administration and funding for long-term care services. Requires DHS to develop a pilot selection process and specifies the criteria. Requires DHS to serve as the lead agency and to cooperate with other specified departments, the Legislature and interest groups. Specifies legislative intent that subsequent legislation be developed to allow integration of long-term care services.
Chapter 305, Statutes of 1995
AB 943 (Caldera-D) - Money Management
Establishes a 5-year pilot project called the Money Management for Senior Citizens Program. Provides that the program will be established in not more than 3 planning and service areas. Requires the program to be administered by the area agencies on aging.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)
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AB 1205 (Morrissey-R) - Crimes Against Seniors
Provides that for any person who is found guilty of knowingly and designedly, by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense, causing another person to lose money or real or personal property, shall be punished by an additional 5 years in state prison if the victim is over 65 years of age.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1219 (Martinez-D) - Residential Care Facilities
Authorizes residential care facilities for the elderly to admit or retain any resident who is terminally ill and requires 24-hour care from a licensed and Medicare-certified hospice, as defined.
Chapter 276, Statutes of 1995
AB 1246 (Frusetta-R) - Residential Care for the Elderly
Prohibits the licensee or staff of a Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE) from retaliating against any person receiving the services of the RCFE or against any employee of the facility for initiating or participating in the filing of a complaint or grievance with the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman or the Department of Social Services.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1850 (Sher-D) - Home and Community Based Services
Requires the Department of Health Services to implement a program in San Mateo County for the provisions of a continuum of social and health support services to the aged and disabled adult population.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
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AJR 12 (K. Murray-D) - Housing for Older Persons
Urges the Congress of the United States to amend the federal Fair Housing Act to accomplish all of the following: to eliminate the requirement that significant facilities and services be provided in order to qualify as housing for older persons; to require housing facilities to publish, and adhere to, policies and procedures that demonstrate the intent to be a "55-and-older" facility; and to provide that a good-faith attempt at compliance with the Fair Housing Act shall provide an exemption from liability for civil money damages for a violation of that act, as specified.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
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TOXICS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE
NOTE: *DENOTES URGENCY LEGISLATION
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Toxics and HazardousWaste
SB 130 (Costa-D) - Recovery and Storage of Oil
Among other things, expands the definition of the types of oil-bearing materials that would be exempted from the hazardous waste control laws (oil-bearing materials containing gasoline would be included in the exemption), and clarifies that oil-bearing materials received from a related corporation using a common pipeline with the recycling refinery are eligible for exemption from hazardous waste control laws.
Chapter 632, Statutes of 1995
SB 176 (Alquist-D) - Household Hazardous Waste
Prohibits state agencies from providing information on household hazardous substances or safer substitutes for products that contain hazardous substances unless the information is competent and reliable. Also requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to prepare guidelines for advising local agencies regarding the provision of competent and reliable information.
(Failed passage in Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 206 (Kelley-R) - Cementitious Materials
Exempts cementitious material from classification as a hazardous waste if certain conditions are met.
Chapter 847, Statutes of 1995
SB 219 (Thompson-D) - Batteries
Allows collection facilities to collect non-lead-acid batteries without possessing a hazardous waste facilities permit if the batteries are transported to a household hazardous waste collection facility. Allows household hazardous waste collection facilities to refuse to accept spent batteries if the volume received exceeds their storage capacity and authorizes these facilities to charge a fee to cover handling, storage and disposal costs. Increases the amount of batteries that may be stored by a non-curbside collection facility from 200 to 600 pounds.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 1995
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SB 231 (Hughes-D) - Hazardous Materials: Schools
Includes sites contaminated with petroleum products in the special eminent domain procedure for school districts acquiring contaminated sites.
Chapter 247, Statutes of 1995
SB 283 (Costa-D) - Economic Poisons: Emergency Regulations
Allows the Department of Pesticide Regulation to issue a certificate of emergency registration for an economic poison not currently registered if certain conditions are met.
Chapter 608, Statutes of 1995
SB 289 (Wright-R) - Transportable Treatment Units: Used Oil
Allows transportable hazardous waste treatment units to be permitted under a standardized permit in addition to permit-by-rule and full permit. Also allows used oil, under certain circumstances, to contain a higher level of contaminants before being deemed unsatisfactory for recycling.
Chapter 423, Statutes of 1995
SB 324 (Calderon-D) - Hazardous Materials: Mediation-Arbitration
Establishes the Environmental Responsibility Acceptance Act, providing for the mediation-arbitration of potential liability claims for damage to real property by hazardous materials.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 352 (Wright-R) - Aerosol Cans: Permit Exemption
Exempts solid waste facilities and steel and aerosol can recycling facilities from hazardous waste permit requirements provided certain conditions are met.
Chapter 424, Statutes of 1995
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SB 364 (Wright-R) - Household Hazardous Waste Collection
Authorizes mobile, temporary, or recycle-only household hazardous waste facilities to transport their collected wastes to household hazardous waste collection centers.
Chapter 195, Statutes of 1995
SB 372 (Wright-R) - Medical Waste
Makes various changes to the Medical Waste Management Act, including revising the definition of "large quantity generator," "medical waste" and "storage;" authorizing medical waste generators to accept home-generated sharps waste; enacting container labeling requirements for specified wastes required to be incinerated; authorizing the use of high temperatures to treat medical waste; and requiring the Office of Planning and Research to make recommendations to exempt facilities proposing to treat medical waste with steam sterilization units from California Environmental Quality Act guidelines.
Chapter 877, Statutes of 1995
SB 415* (Thompson-D) - Transportation Fees
Extends the authorization to collect Railroad Accident Prevention and Immediate Deployment Force (RAPID Force) fees from surface transporters of hazardous materials until December 31, 1999. Reduces from $3 million to $2 million the amount of fees deposited in the Railroad Accident Prevention and Response Fund and available for appropriation in any calendar year.
(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 480 (Alquist-D) - Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Requires that as a condition of maintaining a license for a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility, the Department of Health Services shall require the operator of the low level radioactive waste disposal facility to obtain and maintain the maximum nuclear liability insurance "generally available" for the site. Requires that the policy shall provide that the operator of the site, generators of low-level radioactive waste utilizing the site, and the State of California are covered as insured entities for any covered third-party liability costs that the insured entities may incur in connection with the operation of the facility.
(In Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee)
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SB 562 (Thompson-D) - Underground Storage Tank Cleanup
Places a number of requirements on the State Water Resources Control Board, the state agency mainly responsible for the administration of the leaking underground storage tank program, and makes changes to the ways in which program funds may be used and tank owners may be reimbursed for cleanup costs.
(Held under submission in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
SB 651 (Wright-R) - Hazardous Waste Testing
Exempts analyses performed by an in-house laboratory pursuant to a hazardous waste facility's waste analysis plan from the requirement to use a certified laboratory provided the analysis is for specified purposes.
Chapter 301, Statutes of 1995
SB 804 (Monteith-R) - Hazardous Materials: Agriculture
Exempts a business operating a farm for purposes of cultivating the soil or raising any agricultural or horticultural commodity from filing a business plan unless it is determined, as specified that the business poses a substantial danger of an accidental release of a hazardous material and the business does not provide specified information.
(Failed passage in Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 828* (Alquist-D) - Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Requires persons who arrange for the disposal of specified classes of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) that is to be disposed of at the proposed Ward Valley LLRW facility to pay a surcharge of $12 per cubic foot of LLRW. Requires the funds to be collected and deposited in the newly created Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility Public Education and Municipal Support Fund. States legislative intent that the fund remain in existence for 30 years from the date the facility begins accepting waste. Continuously appropriates the money in the fund to the Department of Health Services for distribution pursuant to a prescribed schedule to the Needles Unified School District and the City of Needles and to cover the department's administrative costs. Authorizes the school district and the city to expend the distributions for any purpose, including public education, health research, and health monitoring and assessment.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
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SB 845 (Leonard-R) - Household Hazardous Waste Facilities
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to develop separate regulations (by March 31, 1996) to simplify the permitting of permanent household hazardous waste collection facilities operated by a public agency, or its contractor, and allows public agencies to increase the amount of waste that may be brought to such facilities.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 1995
SB 917 (Kelley-R) - Hazardous Substances
Requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to review and revise cleanup procedures and standards for all state laws that are applicable to the cleanup of sites contaminated by hazardous substances, as specified.
(In Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee)
SB 1060 (Peace-D) - Hazardous Waste: Minor Violations
Clarifies SB 1899 (Peace), Chapter 1217 of 1994, by specifying that a minor violation or a "combination of minor violations" of the hazardous waste laws may be prosecuted or fined if needed in order to immediately protect health, safety or the environment or when warranted or required by federal law.
Chapter 634, Statutes of 1995
SB 1063 (Peace-D) - Hazardous Waste Consolidation Sites
Makes various revisions relating to hazardous waste consolidation sites and the transportation of hazardous waste to those sites.
(In Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee)
SB 1107* (Leslie-R) - Unified Program Agencies
Allows the California Environmental Agency to exempt local agencies from assessing a state surcharge on businesses or entities regulated under the unified program if certain conditions are met.
Chapter 635, Statutes of 1995
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SB 1116 (Monteith-R) - Air Toxics "Hot Spots"
Modifies the Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Information and Assessment Act to eliminate reporting requirements for specified facilities and reduce fees used to support the program.
(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1133 (Wright-R) - Environmental Protection: Hazardous Waste
Establishes a petition process allowing any person to petition for the review of a regulation adopted by the Department of Toxic Substance Control that classifies as a non-federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (non-RCRA or state only) waste.
(In Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee)
SB 1135 (Costa-D) - Hazardous Waste Storage
Revises state hazardous waste laws regarding storage facilities and modifies requirements for the issuance of a variance by the Department of Toxic Substance Control.
Chapter 636, Statutes of 1995
SB 1168 (Rogers-R) - Wells: Licensed Contractors
Provides that a C-57 Water Well Contractor's License is not needed for the construction, alteration, destruction, or abandonment of a water well, cathodic protection well, or monitoring well, if the person responsible for the task is an employee of the County of Inyo or the City of Los Angeles acting within the scope of his or her duties to construct, alter, destroy, or abandon a monitoring well or to abandon a water well located within the Owens Valley Groundwater Basin.
(Failed passage in Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee; reconsideration granted)
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SB 1191 (Calderon-D) - Unified Local-Level Regulatory Program
Implements the goals of the Unified Hazardous Waste and Materials Management Regulatory Program (SB 1082, Chapter 418, Statutes of 1993) by ensuring that, when there is a certified unified program in a local jurisdiction, the certified unified program agency (CUPA) has the legal responsibility to implement and enforce the programs that make up the unified program. Creates a unified permit system, broadens the scope of responsibility of unified programs, requires a study to determine if Uniform Fire Code permits should be made part of the unified program, and makes numerous minor cleanup and conforming amendments.
