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

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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-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 49	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Buchanan

                        DECEMBER 21, 2012

   An act to add Section 5162 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
license plates.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 49, as introduced, 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. The
department is required to charge specified fees for certain services
related to the issuance of those plates.
   This bill would additionally authorize the DMV, in consultation
with the State Department of Health Care Services, to design and make
available for issuance special breast cancer awareness license
plates bearing a full-plate graphic design depicting a the pink
breast cancer awareness ribbon on a pink background, as specified,
upon payment of an additional fee by a person applying for the
special plate. The bill would require the revenue generated from the
license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the Breast Cancer
Awareness Account, which is created by the bill in the Specialized
License Plate Fund, for use by the State Department of Health
Services, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for providing free
or reduced-cost breast cancer preventative treatments, or funding
research for treatments and cures for breast cancer.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 5162 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   5162.  (a) The department, in consultation with the State
Department of Health Care Services, shall design and make available
for issuance pursuant to this article special breast cancer awareness
design license plates as described in this section. Notwithstanding
Section 5155, the special breast cancer awareness design license
plates shall bear a full-plate graphic design that the department
determines, in consultation with the Department of the California
Highway Patrol, does not obscure the readability of the license plate
depicting the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon on a pink
background, as approved by the State Department of Health Care
Services. The State Department of Health Care Services may accept and
use donated artwork from California artists for purposes of this
requirement. Any person described in Section 5101 may, upon payment
of the additional fees set forth in subdivision (b), apply for and be
issued a set of special breast cancer awareness design license
plates. The special breast cancer awareness design license plates may
be issued as environmental license plates, as defined in Section
5103.
   (b) In addition to the regular fees for an original registration
or renewal of registration, the following additional fees shall be
paid for the issuance, renewal, or transfer of the special breast
cancer awareness design license plates authorized pursuant to this
section:
   (1) For the original issuance of the plates, fifty dollars ($50).
   (2) For a renewal of registration with the plates, forty dollars
($40).
   (3) For transfer of the plates to another vehicle, fifteen dollars
($15).
   (4) For each substitute replacement plate, thirty-five dollars
($35).
   (5) In addition, for the issuance of environmental license plates,
as defined in Section 5103, with a full-plate graphic design
described in subdivision (a), the additional fees prescribed in
Sections 5106 and 5108. The additional fees prescribed in Sections
5106 and 5108 shall be deposited in the Environmental License Plate
Fund.
   (c) Except as provided in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b), and
after deducting its administrative costs under this section, the
department shall deposit the additional revenue derived from the
issuance, renewal, transfer, and substitution of special breast
cancer awareness design license plates in the Breast Cancer Awareness
Account, which is hereby created in the Specialized License Plate
Fund. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the
account shall be allocated by the Controller to the State Department
of Health Care Services for expenditure for the exclusive trust
purposes of raising awareness about breast cancer, providing free or
reduced-cost breast cancer preventative treatments, or funding
research for treatments and cures for breast cancer.
   (d) The State Department of Health Care Services shall collect and
hold applications for the special breast cancer awareness license
plates described in this section. The Department of Motor Vehicles
shall not be required to make the special breast cancer awareness
license plates available for issuance pursuant to this section until
the State Department of Health Care Services has submitted not less
than 7,500 applications for the plates to the Department of Motor
Vehicles.