Development and Financing
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Development and Financing
SB 474* (Ducheny-D) Transportation: pilot programs
Requires a lead transportation agency, prior to entering into a public-private partnership or design-build agreement, to pass a resolution that identifies the benefits anticipated from using the alternative project delivery or financing methods over traditional methods.
Vetoed
SB 524* (Cogdill-R) Transportation funds
Exempts the County of Fresno from maintenance of effort funding requirements for Proposition 42 transportation funding from the 2009-10, and prior year, budget acts.
Chapter 716, Statutes of 2010
SB 526 (Ashburn-R) Intercity rail: San Joaquin Corridor
Requires the Department of Transportation to ensure the operation of at least one Amtrak train on the San Joaquin route that terminates in San Francisco.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 560 (Ashburn-R) Regional transportation plans
Provides that greenhouse gas emission credits for counties and cities that site and permit commercial wind, solar, and biomass projects may be used as credit in the formulation of the sustainable communities strategy or an alternative planning strategy.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 652* (Huff-R) Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority
Declares that the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments and the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority are political subdivisions of the state, states that this provision is declaratory of existing law, and states that the San Gabriel Valley Council of Government and the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority are eligible to apply for state and federal funds, including the Federal Railroad Administration Capital Grants Program for Rail Line Relocation and Improvement Projects.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 854* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Transportation funding: 2010 Budget Trailer Bill
Among other provisions, requires the California Transportation Commission to report semiannually on the expenditure of Transportation Corridor Improvement Funds for railroad projects, extends expenditure of funds for four years relative to water transit projects, provides a one-year extension for cities and counties to expend Proposition 1B local street and roads funds, as specified, extends the sunset for three years for cashflow borrowing among transportation special funds.
(Failed passage on Senate Third Reading File)
A similar bill was AB 1614 (Assembly Budget Committee) which failed passage on Senate Third Reading File.
SB 901 (Ashburn-R) Transportation: bond funded projects: letter of no prejudice
Authorizes a regional or local agency that is a lead agency for a project or project component, including grade separation and railroad crossing projects, for which bond funding has been programmed or otherwise approved by the administrative agency or is otherwise targeted to be available, to apply to the administrative agency for a letter of no prejudice that makes the regional or local agency eligible to be subsequently reimbursed from bond funds for expenditures of funds under its control for the project or project component under certain conditions.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1104 (Monning-D) which died in Senate Transportation Committee.
SB 976* (Hollingsworth-R) Transportation development: CEQA: exemption
Exempts the expansion of an existing overpass, onramp, or offramp from the California Environmental Quality Act if it is built within an easement or right-of-way controlled by a state or local transportation agency, a city, or a county.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1215 (Price-D) Transportation: public contracts: architectural/engineering
Authorizes the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to establish prequalified lists of firms providing architectural and engineering services. Establishes a separate Caltrans contracting category for contracts having an estimated value of greater than $5,000, but less than $250,000 and awarded to certified small businesses, including microbusinesses and disabled veteran business enterprises. Requires Caltrans to establish evaluation criteria and advertise for firms to provide services in order to create a prequalified list of architectural and engineering firms for each category of service and for small, medium, and large projects for each of Caltrans 12 Districts. Requires the qualified list of firms to contain no less than three firms and that the firms be ranked and the list be maintained for no less than two years.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 1341 (Price-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Enacts provisions for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority relative to preferences in contracting for small business enterprises under specified conditions.
Chapter 494, Statutes of 2010
SB 1348 (Steinberg-D) California Transportation Commission: guidelines
Provides, notwithstanding any other provision, in instances where the California Transportation Commission (CTC) adopts guidelines, the guidelines will be exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act. Sets forth a process governing CTC's adoption of guidelines after 1/1/11, except for guidelines adopted to implement the State Transportation Improvement Program. Requires CTC to maintain complete files on guideline adoption proceedings, including a summary of each objection or recommendation made and an explanation of how the proposed guidelines were changed to accommodate each objection or recommendation, or the reason no change was made.
Vetoed
SB 1445 (DeSaulnier-D) Land use and planning: environmental quality
Allows a fee increase of up to $4 annually on vehicle registration to fund regional planning activities by councils of governments, metropolitan planning organizations and other specified local planning entities subject to approval by voters, and adds additional members to the Planning Advisory and Assistance Council.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SCA 3 (Wyland-R) Transportation Investment Fund
Deletes the provisions of law authorizing the transfer of revenues to the Transportation Investment Fund (TIF) to be suspended during a fiscal emergency, prohibits a loan of TIF revenues under any circumstances, and prohibits any statute that would reduce the extent to which these tax revenues are deposited into the General Fund for transfer to the TIF for transportation purposes.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 133 (Smyth-R) Major thoroughfares: funding
Allows city officials in certain situations and Los Angeles County officials to spend bridge and major thoroughfare subdivision fees on construction costs that include design, acquisition of rights-of-way, contract administration, and actual construction. Caps spending on "reasonable administrative expenses" at $300,000 a year, adjusted after 1986, for changes in the Consumer Price Index.
Chapter 33, Statutes of 2010
AB 266 (Carter-D) Transportation needs assessment
Requires the California Transportation Commission to develop an assessment of transportation funding and needs, as prescribed, every five years.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 522 (Blumenfield-D) Transportation: bond funds
Requires the California Transportation Commission to ensure that bond funds previously committed to a project from the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Fund of 2006 remain available to the sponsoring agency of the project for another qualifying project, if funds from any federal economic recovery legislation enacted in 2009 are used to fund the project, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 726 (Nielsen-R) Transportation capital improvement projects
Clarifies that local road rehabilitation projects are eligible for funding through the State Transportation Improvement Program process.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 732 (Jeffries-R) Transportation projects: design-sequencing contracts
Extends the sunset date for a pilot project that allows the Department of Transportation to use the design-sequencing method of procurement for transportation projects to 7/1/10, and limits the total number of projects for which design-sequencing may be used from 12 to nine.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 949 (Logue-R) Transportation: State-Local Partnership Program
Adds mineral or resource extraction fees or taxes to the list of local matching fund sources eligible for the 95%-portion of the State Local Partnership Program (SLPP) that is to be distributed by formula to self-help counties. Strikes the requirement that developer fees must be uniform to be eligible as local matching funds for the 5%-portion of the SLPP that is to be competitively distributed, and provides that, in addition to developer fees and mineral or resource extraction fees, eligible local matching funds can include a local or regional tax or fee, including a fee or tax imposed within a county or any part thereof, by voter approval or by action of the board of supervisors.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 987 (Ma-D) Transit village development districts
Expands the maximum size of a transit village development district from the total area within 1/4-mile of the exterior boundary of the parcel on which a transit station is located to the total area within 1/2-mile of a transit station's main entrance.
Chapter 354, Statutes of 2010
AB 1030 (Blumenfield-D) Department of Transportation: energy development
Authorizes the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles to map the renewable energy development potential of property owned or controlled by the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), upon receipt of funding for the project, and requires Caltrans to cooperate with the Institute on the mapping project and respond to proposals to develop renewable energy facilities on Caltrans property within 90 days.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1078* (Feuer-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Changes the notification to Los Angeles County Members of the Legislature required for amendments to the Measure R transportation sales tax expenditure plan.
Chapter 568, Statutes of 2010
AB 1104* (Monning-D) Transportation: bond-funded projects: letter of no prejudice
Permits a regional or local agency to apply for a letter of no prejudice for specified projects regarding grade separation and railroad crossing safety improvements, which are currently prohibited from making that application for funding under the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
A similar bill was SB 901 (Ashburn-R) which died in Senate Transportation Committee.
AB 1760 (Blumenfield-D) Transportation: design-sequencing contracts
Authorizes the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to use the design-sequencing method of contracting until 1/1/14, on not more than five transportation projects. Requires Caltrans to compile data for each project including the stage of completion, district, cost, description, status, estimated time to complete the project, and, as appropriate, actual time to complete the project, and add the data as an attachment to any annual status reporting performed by Caltrans. Allows Caltrans to utilize design-sequencing authority only on projects that are deemed to have a high probability of success as determined by the "Design-Sequencing Project Selection Criteria" as contained in the "Design-Sequencing Nomination Fact Sheet."
Vetoed
AB 1784 (Fong-D) Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Authorizes the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to enter into agreements with cities within its area of jurisdiction and the County of Santa Clara to improve their streets and roads.
Chapter 57, Statutes of 2010
AB 2098* (Miller-R) Riverside County Transportation Commission
Authorizes the Riverside County Transportation Commission to award a design-build contract for design and construction of the State Highway Route 91 Corridor Improvements Project. Provides that the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will be responsible for construction inspection services on the project, including specific tasks, such as materials testing, surveying, and quality control inspection. Prescribes a direct reporting relationship between project inspectors and responsible senior Caltrans engineers, and explicitly states that senior Caltrans engineers are responsible for acceptance or rejection of work on the project.
Chapter 250, Statutes of 2010
AB 2147 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Safe Routes to School construction program
Adds "benefit to low-income schools" and "use of a public participation process" to the list of factors that the Department of Transportation must consider when evaluating grant proposals for the state Safe Routes to School (SR2S) program, and allows school districts, in cooperation with a transportation agency, to compete for SR2S grants.
Vetoed
AB 2509 (Hayashi-D) Transit village plan
Adds as an eighth characteristic that cities and counties must include in their transit village plans other land uses that provide direct linkages for traveling to and from educational facilities, and adds economic development and job creation as the 14th item in the list of public benefits that a transit village plan may demonstrate.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2520 (Solorio-D) Transportation: letters of no prejudice
Authorizes a regional or local agency that is a lead agency for a project to be funded under the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Act of 1990 to apply to the administrative agency for a letter of no prejudice that permits the applicant to spend its own resources on the project and then to be reimbursed at a later date when bond funds become available, subject to various requirements and conditions.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2620 (Eng-D) Department of Transportation: capital outlay support service
Requires a public agency or a private entity to reimburse the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for staff salaries and benefits for staff needed to perform capital outlay support services, as well as for the cost of administration directly related to the function, such as space, equipment, and required materials. Denies Caltrans reimbursement for indirect overhead costs unless the cost can be attributed solely to the capital outlay support functions and would not exist if Caltrans did not perform that function. Requires an agency or an entity to reimburse Caltrans when Caltrans uses a contractor to provides capital outlay support services for the cost of the contractor plus costs directly associated with the contracted function, including but not limited to, advertising and awarding the service contract, inspection, supervision, and monitoring of the contractor.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2704 (Gaines-R) Transportation: local government funds
Requires, notwithstanding any other provision of law, that funding for local snow removal must be maintained as provided for under existing law.
Chapter 101, Statutes of 2010
AB 2755 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Allows the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to let a contract to the lowest responsible bidder when the purchase price of the construction of all facilities exceeds $100,000, rather than $25,000, and authorizes the Authority to award individual contracts, not exceeding $8 million per year, providing for the issuance of job orders for construction work with compensation for the work based on unit prices, and defines "job order" and "unit price" for these purposes.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 24X4* (Bass-D) Transportation finance
Requires the State Controller, if a specified portion of the Highway Users Tax Account is transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund, to make certain calculations regarding the amount of funding that has been transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund. Appropriates, commencing in the 2011-12 fiscal year, and in each fiscal year thereafter, for a total of 10 years, a certain amount of revenues from the General Fund, which would be required to be apportioned to local agencies in a manner that fully restores the funds transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 9X8 (Assembly Budget Committee) Transportation funding
Appropriates $400 million for transit operations now and at least $350 million in 2011-12 and on going. Provides monies for highways and roads, starting $400 million in 2011-12, appropriates $1.26 billion in the current fiscal year for local highways and roads funding, in order to backfill funding lost due to the elimination of the sales tax on gas and in 2011-12 and thereafter, the excise tax revenue provides additional funding for highways and roads.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10, Eighth Extraordinary Session
AB 11X8 (Assembly Budget Committee) Transportation: letters of no prejudice
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to approve 'Letters of No Prejudices' for Proposition 116 bond.
Chapter 7, Statutes of 2009-10, Eighth Extraordinary Session
AB 12X8 (Assembly Budget Committee) Port and maritime security
Enacts statutory changes necessary to amend the allocation of Proposition 1B-the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 funds, as they relate to port and maritime security funds.
Chapter 8, Statutes of 2010, Eighth Extraordinary Session
AB 14X8* (Assembly Budget Committee) Transportation: cash deferred
Allows local governments flexibility to use Proposition 1B funds for cashflow while Highway Users Tax Account (HUTA) allocations are deferred and clarifies that HUTA deferrals will be take on a pro rate basis from various allocation sections in statutes.
Chapter 10, Statutes of 2009-10, Eighth Extraordinary Session
Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 184 (Benoit-R) Biennial inspection of terminals: fee schedule
Provides that a motor carrier who owns, leases, or otherwise operates not more than one power unit and not more than three towed vehicles shall be considered to have a terminal fleet size of "1."
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 225* (Florez-D) Emission reduction credits
Authorizes air quality management districts and air pollution control districts to create an emission reduction credit from a marine vessel or locomotive emission reduction project that is funded from both public and private monies, if specified requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 295* (Dutton-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Requires under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires the Air Resources Board to complete an additional peer-reviewed study to reevaluate the evaluations made regarding the potential economic and noneconomic benefits of the plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, considering any peer-reviewed comments on the original evaluations. The study must include certain matters, as specified.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 333 (Hancock-D) Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Offset Program Fund
Establishes a voluntary greenhouse gas emission offset program in the Natural Resources Agency. Funds given to the state on a voluntary basis would be available for projects to offset the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 385 (Wright-D) Vehicle emission: historic motor vehicles: preservation
Exempts vehicles from the smog check program provided the vehicle has a historic license plate, the registered owner of the vehicle owns two or more currently registered vehicles that are not registered as historic vehicles, the registered owner of the vehicle signs a statement under penalty of perjury that the vehicle will be used principally for the purpose of exhibition and historic vehicle club activities, and the vehicle has not been driven more than an average of 150 miles per month during the previous two-year cycle minus any mileage accrued from driving to and from events sponsored by charitable organizations, provided the mileage is documented by a receipt issued by the organization in accordance with Internal Revenue Service regulations.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 435 (Pavley-D) Vehicles pollution control devices
Makes it a crime for a person to park, use, or operate a motorcycle, registered in the state that is manufactured on and after 1/1/13, that does not have a federal United States Environmental Protection Agency noise emission control label.
Chapter 407, Statutes of 2010
SB 462* (Strickland-R) Manufacturers of diesel exhaust filters
Authorizes a $10,000 credit for a manufacturer of "Verified Diesel Emission Control Strategies" (VDECS), defined as emissions control strategies designed primarily for the reduction of diesel particulate emission and are either approved or pending approval by the Air Resources Board (ARB). The taxpaying manufacturer must obtain a certification from ARB that it makes approved VDECS, and provides the certification to the Franchise Tax Board upon request. The credit may be carried over to subsequent taxable years.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 464* (Strickland-R) Diesel particulate matter reduction
Enacts a tax credit equal to 5% of the amount paid or incurred to purchase qualified property used to meet the Air Resources Board (ARB) off-road diesel equipment regulations, not to exceed $10,000. The taxpayer must obtain and retain a letter from ARB certifying that the qualified property assists in meeting the regulations, and provide that letter to the Franchise Tax Board upon request. The tax credit may be carried over to subsequent years, but sunsets on 1/1/19.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 507* (Cox-R) Gasoline: vapor recovery systems
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility that does not meet certain requirements from undergoing an Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until 4/1/10.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
Related bills are SCR 38 (Wright-D) which is in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
SB 658* (Walters-R) Trade-in motor vehicle: sale tax exclusion
Provides that the definitions for "sales price" and "gross receipts" do not include the value of a vehicle traded-in for a new vehicle, when the value of the trade-in vehicle is separately stated on the new vehicle invoice or bill of sale or similar document provided to the purchaser.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
A similar bill is SB 714 (Walters-R) which died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee.