Chapter 639, Statutes of 1995
SB 1222 (Calderon-D) - Hazardous Waste Management
Enacts the Hazardous Waste Management Reform Act of 1995. Makes a variety of changes to the hazardous waste laws that affect the standards for identifying hazardous wastes, standards for treatment, the requirements that apply to the operation or permitting of hazardous waste facilities and the fees that are paid to support the state hazardous waste program.
Chapter 638, Statutes of 1995
SB 1248 (O'Connell-D) - Local Officers: Released Waste
Authorizes local health officers to supervise the clean up of spills or releases of waste, chemicals or other materials when requested to do so by the person responsible for the cleanup.
Chapter 671, Statutes of 1995
SB 1285 (Killea-I) - Hazardous Materials Liability
Immunizes lenders and fiduciaries from liability resulting from the release of hazardous materials on property in which they have a legal interest, as specified.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
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SB 1291 (Wright-R) - Hazardous Waste Facilities Permits
Makes a number of changes to several major program elements within the hazardous waste management program relative to non-federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (non-RCRA or state only) wastes. Includes provisions relating to the tiered permitting program, standard permitting program, household hazardous waste collection facilities, definition of storage facility, federal act authorization, variance process, modification procedures for inactive interim status facilities, transportation treatment units and used oil.
Chapter 640, Statutes of 1995
SB 1295 (Wright-R) - Hazardous Waste Fees
Exempts any state or local agency or its contractors from hazardous waste fees associated with the construction of a public transportation system.
(In Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee)
SB 1319 (Calderon-D) - State Superfund Program
Extends the sunset on the state Superfund program from July 1, 1996 to July 1, 1998.
Chapter 678, Statutes of 1995
SR 29 (O'Connell-D) - California Land Reuse Accord
Establishes the California Land Reuse Accord to serve as an appropriate model that participants in a contaminated site cleanup might follow in working together to accomplish the cleanup of the site.
Adopted by the Senate
SB 1X* (O'Connell-D) - Disaster Relief
Adds the 1995 California storms to those disasters for which the state's share of the non-federal match for damage to public facilities may be up to 100 %, rather than 75%.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 1995-96, First Extraordinary Session
Similar legislation is AB 2X* (Mazzoni), Chapter 1, Statutes of 1995 First Extraordinary Session.
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AB 42 (Baca-D) - Risk Management and Prevention Program
Redraws the jurisdictional boundaries that now allow local administering agencies to oversee, and air quality districts to regulate, the use and handling of chemicals in order to prevent accidental releases that are hazardous to the public. Leaves the authority of local administering agencies intact, prohibits the air quality districts from regulating the use and handling of acutely hazardous materials in order to prevent accidents, designates the Office of Emergency Services as the only agency that may adopt general regulations in this area and creates a new petition process that citizens and other agencies may use when they believe that the accident risks associated with the use and handling of acutely hazardous materials are not adequately regulated.
(In Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee)
AB 204 (Cannella-D) - Toxic Spill Reporting
Makes some minor changes to the consolidated incident reporting system that was established by AB 3404 (Cannella), Chapter 1214 of 1994; and also alters the reporting requirements that apply to hazardous substance releases under the state Superfund system.
Chapter 155, Statutes of 1995
AB 348 (Woods-R) - Underground Storage Tanks
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to categorize specified joint applicant leaking underground storage tank claims at the priority level that is one level higher than the claim would otherwise be classified. Sunsets on January 1, 1999.
(In Assembly awaiting concurrence in Senate amendments; on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 349 (Escutia-D) - Hazardous Liquid Pipelines
Requires operators of pipelines, as defined, to file with the State Fire Marshall (SFM), on or before July 1, 1999, an inspection, maintenance, improvement, or replacement assessment for any pipeline or pipeline segment built before January 1, 1960, and every pipeline installed after January 1, 1960, for which regular internal inspections cannot be conducted, or which shows diminished integrity. Requires the SFM, in consultation with the Pipeline Safety Advisory Committee and pipeline operators, to establish evaluation criteria for use by a pipeline operator when conducting the assessment. Requires the SFM to develop a plan for developing a data base of pipeline information and report to the Legislature by September 1, 1996, on the implementation of the data base. Becomes operative only if Assembly Bill 1487 (Pringle) is enacted.
(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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AB 437 (Morrow-R) - Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tanks
Specially excludes from the definition of storage tank, as set forth in the Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act, oil-filled electrical equipment, including, but not limited to, transformers, circuit breakers, or capacitors, that meet either of two specified conditions.
Chapter 626, Statutes of 1995
AB 441 (Knight-R) - Local Emergencies: Meetings
Requires local governments to review the need to continue a declared local emergency at its regularly scheduled meetings.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 1995
AB 468 (Vasconcellos-D) - Hazardous Waste: Source Reduction
Prohibits the Department of Toxic Substances Control from requiring any generator who is implementing a source reduction review and plan to modify the facility's permit and allows generators who have achieved a source reduction of hazardous waste of at least 33% to only prepare a source reduction evaluation summary in lieu of a full plan.
(In Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee)
AB 483 (Alpert-D) - Hazardous Waste Treatment and Recycling
Exempts several types of hazardous waste treatment operations that are not required to obtain permits under the federal hazardous waste program from the requirements of the state tiered permit system and requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations exempting "secondary materials" as defined from hazardous waste control laws.
Chapter 625, Statutes of 1995
AB 563 (Harvey-R) - Water Quality: Waste Discharge
Excludes a local public entity from liability for costs or damages which result from release of hazardous materials on property in which a perfected right-of-way is located, unless the release was caused by acts of omission, exacerbation, or impeding cleanup or abatement by that public entity.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)
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AB 602 (Ducheny-D) - Hazardous Substance: Treble Damages
Adds a provision to the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account in the State Water Quality Control Fund which would authorize the deposit of 1/2 of any treble damages awarded to a responsible party following recovery from a contribution defendant who has failed or refused to comply with any such order or agreement issued by a regional board.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 644 (Richter-R) - Non-RCRA Hazardous Waste
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, by January 1, 1999, to evaluate the difference between the regulations adopted pursuant to the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 and the criteria, guidelines, and testing requirements adopted pursuant to the state hazardous waste control laws, make specified determinations concerning those regulations, and adopt, amend, or repeal regulations in accordance with those determinations.
(In Assembly awaiting concurrence in Senate amendments; on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 645 (Frusetta-R) - Hazardous Waste Facilities: Generator Fees
Authorizes the Department of Toxic Substance Control to adopt regulations exempting disaster victims from the hazardous waste generator fees with regard to hazardous waste resulting from the disaster or destruction of property within the disaster area. Allows the Department to adopt those regulations as emergency regulations.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 971 (Sher-D) - Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Establishes a Low-Level Radioactive Waste (LLRW) Disposal Site Remediation Fund for costs of remediation or response costs to the state associated with the operation of a regional disposal facility for the Southwestern LLRW Disposal Compact. Requires a surcharge imposed on generators of waste disposed so that the fund contains $15 million within 10 years.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
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AB 1060 (Richter-R) - Hazardous Waste Storage Facilities
Exempts non-federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (non-RCRA or "state only" waste) contaminated soil from storage permit requirements if generated on site and if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 1995
AB 1096 (Ducheny-D) - Dry Cleaning Facilities
Enacts the Groundwater Reclamation and Protection Act of 1995, establishing a new program for investigating and providing grants and loans to local agencies for water reclamation projects associated with contaminated ground water caused by dry cleaning solvents. Funds the program by a $50/pound of dry cleaning equipment capacity surcharge paid by dry cleaning operators and a $5/gallon fee paid by suppliers of dry cleaning solvents. Sunsets on January 1, 2002.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1245 (Frusetta-R) - Hazardous Waste Transporter Requirements
Makes a number of changes to streamline the hazardous waste transporter requirements, including: (1) increasing the length of time (from 6 to 10 days) that hazardous waste may be stored at transfer facilities located in industrial areas without a storage facility permit; (2) requiring insurance companies to provide notification to the Department of Toxic Substances Control by written or facsimile notice within 24 hours after cancellation or nonrenewal of a transporter's insurance policy (instead of 30 days prior to cancellation of a transporter's policy); (3) allowing the department to cancel a hazardous waste transporter's registration if the registrant does not continue transporting hazardous waste; and (4) reinstating a citation that was inadvertently deleted, pertaining to the department's ability to issue automatic fee waivers for specified types of hazardous waste transportation variances.
Chapter 628, Statutes of 1995
AB 1324 (Boland-R) - Business Plan: Emergency Response
Adds nitrogen to the list of hazardous materials maintained in medical/dental offices that are exempt from requirements to submit an inventory and prepare and implement a business plan for emergency response to a release or threatened release.
Chapter 144, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1328 (Olberg-R) - Hazardous Substances: Fees
Exempts a facility from a hazardous waste facilities fee if an initial hazardous waste facilities permit application or hazardous waste facilities permit renewal request has not received final action within one or more years, until final action is taken on the permit application or renewal request.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1434 (Firestone-R) - Petroleum Underground Storage Tanks
Changes eligibility requirements for underground storage tank loans to make them available to larger businesses and increases the maximum amount of any loan. Increases the amount transferred to the Trade and Commerce Agency for the loan program for the 1995-96 fiscal year. Makes funds transferred to the Trade and Commerce Agency for loans continuously appropriated and extends the sunset for the loan program.
Chapter 814, Statutes of 1995
AB 1540 (Weggeland-R) - Hazardous Waste: Treatable Studies
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), on or before April 30, 1996, to adopt regulations for the management of treatability studies consistent with federal regulations, provided that the regulations may apply to hazardous waste that is not regulated under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) as well as to hazardous waste subject to regulation under RCRA. Requires DTSC to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2002 on the risks and benefits of the regulations adopted pursuant to the bill.
Chapter 294, Statutes of 1995
AB 1822 (Richter-R) - Paper Mill Processing: By-Products
Authorizes paper mills to (1) reclaim and reuse pulping liquor in the pulping process without being regulated as a hazardous waste generator, and (2) burn organic materials as fuel with a hazardous waste facilities permit or other authorization if certain conditions are met.
