CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1609

Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia

February 17, 2023

An act to amend Section 44225 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1609, as introduced, Garcia. Air pollution: motor vehicles: district fees.
Existing law authorizes an air pollution control or air quality management district, except the Sacramento district, to levy a surcharge on the registration fees for motor vehicles registered in the air district, as specified by the governing body of the air district. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to collect that surcharge if requested by an air district, and requires the department, after deducting its administrative costs, to distribute the revenues to the air districts. Existing law, until January 1, 2034, raises the limit on the amount of that surcharge from $4 to $6 and requires that $2 of the surcharge be used to implement the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program, among other programs.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision that authorizes the increase in the fee until January 1, 2034.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 44225 of the Health and Safety Code, as amended by Section 5 of Chapter 355 of the Statutes of 2022, is amended to read:

44225.
 (a) A district may increase the fee established under Section 44223 to up to six dollars ($6). A district may increase the fee only if both of the following conditions are met:
(1) A resolution providing for both the fee increase and a corresponding program for expenditure of the increased fees for the reduction of air pollution from motor vehicles pursuant to, and for related planning, monitoring, enforcement, and technical studies necessary for the implementation of, the California Clean Air Act of 1988 (Chapter 1568 of the Statutes of 1988), or for the attainment or maintenance of state or federal ambient air quality standards or the reduction of toxic air contaminant emissions from motor vehicles, is adopted and approved by the governing board of the district.
(2) In districts with nonelected officials on their governing boards, the resolution shall be adopted and approved by both a majority of the governing board and a majority of the board members who are elected officials.
(b) An increase in fees established pursuant to this section shall become effective on either April 1 or October 1, as provided in the resolution adopted by the board pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1 2034, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2034, deletes or extends that date. repealed.