SB 960 (Dutton-R) Air Resources Board: Office of Administrative Law
Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to submit any major regulation to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) immediately upon completion of ARB's economic analysis. ARB must submit with the regulation all background information used in conducting the economic analysis and information on a specified form. Requires OAL to submit an analysis to ARB and the Legislature within 90 days of receiving the regulation from ARB. Defines "major regulation" to be any proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation having a total cost of $10 million or more on state government, business enterprises, or citizens, as estimated by ARB.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1033 (Wright-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: allowances
Requires the Air Resources Board, if market-based compliance mechanisms are adopted that include the distribution of allowances, which are defined under existing law as authorizations to emit greenhouse gas emissions, to sell or otherwise distribute an allowance only to a regulated entity, subject to the greenhouse gas emissions limit to which that allowance applies. Authorizes a regulated entity to sell or trade an allowance only to another regulated entity.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 1114 (Florez-D) Emission reduction credits: private and public moneys
Authorizes air quality management districts and air pollution control districts to create an emission reduction credit from a marine vessel or locomotive emission reduction project that is funded by both public and private moneys. An emission reduction credit created pursuant to this provision would be created only for the percentage of the emission reduction project that is paid for by private moneys. Provides that the state share of the credit would be 80%, and the State Treasurer would be required to sell this ownership share, and deposit the proceeds into the Emission Reduction Credit Sales Fund, which the bill creates.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1120 (Dutton-R) Global Warming Solutions Act: market-based compliance
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from implementing a market-based compliance mechanism that includes caps on greenhouse gas emissions and trading among participants unless it is part of a legally enforceable regional or federal program. A regional program must include participation by all of the following: Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1156* (Cedillo-D) Heavy-duty trucks: grants: compliance
Appropriates $20 million from the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount, in the High Polluter Removal and Repair Account, to the Air Resources Board to provide grants to owners of three or fewer heavy-duty diesel trucks that service the state's ports and railyards for the purchase of equipment that meets specified emission standards pursuant to drayage truck regulations.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SB 1238 (Calderon-D) Diesel vehicles and engines
Requires the Air Resources Board to consult with affected businesses in its review of enforcement of specified diesel emission control regulations and in its development of a strategic plan for consistent, comprehensive, and fair enforcement of these regulations.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1305 (Pavley-D) Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: revenue allocations
Provides that revenues generated from fees related to the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 fund expenditures beyond the administrative costs of implementing the Act. Revenues generated as a result of the implementation of market-based compliance mechanisms, or revenues generated from compliance mechanisms, shall be appropriated by the Legislature in furtherance of the Act for purposes determined by the Legislature.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1328 (Lowenthal-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: motor vehicle cabin temperature
Requires the Air Resources Board, if adopting or amending regulations to reduce cabin temperatures in vehicles in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to consider (1) potential reductions in air conditioning use that can be achieved while a motor vehicle is moving, in addition to reductions in air conditioning use when a motor vehicle is parked, (2) potential conflicts between, and relative benefits of, motor vehicle cabin temperature reduction requirements and technologies that provide motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission reductions through various means, and (3) the flexibility necessary to achieve overall maximum greenhouse gas emission reductions from motor vehicles.
Chapter 648, Statutes of 2010
SB 1402* (Dutton-R) Air Resources Board: penalties
Requires the Air Resources Board to provide a specified written explanation prior to imposing an administrative or civil penalty for a violation of air pollution law, make these explanations available to the public, annually report specified administrative penalties imposed, and publish a penalty policy pertaining to vehicular air pollution control.
Chapter 413, Statutes of 2010
SB 1433 (Leno-D) Air pollution penalties: inflation adjustments
Requires the Air Resources Board, on 3/1/11, and annually thereafter, to adjust the maximum civil and criminal penalties for inflation for nonvehicular pollution violations and to publish the inflation-adjusted maximum penalties on the Internet Web site.
Vetoed
SCR 38 (Wright-D) Gasoline: vapor recovery systems
Requests a delay in enforcement of the Air Resources Board's Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II requirements until October 2010.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
Related bills are SB 507 (Cox-R) which died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
AB 376 (Nava-D) Voluntary greenhouse gas emission offsets
Requires, as of 1/1/10, a person who sells a voluntary greenhouse gas emission offset in California to include in any marketing materials specified information, such as the geographic location of the offset project, the duration of the effect of the offset, the name of the certification body or governmental protocol under which the offset was certified, and the name of the registry with which the offset is registered. Prohibits, as of 1/1/11, any protocol, certification body, or registry from being used to support a voluntary offset marketing claim unless the protocol, certification body, or registry has first been validated by the Air Resources Board, with certain exceptions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 414 (Galgiani-D) Heavy-duty fleet modernization projects
Requires the Air Resources Board to develop and implement a trade-down program that provides assistance to owners of high-use, newer model, heavy-duty fleet vehicles to convert those vehicles for lower use, commercial operations in a manner that reduces emissions of oxides of nitrogen and particulate matter.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 478 (Chesbro-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: recycling and waste management
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board, in consultation with the Air Resources Board and the State Water Resources Control Board, to adopt rules and regulations relating to recycling and solid waste management to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and subjects violators of these rules and regulations to civil and criminal penalties.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 580 (Galgiani-D) Air Quality Improvement Program: rebates
Requires, in implementing the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, administered by the California Center for Sustainable Energy, with funds made available by the Air Resources Board pursuant to the Air Quality Improvement Program, rebates to be made available from existing program funds for the purchase of eligible medium- or heavy-duty commercial vehicles from a California manufacturer in an amount 40% greater than the rebates made available for the purchase of eligible medium- or heavy-duty commercial vehicles not from a California manufacturer.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 782 (Jeffries-R) Greenhouse gas emissions: regional transportation plans
Prohibits judicial review of specified Air Resources Board and local government decisions related to greenhouse gas emissions and land use. Expands specified California Environmental Quality Act exemptions which are currently available only to a residential project to any project.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 787 (Hill-D) Smog check: vehicle repair assistance and retirement program
Revises the income eligibility level for vehicle owners requesting assistance from the Department of Consumer Affairs, Bureau of Automotive Repair and revises the amount a person can receive to retire their vehicle.
Chapter 231, Statutes of 2010
AB 859 (Jones-D) Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program
Requires vehicles 15 years and older to undergo annual smog check inspections, and changes the amounts of financial assistant available for vehicle repair and the eligibility for that assistance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1033 (Nielsen-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Prohibits a state or local agency from adopting or amending a regulation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after 1/1/10, that imposes a greenhouse gas emission requirement on a greenhouse gas emission source that is more stringent than any regulation adopted by that state or local agency on or before 1/1/10, that is applicable to that emission source, until eight years after the date that emission source achieved compliance with that earlier regulation.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1212 (Ruskin-D) Air resources: clean vehicle incentive program
Authorize the Air Resources Board (ARB) to adopt and implement a clean vehicle incentive, or feebate, program consisting of one-time rebates and one-time surcharges on the sale of new passenger motor vehicles, and requires ARB to establish the program only if ARB determines that it will be beneficial to achieving the greenhouse gas emission goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1292 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program
Requires that priority for Proposition 1B funds be given to Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program projects that secure other supplemental funding in an amount that is above a percentage requirement required by existing law.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1405 (De Leon-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Creates a California Climate Change Community Benefits Fund (Fund) in the State Treasury, requires at least 10% of the revenues generated from the state's sale of compliance instruments for "market-based compliance mechanisms" under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 be deposited in the Fund, requires monies in the Fund be used solely in the most impacted and disadvantaged communities, specifies purposes for use of the funds, and set procedures for determining the most impacted and disadvantaged communities.
Vetoed
AB 1416 (Galgiani-D) Emission control regulations: groundwater drilling
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from imposing specified emission control requirements on portable engines, off-road vehicles, or on-road vehicles used by a person holding a C-57 or C-61 (D-21 subcategory) license issued by the Contractors State License Board for water well drilling, reconstruction, or maintenance, or water pump installation, repair, or maintenance, until five years after the emergency declared by the Governor on 2/27/09, relating to a statewide water drought, has been proclaimed terminated.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 1507 (Block-D) Motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission reduction projects
Requires the Air Resources Board, by 7/1/11, to revise project guidelines for a project that reduces greenhouse gas emissions to allow funds from specified programs and funding sources to be used for a project also funded under the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program or the goods Movement Emission Reduction Program without those additional public funds being factored into the criteria emission reduction cost-effectiveness calculations under either of those programs.
Chapter 571, Statutes of 2010
AB 1772 (Mendoza-D) Idle reduction technology: vehicle
Allows a vehicle equipped with idle reduction technology to exceed its legal weight limit by the weight of the idle reduction technology up to 400 pounds.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2289 (Eng-D) Smog check program: testing: penalties
Makes several changes to the smog check program, including requiring that vehicles be inspected using the vehicles onboard diagnostic equipment (OBD II, for second generation) and establishing performance standards that test-only and Gold Shield stations must meet in order to be eligible to issue certificates of compliance or noncompliance to high-emitting vehicles directed to it.
Chapter 258, Statutes of 2010
AB 2311 (Mendoza-D) Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: low-carbon fuel
Requires the executive officer of the Air Resources Board to conduct three reviews of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation. Requires the executive officer to review the LCFS regulation by January 1 of 2012, 2015 and 2018. Specifies topics to be covered by the reviews, such as (1) progress against targets, (2) necessary adjustments to the compliance schedule, (3) life-cycle assessments, (4) cost-effectiveness, and (5) the effect of the regulation on state revenues, consumers, economic growth, public health and air quality. Directs the executive officer to establish the LCFS advisory panel, consisting of specified governmental and private representatives, to participate in the periodic reviews of the LCFS regulation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2313 (Buchanan-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: regional transportation plan
Authorizes a lead agency, in adopting a regional transportation plan for a region in which a residential or mixed-use residential project is located, to use a threshold of significance for greenhouse gas emissions adopted for the residential or mixed-use residential project by the air pollution control district or air quality management district within which the project is located to determine whether the project may have a significant effect on the environment due to the emission of greenhouse gases.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 2329 (Ruskin-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: Climate Action Team
Requires the Natural Resources Agency to develop a climate change adaptation strategy by 2012 and update it every three years, and establishes, in statute, the Climate Action Team and directs it to coordinate state policy to achieve the state's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
(Died on the Senate Floor)
AB 2469 (Bill Berryhill-R) Air Resources Board: dispute resolutions
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt a process, as an alternative to existing dispute resolution processes, to resolve disputes regarding penalties proposed to be assessed for one or more violations of specified air pollution requirements. Makes this alternative process available only if certain requirements are met.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2534 (Fuentes-D) Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: allowance revenues
Authorizes the Air Resources Board (ARB) to establish a fund, to deposit a portion of revenues from the "distribution of allowances," as defined, received pursuant to market-based compliance mechanisms, for expenditure on communities experiencing increased exposure to air pollutants to the extent that ARB establishes that the increased exposure to air pollutants is caused by the implementation of the market-based compliance mechanism regulation.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2691 (Hall-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: fees
Prohibits any state agency, city, county, city and county, air district, or another political subdivision of the state from imposing a greenhouse gas fee on any source of greenhouse gas emissions that is subject to either a market-based compliance mechanism or fee regulation under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
ACR 143 (Hagman-R) Pollution: Environmental Protection Agency
Resolves that the Legislature supports federal Senate Joint Resolution 26 to prevent the United States Environmental Protection Agency from acting independently to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
Highways
SB 146 (Cox-R) State Highway Route 49: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish a segment of State Highway Route 49 in the Town of Downieville to the County of Sierra.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 485 (Wright-D) State Highway Operation and Protection Program
Enacts the State Highway Operation and Protection Program Emergency Funding Act and states the intent of the Legislature to provide adequate funding to meet the needs of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program in the 2009-10 fiscal year.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 528 (Negrete McLeod-D) Toll facilities: comprehensive development lease agreements
Prohibits the payment of just compensation to the lessee of a transportation facility for the loss of revenue due to the development, operation, or lease of supplemental transportation projects.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 535 (Yee-D) Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes
Allows a vehicle that meets the states enhanced advanced technology partial zero-emission vehicle standard for exhaust emissions to access high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes regardless of vehicle occupancy until 1/1/15. In addition, extends the current 1/1/11 sunset date for current HOV lane privileges for vehicles that meet specified emission criteria.
Chapter 215, Statutes of 2010
SB 567 (Dutton-R) Outdoor advertising displays
Authorizes an advertising display adjacent to a section of a landscaped freeway by a city, county, or public education facility subject to specified conditions.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 690 (Leno-D) Outdoor advertising
Provides that a lawfully erected advertising display includes displays that were subsequently brought into, and maintained in, full compliance with state laws, local ordinances, and building permits.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 854* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Highways: changeable message signs
Among other provisions, authorizes an experimental program that allows advertising on upgraded changeable message signs on highway right-of-ways only upon approval by the federal government. Places in statute the California Highway Patrol internal policy for retaining information gathered from license plate reader systems in this 2010 Transportation Budget Trailer Bill.
(Failed passage on Senate Third Reading File)
A similar bill was AB 1614 (Assembly Budget Committee) which failed passage on Senate Third Reading.
SB 921 (Ashburn-R) State Highway Route 58: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish to the City of Bakersfield, or the County of Kern, the portion of State Highway Route 58 that is located within their respective jurisdiction, under certain conditions.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 993 (Huff-R) State Highway Routes 19 and 66: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to relinquish State Route (SR) 66 in the City of Claremont to the City of Claremont and SR 19 in the City of Lakewood to the City of Lakewood, upon terms and conditions that the CTC finds to be in the best interests of the state, and updates the statutory route definitions of SR 66 and SR 19 to reflect previous relinquishments.
Chapter 499, Statutes of 2010
SB 1061 (Hancock-D) San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: capital projects
Authorizes the Bay Area Toll Authority to spend future revenues from bridge tolls to construct a bicycle-pedestrian-maintenance pathway on the western portion of the San Francisco Bay Bridge between Yerba Buena Island and San Francisco.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1245 (Simitian-D) High-occupancy vehicle lanes
Prohibits charging a toll on a vehicle that meets the applicable occupancy level for a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) for use of an HOV lane, not including toll bridges. In addition, requires the Department of Transportation, prior to implementing an increase in the vehicle occupancy level for HOV lanes under its jurisdiction, to determine that the change will maximize person throughput with respect to the affected highway.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 1268 (Simitian-D) Toll bridges and highways: personal information
Prohibits, with some exceptions, a transportation agency from selling or otherwise providing personally identifiable information of a person who subscribes to an electronic toll collection system or who uses a toll facility that employs such system, and establishes time periods for which an agency may retain that information. Establishes a minimum amount of money a person whose personally identifiable information was knowingly sold or otherwise provided may receive in damages and costs.
Chapter 489, Statutes of 2010
SB 1418 (Wiggins-D) Highways: motorist aid services
Authorizes a $1 increase in vehicle registration fees to increase revenue for service authorities for freeway emergencies, to be renamed "service authorities for freeways and expressways."
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 1470 (Leno-D) Outdoor advertising
Makes more precise the definition of lawfully erected signs and provides that a civil action may be taken against the owner of an unlawfully erected sign for the disgorgement of revenues and for civil penalties not to exceed $2,500 for each day a sign is not lawfully erected or that is in violation of any state law, local ordinance, or local building permit requirement.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SCR 37 (Wiggins-D) Silverado Trail
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 29 in Napa County as "Robert Louis Stevenson's Historic Trail to Silverado."
Resolution Chapter 93, Statutes of 2010
SCR 50 (Cox-R) CHP Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial Interchange
Designates the Rocklin Road interchange on State Highway Route 80 in Placer County as the "California Highway Patrol Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 64, Statutes of 2010
SCR 54 (Cogdill-R) Kirk Lindsey Memorial Highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 108 in Modesto as the "Kirk Lindsey Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 2010
SCR 69 (Runner-R) CHP Officer Richard D. Duvall Memorial Highway
Designates the segment of State Route (SR) 15 between Exit D and the SR 395 interchange in the City of Victorville as the "CHP Officer Richard D. Duvall Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2010
SCR 83 (Negrete McLeod-D) Memorial highways
Designates a specified section of State Highway Route 60 in Chino as the "Officer Russell M. Miller, Sr. Memorial Highway" and a specified section of State Highway Route 83 in Chino as the "Correctional Officer Jesus "Jesse" Sanchez Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 122, Statutes of 2010
SCR 84 (Aanestad-R) Patricia Ann Weston Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Route 99 in Sutter County between mileposts 36 and 40 as the "Patricia Ann Weston Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 66, Statutes of 2010
SCR 85 (Denham-R) Joseph A. Zanger Memorial Flyover
Designates the flyover ramp at the interchange of State Route (SR) 152 and SR 156 in southern Santa Clara County as the "Joseph A. Zanger Memorial Flyover."