Chapter 401, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1854 (Sher-D) - Undergound Storage Tank Violations
Increases fines and penalties for violations of the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Law.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1876 (Richter-R) - Toxic Waste Cleanup: Site Management
Creates a new program that will enable a person who is responsible for cleaning up a contaminated site to hire a new class of environmental assessor to manage the cleanup of the site under the supervision of the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
Chapter 820, Statutes of 1995
AB 1906 (Sher-D) - Hazardous Waste Fees: Consolidated Billing
Requires the Board of Equalization to establish and submit annually to hazardous waste generators a fee statement consolidating the hazardous waste facility fee, hazardous waste generator fee, hazardous waste generator surcharge fee and corporate hazardous materials fees.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 1995
AB 1947 (Battin-R) - Hazardous Materials: Local Regulation
Creates the Local Agency Hazardous Materials Regulation Administrative Procedures Act, and (1) requires every hazardous material regulation that is adopted or changed by a local agency to meet specified standards (clarity, consistency, nonduplication) , (2) requires a local agency that proposes to amend or adopt a regulation to identify any state or federal overlap or duplication, and (3) provides authority for a person to challenge local hazardous material regulations through an arbitration procedure paid for by the person.
(In Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee)
AB 1962 (Figueroa-D) - Hazardous Waste: Corrective Action
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, when it needs to order cleanup of hazardous waste releases at a hazardous waste facility, to first use its authority to enforce permits and to issue corrective action orders under the hazardous waste regulatory program before it resorts to cleanup orders under the state Superfund law, except in specified circumstances.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1964 (Figueroa-D) - Hazardous Wastes and Substances: Fees
Makes a variety of largely technical changes in the collection of hazardous waste fees by the Board of Equalization. Also modifies the basis for adjusting hazardous waste facility fees to reflect inflation from changes in the U.S. CPI to changes in the California CPI.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 1995
AB 1965 (Figueroa-D) - Wood Waste
Exempts wood wastes chemically treated with preservatives, and generated by electric, gas or telephone companies, from being classified as hazardous wastes if: (1) the wood waste is not subject to regulation under federal laws, (2) the wood waste is disposed of in a composite-lined portion of a municipal solid waste landfill that meets state drinking water standards, and (3) the wood waste landfill used for disposal is authorized to accept the wood waste under waste discharge requirements issued by regional water quality control boards.
Chapter 670, Statutes of 1995
AB 1966 (Figueroa-D) - Tiered Permits: Copper Solutions
Extends the temporary assignment of spent cleaners and conditioners containing copper up to 5000 ppm to the conditionally authorized tier for 3 more years, until January 1, 1998. Also moves up the date by which the Department of Toxic Substances Control is required to evaluate the treatment of these industrial solutions and adopt regulations to January 1, 1997, assigning their treatment to the appropriate regulatory tier.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 1995
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TRANSPORTATION
NOTE: *DENOTES URGENCY LEGISLATION
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Development and Financing
SB 146* (Maddy-R) - Seismic Retrofit Bond Act of 1996
Enacts the Seismic Retrofit Bond Act of 1996 to authorize $2 billion in state general obligation bonds for the seismic retrofit of state-owned highways and bridges throughout the state. Requires the Secretary of State to submit the proposed bond measure to the voters at the March 26, 1996 direct primary election and, if the voters do not approve the measure at that election, requires the Secretary of State to submit the measure to the voters at the November 5, 1996 general election.
Chapter 310, Statutes of 1995
SB 160 (Kopp-I) - Transportation Fund
Substantially revises the existing process for estimating the amount of state and federal funds available for transportation projects by changing the 7-year State Transportation Improvement Program to a 4-year program, changing the components of the regional and state transportation improvement programs, changing the name of the Transportation Planning and Development Account to the Public Transportation Account, and making changes in the way funds are allocated from that account. Declares legislative intent to annually appropriate specified amounts for particular transportation purposes. Eliminates various transportation-related programs, including traffic systems management, flexible congestion relief, commuter and urban rail transit, and the state-local transportation partnership program.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 196* (Kopp-I) - Motor Vehicle Fuel and Use Taxes
Provides, under the Motor Vehicle Fuel License Tax Law, that if the federal fuel tax is reduced below the rate of 18 cents per gallon and specified federal financial allocations to this state are reduced or eliminated, the state tax rate shall be increased by an amount so that the combined state and federal tax rate per gallon equals 36 cents per gallon. Provides, under the Use Fuel Tax Law, that if the federal fuel tax is reduced below the rate of 24 cents per gallon and specified federal financial allocations to this state are reduced or eliminated, the state tax rate shall be increased by an amount so that the combined state and federal tax rate per gallon equals 42 cents per gallon.
(On Senate Inactive File)
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SB 199 (Kelley-R) - Vehicles and Fuels: Funding
Requires the State Air Resources Board, the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the California Energy Commission, using existing resources, prior to expending any funds for any research, development, or demonstration program or project relating to vehicles or fuels, to each adopt a specified plan and make prescribed findings; and after the conclusion of each program or project, to report on the actual costs, the results achieved, and any problems encountered.
Chapter 609, Statutes of 1995
SB 257 (Killea-I) - Congestion Relief
Requires, until July 1, 1999, the San Diego Air Pollution Control District to allocate not less than $1 million nor more than $1.25 million annually for the purpose of funding congestion relief programs that are consistent with the purposes of the provisions authorizing those fees, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. Allows the district, until July 1, 1999, to increase its vehicle registration fee from the existing level only if the increase proposal contains a detailed expenditure plan.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
SB 414 (Thompson-D) - Vehicles: Violations: Fines
Requires the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to develop 3 pilot projects, 2 in Northern California and 1 in Southern California with the highways involved in the projects designated and identified as "Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zones." Requires the department to report to the Legislature on January 1, 1998, as specified. Provides in the case of specified violations relating to rules of the road and driving under the influence, double the fine, in the case of misdemeanors, and increase the fine, as specified, in the case of infractions, if the violation is committed by the driver of a vehicle within a Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zone, except as specified.
Chapter 841, Statutes of 1995
SB 457 (Kelley-R) - Development and Planning
Prohibits an intercity or commuter rail service from receiving any state operating subsidy if it failed to achieve the prescribed fare revenue ratios by its 3rd year of operation plus any additional years, not to exceed 3 years, for which a waiver was granted. Requires any waiver granted by the California Transportation Commission to be annually reviewed and reconsidered by the commission, and requires the commission to conduct a public hearing on a request for a waiver.
[PAGE 728]Requires the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to transfer to the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, through an interagency agreement, all responsibility for administering a specified intercity rail service between the Cities of San Diego and Santa Barbara. Requires the agreement to contain specified provisions. Requires Caltrans and the authority to enter into an agreement to transfer from Caltrans to the authority funds necessary to operate intercity rail service in southern California (the transfer of the funds would constitute an appropriation). Prescribes a formula for the expenditure of those funds.
Provides a process whereby the authority would submit to the commission, not later than September 1 of each year, a business plan relating to the intercity rail service. Requires Caltrans and the commission to review the business plan and make suggestions for improvement. Requires the authority to submit the final plan and to submit the initial business plan pursuant to that process on April 1, 1996, the commencement date of the interagency agreement .
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
SB 727 (Polanco-D) - Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Contains part of the Los Angeles bail-out package. Reduces the amount of revenue to be allocated to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority by a specified amount if that authority fails to elect to deposit specified amounts into the local transportation fund of Los Angeles County. Reduces the amount of revenue allocated from the State Highway Account for expenditure in the County of Los Angeles by the difference between 2 amounts otherwise specified by this bill.
Requires Los Angeles County, as to the amount deposited in the county general fund that exceeds $50 million, to annually transfer to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority over a 5-year period prescribed amounts appropriated to the county from revenues derived from the per gallon tax on gasoline (gas tax) and the use fuel tax (diesel tax), or from other transportation funds, or any combination of such funds, as determined by the county.
Chapter 518, Statutes of 1995
Similar legislation is SB 75 (Polanco-D) which was vetoed and AB 1218 (Escutia-D), which the Assembly refused concurrence in Senate amendments; reconsideration granted; on Assembly Inactive File.
SB 877 (Alquist-D) - Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Authorizes the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to impose a sales tax on retail sales in the region of motor vehicle fuel, as defined, excluding motor vehicle fuel used to power aircraft, and to adopt a regional transportation expenditure plan for the revenues derived from the tax. Provides that the tax would be levied at a rate established by the commission, but not exceeding 10 cents per gallon.
[PAGE 729]Requires, upon the request of the commission, the board of supervisors of each county and city and county within the region to submit to the voters at the 1996 general election a measure, adopted by the commission, authorizing the commission to impose the tax commencing on January 1, 1997, for a 20-year period. Requires the commission to reimburse each county and city and county in the region for the cost of submitting the measure to the voters at the general election in 1996. Provides that these costs shall be reimbursed from revenues derived from the tax if the measure is approved by the voters and from any available funds of the commission if the measure is not approved. Provides that the board of supervisors may elect not to submit the measure if it submits an alternative countywide transportation funding measure to the voters at the general election in 1996.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 10X (Craven-R) - Highways: Environmental Mitigation
Allows those funds from the Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Demonstration Program Fund appropriated to the Department of Transportation that are necessary to complete the Guajome Marsh Restoration Project in San Diego County to be available for disbursement in liquidation of encumbrances until March 1, 1996.
Chapter 6, Statutes of 1995-96, First Extraordinary Session
AB 33 (Katz-D) - Transportation Bonds
Requires the Department of Transportation to notify the Legislature when all of the authorized Passenger Rail and Clean Air Bond Act bonds have been issued and sold.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 443 (Goldsmith-R) - Off-Highway Vehicle Facilities: Appropriation
Appropriates $2,775,000 from the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund to the Department of Parks and Recreation in augmentation of Item 3790-101-263 of the Budget Act of 1995 for purposes of implementing and administering cooperative agreements with federal land management agencies in the 1995-96 fiscal year, if the agreement is approved by the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 1995
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AB 949 (Lee-D) - Public Works Contracts: Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Requires that when the expected procurement required in connection with the construction of facilities and works under the jurisdiction of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District exceeds $2,500 but does not exceed $10,000, or in the case of the purchase of supplies, equipment, or materials does not exceed $25,000, the district shall obtain a minimum of 3 quotations for that purpose.
Chapter 115, Statutes of 1995
AB 1277 (McDonald-D) - Intermodal Corridors
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to take specified action with regard to projects within an intermodal corridor of economic significance, including supporting the utilization of local procurement and hiring by the governing authorities responsible for carrying out a project within those corridors.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 1370 (Mazzoni-D) - Railroads: Capital Improvements
Requires that revenues derived from passenger service on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad right-of-way south of Willits to Larkspur only be expended for capital improvements to, and operating expenses of, passenger rail service south of Willits to Larkspur. Prohibits property on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad right-of-way south of Willits to Larkspur from being pledged or mortgaged to fund capital improvements on the right-of-way north of Willits.
Chapter 212, Statutes of 1995
AB 1590 (Goldsmith-R) - Contracts: Design-Build
Enacts a design-build demonstration program that would authorize the Department of Transportation to enter into contracts, as defined, for the design and construction of 3 specified projects.
