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 SENATE  MAY 29, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 23, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 27, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Runner
   (Coauthor: Senator Lieu)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to add Section 9250.20 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles  , and making an appropriation therefor  .


	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 
continuously appropriate the fee collected, less the administrative
costs incurred by   , 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  , thereby making an appropriation
 . 
   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:  yes   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)  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code,
  Upon   appropriation by the Legislature,
 all fees collected pursuant to subdivision (a)  shall be
available  , after deduction of  the administrative
costs incurred by the department in carrying out this section, shall
be continuously appropriated   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:
   (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.