Resolution Chapter 67, Statutes of 2010
SCR 88 (DeSaulnier-D) Officer Larry Lasater Memorial Overcrossing
Names the Harbor Avenue Overcrossing over State Highway Route 4 in Contra Costa County as the "Officer Larry Lasater Memorial Overcrossing."
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2010
SCR 89 (Correa-D) Nguyen Ngoc Phu Human Rights Memorial Interchange
Designates the Beach Boulevard (State Route 39) interchange on State Route 22 in Orange County as the "Nguyen Ngoc Phu Human Rights Memorial Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 69, Statutes of 2010
SCR 100 (Cox-R) CHP Officer Douglas "Scott" Russell Memorial Freeway
Designates State Route 50 in the vicinity of eastbound post-mile 08.533 and westbound post-mile 08.598 in the community of Shingle Springs, in El Dorado County, as the "CHP Officer Douglas "Scott" Russell Memorial Freeway."
Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 2010
SCR 105 (Florez-D) National Purple Heart Trail
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 223 in Kern County for inclusion in the National Purple Heart Trail.
Resolution Chapter 95, Statutes of 2010
SCR 106 (Wright-D) Deputy Chief Kenneth O. Garner Memorial Exit
Designates a particular exit on State Highway Route 110 in Los Angeles County as the "Deputy Chief Kenneth O. Garner Memorial Exit."
Resolution Chapter 124, Statutes of 2010
SCR 107 (Wright-D) Rudolph B. Davila Memorial Freeway
Names a portion of State Route 91 in the City of Carson as the "Rudolph B. Davila Memorial Freeway."
Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2010
SCR 116 (Ducheny-D) Douglas B. Dunaway Memorial Bridge
Designates a bridge on the State Highway Route 78 Bypass in Imperial County as the "Douglas B. Dunaway Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2010
SCR 118 (Denham-R) Correctional Officer Jose Rivera Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 99 in Atwater as the "Correctional Officer Jose Rivera Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 129, Statutes of 2010
SCR 120 (Denham-R) CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 99 in Stanislaus County as the "CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2010
SCR 122 (Kehoe-D) Esteban Bahena Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 163 in the City of San Diego as the "Esteban Bahena Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2010
SJR 33 (Lowenthal-D) National freight policy
Requests that Congress adopt a national freight policy as a component of the next federal transportation bill and subsequently direct the United States Department of Transportation to implement its provisions.
Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2010
AB 109 (Feuer-D) Outdoor advertising: digital advertising displays
Prohibits an advertising display that is visible from a state, county, or city highway, from being constructed as, or converted, enhanced, improved, modified, modernized, or altered, unless it complies with a municipalities (permitting authority) specified permitting process, as described in state law. Prohibits, until 1/1/12, any highway changeable message sign from displaying messages other than official traffic operations or public safety messages.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 191* (Assembly Budget Committee) Highway User Tax Account: deferrals
Creates an exemption process for the deferral of Highway User Tax Account (HUTA) allocations to cities and counties, which will apply when the deferral creates a hardship in making required bond debt payments. Current law defers $50 million per month in 2010-11 from the HUTA allocations to local governments. The deferral will be in place from July 2010 through March 2011, with the deferred amount fully repaid on or within two business days of 4/28/11.
Chapter 29, Statutes of 2010
AB 263 (Miller-R) Riverside County Transportation Commission
Authorizes, until 1/1/20, the Riverside County Transportation Commission to approve and award one best-value design build contract for transportation improvements on the State Highway Route 91 corridor based on criteria established by the Commission, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 366 (Ruskin-D) State Highway Route 19: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish to the City of Lakewood a portion of State Highway Route (SR) 19 that is within the city limits or the sphere of influence of the city. Provides that the portion of SR 19 relinquished may not be considered for re-adoption in the state highway system. Requires the City of Lakewood ensure the continuity of traffic flow, including any traffic signal progression, and maintain signs directing motorists to the continuation of SR 19.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 439 (Miller-R) Highways: encroachment permits
Modifies the process for reviewing applications to the Department of Transportation for encroachment permits.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 497 (Block-D) High-occupancy vehicle lanes: used by physicians
Allows the Department of Transportation and local transportation agencies to permit physicians, when traveling in response to an emergency call, to access high-occupancy vehicle lanes.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 670 (Bill Berryhill-R) High-occupancy vehicle lanes: veterans
Permits a veteran or active duty member of the United States Armed Forces to use high-occupancy vehicle lanes, regardless of occupancy level.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 744 (Torrico-D) Toll lanes: Express Lane Network
Authorizes the Bay Area Toll Authority to develop, administer, operate, and maintain a network of high-occupancy toll lanes in the Bay Area, provides authority to finance the development of the network using toll revenues, and establishes a process for regional cooperation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1224 (Eng-D) High-occupancy toll lanes
Extends for two years, from 1/15/13, to 1/15/15, the authority granted to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to operate a value-pricing and transit development demonstration program involving high-occupancy toll lanes.
Chapter 441, Statutes of 2010
AB 1243 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Strategic Area Freeway Enforcement Task Force
Establishes a Strategic Area Freeway Enforcement Task Force in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, until 1/1/12, to study issues related to commercial vehicle enforcement near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and develop a work program that implements recommendations developed pursuant to the study. The Task Force would report annually on progress achieved in improving commercial vehicle enforcement.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1409 (John Perez-D) County highways: public contracts: work authorizations
Changes the authorization for a county board of supervisors to direct a road commissioner or a registered civil engineer under the direction of the county director of transportation to enter into contracts for work upon county highways, as specified.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1500 (Lieu-D) High-occupancy lanes: single occupancy vehicles
Extends the sunset date, from 1/1/11 to 1/1/15, on the law that allows certain low-emission vehicles to access high-occupancy vehicle lanes.
Chapter 37, Statutes of 2010
AB 1670 (Beall-D) State Highway Routes 82 and 130: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to relinquish to the City of San Jose a 10-mile segment of State Route (SR) 82, locally know as the Monterey Highway, from Blossom Hill Road to Interstate 880, and a 2.5-mile segment of SR 130, locally known as Alum Rock Boulevard, from the city limits to SR 101, both of which are located in the City, upon terms and conditions the CTC finds to be in the best interest of the state. Requires the City to provide signage directing motorists to the continuation of SR 82 and SR 130, and provides that the relinquishments will become effective immediately following the county recordation of the relinquishment resolutions containing the CTC's approval of the specified terms and conditions.
Chapter 448, Statutes of 2010
AB 1845 (Gilmore-R) Vehicles: golf carts: operation on highways: senior citizens
Authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to permit a senior citizen to operate a golf cart on streets and highways under its jurisdiction that are designated under an ordinance or resolution, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1984 (Nielsen-R) Highways: county signs: honoring veterans
Authorizes county officials to place and maintain on any state or county highway within their respective jurisdictions, at or near the county line and at county expense, signs stating "In Honor of Our Vietnam Veterans."
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2124 (Villines-R) State highways: damage to local roads
Requires the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), with respect to state highway maintenance activity or a state highway construction project undertaken by Caltrans, to be responsible for any damage inflicted on any public highway under the jurisdiction of a local agency from activities associated with the maintenance activity or construction project by Caltrans own forces or by contractors of Caltrans.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2316 (Eng-D) State Highway Route 710
Directs the California Transportation Commission to allocate the net proceeds from the sale of excess properties within State Route (SR) 710 corridor to fund a transportation improvement program approved by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Exempts these net proceeds from existing formulae that govern the distribution of transportation funds statewide, and limits application of this bill's provisions to the portion of SR 710 located to the north of SR 10 in the Cities of Los Angeles, Pasadena, South Pasadena, and Alhambra within the County of Los Angeles.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2620 (Eng-D) Department of Transportation: reimbursement
Changes the overhead rate that the Department of Transportation charges for reimbursed work it performs for local agencies or private entities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 35X4 (Jeffries-R) State highways: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish any portion of a state highway within a county or city to that county or city, subject to an agreement between the Department of Transportation and the local agency, without requiring a legislative enactment deleting the state highway segment from the state highway system.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
ACR 102 (Coto-D) Joe Colla Interchange
Designates the interchange of Interstate 280, Interstate 680, and State Route 101 in the City of San Jose as the "Joe Colla Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2010
ACR 103 (John Perez-D) Deputy Sheriff Juan Abel Escalante Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Route 101 from North Mission Road to North Alameda Street, including the on-ramps and off-ramps of North Vignes Street, in Los Angeles as the "Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Juan Abel Escalante Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 117, Statutes of 2010
ACR 106 (Caballero-D) CAL-FIRE Firefighter Matt Will Memorial Highway
Designates a five-mile segment of State Highway Route 156 as "CAL-FIRE Firefighter Matt Will Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2010
ACR 109 (Nestande-R) Roy Wilson Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Route 74 in the City of Palm Desert and Riverside County, extending from the entrance to the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument visitor center four miles to the west, as the "Roy Wilson Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 2010
ACR 113 (Caballero-D) Bracero Memorial Highway
Designates the 15-mile portion of State Route 101 from milepost 312 to exit 317 near Chualar in Monterey County as the "Bracero Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 86, Statutes of 2010
ACR 122 (Logue-R) Eric W. Rood Memorial Expressway
Designates State Route (SR) 20 from its intersection with SR 49 and the intersection of Rough and Ready Highway and Penn Valley Drive in Nevada County as the "Eric W. Rood Memorial Expressway."
Resolution Chapter 32, Statutes of 2010
ACR 124 (Bass-D) Lieutenant Curtis Massey Memorial Overpass
Designates the eastbound portion of the National Boulevard overpass on State Highway Route 10 as the "Culver City Police Lieutenant Curtis Massey Memorial Overpass."
Resolution Chapter 109, Statutes of 2010
ACR 126 (Davis-D) El Salvador Community Corridor
Recognizes the area of Vermont Avenue between Adams Boulevard and 11th Street in the City of Los Angeles as the "El Salvador Community Corridor."
Resolution Chapter 141, Statutes of 2010
ACR 127 (Adams-R) Memorial highways
Designates the portion of State Route (SR) 15 between its junction with SR 138 and Oak Hill Road in the County of San Bernardino as the "CHP Officer Larry L. Wetterling and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Lieutenant Alfred E. Stewart Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2010
ACR 130 (De La Torre-D) Arnold C. Garcia Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Route 5 between East Olympic Boulevard and South Atlantic Boulevard in the City of Commerce as the "Arnold C. Garcia Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 111, Statutes of 2010
ACR 131 (Anderson-R) Historic Highway Route 94
Designates the portion of State Highway Route 94 from the junction of Jamacha Road in Rancho San Diego to its terminus at the junction with Historic Highway Route 80 in Boulevard as "Historic Highway Route 94."
Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2010
ACR 136 (Chesbro-D) Lake County Veterans Memorial Highway
Designates a seven mile segment of State Route (SR) 53 from its junction with SR 29 in Lower Lake to the junction of SR 20 in Clearlake Oaks as the "Lake County Veterans Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 34, Statutes of 2010
ACR 146 (Hayashi-D) Memorial Highways
Designates the Keller Avenue Bridge that crosses State Highway Route 580 in the City of Oakland as the "Sergeant Mark Dunakin, Sergeant Ervin Romans, and Officer John Hege Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2010
ACR 149 (Hall-D) Kevin Murray Highway
Designates the segment of State Route (SR) 405 between SR 10 and SR 90 as the "Kevin Murray Highway."
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACR 154 (Jeffries-R) E. L. Yeager Interchange
Designates the interchange at State Highway Route (SR) 60 and SR 15, in the County of Riverside as the "E. L. Yeager Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 168, Statutes of 2010
ACR 159 (Eng-D) CHP Officer Johnny R. Martinez Memorial Highway
Designates a short segment of Interstate 10 in the City of Alhambra as the "CHP Officer Johnny R. Martinez Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2010
ACR 160 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Imperial Valley Pioneers Expressway
Designates the portion of State Route (SR) 111 between SR 8 and SR 78 in Imperial County as the "Imperial Valley Pioneers Expressway."
Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2010
ACR 164 (Villines-R) Deputy Sheriff Joel B. Wahlenmaier Memorial Highway
Designates the segment of State Route 168 from the intersection of Dragonfly Lane and Tollhouse Road to Ockenden Ranch Road in Fresno County as the "Deputy Sheriff Joel B. Wahlenmaier Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 152, Statutes of 2010
ACR 165 (Blakeslee-R) Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial Highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 246 in and east of the City of Lompoc as the "Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 153, Statutes of 2010
ACR 172 (Villines-R) Ernest N. Mobley Memorial Interchange
Designates the State Highway Route 180 interchange at Temperance Avenue in the City of Fresno as the "Ernest N. Mobley Memorial Interchange."
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
ACR 174 (Eng-D) Roberto "Bobby" Salcedo Memorial Highway
Designate a portion of State Highway Route 60 in the County of Los Angeles as the "Roberto 'Bobby' Salcedo Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 144, Statutes of 2010
ACR 175 (Anderson-R) Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier Memorial Bridge
Designates the Oak Canyon Bridge on State Route 52 in Santee located between Post Mile 11.662 and Post Mile 11.799, as the "Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 157, Statutes of 2010
ACR 176 (Conway-R) Monty L. Conley and Joe R. Landin Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Route (SR) 198 between Road 204 East and SR 216 in the County of Tulare as the "Detective Monty L. Conley and Detective Joe R. Landin Memorial Highway."
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
ACR 179 (John Perez-D) Paul Johnson Highway
Designates the southbound portion of State Route 55 between Katella Avenue and Chapman Avenue as the "Paul Johnson Highway."
Resolution Chapter 160, Statutes of 2010
ACR 182 (Chesbro-D) Roger M. Rodoni Memorial Interchange
Designates segments of State Routes (SR) 101 and SR 36 in Humboldt County, including the Alton Interchange, as the "Roger M. Rodoni Memorial Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 162, Statutes of 2010
Miscellaneous
SB 10* (Leno-D) Voter-approved local assessment: vehicles
Authorizes counties to impose a vehicle license fee (VLF) upon approval of 2/3 of the board of supervisors and a majority of local voters. Specifies that the assessment rate shall be equal to the difference between the historical 2% state VLF rate and the current statewide VLF rate. This translates into a rate of .85% in 2010 (the difference between 2% and the current statewide rate of 1.15%), and 1.35% after May 2011 (when the recently enacted 0.5% increase in the statewide rate expires). The local rate could vary in future years depending on statewide rate increases. Requires any county imposing an assessment to contract with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to collect and administer the fee and to pay DMV for its initial setup and programming costs.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 60 (Cedillo-D) Vehicles: driver's licenses
Requires the State of California to comply with the federal Real ID Act of 2005, a measure that establishes standards for the issuance of drivers licenses and identification cards that may be used by federal agencies for official purposes. In complying with the Real ID Act, requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue two types of driver's licenses and identification cards: cards that may be used for official federal purposes and cards that may be used by persons who are not able to demonstrate legal presence status.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 70* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Fuel taxes
Makes technical changes to clarify that those entities that are currently exempt from either paying excise taxes on diesel or the sales tax on gasoline is not subject to the fuel tax increases contained in AB 6 X8 (Assembly Budget Committee) of the 2009-10 Session.
Chapter 9, Statutes of 2009-10
SB 88 (DeSaulnier-D) Vehicles: firefighter license plates
Increases the additional fees for the original issuance of a set of firefighter license plates from $35 to $50 and for the annual renewal of registration for a vehicle with these plates from $20 to $35. Deletes the 60-day time limit for a surviving spouse of a firefighter to request that the Department of Motor Vehicles transfer the firefighter license plates to him/her. Authorizes a surviving member of the deceased firefighter's family to keep one of the special license plates as an heirloom, if there is no surviving spouse or upon death of the surviving spouse. Defines "family" as grandparents, stepgrandparents, parents, stepparents, siblings, stepsiblings, children, and stepchildren.