(Failed passage in Senate Transportation Committee; reconsideration granted)
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AB 1683* (Conroy-R) - Carriers
Requires that all monies paid into the Transportation Rate Fund by highway common carriers, cement carriers, integrated intermodal small package carriers and highway permit carriers, except for moneys paid by household goods carriers, be used by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) solely for the purposes permitted by state and federal law, among which are the regulation of the safety and financial responsibility of carriers. Remains operative only so long as the federal law relating to the preemption provisions relating to carriers is operative or until January 1, 1997. Transfers authority for the regulation of safety with respect to motor carriers of property, as defined, from the PUC to the Department of the California Highway Patrol , as of January 1, 1997.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 1795 (Granlund-R) - Federal Transportation Funds
Requires the Department of Transportation, the metropolitan planning organizations, and the county transportation commissions to jointly develop a procedure and formula for the allocation of federal funds to the regions for transportation demand management programs.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 1883 (Machado-D) - Transportation Funding
Deletes existing reference to statutory creation of a transportation planning agency relative to the allocation of specified funds for purposes of conducting transportation planning and programming.
(Held without recommendation in Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 1923 (Conroy-R) - Transportation Planning
Requires a regional transportation improvement program to be developed in cooperation with the Department of Transportation and affected transit operators.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
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Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 37 (Kelley-R) - Motor Vehicles: Air Pollution
Requires the State Air Resources Board to consult with significantly impacted entities and makes specified determinations before adopting or amending a standard or regulation relating to motor vehicle fuel specifications.
Chapter 930, Statutes of 1995
SB 382 (Lewis-R) - Air Pollution: Trip Reduction: Parking
Prohibits a district or other local or regional agency from imposing any requirement, generally including any requirement in a congestion management program, on any private entity to reduce shopping trips or require parking charges or the elimination of parking spaces at retail facilities, except as specified.
Chapter 386, Statutes of 1995
SB 437 (Lewis-R) - Trip Reduction
Prohibits the local air pollution control districts and other public agencies from imposing any requirement on any employer to implement a trip reduction program unless the program is expressly required by federal law and the elimination of the program will result in the imposition of federal sanctions.
Chapter 607, Statutes of 1995
SB 498* (Kelley-R) - Smog Checks
Authorizes the Department of Consumer Affairs to develop and implement either the repair subsidy program or an economic hardship extension program that provides for a 12-month economic hardship extension for vehicles from the biennial certificate of compliance requirement under specified circumstances, if the department has issued a public notice declaring that the program for testing a specified percentage of vehicles at test-only stations is operational.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
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SB 501 (Calderon-D) - Vehicles: Retirement
Deletes various provisions relating to the operation of the high-polluter repair or removal program. Requires the State Air Resources Board to establish, by regulation, a statewide privately operated program, to be overseen by a state agency designated by the Governor, to generate emission reduction credits through the retirement or disposal of high-emitting light-duty vehicles. Prescribes means of funding those programs and requires the department to establish the percentage of the available funds to be expended for specified purposes.
Chapter 929, Statutes of 1995
SB 772 (Hurtt-R) - South Coast District: Trip Reduction
Deletes existing law prohibiting the south coast district from requiring any employer with fewer than 100 employees at a single worksite to submit a trip reduction plan. Prohibits the south coast district from adopting or enforcing any rule or regulation that requires any employer to submit a trip reduction plan. Authorizes the south coast district to require an employer with 100 or more employees at a single worksite to provide ride-matching and transit information to employees at that site.
Chapter 858, Statutes of 1995
SB 836 (Lewis-R) - Employer Based Trip Reduction
Authorizes the State Air Resources Board to adopt the definitions recommended by the technical review group and requires those terms, if defined by the state board, to be used by the districts, county congestion management agencies, and other local agencies that have enacted, or will enact, employer-based trip reduction regulations or ordinances. Requires local agencies to apply those definitions to existing regulations or ordinances, and imposes a state-mandated local program.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 928 (Peace-D) - Air Pollution: Vehicles
Makes various changes in existing law, including extending a pilot program relative to odometer checks and reduction or pollution miles, to any air pollution control district or air quality management district that elects to participate in the program and providing that certain provisions relating to the pilot program shall become operative January 1, 1996. Revises the repair cost limit for vehicles that exceed the applicable target pollution miles, authorizes districts to increase vehicle registration fees to fund mobile source emission reduction programs, and requires districts to reimburse state agency costs in implementing the pilot program.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
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SB 962 (Russell-R) - Air Pollution: Fee Schedule: Issuance of Variances and Permits
Revises existing provisions relating to emission fee increases to instead prohibit the South Coast Air Quality Management District Board from increasing any existing permit fee by a percentage greater than any percentage increase in the California Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year unless the board complies with specified requirements.
Prohibits the district from indexing the fees, as prescribed; and specifies that, subject to those fees, and fee increase, limits, that fee indexing restriction shall not prevent the district from establishing or amending an individual permit renewal or operating permit fee applicable to a class of sources to recover certain costs which that class will cause to district programs.
Chapter 83, Statutes of 1995
SB 1038 (Johannessen-R) - Air Pollution: Vehicle
Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to adopt and implement regulations for the purpose of collecting and disseminating any information that is necessary to ensure the long-term success of the vehicle inspection air maintenance program.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
SB 1175 (Killea-I) - Motor Vehicle Fees
Authorizes the State Air Resources Board to impose an unspecified motor vehicle registration fee to be collected by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Requires the fee revenues to be deposited in the State Implementation Plan Account, which the bill would create in the General Fund, and, upon appropriation, used to fund components of the state implementation plan relating to mobile source pollution, as specified.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
SB 1197* (Russell-R) - Air Pollution: Smog Check Technicians
Creates the Technician Training Fund to be administered jointly by the Bureau of Automotive Repair in the department and the Employment Training Panel in the Employment Development Department. Requires the money in the fund, up to a specified maximum amount in each of the 1995-96 and 1996-97 fiscal years, to be used for training smog check technicians.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
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SB 1302 (Peace-D) - Vehicular Emissions Reduction: Schoolbuses
Authorizes any school district or county office of education to establish and administer a schoolbus emissions reduction fund to provide revenue from state, local, and private sources, as specified, to replace, or increase the number of, schoolbuses in the existing school district or county fleet with the purchase of low- or zero-emission schoolbuses or to retrofit schoolbuses to achieve reductions in emissions.
Chapter 862, Statutes of 1995
SJR 2 (Russell-R) - Air Pollution: Employer Trip Reduction Plans
Memorializes Congress to amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the provisions mandating an employer trip reduction program in those areas, and, instead, to allow states to pursue practical, cost-effective alternatives to solving their air quality problems.
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 1995
AB 30 (Katz-D) - Inspection Program
Provides that a certificate of compliance or noncompliance with emission standards may not be based solely on the owner's statement.
(In Senate Transportation committee)
AB 63* (Katz-D) - Air Pollution: Motor Vehicles: Inspection Program
Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to develop and implement either the repair subsidy program or a program that would provide for a 12-month economic hardship extension for vehicles from the biennial certificate of compliance requirement under specified circumstances. Requires the program to be implemented when the department has issued a public notice declaring that the program for testing a specified percentage of vehicles at test-only stations is operational or when specified testing is operative, and delays the use of the $450 limit until that time, as specified.
Chapter 982, Statutes of 1995
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AB 259 (Escutia-D) - South Coast Air Quality Management District: Revenues
Requires a specified portion of revenues that are to be used by the South Coast Air Quality Management District to also be used to provide technical assistance to cities receiving revenues from the district.
Chapter 812, Statutes of 1995
AB 414 (Sher-D) - Air Pollution: Vehicles: Fees
Requires specified fees to be allocated by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District for specified additional projects, including mobile source projects and bicycle facility improvement projects. Requires the district governing board to hold an annual public meeting to review the expenditure of the fee revenues. Requires any congestion management agency, as specified, receiving those funds to ensure that the funds are expended for purposes of improving air quality; and require any agency receiving those funds to encumber and expend the funds within 2 years, except as specified. Provides that the allocation for those bicycle facility improvement projects shall become inoperative on January 1, 1998, unless a later enacted statute deletes or extends that date.
Chapter 950, Statutes of 1995
AB 526 (Sher-D) - Air Pollution: Indirect Sources: Vehicles
Specifies that the "generation of vehicle trips" be as to trips that would not otherwise occur.
Chapter 949, Statutes of 1995
AB 531 (Morrissey-R) - Air Pollution: Engines
Requires the State Air Resources Board (ARB) to establish an optional registration program, by regulation, for portable internal combustion engines, as defined, and authorizes the ARB to assess fees for the registration or the renewal of the registration of those engines. Expresses the intent of the Legislature that the registration and regulation of emissions from those engines be done on a uniform, statewide basis and that registration and regulation of those engines by the districts be preempted, except as specified. Prohibits districts from taking prescribed actions regarding those engines. Requires the ARB to establish emission limits and emission control requirements for those engines after conducting an evaluation, holding public hearings, and considering prescribed factors.
Requires districts to enforce the registration program, emission limits, or emission control requirements in the same manner as district rules and regulations.
Chapter 817, Statutes of 1995
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AB 533 (Morrissey-R) - Vehicles: Equipment: Nonvehicular Pollution Control
Exempts any equipment carried by or, affixed to, authorized emergency vehicles from nonvehicular air pollution control requirements.
Chapter 235, Statutes of 1995
AB 1457 (Granlund-R) - Air Pollution: Vehicles
Requires vehicle manufacturers to supply specified information to all licensed smog check stations, if that information is supplied to franchised automotive dealers. Requires vehicle manufacturers to contract with after-market emissions parts manufacturers to supply those manufacturers with information necessary for the manufacture of emissions related parts and standardized test equipment.
(In Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1460 (Morrissey-R) - Air Pollution: Heavy-Duty Vehicles: Smoke Emissions
Deletes the existing provisions requiring the State Air Resources Board to adopt those regulations prohibiting the use of heavy-duty motor vehicles that have excessive smoke emissions. Prohibits the use of any heavy-duty motor vehicle with excessive smoke emissions or other emissions-related defects, except as to vehicle engines of the 1994 and subsequent model years, and makes related changes.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1777 (Brewer-R) - Emission Reduction Credits
Requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt a methodology for districts to calculate the value of emission reduction credits from stationary, mobile, except as specified, indirect, and areawide sources when used interchangeably. Requires the districts to use that methodology. Authorizes a district to use an alternative methodology prior to its adoption by the state board. Requires state, district, and local programs for the repair or retirement of those vehicles to provide for the calculation of emission reductions based on actual emissions, as specified, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
Chapter 805, Statutes of 1995
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Miscellaneous
SB 36 (Killea-I) - Vehicles: Registration Fees
Deletes the existing eligibility requirement for specified funds derived from a $1 vehicle registration fee, and extends the termination date of the existing law until January 1, 2000. Prohibits proceeds of the fee from being used for any purpose not authorized by the bill.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 46 (Ayala-D) - Substance and Alcohol Testing
Requires every city and county regulating taxicab drivers to provide for a mandatory controlled substance and alcohol testing certification program equivalent to that required for commercial truck drivers.
