Bill Text: CA AB397 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 397 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Bonds: transportation: water projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-01-12 - From committee: Without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB397 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB397-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 397	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mathis

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2015

    An act to amend Section 1653 of the Vehicle Code,
relating to vehicles.   An act to add Section 2704.096
to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 397, as amended, Mathis.  Driver's license:
identification card: false information.   Bonds:
transportation: water projects.  
   Existing law, the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond
Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at
the November 4, 2008, general election, provides for the issuance of
general obligation bonds in the amount of $9 billion in general
obligation bonds for high-speed rail purposes and $950 million for
other related rail purposes. Article XVI of the California
Constitution requires measures authorizing general obligation bonds
to specify the single object or work to be funded by the bonds and
further requires a bond act to be approved by a 2/3 vote of each
house of the Legislature and a majority of the voters.  
   This bill would provide that no further bonds shall be sold for
high-speed rail purposes pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed
Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, except as specifically
provided with respect to an existing appropriation for high-speed
rail purposes for early improvement projects in the Phase 1 blended
system. The bill, subject to the above exception, would require
redirection of the unspent proceeds received from outstanding bonds
issued and sold for other high-speed rail purposes prior to the
effective date of these provisions, upon appropriation, for use in
retiring the debt incurred from the issuance and sale of those
outstanding bonds. The bill, subject to the above exception, would
also require the net proceeds of other bonds subsequently issued and
sold under the high-speed rail portion of the bond act to be made
available, upon appropriation, to fund capital expenditures for water
projects, including the construction of desalination facilities,
wastewater treatment and recycling facilities, reservoirs, water
conveyance infrastructure, and acquifer recharge. The bill would make
no changes to the authorization under the bond act for the issuance
of $950 million in bonds for rail purposes other than high-speed
rail. These provisions would become effective only upon approval by
the voters at the next statewide election.  
   Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to examine
and determine the genuineness and regularity of every application or
document filed with it and authorizes the department to require
additional information or reject any application or document if not
satisfied of the genuineness and regularity of the application or
document or the truth of any statement contained in the application
or document.  
   This bill, in order to reduce identify theft, would additionally
require the department to report to the local district attorney's
office, sheriff's department, or police department when the
department reasonably suspects that an application for the issuance
or renewal of a driver's license or identification card contains
false information. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 2704.096 is added to the 
 Streets and Highways Code   , to read:  
   2704.096.  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, and except as provided in paragraph (2), no further bonds
shall be issued and sold for purposes of Section 2704.06 on and after
the effective date of this section.
   (2) This section shall not apply to bonds issued and sold for
purposes of Section 2704.06 with respect to the appropriation in Item
2665-104-6043 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2012, as added by
Section 3 of Chapter 152 of the Statutes of 2012.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and
except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), the
unspent proceeds received from outstanding bonds issued and sold
pursuant to Section 2704.06 prior to the effective date of this
section shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be redirected
from high-speed rail purposes for use in retiring the debt incurred
from the issuance and sale of those outstanding bonds.
   (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the
remaining unissued bonds, as of the effective date of this section,
that were previously authorized pursuant to Section 2704.06, except
as otherwise provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), are hereby
authorized to be issued and sold, with the net proceeds, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to be made available to fund
construction of water capital projects, including the construction of
desalination facilities, wastewater treatment and recycling
facilities, reservoirs, water conveyance infrastructure, and acquifer
recharge. 
   SEC. 2.    Section 1 of this act would modify the
single object or work of a general obligation bond act previously
submitted to the voters by the Legislature pursuant to Section 1 of
Article XVI of the California Constitution, and subsequently approved
by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, statewide
general election. Accordingly, Section 1 of this act shall become
effective only upon approval by the voters. The Secretary of State
shall submit Section 1 of this act to the voters on the ballot of the
next statewide election.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 1653 of the Vehicle Code is
amended to read:
   1653.  (a) The department shall examine and determine the
genuineness and regularity of every application or document filed
with it under this code and may require additional information or
reject any application or document if not satisfied of the
genuineness and regularity of the application or document or the
truth of any statement contained in the application or document.
   (b) In order to reduce identity theft, the department shall report
to the local district attorney's office, sheriff's department, or
police department when the department reasonably suspects that an
application for the issuance or renewal of a driver's license or
identification card pursuant to Division 6 (commencing with Section
12500) contains false information.