Chapter 304, Statutes of 2010
SB 154 (Benoit-R) Vessels: operation of vessel
Requires drivers' license suspension for a conviction of boating under the influence (BUI) with a prior BUI or DUI (driving under the influence) offense within seven years, and requires, rather than authorizes, courts to impose, as a condition of probation, that every person convicted of BUI complete a licensed DUI program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 165 (Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: specially-constructed vehicles
Switches from the Vehicle Code to the Health and Safety Code, the responsibilities of the Bureau of Automotive Repair in regard to the registration of specially-constructed vehicles. Switches from the Health and Safety Code to the Vehicle Code, the responsibilities of the Department of Motor Vehicles in regard to the registration of specially-constructed vehicles. Clarifies that specially-constructed vehicles that are currently registered may apply to register the vehicle using a different model year determined in subsequent years.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 177 (Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: child passengers
Provides that a child who is six years of age or younger or who weighs less than 60 pounds may be seated in the front seat of a vehicle when all of the back seats are already occupied by children under age eight.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 232 (Benoit-R) Vehicles: specially-constructed vehicles
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide registration to any specially-constructed vehicle that meets the specified criteria, and provides that the registered owner of a specially-constructed vehicle that is currently registered or incorrectly registered may change the vehicle's registration by complying with those specified criteria.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 346 (Kehoe-D) Motor vehicle brake friction materials
Limits the use of copper in motor vehicle brake pads to no more than 5% by weight on or after 1/1/21, and no more than .5% by weight on or after 1/1/25. Exempts specific vehicles from the copper limitation in brake pads including (1) military vehicles, (2) vehicles with internal closed oil immersed brakes that do not emit copper or other debris under normal operating conditions, (3) parking brakes, (4) vehicles manufactured by small volume manufactures, and (5) motorcycles. Requires vehicle manufacturers and retailers of brake pads to ensure that only compliant brake pads are sold in this state.
Chapter 307, Statutes of 2010
SB 350 (Yee-D) Vehicles: aftermarket crash parts
Prohibits an insurer from requiring the use of nonoriginal equipment manufacturer aftermarket crash parts in the repair of an automobile unless specified standards are met and specified disclosures are made.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
SB 373* (Walters-R) Vehicle license fees: new vehicles
Provides that for all new vehicles, including motorcycles, the annual license fee is 0.65% of the market value of the vehicle, and provides legislative intent that the funding levels for local law enforcement be kept whole and not be reduced.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 425* (Simitian-D) Parking: credits: ridesharing expenses
Authorizes a new tax credit of up to 80% of costs incurred by small businesses for qualified commute reduction expenditures, as specified, and prohibits taxpayers from claiming a business expense deduction for parking subsidies unless employees provided with a parking subsidy are offered a cash allowance in lieu of a parking space (parking cash-out program).
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 427 (Negrete McLeod-D) Automotive repair: crash parts
Increases the penalty from $1,000 to $5,000 under the Automotive Repair Act for an automotive repair dealer who prepares a written estimate for repairs that includes replacement of a deployed airbag that is part of an inflatable restraint system and who fails to repair and fully restore the airbag to original operating conditions. In addition, redefines "aftermarket crash part" and adds a definition for "crash part."
Vetoed
SB 433 (Harman-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to submit a report to the Legislature on 1/1/11 regarding all requests made to it in the 2010 calendar year, pursuant to the exemptions in the requirement that the residence address in a record of the DMV be kept confidential.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 466 (Oropeza-D) Transport of hazardous waste
Revises the condition for exempting manifest and transporter requirements pertaining to hazardous waste to an increased maximum weight of 10,000 pounds and increases the maximum 1,600 gallon hazardous wastewater exception for certain generators to a maximum of 5,000 gallons, as specified.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 483* (Corbett-D) Automobile manufacturing: Corporation tax credit
Allows, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/10, to a qualified taxpayer, a credit, not to exceed $1 million, for specified percentages of "qualified expenditures", as defined. In general, the credit will be allowed to automobile manufacturers in this state that employ a specified number of qualified employees.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 615 (Ashburn-R) Vehicles: off-highway motor vehicles
Authorizes a local jurisdiction to close its streets to regular vehicular traffic and instead allow off-highway motor vehicles to use those streets.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 663 (Benoit-R) Neighborhood electric vehicles
Authorizes the City of Palm Desert to establish a neighborhood electric vehicle transportation plan.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 714* (Dutton-R) Trade-in vehicle: sales tax exclusion
Provides that the definitions "sales price" and "gross receipts" do not include the value of a vehicle traded-in for a new vehicle, when the value of the trade-in vehicle is separately stated on the new vehicle invoice or bill of sale or similar document provided to the purchaser.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
A similar bill was SB 658 (Walters-R) which died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee.
SB 737 (Negrete McLeod-D) Airports: airport land use commissions
Repeals specified exemptions from the requirement for counties that contain an airport to establish an airport land use commission.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 854* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Department of Motor Vehicles: forms
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to update application forms to provide a space for an applicant to indicate whether they served in the Armed Forces of the United States and the data collected from willing veterans will be shared with Department of Veterans Affairs in order to identify if they are eligible for federal benefits.
(Failed passage on Senate Third Reading File)
A similar bill was AB 1614 (Assembly Budget Committee) which failed passage on Senate Third Reading File.
SB 895* (Huff-R) Vehicles: driver's license: suspension
Corrects a drafting error in a law passed last year to allow a person convicted of "driving under the influence" to get a restricted license after a specified period of time if he/she installs an ignition interlock device on his/her vehicle.
Chapter 30, Statutes of 2010
SB 938 (Huff-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality
Excludes from the categories of individuals whose home addresses within the records of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) are afforded enhanced confidentiality, the spouses and children of peace officers and other enumerated public officials, if those spouses or children have been convicted of crimes and are on active parole or probation. Specifies that neither the listed person's employer nor DMV is responsible for verifying that such a spouse or child has been convicted of a crime and is not on active parole or probation. Requires persons requesting confidentiality for their spouse or child, on or after 1/1/11, to declare at the time of that request whether the spouse or child has been convicted of a crime and is on active parole or probation.
Chapter 280, Statutes of 2010
SB 949 (Oropeza-D) Vehicles: local authority: assessing penalties
Prohibits local authorities from enforcing their own ordinances that regulate driving behavior already regulated by state law.
Chapter 616, Statutes of 2010
SB 1004 (Huff-R) Vehicles: licensed dealers and salespersons: credit scores
Allows a vehicle dealer to post copies of occupational licenses, rather than the original licenses, for the dealer and the salespersons the dealer employs. Also allows a vehicle salesperson to work for multiple dealerships, provided that those dealerships share a common controlling ownership, and requires a motor vehicle dealer, for each credit report he/she obtains for use in connection with a consumer's credit application, to provide that consumer a summary of the information, as specified.
Chapter 483, Statutes of 2010
SB 1024 (Oropeza-D) Vehicles: tow trucks: illegal operation
Establishes a procedures for the seizure and removal of a tow truck that is being operated in violation of local licensing requirements, and provides that a towing company owner, its agent, or a tow truck operator who violates licensing requirements adopted by a local authority is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a $5,000 fine.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1054 (Walters-R) Child passenger restraint systems
Excepts certain nonprofit organizations from the prohibition of selling a child passenger restraint system if, with respect to a used child passenger restraint system, the nonprofit organization determines, by visual inspection, that the manufacturer's expiration date for the child passenger restraint system has not passed and that the system is in safe, working condition.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1105 (Denham-R) Motor vehicle insurance: special assessments
Modifies an existing 30-cent per vehicle insured special assessment, to instead require the amount of the assessment be determined by the Insurance Commissioner, not to exceed 30-cents, and requires that the funds continue to be apportioned to the two categories of DOI operations on the same 2/3rds versus 1/3rd basis.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
SB 1141 (Negrete McLeod-D) Airports: airport land use commissions
Makes various changes to the general statutory requirement that each county form an airport land use commission (ALUC), authorizes the Division of Aeronautics at Department of Transportation to establish a fund to provide grants to counties for the establishment of an ALUC, and prohibits airports in counties that have not established an ALUC from receiving state Aeronautics Account funds if an ALUC has not been established in that county, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 1162 (Walters-R) Vehicles: traffic violator schools
Eliminates the $50 fee that a traffic violator school owner must pay to the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew the license for each of its branch or classroom locations.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1192 (Oropeza-D) Airports: rental car facility fees
Provides for a new method of calculating and controlling consumer fees for covered airport consolidated rental car facilities, and new uses for those fees.
Chapter 642, Statutes of 2010
SB 1208 (Strickland-R) Vehicle registration: biennial
Permits the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to establish a biennial vehicle registration period option for registrants. Permits the Director of the DMV to reassign a vehicle to the biennial registration period upon the request of the registrant. If a person chooses the biennial vehicle registration option, he/she would be entitled to a 5% reduction in basic registration fees.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1220* (Wolk-D) Vehicles: emergency vehicles: fire apparatus
Deletes the existing definition of a "fire apparatus" and instead defines it as "a vehicle designed, maintained, and used under emergency conditions to transport personnel and equipment, or for the suppression of fires or mitigation of other hazardous situations, consistent with the 2009 Standard 1901 of the National Fire Protection Association." Provides that the 15% fire apparatus overweight exemption does not apply to supplemental towing and hauling equipment that already exceeds permissible weight limits.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 2010
SB 1229 (Denham-R) Vehicles: all-terrain vehicle: agricultural operations
Adds all-terrain vehicles to the list of vehicles that state law classifies as "implements of husbandry" and which may therefore be driven incidentally on public roads.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2010
SB 1264 (Leno-D) Commercial airlines: passenger rights
Establishes rights for airline passengers detained in an airplane for over two hours, either before takeoff or after landing. In those instances where passengers are detained on the tarmac, requires airlines to provide for its passengers, on an as-needed basis, electrical service for sufficient fresh air and light; waste removal service for sanitation facilities; and adequate food, drinking water, and other refreshments.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1295 (Dutton-R) License plates
Allows the family of a deceased Purple Heart recipient or recipient of one of the nation's highest military decorations to keep one of the special interest license plates issued to that recipient as a remembrance.
Chapter 181, Statutes of 2010
SB 1299 (Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: vehicle-miles-traveled fee
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to develop and implement a pilot program by 1/1/12, to assess specified issues related to implementing a vehicle-miles-traveled-fee in California. Requires DMV to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than 6/30/12.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1318 (Senate Transportation And Housing Committee) Transportation omnibus bill
Makes numerous, mostly technical, changes to transportation-related statutes. Key provisions require license plates to be mounted parallel with the ground so that the characters are upright, repeal outdated sections, revise inaccurate cross-references and update various definitions in the transportation code, eliminate outdated reporting requirements, and bring state statutes into conformity with recent federal law changes.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2010
SB 1320 (Hancock-D) Transit fare evasion and passenger misconduct
Allows specified local transit agencies to adopt an adjudication process and impose an administrative penalty for transit-related offenses committed by non-minors, and prohibits these local transit agencies from establishing administrative penalties that exceed the maximum criminal fine set forth in current law.
Chapter 493, Statutes of 2010
SB 1333 (Yee-D) Airports: easements
Requires an airport to acquire an avigation easement prior to the issuance of a building permit that allows for construction of a residential project within the airport's 65 decibel or higher noise boundary, as specified. The easement may be immediately recorded and must include a termination clause if the project is cancelled or the building permit is revoked or expires. Requires the local government that issued the permit to notify the airport within 30 days of a permit's expiration, and the airport would be required to record a notice of termination of the easement with the county recorder within 90 days of the notification.
Chapter 329, Statutes of 2010
SB 1362 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: automated traffic enforcement systems
Prohibits a governmental agency that proposes to operate an automated traffic enforcement system from considering revenue generation beyond recovering its actual costs of operating the system, as a factor when considering whether to install such as system within its jurisdiction. Requires that, by no later than 1/1/12, the systems be identified by signs posted within 200 feet of an intersection where a system is operating, visible from directions where the automated system is being utilized. Currently, the systems can be identified by signs posted at each intersection (visible to traffic going in all directions) or on signs posted all major entrances to the city. Requires that, prior to installing a system after 1/1/12, the government agency adopt a finding of fact establishing that the system is needed at a specific location for reasons related to safety.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1393 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: biennial registration
Requires that motor vehicle owners in California renew their vehicles' registration once every two years rather than annually.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1394 (Kehoe-D) Vehicles: drivers' licenses: reexaminations
Repeals or extends the sunset dates on statutes authorizing the reexamination of certain licensed drivers of motor vehicles.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 1395 (Alquist-D) Driver's license: organ donation
Requires, on and after 7/1/11, that a person applying for or renewing a California driver's license or identification card indicate whether or not he/she will be an organ donor, and authorizes creation of a living donor registry to sign up kidney donors.
Chapter 217, Statutes of 2010
SB 1453 (Price-D) Vehicles: digital electronic license plates
Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to contract with a vendor for the purpose of researching, developing, acquiring, and exploring the utilization of a digital electronic license plate. Requires that, if DMV enters into such a contract, it report to the Legislature on the result of the investigation by 1/1/13. Requires the report to include information on how the plates could be used, the effects on traffic safety, potential revenues and cost savings that could be generated, and security and reliability of the digital electronic license plates.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1455 (Kehoe-D) Plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles: Internet Web site
Requires the California Energy Commission, by 7/1/11, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, to develop and maintain an Internet Web site containing specific links to electrical corporations and local publicly-owned electric utilities Internet Web sites or other Internet Web sites that contain information specific to plug-in hybrid or fully electric vehicles, including information on resources to direct a consumer on how to find out if his/her residence will require a utility service upgrade, basic charging circuit requirements, utility rate options, and load management techniques.
Chapter 337, Statutes of 2010
SCR 25 (Lowenthal-D) Automotive Career Month
Designates the month of April 2009 as Automotive Career Month.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SCR 65 (Lowenthal-D) Teen Driving Safety Week
Declares the week of 3/21/10, as "Teen Driving Safety Week" and that the State of California should observe this week, with the help of law enforcement organizations, teachers, parents, students, and the IMPACT Teen Driver's Campaign, with appropriate activities that promote the practice of safe driving among teenage drivers.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SJR 33 (Lowenthal-D) National freight policy
Requests that the Congress of the United States adopt a national freight policy as part of the next federal transportation bill.
Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2010
SR 34 (Lowenthal-D) Teen Driving Safety Week
Declares the week of 3/21/10, as Teen Driving Safety Week and that the State of California observe this week, with the help of law enforcement organizations, teachers, parents, students, and the IMPACT Teen Driver's Campaign, with appropriate activities that promote the practice of safe driving among teenage drivers.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 77 (Jeffries-R) Vehicles: notice of delinquent parking violation
Requires a violation processing agency to verify that all notices of delinquent parking violations substantially match the corresponding information on the registration of the vehicle and to cancel the parking violation if the information is not a match. Deletes the requirement that a person provide a written request for cancellation of the parking violation to the parking processing agency.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 145 (De Leon-D) Motor carriers: construction transportation brokers
Requires that a broker of construction trucking services post a bond to ensure payment to a dump truck operator whose services he/she is brokering and that the broker receive certification of the dump trucker operator's permit to operate.
Chapter 429, Statutes of 2010
AB 195* (Assembly Budget Committee) Vehicle license fee
Imposes an annual surcharge in the amount of $15 on every vehicle subject to the vehicle license fee to sustain the operation and maintenance of the state park system to those vehicles subject to the fee.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)
AB 237 (Carter-D) Vehicles: inspection of loads
Gives local law enforcement, as specified, the same authority as the Department of the California Highway Patrol to stop any vehicle transporting specified products without cause and conduct an inspection to determine whether the driver is in lawful possession of the load, and expands the list of transported products which subject a driver to being stopped and a vehicle inspected by law enforcement without cause, to include metal and metal alloy products.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 312 (Ammiano-D) San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Creates an Office of Citizen Complaints to review and investigate allegations of misconduct filed against peace officers in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 323 (Yamada-D) Automobile tires
Requires an automotive repair dealer to list on the invoice the manufacture date of any tire installed or sold by the dealer.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 384 (Ma-D) Aircraft assessment: property taxation
Extends the current administrative procedures and methodology for the valuation of commercial aircraft for property tax assessment purposes through the 2015-16 fiscal year, and provides for a rebuttable presumption for aircraft assessed using the prescribed methodology, as specified, and provides that the assessed value of any individual aircraft owned by the original purchaser cannot exceed the purchase price.