Chapter 405, Statutes of 1995
SB 70 (Kelley-R) - Manufactured Homes: Escort Vehicles
Requires the Department of Transportation to designate highway routes throughout the state, outside the heavily congested metropolitan areas, for the transportation of manufactured homes over 12 feet, but not exceeding 14 feet in width, without the requirement of escort vehicles.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 111* (Kelley-R) - Highways: Relinquishment of State Route 111
Requires the Department of Transportation, using existing resources, to monitor the cumulative impact of fragmented gaps in the state highway system and, beginning January 1, 1998, to annually report its findings to the Legislature. Authorizes the commission, upon terms and conditions approved by it, to relinquish a portion of State Highway Route 111 to a city in which the highway is located and which has agreed to accept it. Provides that the relinquishment takes effect on the day immediately following the commission's approval of the terms and conditions of relinquishment.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 1995
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SB 163 (Johannessen-R) - Motor Vehicle Fuels: Penalties
Imposes, until January 1, 1999, civil or administrative civil penalties up to a prescribed maximum depending on the nature of the violation for violation of prescribed statutes or any rule, regulation, permit, variance, or order of the State Air Resources Board pertaining to fuel requirements and standards.
Chapter 966, Statutes of 1995
SB 184 (Kopp-I) - San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the encouragement of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, and requires electrical corporations to meet specified conditions with respect to the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
Chapter 681, Statutes of 1995
SB 240 (Ayala-D) - Vehicles: Towing: Impoundment
Makes various changes to existing law relative to the towing, impoundment and the release of a vehicle to its owner. Provides a timeframe as to when the garage keeping possession takes place and allows, in specified circumstances, the owner of the vehicle to regain possession prior to its removal by a tow truck company.
Chapter 404, Statutes of 1995
SB 252 (Kelley-R) - Public Transit Subsidies
Deletes the existing exclusions for the amount of insurance premiums paid by a transit operator, and limits the exclusion of payments made by an operator in disposition, rather than settlement, of liability claims to the amount which in any year exceeds 125% of the operator's average annual disposition payments. Extends the termination date of this provision to January 1, 2000.
Chapter 242, Statutes of 1995
SB 253 (Kelley-R) - Driving Hours: Emergencies
Allows drivers employed by water corporations and water districts to drive more than the number of allowable hours during emergency restoration of service.
Chapter 102, Statutes of 1995
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SB 274 (Killea-I) - San Diego County
Requires specified members of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board to be a representative of 1 of 2 supervisorial districts.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 288 (Russell-R) - Parking and Business Improvement
Requires the city council in a parking and business improvement area, upon the retirement of any relative outstanding and unpaid indebtedness, to disestablish an improvement area if requested to do so by a specified number of the owners of businesses that pay assessments.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
SB 301 (Campbell-R) - Driver's License Examination
Requires that the entire examination for a drivers license be administered exclusively in English.
(Failed passage in Senate Transportation Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 307 (Wright-R) - Cheating on a Driver's Test
Makes the first conviction of cheating on a driver's license test punishable as either an infraction or a misdemeanor.
Chapter 243, Statutes of 1995
SB 309 (Dills-D) - Outdoor Advertising
Provides that message center displays are subject to the proximity restrictions in existing law.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
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SB 325 (Russell-R) - Recreational Vehicles: Dealers
Requires a motor vehicle dealer, prior to being issued a temporary branch license for selling new recreational vehicles, as defined, at a show, to submit to the Department of Motor Vehicles a manufacturer's written authorization specifying the dates of the show, the location of the show, and the makes of new recreational vehicles being offered for sale. If 9 or fewer dealers are participating in the show, limits the issuance of the temporary license to a dealer whose established place of business or permanent branch office is located 50 miles or less from the show. Authorizes the department to issue a temporary branch license for purposes of participating in a show if prescribed conditions exist. Requires certain advertising or promotional disclosures and requires all dealers at those shows to disclose certain service or warranty information.
Chapter 923, Statutes of 1995
SB 349 (Kopp-I) - Capitol Corridor Rail Services
Allows a new passenger rail service that receives state funding, commencing in the 4th year from the bill's effective date, to continue to be eligible for the funding only if it maintains a ratio of fare revenues to avoidable costs of at least 40%. Authorizes the establishment of the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Agency, specifies the membership of the agency, and prescribes its functions and responsibilities. Requires the Department of Transportation, through an interagency agreement with the joint powers agency, to transfer to the agency responsibility for administering the Capitol Corridor. Provides administrative support for the agency by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. Requires the interagency transfer agreement to provide funding, as specified, to the agency for Capitol Corridor services.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 374* (Alquist-D) - Competitive Negotiation: Golden Gate Bridge
Revises the vote requirement of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District for a 2/3 vote to instead require a 3/4 vote of the district board, and includes ferry vessels purchased in coordination with the City of Vallejo within the category of specialized equipment that may be purchased by competitive negotiation pursuant to these provisions.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 375 (Dills-D) - Outdoor Advertising
Provides that, for outdoor advertising purposes, a highway is defined to include roads and other routes that are used for or laid out and intended for the public passage of road or street vehicles or road or street vehicles and persons.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
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SB 382 (Lewis-R) - Parking
Prohibits a district or other local or regional agency from imposing any requirement, generally including any requirement in a congestion management program, on any private entity to reduce shopping trips or require parking charges or the elimination of parking spaces at retail facilities, except as specified.
Chapter 368, Statutes of 1995
SB 383 (Haynes-R) - Off-Highway Vehicles
Extends the repeal date until January 1, 2003, on the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Act of 1988; and extends a January 1, 1998 repeal date, currently applicable to the collection and disposition of certain related fees, to January 1, 2003.
Chapter 970, Statutes of 1995
SB 446 (Haynes-R) - Outdoor Advertising: Hearing
Specifies that the Director of Transportation shall comply with specified provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act when conducting certain hearings under the Outdoor Advertising Act. Requires the person who filed a protest to initiate the hearing to pay the costs of the hearing, unless the hearing results in a ruling adverse to the department, in which case the department would be required to pay those costs.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 503 (Petris-D) - Child Passenger Restraints: Public Notice
Requires, as a condition of licensing of specified medical facilities, that the applicant for the license have a written policy relating to the dissemination to patients of certain information relating to child passenger restraint systems. In the case of day care centers, including infant centers, preschools, and extended day care facilities, requires that the applicant produce evidence satisfactory to the State Department of Social Services that the applicant has posted signs at the point of entry to the facility that provide certain information relating to child passenger restraint systems.
Chapter 512, Statutes of 1995
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SB 515 (Killea-I) - Bicycles: Rules of the Road
Provides that a bicycle may proceed to go straight through an intersection by using the lane closest to the right that is not marked as a right turn only lane.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 549* (Alquist-D) - Salvage and Dismantled Vehicles
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to either inspect total loss salvage vehicles to determine their proper identity or to request that the inspection be performed by the Department of the California Highway Patrol. Authorizes the California Highway Patrol to randomly inspect those vehicles, and repeals the provision in existing law requiring the seller of a salvage vehicle to inform the purchaser regarding ownership documentation for replacement parts.
Chapter 684, Statutes of 1995
SB 574 (Peace-D) - Speed Traps
Exempts, until January 1, 1999, Chase Avenue in the City of El Cajon from the definition of a speed trap.
Chapter 315, Statutes of 1995
SB 595* (Thompson-D) - Public Utilities: Carriers
Provides for a procedure when the claims are made to collect charges in excess of those originally billed by a highway carrier or freight forwarder under specified conditions. Appropriates $251,000 from the Transportation Rate Fund to the Public Utilities Commission for its purposes for the 1995-96 and 1996-97 fiscal years.
Chapter 560, Statutes of 1995
SB 636 (Haynes-R) - Driver Education
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish standards and criteria for the approval of commercial defensive driving programs. Makes related changes.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
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SB 655 (Craven-R) - Freeway Emergencies
Authorizes the service authority in the County of San Diego, with the approval of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, under specified conditions, to contract with any public agency or private entity to provide supplemental answering and dispatching services, as specified.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 726 (Senate Transportation Committee) - Omnibus Transportation Bill: Speed Limits
Authorizes adjacent counties whose common boundary lies within a county highway to enter into an agreement for the improvement, maintenance, construction, or reconstruction of the highway to be provided by either or both counties. Authorizes a fee of $1 to be imposed by a service authority for freeway emergencies. Increases the fee to $12 for noncommercial licenses and $27 for commercial licenses or non-commercial firefighter licenses. Specifies that the handlebars of bicycles being transported on the front of a bus shall not extend more than 42 inches from the front of the bus. Increases, on a specified date, the maximum speed limit to 65 miles per hour. Increases, on a specified date, the limit to 70 miles per hour, under specified conditions. Authorizes local authorities to set those limits at 60 and 65 miles per hour, respectively.
Requires the Director of Transportation to notify the Secretary of State whenever the director determines the date upon which a speed limit of 65 miles per hour would not subject the state to a reduction in federal aid for highways. Provides that the provisions specified above, relating to increased speed limits, become operative on that date or on a later date designated in the notice.
Chapter 766, Statutes of 1995
Similar legislation is SB 848 (Kopp-I) which is in Assembly Transportation Committee.
SB 736 (Hayden-D) - Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Imposes limitations on the making of gifts or contributions of over $10 in value or amount to members, alternate members, and employees of the authority, and their immediate families, by any construction company, engineering firm, consultant, legal firm, or any company, vendor, or business entity seeking a contract with the authority, and on the acceptance of those gifts by a member, alternate member, employee, or any member of their families. Imposes limitations on making or participating in contracts by a member, alternate member, or employee who had accepted a gifts or contribution of over $10 in value or amount from a participant in the contract.
