Bill Text: CA SB1209 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicles: registration fees: nonresident owners.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-16 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. [SB1209 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1209-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1209	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 12, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 29, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 23, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 27, 2012

INTRODUCED BY    Senator   Runner 
 Senators   Runner   and Lieu 
    (   Coauthor:   Senator
  Lieu   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to add Section 9250.20 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1209, as amended, Runner. Vehicles: registration fees:
nonresident owners.
   Existing law prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle
upon a highway or in an offstreet public parking facility unless the
motor vehicle is registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Existing law requires a vehicle owned by a person residing outside
the state that is based in California or primarily used on California
highways to be registered in the state. Existing law imposes, with
specified exemptions, a fee on the registration of a motor vehicle.
Existing law authorizes certain local governmental entities to impose
additional registration-related fees for specified purposes.
   This bill would impose an additional fee, in an amount to be
determined as specified, at the time of registration or renewal of
registration on a motor vehicle registered to a nonresident owner who
submits a registration or renewal of registration form with a
residence or business address, as applicable, that is outside of the
state. The bill would provide that the above fee applies to a motor
vehicle that is initially registered or that has a registration
expiring on or after July 1, 2013. The bill would, upon appropriation
of the Legislature, make the fees collected available to the
Department of Motor Vehicles to reimburse its costs associated with
establishing the fee and costs incurred in carrying out the bill,
and, in equal portion, to the Department of the California Highway
Patrol to support databases and public warning systems used to alert
motorists and the general public of specified information and the
Department of Justice to maintain criminal justice databases designed
to enhance the effectiveness of public safety warning systems.
   This bill would include a change in state statute that would
result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of
Section 3 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution, and thus
would require for passage the approval of 2/3 of the membership of
each house of the Legislature.
   Vote: 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 9250.20 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   9250.20.  (a) In addition to any other fees specified in this code
and in the Revenue and Taxation Code, an additional fee, in the
amount determined pursuant to subdivision (d), shall be paid at the
time of registration or renewal of registration of a motor vehicle
registered to a nonresident owner who submits a registration or
renewal of registration form with a residence or business address, as
applicable, that is outside of the state.
   (b) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, all fees collected
pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be available, after deduction of
amounts sufficient to reimburse the department for any costs
associated with establishing the additional fee and any costs
incurred by the department in carrying out this section, as follows:
   (1) Fifty percent to the Department of the California Highway
Patrol to be used to support databases and public warning systems
used to alert motorists and the general public of abductions,
shootings, and other imminent threats to public safety.
   (2) Fifty percent to the Department of Justice to be used to
maintain criminal justice databases designed to enhance the
effectiveness of public safety warning systems.
   (c) This section shall become operative, and shall apply to a
vehicle that is subject to the registration requirement pursuant to
this code and is applying for an initial registration or is renewing
its registration that expires, on or after July 1, 2013.
   (d) The additional fee required pursuant to subdivision (a), as
determined appropriate by the department, shall be either of the
following  amount  amounts  :
   (1) Ten dollars ($10).
   (2) The average additional fee imposed pursuant to actions taken
by a local entity pursuant to this article upon the registration or
renewal of registration occurring in this state in the immediately
preceding fiscal year, as determined by the department.