Chapter 228, Statutes of 2010
AB 393 (Yamada-D) Vehicle warranties: disabled rights
Requires any vehicle manufacturer who modifies new vehicles into vehicles useable by persons with disabilities to assume any warranty responsibility of the original vehicle manufacturer for any and all components of the finished product that are, by virtue of any act of the alterer, no longer covered by the warranty issued by the original vehicle manufacturer.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 394 (Torrico-D) Automobile manufacturing: sales taxes exemption
Enacts a sales and use tax exemption for tangible personal property used in the process of manufacturing an automobile in the City of Fremont.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 458 (Cook-R) Vehicles: peace officer vehicles: window tinting or glazing
Exempts a vehicle operated and owned or leased by a federal, state, or local agency, department, or district, that employs peace officers, for use by those peace officers in the performance of their duties, from California law prohibiting or limiting materials that may be placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied to the windshield or side or rear windows, commonly referred to as window tinting or glazing.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 498 (Hayashi-D) Vehicles: special interest license plates and decals: POWs
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, to design a veterans license plate for former American prisoners of war (POW) who prefer not to have their former status as a "POW" or "Ex-POW" identified.
Chapter 345, Statutes of 2010
AB 508 (Torlakson-D) Vehicles: driver education: provisional licenses
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, when issuing a provisional driver's license, to impose, until 1/1/14, an additional fee to generate revenue to fund driver education and training programs at public schools and to support the activities of a related advisory group.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 509 (Anderson-R) Vehicles: fleeing a peace officer
Revises definitions of offenses relating to fleeing from a peace officer in a motor vehicle.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 519 (Solorio-D) Vehicles: Towing Fees and Access Notice
Requires towing companies to provide consumers with a Towing Fees and Access Notice and an itemized invoice of all towing and storage fees, as specified. Specifies who is authorized to retrieve or inspect a towed vehicle and relieves the towing company of responsibility for determining the authenticity of documents provided to demonstrate a person's authority.
Chapter 566, Statutes of 2010
AB 584 (Huber-D) Neighborhood electric vehicles
Authorizes, until 2016, the County of Amador and the cities of Jackson, Amador City, and Sutter Creek to establish a neighborhood electric vehicle transportation plan(s).
Chapter 437, Statutes of 2010
AB 589 (Cook-R) Vehicles: driver's licenses and identification cards
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue sex offenders distinctive driver's licenses or identification cards that specifically identify them as registered sex offenders and requires a registered sex offender to carry his/her driver's license or identification card at all times.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 592 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: Department of Motor Vehicles: records
Adds Board of Equalization investigators to the list of peace officers and other public officials who may request the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide enhanced confidentiality of their home addresses.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 614 (Miller-R) Driving under the influence
Creates a crime against any person who refuses to submit to a chemical test as requested by an officer upon reasonable suspicion that he/she is driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs and or alcohol.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 709 (Lieu-D) Charter-party carriers of passengers
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt and enforce rules requiring drivers for charter-party carriers serving airports to undergo criminal background checks.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 766 (Krekorian-D) Vehicles: speed limits
Allows a local city or county to retain a prima facie speed limit on any street, other than a state highway, if it makes a finding after a public hearing and determines that a higher speed limit is not appropriate and does not promote safety.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 808 (Fuentes-D) Driving under the influence: administrative hearing
Increases to 90 days, from the current 10-day allowance, the period of time during which a person arrested for driving with an unlawful blood alcohol content or for refusing to submit to alcohol screening may request a hearing to appeal his/her driver's license being suspended or revoked.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 833 (John Perez-D) Rental passenger vehicles: contracts
Allows car rental companies to shift the burden of proof from the rental company to the renter to establish whether there is clear and convincing evidence that the renter or authorized driver failed to exercise ordinary care while in possession of the vehicle if the vehicle is stolen, making the renter responsible for the theft up to the fair market vale of the vehicle. Authorizes a car rental company to make the renter responsible for the replacement cost of the vehicle ignition key or remote keyless entry system if the renter fails to return them, as well as actual towing, storage, or impound costs incurred by the car rental company associated with the renter's failure to return the ignition key or remote keyless entry system.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 909 (Hill-D) Vehicles: right turn violations
Clarifies that turning right on a red light without stopping is a violation punishable by a base fine of $35.
Vetoed
AB 923 (Swanson-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: public records
Adds Board of Equalization members, zoo veterinarians, employees of certain animal control shelters, and code enforcement officers, to the list of peace officers and other public officials who may request the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide enhanced confidentiality of their home addresses.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 953 (Eng-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality
Permits the disclosure of residence address information in Department of Motor Vehicles records to an authorized contractor of an insurance company. Information could only be disclosed for the purpose of obtaining the address of another motorist or vehicle owner involved in an accident with the company's insured.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2010
AB 959 (Garrick-R) Vehicles: instruction permits: provisional licenses
Reduces the number of alternative programs of driver's education and training programs from three to two and revises the requirements of those programs. Requires that the instruction permit not be issued until the person is enrolled in an approved driver training course and completes the first two-hours of behind-the-wheel instruction. The instruction permit is not valid until the permit is signed by the instructor.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 986 (Mendoza-D) Vehicles: motor vehicle speed contests
Requires an additional fee, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles, be collected for "race or show vehicles", as defined, and that these vehicles be designated as race vehicles on the certificate of registration.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1014 (Galgiani-D) Vehicles: driver's licenses: farmers
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue a class A or class B restricted driver's license for the operation of a vehicle in the production, harvesting, or transportation of silage by a farmer, employee of the farmer, or contracted employee of the farmer, between one part of a farm and another part of that farm or from one farm to another farm, on a highway for a distance not to exceed 20 miles from the point of origin of the trip. Requires DMV to follow specified federal regulations in issuing those driver's licenses, and requires a licensed California driver applying for one of those driver's licenses, upon application and every two years thereafter, to submit medical information on a form approved by DMV.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1054 (Coto-D) Motor vehicle insurance: rates
Provides that credit card expenses incurred by an insurer are not part of an "efficiency standard" adopted by the Insurance Commissioner for rate making purposes, and specifies that no retrospective adjustment of an approved rate may be ordered by a court if the insurer has complied with the rate approval order of the Insurance Commissioner.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1097 (Eng-D) Vehicles: license plates
Requires license plates to be mounted parallel to the ground so that the characters are upright.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1106* (Fuentes-D) Alternative and renewable fuel and vehicle technology
Authorizes the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to contract with small business financial development corporations to expend Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program funds.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2010
AB 1135 (Skinner-D) Vehicles: registration renewal
Requires vehicle owners to record their odometer readings when applying for registration renewal, provides that this information, except for the name and address of the vehicle owner and the license plate number of the vehicle, is public information, and requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to group the information into census blocks and create a database that can sort the data by block group, census tract, city and county.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1155 (Audra Strickland-R) Vehicles: private parking facilities
Adds the to the list of Vehicle Code violations that a city or county may apply to an off-street private parking facility throwing a substance at a vehicle, drinking an alcoholic beverage while driving a motor vehicle, drinking an alcoholic beverage while in a motor vehicle, possessing marijuana or an open container of alcohol while driving a motor vehicle, oprating a vehicle with a sound amplification system that can be heard 50 or more feet away, and permitting a child who is not at least six years old or 60 pounds to be transported in a vehicle without properly using a child passenger restraint system.
Vetoed
AB 1189 (Skinner-D) Department of Transportation: fish passages
Requires the Department of Transportation to assess and remediate fish barriers associated with any state or federally funded transportation project, including repairs, retrofits, alterations, maintenance and construction, if the project affects a stream crossing on a stream where anadromous fish are or historically were found.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1204 (Huber-D) El Dorado County Transportation Commission
Increases the membership of the El Dorado County Transportation Commission governing board from six to seven members. Increases the members appointed by the county board of supervisors from three to four members, and specifies that each incorporated city within El Dorado County (excluding cities in the Lake Tahoe Basin) shall appoint two members to the board, unless there is only one incorporated city, in which case that city shall have three appointed members.
Chapter 357, Statutes of 2010
AB 1205 (Logue-R) Vehicles: motorcycles: safety helmets: exceptions
Exempts from the requirement to wear a helmet, motorcycle drivers who are 18 or older and have either completed a motorcyclist safety training program meeting standards established by the Department of the California Highway Patrol or been issued a class M1 license or endorsement, or a comparable license from another jurisdiction, for two years or more.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1220 (Huffman-D) Vehicles: supervised driving: young drivers
Expands the 50-hour supervised training requirement currently applicable to driver's license applicants aged 16 and 17 to applicants who are 18 to 24 years of age.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1237 (Garrick-R) Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors
Makes it unlawful for a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch, after written demand, to fail to repurchase a noncompliant new motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle, or item of related merchandise originally purchased by a franchisee from the manufacturer or from another franchisee.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1275 (Anderson-R) Vehicles: driving under the influence
Mandates an arresting authority to report to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement the presence of an arrestee when the arrestee is arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) or DUI causing bodily injury, and the arrestee fails to provide the arresting authority with appropriate documentation demonstrating his/her legal presence in the United States.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1304* (Saldana-D) Electric vehicles: sales tax exemption
Exempts electric vehicles from the sales and use tax until 1/1/15, limits the exemption to 100 electric vehicles per manufacturer, and defines an "electric vehicle" as a passenger vehicle that uses electricity as its sole source of propulsion (thus hybrids will not qualify).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1342 (Evans-D) Local taxation: income taxes: vehicle license fees
Authorizes a board of supervisors of any county, by ordinance, to place on the ballot a local personal income tax or local vehicle license fee, or both, in accordance with all constitutional and statutory requirements. Subjects the local license fee on vehicles to the following conditions: (1) the total annual amount of the license fee for any vehicle shall not exceed 2% of the market value of that vehicle, and (2) the local license fee shall be assessed and collected in the manner as the fee imposed by the vehicle license fee law, and administered by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1443 (Huffman-D) Vehicles: driving under the influence: repeat offenders
Requires the permanent revocation of a person's driver's license after a third driving under the influence conviction (DUI), with an ability to seek a restoration of the license after five years, and provides for a permanent revocation after the fourth DUI.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1452 (Skinner-D) Transportation: cement products
Requires the Air Resources Board, on or before 1/1/11, to develop and adopt limitations on greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the production of cement sold in the state, regardless of the cement's origin and including greenhouse gas emission resulting from transportation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1473 (Cook-R) Vehicles: load length
Exempts from the limitation on vehicle length and loads, the return of vehicles used in the transportation of poles and the tools and materials incidental to the work to its point of origin or yard.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1492 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: wireless telephones and communication devices
Prohibits a person from using a wireless telephone or other "communication device", as defined, during a vehicle stop made by a law enforcement officer for a violation of the Vehicle Code.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1522 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Vehicles: school zones
Authorizes a local authority in a "rural area", as defined, that establishes a prima facie speed limit in a school zone to include a state highway if the highway is within 1,000 feet of a school building or the grounds of a school building, including school grounds that are not separated from the highway by a fence, gate, or other physical barrier while the grounds are in use by children and the highway is posted with a school warning sign that indicates the posted speed limit.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1586 (Swanson-D) San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Authorizes the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) to establish an office of independent police auditor to investigate complaints against district police personnel, and requires that, if the BART Board does establish a police auditor's office, the powers and duties of the auditor would be as specified.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2010
AB 1597 (Jones-D) Automobile insurance: assigned risk plans
Extends the California low-cost auto program sunset from 2011 to 2016 and makes various statutory changes to conform its operations to standard California administrative practices and facilitate greater efficiency and more customer-friendly operations for the public and producers alike.
Chapter 234, Statutes of 2010
AB 1601 (Hill-D) Vehicles: driving-under-the-influence (DUI): repeat offender
Permits a court to order a 10-year revocation of a driver's license for a person convicted of three or more separate DUI offenses.
Chapter 301, Statutes of 2010
AB 1608 (Garrick-R) Motor vehicle insurance: special assessments
Requires that the amount of the special purpose assessment on each vehicle insured be determined by the Insurance Commissioner, and that the amount not exceed $0.30 per insured vehicle. Requires that 66.7% of the special purpose assessment be used to fund specified consumer service functions of the Department of Insurance, relating to motor vehicle insurance. The remaining 33.3% of the special purpose assessment will be used to fund the improvement of certain consumer functions of the Department of Insurance, relating to motor vehicle insurance.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1648 (Jeffries-R) Vehicles: firefighter's operation of firefighting equipment
Changes the type of drivers license required to operate firefighting equipment from a class A or B commercial drivers license, or a restricted firefighting license, to a class C license with a firefighter endorsement, and allows a person without such an endorsement to operate firefighting equipment for training purposes during non-emergencies provided the driver is accompanied by a properly licensed driver.
Chapter 360, Statutes of 2010
AB 1660 (Salas-D) Airports: emergency aircraft flights for medical purposes
Expands the definition of "emergency aircraft flights for medical purposes", to include the return, non-emergency flights of aircraft or equipment used during a medical emergency, or emergency personnel and first responders involved in treating the medical emergency, for the purpose of returning the aircraft or equipment back to the base of operation.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2010
AB 1700* (Gaines-R) Vehicle license fee
Repeals the temporary state sales and use tax rate of 1%, which is currently set to expire on 7/1/11, effective on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more than 90 days after the effective date of this bill. Repeals the 0.35% vehicle license fee rate, which is currently set to expire on 7/1/11, effective for registration taking place on or after the effective date of this bill. Repeals, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/10, the reduction in the dependent exemption credit amount. Repeals, effective for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/10, the 0.25 percentage point that was temporarily added to each marginal personal income tax rate and to the alternative minimum tax rate of 7% in February 2009.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1722 (Hagman-R) Vehicle collateral recovery
Prohibits a repossession agency from publicly disclosing a registrant's residential address, residential telephone number, cell phone number, or driver's license. Modifies the qualified manager examination and reexamination schedule from once every other month to once every three months. Authorizes a person to work as a registrant pending the receipt of the registration card if he/she has been approved by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services and carries on his/her person a printout of the Bureau's approval from the Bureau's Internet Web site and valid picture identification. Requires the Bureau to issue a cardholder a certified replacement card in the event of the loss or destruction of the card, provided that the cardholder states the circumstances surrounding the loss and pays a $10 certification fee.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1731 (Tran-R) Vehicle rental agreements: waivers
Revise the rate limitations on damage waivers sold by a rental company by deleting the reference to the vehicle's manufacturer's suggested retail price and instead imposes limits on the rate on the basis of the vehicle's class.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1740 (Jeffries-R) Vehicles: specially constructed vehicles
Allows 750 specially-constructed vehicles to be registered by the Department of Motor Vehicles using a specific formula for determining the emission control standards that apply to those vehicles. Allows the registered owner of a specially-constructed vehicle that is currently registered or incorrectly registered to change the vehicle's registration by having it inspected by a repair station authorized to perform referee functions for the purpose of determining the engine model-year used in the vehicle or the vehicle model-year, and the appropriate emission control system application. Provides that the 750-vehicle annual registration limit described above does not apply to the renewals of the current registrations of specially-constructed vehicles.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1781 (Villines-R) Neighborhood electric vehicles
Authorizes the City of Fresno, until 1/1/16, to establish a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) transportation plan under the same terms as the pilot projects in Lincoln and Rocklin. Permits the City to establish an NEV plan for all city streets within the City, plus Fresno County islands, which are areas of land, streets, and roads under county jurisdiction, but entirely surrounded by the city, provided that the county concurs in inclusion of any island in the city's NEV plan. Requires that the City adopt the plan by ordinance or resolution and, prior to adoption, receive comment and review on the plan from the Council of Fresno County Governments and any agency with traffic law enforcement responsibilities in the plan area. The plan must accommodate the travel of NEVs by identifying routes and providing for NEV facilities (separate lanes, trails, street crossings, parking, charging stations, etc.).