Prohibits a specified former member, alternate member, or employee of the authority, for a period of 3 years after leaving the authority, from accepting employment with any company, vendor, or business entity that was awarded a contract as a result of the individual's participation, evaluation, award, or implementation of that contract. Requires the Secretary of State to submit the substantive provisions of this act to the voters for their approval at the March 26, 1996, statewide direct primary election.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
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SB 738 (Hayden-D) - Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Requires the authority to adopt a specified change order procedure for contracts awarded by the authority. Requires the authority to require its inspector general to prepare a questionnaire to be completed by any firm seeking to do business with the authority. Requires the questionnaire to solicit information on specified topics, and prohibits the authority from contracting or doing business with any firm that knowingly provides false information in the questionnaire.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
SB 766 (Alquist-D) - Salvage Certificate
Requires that, prior to the sale of a total loss salvage vehicle that has been previously sold or disposed of to a person who is not a licensed dealer or automobile dismantler or salvage pool, the vehicle be registered under the Vehicle Code.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
SB 768 (O'Connell-D) - Highways: Signs
Prohibits the Department of Transportation from approving tourist-oriented directional signs (TODS) within any urbanized area having a population of more than 50,000 people, as specified. Prohibits signs which violate any federal law, rule or regulation that would result in the loss of federal funds. In counties which have an active farm trail program, authorizes the use of an individualized farm trail symbol on TODS.
Chapter 374, Statutes of 1995
SB 788* (Alquist-D) - Drivers' Licenses: Visas: Expiration Date
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to adopt regulations that reduce the burdens and costs associated with the issuance and renewal of drivers' licenses and identification cards for legal, nonimmigrant applicants with multiple entry visas, and expresses the intent of the Legislature that the department, as to these persons, shall endeavor to issue and renew drivers' licenses for the longest period allowed under the existing law.
Vetoed by the Governor
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SB 833 (Kopp-I) - Vehicles
Expressly applies existing law relative to automated rail crossing enforcement systems to all places where a driver is required to respond to an official traffic control signal showing different colored lights. Renames the automated rail crossing enforcement system the automated enforcement system. Sunsets January 1, 1999.
Authorizes an officer to remove and seize a vehicle, operated by an individual with a suspended license, without the necessity of arresting the person, when the vehicle has been involved in a traffic collision. Prescribes procedures to be followed for the release of the vehicle prior to the end of 30 day's impoundment, including a requirement that a legal owner who has obtained possession of the impounded vehicle not relinquish the vehicle to the registered owner until after the termination of the 30-day impoundment period and until after the registered owner has presented a valid driver's license or valid temporary driver's license to the legal owner.
Chapter 922, Statutes of 1995
SB 837 (Lewis-R) - Vehicles: Driving Under the Influence
Requires the court, in the case of a person convicted of DUI to require the person to have license plates bearing the words "CONVICTED DRUNK DRIVER" on any vehicle driven by that person for a period of not less than 1 year after the person's privilege to drive a motor vehicle has been restored. Also in Criminal Justice, Drunk Driving/Vehicle Code section.
(In Senate Criminal Procedure Committee)
SB 869 (Mello-D) - Santa Cruz County
Creates and prescribes the membership and powers of, the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, and declares the commission to be the legal successor to the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission established pursuant to other provisions of existing law for all purposes, particularly for purposes of specified provisions of the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Act of 1990, a statewide bond act.
Requires members of the governing board appointed by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to be residents of the county, and deletes authority for the board of supervisors to appoint 1 of its own members to the governing board of the transit district. Decreases the length of the district residence requirement for a governing board appointee to 30 days from 1 year.
Chapter 96, Statutes of 1995
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SB 899 (Lewis-R) - Publications
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to sell advertising space within the pages of the California Driver's Handbook and authorizes the Office of State Printing to print the handbook. Provides that it does not preclude the office from contracting out services or granting exemptions for services otherwise authorized.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation; reconsideration granted)
SB 902 (Leslie-R) - Local Transportation Commissions
Authorizes members of the county board of supervisors, the city councils, the transit district, and members of other transit operators in the county to serve as members of the local transportation commission. Authorizes a local transportation commission to employ staff, enter into contracts, join a public employees retirement system, and conduct other activities necessary to fulfill its responsibilities as a regional transportation planning agency and local transportation commission.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 916 (Haynes-R) - Toll Roads
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to enter into 2 additional agreements with private entities for the development, operation and maintenance of transportation facilities within California. Allows private developers to charge tolls for the use of the facilities.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
SB 952 (Petris-D) - Property Transfer: City of Oakland
Provides that the Department of Transportation may sell at nominal cost or transfer without cost specified state-owned properties in the City of Oakland to the City of Oakland in memory of the victims of the Loma Prieta Earthquake and the negative impact that the result freeway collapse had on the adjacent neighborhoods in Oakland. Allows the property that is transferred to the city to be used by the city in the best way possible to expedite the recovery of the local economy and the adjacent neighborhood as a result of the freeway collapse and to assist in the reconstruction project.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
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SB 1057 (Johannessen-R) - Siskiyou Railroad Authority
Authorizes the Siskiyou Railroad Authority to establish rates, rentals, charges, and classifications of transportation services operated by, and for, the authority.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 1995
SB 1068 (Kopp-I) - California Transportation Commission: Membership
Revises and recasts the make-up of the California Transportation Commission membership.
Chapter 266, Statutes of 1995
SB 1111 (Ayala-D) - Vehicles: Abandonment
Includes, among those causes under which the Department of Motor Vehicles may refuse to register or transfer a vehicle, the applicant's abandonment of a vehicle and failure to pay the cost of removal and disposition of the vehicle, as specified. Makes the last registered owner of the vehicle guilty of an infraction if the abandoned vehicle is not redeemed after impound. In addition to any other penalties, makes the registered owner liable for any deficiency remaining after disposal of the abandoned vehicle. Provides that the registered owner of the vehicle is relieved of liability if a report of sale or transfer of the vehicle or a theft report is filed.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 1131* (Costa-D) - Diesel Fuel Tax: Diesel Fuel
Makes a variety of changes in the collection of diesel fuel taxes, which sunset after 1997.
Chapter 34, Statutes of 1995
SB 1152 (Polanco-D) - Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Provides for a governing body of 14 members, all of whom would be elected from districts established by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, as specified. Also prohibits an employee of the authority from being a candidate or serving as a member of the authority. Authorizes the County of Los Angeles to bill the authority for any costs incurred by the county resulting from this act.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee; reconsideration granted)
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SB 1186 (Johannessen-R) - Gasoline Additives
Prohibits the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) as a gasoline additive for use in this state and provides that no gasoline containing MTBE shall be sold for use in this state.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
SB 1249 (Mountjoy-R) - Vehicle Dealers: Examination
Requires every applicant for a motor vehicle dealer's license and his or her employees, commencing July 1, 1996, to take and complete a written examination prepared by the Department of Motor Vehicles concerning specified matters. Permits an oral examination in place of the written examination for any applicant who is not the sole owner of a motor vehicle dealership so long as at least one person in the dealership ownership structure completed the written examination. Prescribes continuing educational requirements consisting of at least 6 hours of instruction during the 2-year period following the initial examination and at least 4 hours during each succeeding 2-year period.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
SCR 25 (Killea-I) - California Bike Commute Day
Proclaims Thursday, May 4, 1995 to be California Bike Commute Day throughout the state and encourages all state agencies to participate by helping to publicize the day, using existing transportation coordinators and programs.
Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 1995
SCR 35 (Thompson-D) - State Highway Route 37: Median Barriers
Strongly recommends that median barriers be installed on State Highway Route 37 between the intersection with State Highway Route 121 and the Mare Island Bridge.
Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 1995
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SJR 10 (Kopp-I) - Transportation: Federal Programs
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to (1) reorganize the federal Department of Transportation, (2) eliminate federal programs for highways and transit, (3) limit the federal role in transportation to aviation, Coast Guard, and Amtrak, and (4) abandon efforts to develop and establish a national transportation system. Urges state transportation agencies not to participate in the formulation of a national transportation system.
Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 1995
SJR 21 (Leslie-R) - Nonmotorized Facility: Tahoe Basin
Urges California state agencies, counties, cities, and districts in the Tahoe Basin, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, and other interested parties to undertake the necessary steps to ensure the designation and siting, by July 1, 1996, and the development, by July 1, 2000, of an appropriate nonmotorized route on the California side of the Tahoe Basin. Urges the U. S. Forest Service to provide assistance to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to ensure the designation and siting of an appropriate nonmotorized route on the California side of the Tahoe Basin by July 1, 1996.
Memorializes the President and the Congress to support the development of the Lake Tahoe Nonmotorized Bikeway and Pedestrian Facility.
Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 1995
AB 28 (Gallegos-D) - Vehicle Tire Chains: Disclosure
Requires vehicle manufacturers to provide franchised dealers with a list of vehicles that may not be operated with tire chains, and requires the dealer to provide a specified disclosure statement to the buyer or lessee of a new motor vehicle, in not less than 14-point boldface type on a single piece of paper. Requires the dealer to furnish the buyer or lessee with a copy of the disclosure, signed by the buyer or lessee, prior to the sale or lease of the vehicle.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 1995
AB 31 (Katz-D) - Freeway Service Patrol
Repeals existing law that authorized implementation of a freeway service patrol system on traffic-congested urban freeways throughout the state, and provides that the act becomes inoperative on June 30, 1996, and repealed as of January 1, 1997.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 1995
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AB 93 (Hauser-D) - North Coast Railroad Authority
Adds the Counties of Sonoma and Trinity to the North Coast Railroad Authority.
Chapter 726, Statutes of 1995
AB 100 (Hannigan-D) - Vehicles: Transfer Exemptions
Provides that the addition of an individual as a registered owner of a vehicle does not require a certificate of noncompliance.
Chapter 292, Statutes of 1995
AB 110 (Hannigan-D) - Golf Carts
Repeals the City of Palm Desert golf cart pilot project and expands, until January 1, 1998, the scope of the provisions governing the City of Roseville golf cart pilot project to allow any city or county to adopt a golf cart transportation plan. Requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to prepare and submit a specified report to the Legislature not later than April 1, 1997. Requires specified local agencies to cooperate with the department in the preparation of the report.
Chapter 334, Statutes of 1995
AB 135 (Rainey-R) - Vehicle Registration Fees
Extends indefinitely various registration fees designated to prevent auto thefts that were scheduled to sunset.
Chapter 819, Statutes of 1995
AB 153 (Napolitano-D) - Motorcycle Audit
Requires the Bureau of State Audits to complete and submit a specified audit, regarding accident reporting, insurance coverage of motorcycle drivers, and cost analysis of motorcycle accidents, to the Legislature and the Governor on or before June 30, 1996. Creates a 10-member Motorcycle Helmet Advisory Committee, as specified; requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to pay the costs of the audit; and requires the department to request that the U.S. Department of Transportation conduct a report regarding motorcycle safety helmet manufacturers.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
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AB 187 (Machado-D) - Vehicle Registration: Exemptions
Exempts specified trailers, motor trucks, truck tractors, and combinations of motor vehicles, from existing certification requirements. Authorizes the filing of a certificate of nonoperation after the expiration of the registration of a vehicle but not later than 90 days after the registration expiration date, subject to payment of the $5 fee and a specified penalty. Makes a certificate of nonoperation valid until the vehicle's registration is renewed, rather than only for 1 registration year.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 192 (Cannella-D) - Vehicle Dealers: Unlawful Acts
Makes it unlawful for any person to use the terms "invoice," "dealer invoice," or "wholesale price," or similar terms that refer to a dealer's cost for a motor vehicle in an advertisement for the sale or lease of a vehicle, or advertise that the selling price of a vehicle is above, below, or at either selling prices or cost, with specified exceptions.
