Bill Text: CA AB49 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Bill 49 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: License plates: breast cancer awareness.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 62-27)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 351, Statutes of 2014. [AB49 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB49-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 49	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  351
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 28, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 28, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 1, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 8, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Buchanan
   (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Perea and Quirk-Silva)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano,
Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown,
Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Dahle,
Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth Gaines,
Garcia, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gorell, Gray, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger
Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue,
Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Morrell, Mullin, Muratsuchi,
Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, John A. P�rez, V. Manuel
P�rez, Quirk, Rendon, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,
Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, and Yamada)
   (Coauthors: Senators Beall, Block, Cannella, Corbett, Correa,
Emmerson, Evans, Fuller, Gaines, Hancock, Jackson, Knight, Pavley,
Torres, Wright, and Yee)

                        DECEMBER 21, 2012

   An act to add Section 5156.7 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
license plates, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 49, Buchanan. License plates: breast cancer awareness.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to
issue specialty license plates, including environmental license
plates and specified special environmental design license plates.
Under existing law, a state agency is authorized to apply to the DMV
to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and the DMV is
required to issue those license plates if the agency meets certain
requirements. The DMV is required to charge specified fees for
certain services related to the issuance of those plates.
   Existing law establishes the Breast Cancer Control Account in the
Breast Cancer Fund, and requires that funds in that account, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated for the provision of
early breast cancer detection services for uninsured and underinsured
women.
   This bill would require the State Department of Health Care
Services to apply to sponsor a breast cancer awareness license plate
program, and would require the DMV to issue the license plates if the
State Department of Health Care Services meets certain requirements.
The bill would authorize the State Department of Health Care
Services to accept and use donated artwork from California artists
for the license plate. The bill would require the revenue generated
from the license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the Breast
Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 5156.7 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   5156.7.  (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall
apply to the department, pursuant to Section 5156, to sponsor a
breast cancer awareness license plate program. The department shall
issue specialized license plates for that program if the State
Department of Health Care Services complies with the requirements of
Section 5156.
   (b) The State Department of Health Care Services may accept and
use donated artwork from California artists for the license plate.
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 5157, the
additional fees prescribed by Section 5157 for the issuance, renewal,
or transfer of the specialized license plates shall be deposited,
after the department deducts its administrative costs, in the Breast
Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund established pursuant
to Section 30461.6 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
   (d) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department, in
consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services, will
design and make available for issuance pursuant to this article
special breast cancer awareness license plates. Specifically, it is
the intent of the Legislature that the license plates issued pursuant
to this section shall consist of a pink breast cancer awareness
ribbon to the left of the numerical series and a breast cancer
awareness message, such as, "Early Detection Saves Lives," below the
numerical series.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure that the more than 7,000 California residents
who have expressed an interest in a specialized license plate for
breast cancer early detection and treatment are able to purchase one,
that the specialized plate will be available to all California
residents and ubiquitous on the road as a reminder to women to get
annual exams, and that funds are generated for deposit in the Breast
Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund and used for breast
cancer early detection efforts, it is necessary that this act take
immediate effect.