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2010
AB 1815 (Emmerson-R) Vehicles: special interest license plates: NASCAR
Allows the Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR), on behalf of the High Polluter Repair or Removal Account, to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to sponsor National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) driver-specialized license plates. Requires DMV to issue, or cause to be issued, specialized plates for that program if BAR complies with all statutory requirements. Allows the NASCAR plates to bear emblems, seals, or other symbols or designs displaying themes of professional stock car auto racing, or professional stock car auto racing drivers. Prohibits DMV from establishing this program until it has received not less than 7,500 applications for NASCAR plates, with BAR collecting and holding applications for the plates and submitting them to DMV along with the necessary fees once it has received at least 7,500 applications, to DMV.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1839 (Torrico-D) Vehicle license fee: schools: safety
Establishes the Safe Schools Initiative, under which the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall award grants to school districts with high schools located in areas with the highest crime rates. Increases the vehicle license fee to fund the Safe Schools Initiative program.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1855 (Yamada-D) Vehicles: disabled person or disabled veteran placard
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to advise applicants for disabled placards of how to apply for disabled license plates. Specifically, requires DMV to include on the application for a disabled placard, information advising the applicant, in writing, of the procedure to apply for special license plates for disabled persons and disabled veterans of the fee exemptions available for plates issued to disabled veterans.
Chapter 196, Statutes of 2010
AB 1871 (Jones-D) Private passenger motor vehicle insurance coverage
Authorizes private passenger motor vehicle owners to make their vehicle available for use by a personal vehicle sharing program without impacting the owners' private passenger automobile insurance policy.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2010
AB 1885 (Hill-D) Airport property: malicious mischief
Allows an airport, such as San Francisco International Airport, that is not located in the county where the owning entity is located, to enforce state laws requiring limousine operators to transport passengers only through prior arrangement and to obtain consent to operate at the airport.
Chapter 584, Statutes of 2010
AB 1888 (Ma-D) Harbors and ports: pilotage
Allows noncommercial vessels that are maritime academy training vessels and vessels owned and operated by nonprofit museums or foundations to receive pilotage services at no charge, other than the Board of Pilot Commissioners operations surcharge. Exempts large "yachts", as defined, from pilotage requirements, and establishes staggered term limits for members of the Board.
Chapter 455, Statutes of 2010
AB 1908 (Cook-R) Vehicles: specialized license plates: veterans organizations
Permits the Department of Veterans Affairs to modify the distinctive designs of veterans plates and the associated decals but prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) from issuing the new plates or decals until it has issued all existing inventories of plates and decals. Requires DMV, by 7/1/11, to provide a link on its Web site through which vehicle owners can order veterans plates.
Chapter 166, Statutes of 2010
AB 1928 (Torlakson-D) Vehicles: commercial driver's license: suspension
Clarifies that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall administratively review and uphold license suspensions when a person has been found to have been driving with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.01 percent or more while on probation for a "driving under the influence", or driving a commercial vehicle with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.04% or more.
Chapter 244, Statutes of 2010
AB 1942 (Fletcher-R) Vehicles: video event recorder
Authorizes the placement of video event recorders on specified areas of a vehicle windshield. Defines "video event recorder" to mean a video recorder that continuously records in a digital loop, recording audio, video, and G-force levels, but saves video only when triggered by an unusual motion or crash or when operated by the driver to monitor driver performance. Requires a vehicle equipped with a video event recorder have a notice posted in a visible location which states that a passenger's conversation may be recorded. Requires video event recorders store no more than 30 seconds before or after a triggering event, provides that the registered owner or lessee of the vehicle may disable the video event recorder, and specifies the data recorded to the device is the property of the registered owner or lessee.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2010
AB 1944 (Fletcher-R) Vehicles: special license plates: disabled veterans
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, when evaluating applications for a disabled veteran license plates or placards, to accept a certificate from the United States Department of Veterans Administration certifying that the applicant is a disabled veteran in lieu of a certificate signed by a private doctor.
Chapter 421, Statutes of 2010
AB 1951 (Ammiano-D) Vehicles: traffic offenses: punishment
Provides that a person who commits certain infraction-level offenses that results in an injury to another person is punishable by either an infraction or a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for between five and 90 days and/or a fine of between $145 and $1,000.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1952 (Niello-R) Vehicles: instruction permit: motorcycle
Requires persons under the age of 21 to complete a motorcyclist safety program prior to obtaining an instruction permit to operate a two-wheel motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, motorized bicycle, moped, or bicycle with an attached motor, and requires that the permittee hold the instruction permit for a minimum of six months prior to obtaining a motorcycle license.
Chapter 586, Statutes of 2010
AB 1974 (Cook-R) Vehicle license fee: local government finance
Limits, on and after 1/1/11, any increase in the payment of administrative costs to the Department of Motor Vehicles for administration of the motor vehicle license fee program to 2% per year.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2059 (Charles Calderon-D) Vehicle rental agreements
Temporarily provides a mechanism for service of legal process on non-residents who cause injuries involving rental cars in California, up to a maximum contractual limit.
Vetoed
AB 2067 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: parking
Allows the City of Long Beach, under specified conditions, to implement a three-year pilot program to permit parking on the left side of two-way local residential streets that dead-end with no cul-de-sac or other designated turnaround area.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2010
AB 2097 (Miller-R) Vehicles: confidential home addresses: citations
Establishes a process whereby a person who has requested that the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) hold his/her home address confidential shall provide to DMV the address of his/her employment address for the purpose of processing the service and collection of traffic, parking, and toll road violations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2099 (Miller-R) Vehicles: driver's handbook
Requires the California Driver's Handbook, when next revised or reprinted by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to refer drivers to the Web site for JourneySafe.org.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2113 (Evans-D) Vehicle license fees: local taxation: personal income taxes
Authorizes a board of supervisors of any county, by ordinance, to place on the ballot a local personal income tax or local vehicle license fee, or both, in accordance with all constitutional and statutory requirements.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2118 (Hernandez-D) Vehicles: dealers: consumer credit score disclosure
Requires vehicle dealers to provide a credit score disclosure notice that conforms to federal requirements. Requires a vehicle dealer who obtains a consumer credit score from a consumer credit reporting agency in regard to the potential purchase or lease of a motor vehicle for personal, family, or household use, to provide the consumer prior to the sale or lease of the vehicle, in at least 10-point type on a document separate from the sale or lease contract, a credit score disclosure notice that meets the form and content requirements in the Code of Federal Regulations, as those requirements may be amended.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2144 (Gilmore-R) Commercial motor vehicles: driver compliance
Modifies, beginning 7/1/11, provisions of state law related to traffic violator schools to reflect that the referral to a traffic violator, now a dismissal, is a de facto guilty plea and conviction and not a dismissal of the complaint. Provides, beginning 7/1/11, that Department of Motor Vehicle records related to traffic violator school conviction, normally held confidential, are not confidential if the person convicted holds a commercial license, the violation occurs in a commercial vehicle, or if a conviction would result in a violation point count of more than one point. If the conviction is kept confidential, no violation point count may be assessed. Increases the length of disqualification periods and the amount of penalties related to out-of-service convictions such that they range from 180 days to three years and from $2,500 to $5,000 for drivers, and increases the maximum penalty for employers to $25,000.
Chapter 216, Statutes of 2010
AB 2228 (Lieu-D) Vehicles: overnight parking
Provides that the City of Los Angeles is not required to obtain a permit or approval from the California Coastal Commission to establish an overnight parking restriction on public streets by nonresidents between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. in the Venice coastal zone. Authorizes the City of Los Angeles to establish a system of permits for purposes of exempting residents of the Venice coastal zone from the parking restrictions.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2294 (Block-D) Pedicabs: operators
Defines "pedicab" and allows local authorities to license and regulate the operation of pedicabs for hire including a requirement that an operator obtain a valid California driver's license.
Chapter 614, Statutes of 2010
AB 2303 (Tran-R) Vehicles: registration: installment payments
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), by 1/1/12, to implement by regulation an installment payment program for payment of vehicle registration fees. Requires the program to be limited to individuals who are receiving unemployment compensation or who meet state poverty guidelines as determined by an unspecified entity, and requires DMV to confirm eligibility of an individual prior to his/her enrollment in the program. Requires DMV to charge $5 for each installment payment.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2324 (John Perez-D) Transit: public transit facilities
Establishes sterile areas within public transit facilities and prohibits possession of specified items within those areas, expands the crime of trespass to include unauthorized entry into a "public transit facility", as defined, creates a new crime of intentionally avoiding security screening at a public transit facility, and increases penalties for specified acts of misconduct committed on or in a facility or vehicle of a public transportation system, as specified.
Chapter 675, Statutes of 2010
AB 2338 (Conway-R) Vehicles: off-highway vehicle recreation
Authorizes segments of county roads in Inyo County that are longer than three miles to be designated for combined use by motor vehicles and off-highway vehicles, unless the California Highway Patrol finds that the combined-use designation would create a potential traffic safety hazard.
Vetoed
AB 2461 (Emmerson-R) Vehicles: vehicle registration amnesty program
Extends the amnesty program for incorrectly or fraudulently registered vehicles, exempts specially-constructed vehicles seeking amnesty from the visual component of the smog inspection, and requires that a certificate of compliance be issued to a specially-constructed vehicle that has applied for amnesty if the vehicle has met the inspection and maintenance tailpipe emissions requirements, as determined by the Bureau of Automotive Repair, for the model year assigned in the amnesty application.
Chapter 388, Statutes of 2010
AB 2464 (Huffman-D) Vehicles: provisional licensing
Requires that drivers under the age of 18 complete driver education and training prior to obtaining an instruction permit, clarifies the minimum age of a person that may accompany a permittee, and requires that the instruction permit state explicitly that a permittee must complete 50 hours of supervised driving practice.
Vetoed
AB 2471 (John Perez-D) Vehicles: identification cards and driver's licenses.
Provides that, in addition to prohibiting the sale or manufacturing of a document that is similar in size and form to Department of Motor Vehicles licenses and identification (ID) cards, it is unlawful to sell documents that purport to confer the same privileges as IDs or drivers' licenses, and provides that, instead of the current penalties of a $1,000 fine and 24 hours of community service for violations, the penalties may include a fine of between $250 and $1,000 and 24 hours of community service, or at the courts discretion, a jail term of up to one year and a fine of up to $1,000.
Chapter 684, Statutes of 2010
AB 2479 (Bass-D) Reckless driving: stalking: surveillance
Provides that any person who engages in specified forms of reckless driving, including interfering with another driver and following another vehicle too closely, while attempting to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of another person for a commercial purpose is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment of not more than six months and by a fine of not more than $2,500. Provides that a person who engages in such acts in a manner that endangers a child or children shall be punished by imprisonment of not more than one year and by a fine of not more than $5,000.
Chapter 685, Statutes of 2010
AB 2499 (Portantino-D) Vehicles: traffic violator school program
Consolidates the licensing of all traffic violator schools (TVSs) under the authority of the Department of Motor Vehicles and treats a violation as a conviction, rather than as a dismissal, if the person attends a TVS.
Chapter 599, Statutes of 2010
AB 2509 (Hayashi-D) Transit village plan
Adds, as an eighth characteristic that cities and counties must include in their transit village plans, other land uses that provide direct linkages for traveling to and from educational facilities, and adds economic development and job creation as the 14th item in the list of public benefits that a transit village plan may demonstrate.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2528* (Knight-R) Cash for clunker: income tax exclusion
Excludes, under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, from the computation of gross income any voucher issued or specified payment made pursuant to the federal Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 (Cash for Clunkers) received as a result of a purchase of a vehicle described in that Act.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2532 (Bill Berryhill-R) Automotive Consumer Notification Act: consumer warranties
Deletes the 10,000-pound weight restriction on vehicles covered under the Lemon Law, and includes in the definition of "new motor vehicle" a new commercial motor vehicle or combination of new vehicles that require a class A, class B, or a class C license, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2544 (Smyth-R) Department of Motor Vehicle regulations: exemptions
Exempts a driver employed under the direction or management of a county road commissioner, a county chief engineer, or a county engineer during an emergency for the purpose of maintaining, restoring, or reopening public roads, maintaining or restoring public infrastructure, or restoring or providing essential public service from the reasonable rules and regulations that are designed to promote the safe operation of certain vehicles.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2567 (Bradford-D) Vehicles: parking violations: digital photograph recordings
Allows a local public agency to issue parking citations for violation of street sweeping parking restrictions based on digital photographs collected by an automated parking enforcement system installed on street sweepers.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2010
AB 2572 (Bradford-D) Charter-party carriers of passengers
Expands the definition of a charter-party carrier to include any person, or entity engaged in providing transportation service where the vehicle is rented and is operated by a for-hire driver. Changes certificate renewal fees and imposes additional enforcement provisions to allow the Public Utilities Commission to exercise enforcement techniques.
Chapter 472, Statutes of 2010
AB 2597 (Bill Berryhill-R) Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors
Prohibits a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch from unfairly discriminating in favor of a motorsports dealer when acting as a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch of motorsports vehicles, and from requiring or attempting to require a motorsports dealer to maintain a motorsports inventory in a specified manner. Defines a "motorsports dealer" for these purposes.
Vetoed
AB 2620 (Eng-D) Department of Transportation: reimbursement
Changes the overhead rate that the Department of Transportation charges for reimbursed work it performs for local agencies or private entities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2644 (Fuller-R) Vehicles: pickup trucks
Excludes from the definition of a "commercial vehicle" any pickup truck that is not used for the transportation of property for hire, compensation, or profit. Exempts pickup trucks from commercial weight fees.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2646 (John Perez-D) Vehicles: vehicle registration: required information
Requires that the application for an original or renewal vehicle registration, and the registration card itself, include the residence address of the vehicle's owner, unless the owner is a business, in which case the business address would be required on the application and registration card.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2657 (Gilmore-R) Vehicles: pickup trucks
Increases, for purposes of the Motor Carriers of Property Permit Act, the gross vehicle weight rating to 11,500 or more pounds thereby excluding any motor truck of two or more axles, and any pickup truck, that is less than 11,500 pounds from the Act's provisions.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2658 (Conway-R) Short line railroads
Requires the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to prepare a five-year Short Line Commercial Rail Haul Connectivity Plan for the state, the focus of which would be to identify, with a statewide emphasis, opportunities for short line commercial rail system improvements and linkages. The Plan is required to include desirable linkages and feeder opportunities between short line commercial rail services, and to identify the coordination in planning and the capital investments necessary in that regard. The Plan is also required to identify future right-of-way needs of short line commercial rail lines in connection with state and local highway system improvements in order to accommodate future rail system improvements.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2667 (Hill-D) Vehicles: child passenger restraint systems
Requires hospitals, clinics, and birthing centers, when discharging a child, to provide contact information to the parent or the person to whom the child is released directing them to an Internet Web site or other contact that may provide, at no or low cost, information and assistance related to child passenger restraint systems.
Vetoed
AB 2710 (Blumenfield-D) Vehicles: signs: parking violations: removal
Authorizes a local authority, in lieu of posting signs that prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles, to provide notice by issuing a warning citation advising the registered owner of the vehicle that he/she may be subject to a notice of violation for a subsequent violation and that a subsequent violation may result in the impounding of the vehicle. Provides that a local authority is not required to provide any further notice for a subsequent violation prior to impounding a vehicle in violation of a local ordinance or resolution authorizing removal of the vehicle.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2729 (Ammiano-D) Automated traffic enforcement systems
Authorizes, until 1/1/13, the City and County of San Francisco to use an automated traffic enforcement system to enforce a prohibition against turning from Market Street onto the Central Freeway located at Octavia Boulevard, provided the system meets all of the requirements established in existing law for red light cameras. Requires the City and County, if it implements an automated traffic enforcement system, conduct an evaluation of the system to assess its effectiveness.