Prohibits a dealer, when advertising one or more specified auction events, from advertising that a vehicle will be auctioned to the public unless specified information pertaining to the vehicle and the auction is disclosed in the advertisement, prohibits the advertisement of vehicles seized by public agencies or authorities unless specific additional information is disclosed in the advertisement, and provides that it is unlawful for an auctioning dealer to fail to provide specified information on the day of the auction regarding a vehicle seized by a public agency or authority.
Chapter 585, Statutes of 1995
AB 210* (Burton-D) - Toll Bridges
Requires the California Transportation Commission to grant toll-free and reduced-rate passage to class I vehicles designed by the manufacturer to be occupied by no more than 2 persons, including the driver, if the vehicles are occupied by 2 persons, including the driver.
Chapter 142, Statutes of 1995
AB 260 (Richter-R) - Electric Vehicles: Study
Prohibits the sale and registration, commencing with the 1998 model year, of any new gasoline-fueled light-duty motor vehicle unless a decal is affixed and specifies the portion of the sales price that is used to subsidize electric vehicles, as specified. A person who violates that requirement would be subject to a civil penalty that would be deposited in the General Fund.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
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AB 273 (Kuykendall-R) - Transportation: Los Angeles County
Revises the composition of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on and after July 1, 1997. Reduces from 13 to 9 the number of voting members, and makes related changes. Changes the required contents of the authority's ordinance regulating the making of gifts to members and employees of the authority, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program and revises restrictions applicable to lobbyists having contact with the authority.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 311 (Baca-D) - Dump Truck Carriers
Provides that a licensed contractor is required to pay all transportation charges submitted by a duly authorized motor carrier of property in dump truck equipment, as specified. Deletes existing provisions that payment shall be made, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the parties and subject to the approval of the Public Utilities Commission and that nonpayment does not constitute grounds for a civil action. Provides instead that payment shall be made unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the contractor and the duly authorized motor carrier of property in dump truck equipment.
Chapter 37, Statutes of 1995
AB 323 (Bustamante-D) - Vehicles: Storage Fees
Authorizes the imposition of the fee or service charge for a vehicle that has been towed and stored for a period of 15 days and, following that 15-day period, for specified periods, as provided in other provisions of existing law, under prescribed conditions.
Chapter 289, Statutes of 1995
AB 356 (W. Murray-D) - Alleys: Vehicular and Pedestrian Access: Local
Expressly authorizes local authorities, by ordinance or resolution, to adopt rules and regulations restricting vehicular or pedestrian traffic through any alley, by means of gates, barrier, or other control devices, when necessary for the protection or preservation of the public peace, safety, health, or welfare, subject to certain conditions.
Chapter 215, Statutes of 1995
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AB 498 (Horcher-I) - Vehicles: Slowing to View Accident
Prohibits any person driving a vehicle on a freeway within the vicinity of a vehicular accident from slowing the speed of the vehicle to allow the driver or a passenger to view the accident.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation)
AB 531 (Morrissey-R) - Engines
Requires the State Air Resources Board to establish an optional registration program, by regulation, for portable internal combustion engines, as defined. Authorizes the state board to assess fees for the registration or the renewal of the registration of those engines. Expresses the intent of the Legislature that the registration and regulation of emissions from those engines be done on a uniform, statewide basis and that registration and regulation of those engines by the districts be preempted, except as specified. Prohibits districts from taking prescribed actions regarding those engines. Requires the state board to establish emission limits and emission control requirements for those engines after conducting an evaluation, holding public hearings, and considering prescribed factors.
Chapter 817, Statutes of 1995
AB 580 (Machado-D) - State Highway Route 580
Prohibits the Department of Transportation from authorizing a toll or fee for the use of any lane or lanes in existence on January 1, 1995, on a specified portion of State Highway Route 580, including a congestion pricing fee proposed by a local agency.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 609 (Morrissey-R) - Carriers: Passenger Stage Corporations
Makes it unlawful for a passenger stage corporation to conduct any operations as a carrier after the cancellation or revocation of a permit or certificate, or during the period of its suspension.
Chapter 362, Statutes of 1995
AB 613 (Aguiar-R) - Special License Plates
Extends existing special license plates for firefighters to include retired firefighters.
Chapter 213, Statutes of 1995
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AB 669 (Bowler-R) - Vehicles: Special Interest License Plates
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue special environmental design license plates that bear a design depicting a significant feature of the California Gold Discovery to Statehood Sesquicentennial and authorizes the plates to be issued in a combination of numbers or letters, or both, as requested by the applicant for the plates Prescribes 85% of the fees to be paid for the issuance, renewal, transfer, and substitution of the plates, for deposit in the California Sesquicentennial Foundation Account in the California Environmental License Plate Fund, which the bill would create, to be used, upon appropriation, for specified purposes, with the remaining 15% to be paid to the California Environmental License Plate Fund.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 715* (Hannigan-D) - State Highway Route 113
Requires State Highway Route 113 to be rerouted in a specified manner if mutually agreed upon by the Department of Transportation, the County of Solano, and the City of Dixon. Requires the exchange of maintenance, improvements, and other responsibilities concerning the rerouted Route 113 to go into effect not later than January 1, 1996.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 770 (Aguiar-R) - Autobrokers
Specifies that an autobroker registration shall be in the form of an endorsement to a vehicle dealer's license, defines a vehicle converter and makes several technical and clarifying changes governing the operations and conduct of autobrokers.
Chapter 211, Statutes of 1995
AB 772 (Aguiar-R) - Department of Transportation
Recasts existing law relative to grants of federal funds to provide mass transit services to meet the special needs of elderly and disabled persons to continue to provide the Department of Transportation with the authorization to coordinate applications or to act as an applicant in conformance with federal statutory provisions. Sets forth certain legislative findings and declarations.
(Failed passage in Senate Transportation; reconsideration granted)
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AB 843 (Goldsmith-R) - Speed Limits: Enforcement
Authorizes the City Council of the City of Santee to exempt from the definition of "speed trap" the use of radar for enforcement of speed limits on Mast Boulevard in that city. Remains in effect only until January 1, 1999, and is repealed as of that date.
Chapter 264, Statutes of 1995
AB 933* (Burton-D) - License Plates
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to design a license plate with the word "LIVERY" inscribed under the license plate number for specified "for hire" vehicles.
Chapter 358, Statutes of 1995
AB 964 (Katz-D) - Traffic Violator Schools
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to conduct a specified study relating to postprogram accident and citation records of traffic violator school graduates, as compared to the driving records of graduates of court-approved diversionary courses. Becomes operative on July 1, 1996.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 998 (Ducheny-D) - San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Project
Specifically authorizes the establishment of a joint powers authority to facilitate, and generate funding for, the reactivation of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Project, as prescribed. Repeals these provisions on January 1, 1997, unless the joint powers authority is in existence on June 1, 1996.
Chapter 126, Statutes of 1995
AB 1108 (Goldsmith-R) - Public Transit Services: Private Providers
Authorizes a public transit operator, in a county with a population of 300,000 or more, or that operates 10 or more buses, to make a cost comparison analysis, as prescribed, if requested to do so by a private transportation service provider.
Chapter 722, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1223 (Pringle-R) - Toll Evasion
Requires that the evasion of tolls on toll facilities be subject to civil penalties governed by a civil procedure, which the bill prescribes, including an administrative investigation and review procedure and an administrative and judicial appeal process. Requires the administration of the civil procedure to be conducted, in some cases, by local authorities. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to require each private entity authorized to collect tolls and local authorities, as specified, to reimburse the department for its initial costs of implementing the provisions of the bill, as specified.
Chapter 739, Statutes of 1995
AB 1326 (Mazzoni-D) - Railroads: Sonoma-Marin
Authorizes the Counties of Sonoma and Marin and the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District to enter into a joint exercise of powers agreement to create the Sonoma-Marin Railroad Authority. Authorizes officers of those counties and the district to serve as the governing body of the authority, and authorizes the authority to acquire from the Southern Pacific Railroad the right-of-way of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad between Willits and Larkspur.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 1400 (W. Brown-D) - Vehicles: Safety Belts
Deletes the prohibition against a peace officer making a stop for a safety belt violation.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 1995
AB 1426* (Pringle-R) - Private Railroad Car Tax: Assessed Value
Revises the definition of a "private railroad car" to include any railroad rolling stock intended for the transportation of any persons, commodity, or material, operated on the railroads of California, which car is owned by a person other than a railroad or the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. Defines "class of private railroad cars," as specified.
Chapter 220, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1501 (Bordonaro-R) - Motorized Bicycles
Defines a "motorized bicycle" as a device that has fully operative pedals for propulsion by human power and has an electric motor that meets specified requirements. Prohibits any person from operating the motorized bicycle unless a person wears a properly fitted and fastened bicycle helmet and requires that the motorized bicycle be operated in accordance with specified requirements. Requires these bicycles to comply with certain federal equipment and manufacturing requirements, to operate in a specified manner in regard to braking, and for the manufacturer to provide a specified disclosure to buyers relating to insurance coverage for operation of certain of those motorized bicycles. Prohibits any person from tampering with or modifying these motorized bicycles so as to increase their speed capabilities.
Requires a class M1 driver's license for the operation of any motor-driven cycle and a class M2 driver's license for the operation of a motorized bicycle or moped, or any bicycle with an attached motor, except a motorized bicycle, as defined by the bill.
Chapter 804, Statutes of 1995
AB 1560 (Gallegos-D) - Traffic Violator Schools
Requires a traffic violator school owner, as a condition to obtaining and maintaining a license, to have an instruction program that utilizes the standardized traffic violator school curriculum or an alternative Department of Motor Vehicles-approved traffic violator school curriculum, rather than requiring the school to maintain the department-approved lesson plan.
Requires the department to develop, or contract for the development of, a standardized traffic violator school curriculum to be implemented by January 1, 1997. Requires the department to distribute the curriculum and associated instructional materials to traffic violator schools, authorizes the department to charge a fee for certain of these services, and makes it unlawful for a traffic violator school to duplicate or sell the curriculum or materials developed by the department.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 1597 (Poochigian-R) - Motor Vehicles: Lighting
Allows any vehicle to be equipped with an exterior lamp that lights the entrance and exit of the vehicle.