Vetoed
AB 2745 (Ammiano-D) Motor vehicle insurance: discrimination: geographic area
Redefines "geographic area", for purposes of automobile insurance, as a portion of this state of not less than 15-square miles defined by description in the rating manual of an insurer or in the rating manual of a rating bureau of which the insurer is a member or subscriber.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2755 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Allows the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to let a contract to the lowest responsible bidder when the purchase price of the construction of all facilities exceeds $100,000, rather than $25,000, and authorizes the Authority to award individual contracts, not exceeding $8 million per year, providing for the issuance of job orders for construction work with compensation for the work based on unit prices, and defines "job order" and "unit price" for these purposes.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2756 (Blumenfield-D) Mobile billboard advertising displays: local ordinances
Defines "mobile billboard advertising display" as an advertising display that is attached to a wheeled, mobile, non-motorized vehicle that carries, pulls, or transports a sign or billboard, and is for the primary purpose of advertising. Allows a local jurisdiction to regulate mobile billboard advertising displays, including the establishment of penalties, as specified.
Chapter 615, Statutes of 2010
AB 2768 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Vehicles: charter-party carriers: bus drivers
Ensures that specified acts that result in a license suspension for a bus driver are reported to the Department of Motor Vehicles and makes other minor, technical changes to provisions of law governing various state boards, commissions, and agencies.
Chapter 213, Statutes of 2010
AB 2777 (Assembly Transportation Committee) Transportation: omnibus bill
Makes non-controversial changes to sections of law relating to transportation by deleting obsolete reporting requirements, correcting grammatical errors and cross-references, clarifying that disabled persons license plates and disabled veterans license plates may only be issued for motor vehicles, as opposed to vehicles, a term which includes trailers, and clarifying that the Department of Motor Vehicles may issue Olympic and commemorative collegiate license plates as environmental (or "vanity") license plates, displaying numbers and letters requested by the vehicle owner.
Chapter 478, Statutes of 2010
AB 4X3 (Evans-D) Transportation finance
Shifts $986 million in gasoline fee revenue from cities and counties to the General Fund for reimbursement of transportation-related general-obligation bond payments. In 2010-11, an additional $745 million will be shifted for the same purpose, but in 2011-12, and thereafter, the full current-law allocation would be made to cities and counties. The amount shifted is within the limit set by Article XIX of the California Constitution - no more that 25% of specified transportation revenue can be directed to bond debt service.
(Died in Assembly awaiting concurrence)
AB 39X3* (Evans-D) Vehicle license fee: state parks fee: fuel taxes
Establishes a $15 vehicle license fee surcharge to be deposited into a dedicated account for state parks. The funds generated will be used for parks operations and maintenance. This provision will result in revenue of approximately $200 million in 2009-10, increasing to $400 million in 2010-11.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 40X3 (Evans-D) Fuel user fee: vehicle fees
Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of driver's license and identification card fees in order to amend the 2009 Budget Act.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 6X8* (Assembly Budget Committee) Gasoline tax
Deletes provisions that will delay or partially suspend corporate tax provisions and instead raise the gasoline excise tax by up to 17.3-cents. Exempts from the state sales tax the sale of motor vehicle funds.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2009-10, Eighth Extraordinary Session
ACR 132 (Nielsen-R) John F. Reginato Boat Ramp
Designates the South Bonnyview Boat Ramp in the City of Redding as the "John F. Reginato Boat Ramp." States that the City of Redding, after consulting with the Department of Fish and Game, is requested to incorporate the placement of new signs that reflect this special designation into the impending rehabilitation of the boat ramp so long as the new signs do not increase project costs.
Resolution Chapter 103, Statutes of 2010
ACR 152 (Hernandez-D) Vehicles: automotive aftermarket: National Car Care Month
Recognizes the contributions of the automotive aftermarket to the state and consumers and its efforts to educate the motoring public about the benefits of proper vehicle maintenance. Also, recognizes and supports the designation of April as "National Car Care Month" and encourages all citizens to participate in activities that promote proper vehicle maintenance.
Resolution Chapter 150, Statutes of 2010
AJR 33 (Fuller-R) General aviation
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to recognize the vital role general aviation plays in the economy, health, safety, and protection of the nation, and abstain from legislation and policies that impact this industry's ability to continue to function effectively.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AJR 41 (Lieu-D) Santa Monica Airport
Memorializes the Federal Aviation Administration, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Department of Transportation, and the members of the California congressional delegation to work collaboratively to review noise and air pollution emission levels and the safety of flight operations at Santa Monica Municipal Airport.
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2010
HR 24 (Galgiani-D) Teen Driving Safety Week
Declares the week of 3/21/10, as "Teen Driving Safety Week" and urges Californians, with the help of law enforcement organizations, teachers, parents, students, and the IMPACT Teen Driver's Campaign, to observe Teen Driving Safety Week with appropriate activities that promote safe driving among teenage drivers.
Adopted by the Assembly
HR 29 (Garrick-R) Motorcycle Awareness Month
Designates the month of May 2010 as Motorcycle Awareness Month.
Adopted by the Assembly
High-Speed Rail
SB 409 (Ducheny-D) Passenger rail programs: strategic planning
Requires the Department of Transportation to prepare a rail connectivity plan, and requires the High-Speed Rail Authority to prepare a five-year capital program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 455 (Lowenthal-D) High-Speed Rail Authority: appointees
Requires the five gubernatorial appointees to the High-Speed Rail Authority be confirmed by the Senate.
Vetoed
SB 854* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) High-Speed Rail Authority: budget trailer bill
Among other provisions, allows the Governor to appoint six management level exempt positions to the High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA) upon the recommendation of the executive director, requires HSRA to report biannually on the status of development and implementation of intercity high-speed rail service, and requires that the members of the High-Speed Rail Independent Peer Group be designated by 11/1/10 in this 2010 Transportation Budget Trailer Bill.
(Failed passage on the Senate Third Reading File)
A similar bill was AB 1614 (Assembly Budget Committee) which failed passage on the Senate Third Reading File.
SB 964 (Alquist-D) Workforce development program: high-speed rail
Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority and the Employment Development Department collaboratively prepare a labor market assessment of the workforce needs associated with the construction, operation, and maintenance of the high-speed train system.
Vetoed
SB 965 (DeSaulnier-D) High-Speed Rail Authority: federal funds
Authorizes the High-Speed Rail Authority to expend federal funds made available by the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for high-speed rail purposes.
Vetoed
SB 1371* (Correa-D) High-speed rail: bond funded projects
Authorizes letters of no prejudice for the $950 million in high-speed passenger train bond funds intended for capital improvements to intercity, commuter rail lines and urban rail systems. Provides that expenditures for projects with approved letters of no prejudice may be reimbursed with bond dollars, if specified criteria are met.
Chapter 292, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 2703 (Perez-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.
AB 289 (Galgiani-D) High-speed rail
Authorizes the Governor, subject to on appropriation, to appoint up to six additional civil service-exempt staff for the management and administration of the High-Speed Rail Authority, and requires certain American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to be used for planning and engineering, and for capital costs, for the high-speed train system consistent with federal law and regulations and specified provisions of SB 965 (DeSaulnier-D), which was vetoed.
Vetoed
AB 619 (Blumenfield-D) High-speed rail
Establishes procedures for firms desiring to contract with the High-Speed Rail Authority to disclose any participation in the deportation of persons to concentration camps, prisoner of war camps, work camps, or extermination camps between 1/1/42 and 12/31/44.
Vetoed
AB 1375 (Galgiani-D) High-speed rail
Authorizes the Governor, for purposes of managing and administering the ongoing work of the High-Speed Rail Authority in implementing the high-speed train project, to appoint up to six additional authority employees, exempt from civil service, who would serve in specified positions at the pleasure of the executive director. Requires a salary survey to be conducted to determine the maximum compensation for the executive director and additional exempt employees, and requires the salaries to be approved by the Department of Personnel Administration.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1747 (Galgiani-D) High-Speed Rail Authority: projects: mineral deposit
Requires a lead agency, if a proposed residential, retail, or commercial development project would preclude or substantially and directly impede the present or potential future use of lands for mineral extraction in an area that has received a specified classification by the State Geologist as containing mineral deposits of statewide or regional significance, to determine whether those impacts may have a significant effect on the environment, including, but not limited to, any significant effect on air quality.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1830 (Jones-D) High-Speed Rail Authority: manufactured in California
Defines the terms "manufactured in California" and "manufactured" when the High-Speed Rail Authority considers the purchase of California-manufactured high-speed rail train rolling stock and equipment.
Vetoed
AB 2121 (Harkey-R) High-Speed Rail Authority
Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority to submit annually a six-year funding program and a project progress report to the appropriate policy and budget committees of the Legislature.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2703* (John Perez-D) High-speed rail: bond-funded projects
Allows an eligible regional or local agency to apply to the California Transportation Commission for a letter of no prejudice relating to projects to be funded under the $950 million allocated to eligible regional or local agencies recipient for funding for capital improvements to intercity and commuter rail lines and urban rail transit systems in connection with or otherwise related to the high-speed train system under the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1371 (Correa-D), Chapter 292, Statutes of 2010.
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 10* | Leno-D Voter-approved local assessment: vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 60 | Cedillo-D Vehicles: driver's licenses | Miscellaneous |
| SB 70* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Fuel taxes | Miscellaneous |
| SB 88 | DeSaulnier-D Vehicles: firefighter license plates | Miscellaneous |
| SB 146 | Cox-R State Highway Route 49: relinquishment | Highways |
| SB 154 | Benoit-R Vessels: operation of vessel | Miscellaneous |
| SB 165 | Lowenthal-D Vehicles: specially-constructed vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 177 | Lowenthal-D Vehicles: child passengers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 184 | Benoit-R Biennial inspection of terminals: fee schedule | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 225* | Florez-D Emission reduction credits | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 232 | Benoit-R Vehicles: specially-constructed vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 295* | Dutton-R California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 333 | Hancock-D Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Offset Program Fund | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 346 | Kehoe-D Motor vehicle brake friction materials | Miscellaneous |
| SB 350 | Yee-D Vehicles: aftermarket crash parts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 373* | Walters-R Vehicle license fees: new vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 385 | Wright-D Vehicle emission: historic motor vehicles: preservation | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 409 | Ducheny-D Passenger rail programs: strategic planning | High-Speed Rail |
| SB 425* | Simitian-D Parking: credits: ridesharing expenses | Miscellaneous |
| SB 427 | Negrete McLeod-D Automotive repair: crash parts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 433 | Harman-R Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality | Miscellaneous |
| SB 435 | Pavley-D Vehicles pollution control devices | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 455 | Lowenthal-D High-Speed Rail Authority: appointees | High-Speed Rail |
| SB 462* | Strickland-R Manufacturers of diesel exhaust filters | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 464* | Strickland-R Diesel particulate matter reduction | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 466 | Oropeza-D Transport of hazardous waste | Miscellaneous |
| SB 474* | Ducheny-D Transportation: pilot programs | Development and Financing |
| SB 483* | Corbett-D Automobile manufacturing: Corporation tax credit | Miscellaneous |
| SB 485 | Wright-D State Highway Operation and Protection Program | Highways |
| SB 507* | Cox-R Gasoline: vapor recovery systems | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 524* | Cogdill-R Transportation funds | Development and Financing |
| SB 526 | Ashburn-R Intercity rail: San Joaquin Corridor | Development and Financing |
| SB 528 | Negrete McLeod-D Toll facilities: comprehensive development lease agreements | Highways |
| SB 535 | Yee-D Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes | Highways |
| SB 560 | Ashburn-R Regional transportation plans | Development and Financing |
| SB 567 | Dutton-R Outdoor advertising displays | Highways |
| SB 615 | Ashburn-R Vehicles: off-highway motor vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 652* | Huff-R Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority | Development and Financing |
| SB 658* | Walters-R Trade-in motor vehicle: sale tax exclusion | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 663 | Benoit-R Neighborhood electric vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 690 | Leno-D Outdoor advertising | Highways |
| SB 714* | Dutton-R Trade-in vehicle: sales tax exclusion | Miscellaneous |
| SB 737 | Negrete McLeod-D Airports: airport land use commissions | Miscellaneous |
| SB 854* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Transportation funding: 2010 Budget Trailer Bill | Development and Financing Highways Miscellaneous High-Speed Rail |
| SB 895* | Huff-R Vehicles: driver's license: suspension | Miscellaneous |
| SB 901 | Ashburn-R Transportation: bond funded projects: letter of no prejudice | Development and Financing |
| SB 921 | Ashburn-R State Highway Route 58: relinquishment | Highways |
| SB 938 | Huff-R Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality | Miscellaneous |
| SB 949 | Oropeza-D Vehicles: local authority: assessing penalties | Miscellaneous |
| SB 960 | Dutton-R Air Resources Board: Office of Administrative Law | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 964 | Alquist-D Workforce development program: high-speed rail | High-Speed Rail |
| SB 965 | DeSaulnier-D High-Speed Rail Authority: federal funds | High-Speed Rail |
| SB 976* | Hollingsworth-R Transportation development: CEQA: exemption | Development and Financing |
| SB 993 | Huff-R State Highway Routes 19 and 66: relinquishment | Highways |
| SB 1004 | Huff-R Vehicles: licensed dealers and salespersons: credit scores | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1024 | Oropeza-D Vehicles: tow trucks: illegal operation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1033 | Wright-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: allowances | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1054 | Walters-R Child passenger restraint systems | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1061 | Hancock-D San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: capital projects | Highways |
| SB 1105 | Denham-R Motor vehicle insurance: special assessments | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1114 | Florez-D Emission reduction credits: private and public moneys | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1120 | Dutton-R Global Warming Solutions Act: market-based compliance | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1141 | Negrete McLeod-D Airports: airport land use commissions | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1156* | Cedillo-D Heavy-duty trucks: grants: compliance | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1162 | Walters-R Vehicles: traffic violator schools | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1192 | Oropeza-D Airports: rental car facility fees | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1208 | Strickland-R Vehicle registration: biennial | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1215 | Price-D Transportation: public contracts: architectural/engineering | Development and Financing |
| SB 1220* | Wolk-D Vehicles: emergency vehicles: fire apparatus | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1229 | Denham-R Vehicles: all-terrain vehicle: agricultural operations | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1238 | Calderon-D Diesel vehicles and engines | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1245 | Simitian-D High-occupancy vehicle lanes | Highways |
| SB 1264 | Leno-D Commercial airlines: passenger rights | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1268 | Simitian-D Toll bridges and highways: personal information | Highways |
| SB 1295 | Dutton-R License plates | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1299 | Lowenthal-D Vehicles: vehicle-miles-traveled fee | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1305 | Pavley-D Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: revenue allocations | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1318 | Senate Transportation And Housing Committee Transportation omnibus bill | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1320 | Hancock-D Transit fare evasion and passenger misconduct | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1328 | Lowenthal-D Greenhouse gas emissions: motor vehicle cabin temperature | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1333 | Yee-D Airports: easements | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1341 | Price-D Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Development and Financing |
| SB 1348 | Steinberg-D California Transportation Commission: guidelines | Development and Financing |
| SB 1362 | Simitian-D Vehicles: automated traffic enforcement systems | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1371* | Correa-D High-speed rail: bond funded projects | High-Speed Rail |
| SB 1393 | Simitian-D Vehicles: biennial registration | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1394 | Kehoe-D Vehicles: drivers' licenses: reexaminations | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1395 | Alquist-D Driver's license: organ donation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1402* | Dutton-R Air Resources Board: penalties | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1418 | Wiggins-D Highways: motorist aid services | Highways |
| SB 1433 | Leno-D Air pollution penalties: inflation adjustments | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1445 | DeSaulnier-D Land use and planning: environmental quality | Development and Financing |
| SB 1453 | Price-D Vehicles: digital electronic license plates | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1455 | Kehoe-D Plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles: Internet Web site | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1470 | Leno-D Outdoor advertising | Highways |
| SCA 3 | Wyland-R Transportation Investment Fund | Development and Financing |
| SCR 25 | Lowenthal-D Automotive Career Month | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 37 | Wiggins-D Silverado Trail | Highways |
| SCR 38 | Wright-D Gasoline: vapor recovery systems | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SCR 50 | Cox-R CHP Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial Interchange | Highways |