Chapter 348, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1604 (Brewer-R) - Motorcycles
Changes the definition of a "motor-driven cycle" to exclude a bicycle with a motor attached, and requires a class M1 license to operate any motor-driven cycle. Includes a bicycle with a motor attached within the definition of a "motorized bicycle" or "moped."
Chapter 342, Statutes of 1995
AB 1633 (Olberg-R) - Schoolbuses
Exempts from the definition of a "schoolbus" a bus of the type commonly known as a coach bus when it is operated by the Trona Unified School District to transport pupils to school activities. Prohibits the operation of the bus for the transportation of pupils if the driver has not obtained a certificate for the operation of a schoolbus, requires the bus to be inspected annually by the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and requires the bus to meet certain federal equipment safety standards for schoolbuses.
Chapter 400, Statutes of 1995
AB 1640 (Escutia-D) - Transportation Authorities
Revises the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to provide for a governing body of 14 members, all of whom would be elected from districts established by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, as specified. Prohibits an employee of the authority from being a candidate or serving as a member of the authority. Authorizes the County of Los Angeles to bill the authority for any costs incurred by the county resulting from this act.
Revises the Orange County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to provide for a governing body of 10 members, all of whom would be elected from districts established by the Orange County Board of Supervisors, as specified. Prohibits an employee of the authority from being a candidate or serving as a member of the authority. Authorizes the County of Orange to bill the authority for any costs incurred by the county resulting from this act. Imposes limitations on the making of gifts to members or employees of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority or the Orange County Transportation Authority, as specified.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1669 (Takasugi-R) - Vehicles: Commercial Vehicle Inspections
Requires the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol to adopt rules and regulations to establish a program to allow peace officers who are not employees of the department to conduct the commercial vehicle inspections.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
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AB 1690 (Campbell-D) - Outdoor Advertising
Provides an exemption to existing restrictions for a free-standing identifying structure sponsored by the City of Richmond to support economic development activities, subject to certain restrictions.
Chapter 644, Statutes of 1995
AB 1720 (Hannigan-D) - Intercity Rail Service
Creates the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Board, specifies the membership of the board, and prescribes its functions and responsibilities.
(Held without recommendation in Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 1776 (Aguiar-R) - Rail Transportation Authorities
Authorizes a joint exercise of powers authority created for passenger rail transportation purposes, in awarding contracts having an estimated cost of between $1 million and $10 million by competitive bidding, to pre-qualify prospective bidders in accordance with a prescribed procedure.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
AB 1869* (Katz-D) - Transportation: Omnibus
Makes numerous changes in various counties throughout the state. Among other things, (1) relinquishes a segment of State Route 224, (2) exempts Santa Cruz County from specified efficiency standards, (3) requires a specified change order procedure, (4) allows counties to pool minimum programming, and (5) allows for electronic transfer of specified documents.
(In Assembly awaiting concurrence)
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AB 1958 (Napolitano-D) - New Motor Vehicle Board
Defines the terms "personal watercraft" and "new personal watercraft". Extends the New Motor Vehicle Board's duties and responsibilities to include hearing and considering protests presented by personal watercraft franchisees licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles, in accordance with prescribed procedures.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)
NOTE: For auto insurance legislation, see the Insurance section of this book.
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VETERANS
NOTE: *DENOTES URGENCY LEGISLATION
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Veterans
SB 3* (Thompson-D) - Sales and Use Taxes: Veterans Memorial Lapel Pins
Exempts from the sales tax Buddy Poppies or other symbolic lapel pins which memorialize U.S. military killed in foreign wars which are sold by veterans groups.
Chapter 316, Statutes of 1995
Similar legislation is contained in SB 143 (Rogers-R) which is in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee.
SB 147* (Rogers-R) - Veterans Memorial
Requires the chairperson of the Veterans Memorial Commission to report at least annually, by August 15, to the Rules Committees of the Senate and the Assembly regarding progress on the construction of the Memorial.
Chapter 202, Statutes of 1995
SB 844 (Rogers-R) - Veterans Affairs
Provides that the California Department of Veterans Affairs will be headed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Chapter 261, Statutes of 1995
SB 852* (Rogers-R) - Veterans Bond Act of 1996
Enacts the Veterans' Bond Act of 1996, which authorizes funds for the purpose of financing farm, home, and mobilehome purchases by qualified veterans.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
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SB 1158 (Johannessen-R) - California Military Museum
Creates the California Military Museum tax checkoff. The checkoff sunsets January 1, 2000, unless contributions estimated to be received in any one calendar year will be less that $250,000, in which case the checkoff sunsets in that year.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 1995
SCR 28 (Beverly-R) - 50th Anniversary of V-E Day
Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the victory in Europe by proclaiming May 7, 1995, as the 50th Anniversary of V-E Day.
Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 1995
SCR 33 (Rogers-R) - 50th Anniversary of V-J Day
Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the victory over Japan by proclaiming September 2, 1995, as the 50th Anniversary of V-J Day.
Resolution Chapter 86, Statutes of 1995
SCR 38 (Craven-D) - 220th Anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps
Commends the U.S. Marine Corps on the occasion of its 220th anniversary; encourages Californians to join in the celebration; proclaims November 10 through 12, 1995, as "United States Marine Corps Days"; and, requests the Governor to issue a proclamation thus designating those days.
Resolution Chapter 94, Statutes of 1995
SJR 14 (Solis-D) - Filipino Veterans Of World War II: Veterans' Benefits
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to act favorably on pending federal legislation which would grant to Filipino veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces full veterans' benefits.
Resolution Chapter 48, Statutes of 1995
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SJR 19 (Rogers-R) - Gulf War Veterans: Illness
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to make swift action to identify and locate those Persian Gulf War veterans who may be suffering from "Gulf War Illness," and to make adequate federal funds available for research and full medical treatment for those individuals.
Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 1995
SJR 29 (Haynes-R) - Korean War Veterans
Honors the Veterans of the Korean War, the President, the Congress and others for establishing the Washington, D.C. Korean War Veterans Memorial, and urges the President and the Congress to take necessary measures to ensure that the "Korean War" does not again become a "forgotten war".
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 1995
AB 3* (Baca-D) - Property Tax: Veterans Exemption
Extends for 5 years the sunset date on the current veterans property tax exemption.
Chapter 536, Statutes of 1995
AB 62 (Baca-D) - Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Recognition Day
Requires the Governor to annually proclaim the third Friday in September to be Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Day, and requires the flag of the National League of POW/MIA Families to be flown over certain state buildings and agencies on that day.
Chapter 296, Statutes of 1995
AB 163 (Conroy-R) - California Veterans Board
Requires that the California Veterans Board work with, and make recommendation to, the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs, review the operations of the department and current issues affecting veterans, hear appeals, and set interest rates for the Cal-Vet Farm and Home Loan program.
(Failed passage in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee; reconsideration granted)
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AB 548 (Cannella-D) - Korean War Veterans Commemorative Medallion
Enacts the Korean War Veterans Commemorative Medallion Act, authorizing the Department of Veterans Affairs to issue and sell commemorative medallions to raise funds for the purposes of establishing a California Korean War Veterans Memorial.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 600 (Morrissey-R) - County Veterans Service Officers
Deletes the requirement that the Department of Veterans Affairs only provide funds to counties which fund veteran service officers in an amount equal to or more than the amount allocated by the county in the 1988-89 fiscal year. Sunsets January 1, 2001.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 1995
AB 604* (Knight-R) - Income Taxes: Nonresidents: Exclusions
Exempts from income for California tax purposes any military retirement or military pension pay received by nonresidents.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 841 (W. Murray-D) - Inspector General of Veterans Affairs
Establishes the Office of Inspector General of Veterans Affairs. Defines the responsibilities, including reviewing policies and procedures for conducting investigations of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 940 (Knight-R) - Veterans' Home of California: Additional Sites
Authorizes the Pooled Money Investment Board to loan the Department of Veterans Affairs up to $1.68 million to allow the preliminary work on two additional Southern California veterans homes to begin.
Chapter 943, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1382 (Frusetta-R) - Veterans Home and Farm Purchase Loans
Increases the current maximum for Cal-Vet home loans and farm loans, as specified.
Chapter 236, Statutes of 1995
AB 1628 (Olberg-R) - Veterans' Home of California
Provides that the initial site of the Southern California Veterans' Home be Barstow, San Bernardino County, and makes conforming changes so that the Department of Veterans Affairs may open and operate the second home.
Chapter 190, Statutes of 1995
AB 1900 (Horcher-I) - Deputy of Women Veterans Affairs
Requires the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs to also appoint one Deputy Director of Women Veterans Affairs, to be a woman veteran, who would have responsibility over the administration of women veterans affairs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1919* (Baca-D) - Veterans' Homes Of California
Appropriates a total of $33 million of Public Works Board issued lease-revenue bonds for the second, third, and fourth sites of the Southern California Veterans Home.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1942 (Horcher-I) - Korean War Veterans Commemorative Medallion
Enacts the Korean War Veterans Commemorative Medallion Act, authorizing the Secretary of State to enter into a contract with the California Korean War Veterans Remembrance Memorial Board to sell 30,000 medallions to raise funds for the construction of the California Korean War Veterans Remembrance Memorial.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
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ACR 29 (Machado-D) -50thAnniversary of the Conclusion of World War
Honors those who have served and continue to serve their country in the Armed Forces and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of World War II.
Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 1995
AJR 27 (Conroy-R) - Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services
Memorializes the U.S. Department of Defense to make every effort to ensure that the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) provides quality medical care at convenient locations for military and veterans families, and that future changes in the CHAMPUS program be designed to enhance, rather than reduce, benefits.
Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 1995
AJR 34 (Morrissey-R) - Americans Captured or Missing During the Korean War
Urges the President and Congress to: (1) demand the government of North Korea provide the fullest possible accounting of each and every American prisoner of war or American missing in action from the Korean War; (2) ensure the latest DNA biotechnology is used to identify the remains; and (3) arrange for enshrinement of the remains in a place of honor.
Resolution Chapter 82, Statutes of 1995
AJR 35 (Morrissey-R) - Dedication of a Pearl Harbor Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Urges the President and Congress to take every action necessary to ensure the construction, dedication, and maintenance of a Pearl Harbor Memorial in a suitable place of honor in Washington D.C.
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 1995
HR 19 (Woods-R) - Atomic Veterans Day
Proclaims July 16, 1995 to be Atomic Veterans Day in the State of California, urges all of those persons who participated in the United States atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, or in the United States' occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following World War II, to contact the National Association of Atomic Veterans, and calls upon all citizens to honor our nation's atomic veterans.
Adopted by the Assembly