| SCR 54 | Cogdill-R Kirk Lindsey Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SCR 65 | Lowenthal-D Teen Driving Safety Week | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 69 | Runner-R CHP Officer Richard D. Duvall Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SCR 83 | Negrete McLeod-D Memorial highways | Highways |
| SCR 84 | Aanestad-R Patricia Ann Weston Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SCR 85 | Denham-R Joseph A. Zanger Memorial Flyover | Highways |
| SCR 88 | DeSaulnier-D Officer Larry Lasater Memorial Overcrossing | Highways |
| SCR 89 | Correa-D Nguyen Ngoc Phu Human Rights Memorial Interchange | Highways |
| SCR 100 | Cox-R CHP Officer Douglas "Scott" Russell Memorial Freeway | Highways |
| SCR 105 | Florez-D National Purple Heart Trail | Highways |
| SCR 106 | Wright-D Deputy Chief Kenneth O. Garner Memorial Exit | Highways |
| SCR 107 | Wright-D Rudolph B. Davila Memorial Freeway | Highways |
| SCR 116 | Ducheny-D Douglas B. Dunaway Memorial Bridge | Highways |
| SCR 118 | Denham-R Correctional Officer Jose Rivera Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SCR 120 | Denham-R CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SCR 122 | Kehoe-D Esteban Bahena Memorial Highway | Highways |
| SJR 33 | Lowenthal-D National freight policy | Highways Miscellaneous |
| SR 34 | Lowenthal-D Teen Driving Safety Week | Miscellaneous |
| AB 77 | Jeffries-R Vehicles: notice of delinquent parking violation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 109 | Feuer-D Outdoor advertising: digital advertising displays | Highways |
| AB 133 | Smyth-R Major thoroughfares: funding | Development and Financing |
| AB 145 | De Leon-D Motor carriers: construction transportation brokers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 191* | Assembly Budget Committee Highway User Tax Account: deferrals | Highways |
| AB 195* | Assembly Budget Committee Vehicle license fee | Miscellaneous |
| AB 237 | Carter-D Vehicles: inspection of loads | Miscellaneous |
| AB 263 | Miller-R Riverside County Transportation Commission | Highways |
| AB 266 | Carter-D Transportation needs assessment | Development and Financing |
| AB 289 | Galgiani-D High-speed rail | High-Speed Rail |
| AB 312 | Ammiano-D San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District | Miscellaneous |
| AB 323 | Yamada-D Automobile tires | Miscellaneous |
| AB 366 | Ruskin-D State Highway Route 19: relinquishment | Highways |
| AB 376 | Nava-D Voluntary greenhouse gas emission offsets | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 384 | Ma-D Aircraft assessment: property taxation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 393 | Yamada-D Vehicle warranties: disabled rights | Miscellaneous |
| AB 394 | Torrico-D Automobile manufacturing: sales taxes exemption | Miscellaneous |
| AB 414 | Galgiani-D Heavy-duty fleet modernization projects | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 439 | Miller-R Highways: encroachment permits | Highways |
| AB 458 | Cook-R Vehicles: peace officer vehicles: window tinting or glazing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 478 | Chesbro-D Greenhouse gas emissions: recycling and waste management | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 497 | Block-D High-occupancy vehicle lanes: used by physicians | Highways |
| AB 498 | Hayashi-D Vehicles: special interest license plates and decals: POWs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 508 | Torlakson-D Vehicles: driver education: provisional licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 509 | Anderson-R Vehicles: fleeing a peace officer | Miscellaneous |
| AB 519 | Solorio-D Vehicles: Towing Fees and Access Notice | Miscellaneous |
| AB 522 | Blumenfield-D Transportation: bond funds | Development and Financing |
| AB 580 | Galgiani-D Air Quality Improvement Program: rebates | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 584 | Huber-D Neighborhood electric vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| AB 589 | Cook-R Vehicles: driver's licenses and identification cards | Miscellaneous |
| AB 592 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Vehicles: Department of Motor Vehicles: records | Miscellaneous |
| AB 614 | Miller-R Driving under the influence | Miscellaneous |
| AB 619 | Blumenfield-D High-speed rail | High-Speed Rail |
| AB 670 | Bill Berryhill-R High-occupancy vehicle lanes: veterans | Highways |
| AB 709 | Lieu-D Charter-party carriers of passengers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 726 | Nielsen-R Transportation capital improvement projects | Development and Financing |
| AB 732 | Jeffries-R Transportation projects: design-sequencing contracts | Development and Financing |
| AB 744 | Torrico-D Toll lanes: Express Lane Network | Highways |
| AB 766 | Krekorian-D Vehicles: speed limits | Miscellaneous |
| AB 782 | Jeffries-R Greenhouse gas emissions: regional transportation plans | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 787 | Hill-D Smog check: vehicle repair assistance and retirement program | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 808 | Fuentes-D Driving under the influence: administrative hearing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 833 | John Perez-D Rental passenger vehicles: contracts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 859 | Jones-D Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 909 | Hill-D Vehicles: right turn violations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 923 | Swanson-D Department of Motor Vehicles: public records | Miscellaneous |
| AB 949 | Logue-R Transportation: State-Local Partnership Program | Development and Financing |
| AB 953 | Eng-D Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality | Miscellaneous |
| AB 959 | Garrick-R Vehicles: instruction permits: provisional licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 986 | Mendoza-D Vehicles: motor vehicle speed contests | Miscellaneous |
| AB 987 | Ma-D Transit village development districts | Development and Financing |
| AB 1014 | Galgiani-D Vehicles: driver's licenses: farmers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1030 | Blumenfield-D Department of Transportation: energy development | Development and Financing |
| AB 1033 | Nielsen-R California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1054 | Coto-D Motor vehicle insurance: rates | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1078* | Feuer-D Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Development and Financing |
| AB 1097 | Eng-D Vehicles: license plates | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1104* | Monning-D Transportation: bond-funded projects: letter of no prejudice | Development and Financing |
| AB 1106* | Fuentes-D Alternative and renewable fuel and vehicle technology | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1135 | Skinner-D Vehicles: registration renewal | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1155 | Audra Strickland-R Vehicles: private parking facilities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1189 | Skinner-D Department of Transportation: fish passages | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1204 | Huber-D El Dorado County Transportation Commission | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1205 | Logue-R Vehicles: motorcycles: safety helmets: exceptions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1212 | Ruskin-D Air resources: clean vehicle incentive program | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1220 | Huffman-D Vehicles: supervised driving: young drivers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1224 | Eng-D High-occupancy toll lanes | Highways |
| AB 1237 | Garrick-R Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1243 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Strategic Area Freeway Enforcement Task Force | Highways |
| AB 1275 | Anderson-R Vehicles: driving under the influence | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1292 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1304* | Saldana-D Electric vehicles: sales tax exemption | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1342 | Evans-D Local taxation: income taxes: vehicle license fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1375 | Galgiani-D High-speed rail | High-Speed Rail |
| AB 1405 | De Leon-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1409 | John Perez-D County highways: public contracts: work authorizations | Highways |
| AB 1416 | Galgiani-D Emission control regulations: groundwater drilling | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1443 | Huffman-D Vehicles: driving under the influence: repeat offenders | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1452 | Skinner-D Transportation: cement products | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1473 | Cook-R Vehicles: load length | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1492 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Vehicles: wireless telephones and communication devices | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1500 | Lieu-D High-occupancy lanes: single occupancy vehicles | Highways |
| AB 1507 | Block-D Motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission reduction projects | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1522 | V. Manuel Perez-D Vehicles: school zones | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1586 | Swanson-D San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1597 | Jones-D Automobile insurance: assigned risk plans | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1601 | Hill-D Vehicles: driving-under-the-influence (DUI): repeat offender | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1608 | Garrick-R Motor vehicle insurance: special assessments | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1648 | Jeffries-R Vehicles: firefighter's operation of firefighting equipment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1660 | Salas-D Airports: emergency aircraft flights for medical purposes | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1670 | Beall-D State Highway Routes 82 and 130: relinquishment | Highways |
| AB 1700* | Gaines-R Vehicle license fee | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1722 | Hagman-R Vehicle collateral recovery | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1731 | Tran-R Vehicle rental agreements: waivers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1740 | Jeffries-R Vehicles: specially constructed vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1747 | Galgiani-D High-Speed Rail Authority: projects: mineral deposit | High-Speed Rail |
| AB 1760 | Blumenfield-D Transportation: design-sequencing contracts | Development and Financing |
| AB 1772 | Mendoza-D Idle reduction technology: vehicle | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1781 | Villines-R Neighborhood electric vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1784 | Fong-D Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority | Development and Financing |
| AB 1815 | Emmerson-R Vehicles: special interest license plates: NASCAR | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1830 | Jones-D High-Speed Rail Authority: manufactured in California | High-Speed Rail |
| AB 1839 | Torrico-D Vehicle license fee: schools: safety | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1845 | Gilmore-R Vehicles: golf carts: operation on highways: senior citizens | Highways |
| AB 1855 | Yamada-D Vehicles: disabled person or disabled veteran placard | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1871 | Jones-D Private passenger motor vehicle insurance coverage | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1885 | Hill-D Airport property: malicious mischief | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1888 | Ma-D Harbors and ports: pilotage | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1908 | Cook-R Vehicles: specialized license plates: veterans organizations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1928 | Torlakson-D Vehicles: commercial driver's license: suspension | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1942 | Fletcher-R Vehicles: video event recorder | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1944 | Fletcher-R Vehicles: special license plates: disabled veterans | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1951 | Ammiano-D Vehicles: traffic offenses: punishment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1952 | Niello-R Vehicles: instruction permit: motorcycle | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1974 | Cook-R Vehicle license fee: local government finance | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1984 | Nielsen-R Highways: county signs: honoring veterans | Highways |
| AB 2059 | Charles Calderon-D Vehicle rental agreements | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2067 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Vehicles: parking | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2097 | Miller-R Vehicles: confidential home addresses: citations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2098* | Miller-R Riverside County Transportation Commission | Development and Financing |
| AB 2099 | Miller-R Vehicles: driver's handbook | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2113 | Evans-D Vehicle license fees: local taxation: personal income taxes | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2118 | Hernandez-D Vehicles: dealers: consumer credit score disclosure | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2121 | Harkey-R High-Speed Rail Authority | High-Speed Rail |
| AB 2124 | Villines-R State highways: damage to local roads | Highways |
| AB 2144 | Gilmore-R Commercial motor vehicles: driver compliance | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2147 | V. Manuel Perez-D Safe Routes to School construction program | Development and Financing |
| AB 2228 | Lieu-D Vehicles: overnight parking | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2289 | Eng-D Smog check program: testing: penalties | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2294 | Block-D Pedicabs: operators | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2303 | Tran-R Vehicles: registration: installment payments | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2311 | Mendoza-D Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: low-carbon fuel | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2313 | Buchanan-D Greenhouse gas emissions: regional transportation plan | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2316 | Eng-D State Highway Route 710 | Highways |
| AB 2324 | John Perez-D Transit: public transit facilities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2329 | Ruskin-D Greenhouse gas emissions: Climate Action Team | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2338 | Conway-R Vehicles: off-highway vehicle recreation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2461 | Emmerson-R Vehicles: vehicle registration amnesty program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2464 | Huffman-D Vehicles: provisional licensing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2469 | Bill Berryhill-R Air Resources Board: dispute resolutions | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2471 | John Perez-D Vehicles: identification cards and driver's licenses. | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2479 | Bass-D Reckless driving: stalking: surveillance | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2499 | Portantino-D Vehicles: traffic violator school program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2509 | Hayashi-D Transit village plan | Development and Financing Miscellaneous |
| AB 2520 | Solorio-D Transportation: letters of no prejudice | Development and Financing |
| AB 2528* | Knight-R Cash for clunker: income tax exclusion | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2532 | Bill Berryhill-R Automotive Consumer Notification Act: consumer warranties | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2534 | Fuentes-D Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: allowance revenues | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2544 | Smyth-R Department of Motor Vehicle regulations: exemptions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2567 | Bradford-D Vehicles: parking violations: digital photograph recordings | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2572 | Bradford-D Charter-party carriers of passengers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2597 | Bill Berryhill-R Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2620 | Eng-D Department of Transportation: capital outlay support service | Development and Financing Highways Miscellaneous |
| AB 2644 | Fuller-R Vehicles: pickup trucks | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2646 | John Perez-D Vehicles: vehicle registration: required information | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2657 | Gilmore-R Vehicles: pickup trucks | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2658 | Conway-R Short line railroads | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2667 | Hill-D Vehicles: child passenger restraint systems | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2691 | Hall-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: fees | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2703* | John Perez-D High-speed rail: bond-funded projects | High-Speed Rail |
| AB 2704 | Gaines-R Transportation: local government funds | Development and Financing |
| AB 2710 | Blumenfield-D Vehicles: signs: parking violations: removal | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2729 | Ammiano-D Automated traffic enforcement systems | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2745 | Ammiano-D Motor vehicle insurance: discrimination: geographic area | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2755 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Development and Financing Miscellaneous |
| AB 2756 | Blumenfield-D Mobile billboard advertising displays: local ordinances | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2768 | Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee Vehicles: charter-party carriers: bus drivers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2777 | Assembly Transportation Committee Transportation: omnibus bill | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 102 | Coto-D Joe Colla Interchange | Highways |
| ACR 103 | John Perez-D Deputy Sheriff Juan Abel Escalante Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 106 | Caballero-D CAL-FIRE Firefighter Matt Will Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 109 | Nestande-R Roy Wilson Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 113 | Caballero-D Bracero Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 122 | Logue-R Eric W. Rood Memorial Expressway | Highways |
| ACR 124 | Bass-D Lieutenant Curtis Massey Memorial Overpass | Highways |
| ACR 126 | Davis-D El Salvador Community Corridor | Highways |
| ACR 127 | Adams-R Memorial highways | Highways |
| ACR 130 | De La Torre-D Arnold C. Garcia Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 131 | Anderson-R Historic Highway Route 94 | Highways |
| ACR 132 | Nielsen-R John F. Reginato Boat Ramp | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 136 | Chesbro-D Lake County Veterans Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 143 | Hagman-R Pollution: Environmental Protection Agency | Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| ACR 146 | Hayashi-D Memorial Highways | Highways |
| ACR 149 | Hall-D Kevin Murray Highway | Highways |
| ACR 152 | Hernandez-D Vehicles: automotive aftermarket: National Car Care Month | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 154 | Jeffries-R E. L. Yeager Interchange | Highways |
| ACR 159 | Eng-D CHP Officer Johnny R. Martinez Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 160 | V. Manuel Perez-D Imperial Valley Pioneers Expressway | Highways |
| ACR 164 | Villines-R Deputy Sheriff Joel B. Wahlenmaier Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 165 | Blakeslee-R Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 172 | Villines-R Ernest N. Mobley Memorial Interchange | Highways |
| ACR 174 | Eng-D Roberto "Bobby" Salcedo Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 175 | Anderson-R Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier Memorial Bridge | Highways |
| ACR 176 | Conway-R Monty L. Conley and Joe R. Landin Memorial Highway | Highways |
| ACR 179 | John Perez-D Paul Johnson Highway | Highways |
| ACR 182 | Chesbro-D Roger M. Rodoni Memorial Interchange | Highways |
| AJR 33 | Fuller-R General aviation | Miscellaneous |
| AJR 41 | Lieu-D Santa Monica Airport | Miscellaneous |
| HR 24 | Galgiani-D Teen Driving Safety Week | Miscellaneous |
| HR 29 | Garrick-R Motorcycle Awareness Month | Miscellaneous |
| AB 4X3 | Evans-D Transportation finance | Miscellaneous |
| AB 39X3* | Evans-D Vehicle license fee: state parks fee: fuel taxes | Miscellaneous |
| AB 40X3 | Evans-D Fuel user fee: vehicle fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 24X4* | Bass-D Transportation finance | Development and Financing |
| AB 35X4 | Jeffries-R State highways: relinquishment | Highways |
| AB 6X8* | Assembly Budget Committee Gasoline tax | Miscellaneous |
| AB 9X8 | Assembly Budget Committee Transportation funding | Development and Financing |
| AB 11X8 | Assembly Budget Committee Transportation: letters of no prejudice | Development and Financing |
| AB 12X8 | Assembly Budget Committee Port and maritime security | Development and Financing |
| AB 14X8* | Assembly Budget Committee Transportation: cash deferred | Development and Financing |