Bill Text: CA SB1323 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Specialized license plates: Pet Lover's License Plate

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 375, Statutes of 2014. [SB1323 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1323-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1323	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 30, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 17, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 29, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 2, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 25, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 5157 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles,  and  making an appropriation 
therefor.   therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1323, as amended, Lieu. Specialized license plates: Pet Lover's
License Plate Program.
   Existing law establishes a specialized license plate program and
requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue specialized
license plates to a sponsoring state agency that meets certain
requirements. Existing law requires the DMV to charge specified
additional fees for the issuance, renewal, or transfer of specialized
license plates, and requires that these additional fees, less the
DMV's administrative costs, be deposited in the Specialized License
Plate Fund for appropriation and allocation to each sponsoring state
agency, as specified.
   This bill would require the DMV to deposit the additional fees for
a specialty license plate issued under the Pet Lover's License Plate
Program sponsored by the Veterinary Medical Board, or a successor
specialty license plate program sponsored by the board, into the Pet
Lover's Specialized License Plate Fund, which the bill would
establish. The bill would require that these funds be continuously
appropriated to the Veterinary Medical Board for the sole and
exclusive purpose of funding grants to providers of no-cost or
low-cost animal sterilization services, as specified. By continuously
appropriating moneys in the fund to the board, the bill would make
an appropriation. 
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute. 
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 5157 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   5157.  (a) 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
specialized license plates:
   (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 specialized license plate design,
the additional fees prescribed in Sections 5106 and 5108. The
additional fees prescribed in Sections 5106 and 5108 shall be
deposited in the California Environmental License Plate Fund.
   (b) The Gold Star Family specialized license plate program as
provided in subdivision (d) of Section 5156 shall not be subject to
the fees specified in paragraphs (1), (2), and (5) of subdivision (a)
and shall only be issued in a sequential series.
   (c) Except as provided in paragraph (5) of subdivision (a), 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 the specialized
license plates in the Specialized License Plate Fund, which is hereby
established in the State Treasury. Upon appropriation by the
Legislature, the moneys in that fund shall be allocated to each
sponsoring agency, in proportion to the amount in the fund that is
attributable to the agency's specialized license plate program.
Except as authorized under Section 5159, the sponsoring agency shall
expend all funds received under this section exclusively for projects
and programs that promote the state agency's official policy,
mission, or work.
   (d) (1) The Department of Veterans Affairs may actively request
and receive donations for the Gold Star Family License Plate 
Account   Account,  which is hereby created in the
Specialized License Plate Fund and which may consist of donations
from public and private entities. Earnings generated by the Gold Star
Family License Plate Account shall be retained by the account.
   (2) Upon the determination of the department that there are
sufficient funds in the Gold Star Family License Plate Account for
this purpose, moneys in the Gold Star Family License Plate Account
shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the
department for the necessary administrative costs of establishing the
Gold Star Family specialized license plate program.
   (e) Notwithstanding subdivision (c), the department shall deposit
the additional revenue derived from the issuance, renewal, transfer,
and substitution of a specialty license plate issued under the Pet
Lover's License Plate Program sponsored by the Veterinary Medical
Board, or a successor specialty license plate program sponsored by
the Veterinary Medical Board, in the Pet Lover's Specialized License
Plate Fund, which is hereby established in the State Treasury.
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all of the
moneys in the Pet Lover's Specialized License Plate Fund are
continuously appropriated to the Veterinary Medical Board, without
regard to fiscal years, for the sole and exclusive purpose of funding
grants to providers of no-cost or low-cost animal sterilization
services. The Veterinary Medical Board shall consider the
recommendations of the California Spay and Neuter License Plate Fund,
Inc., in determining how to award grant funds.
   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 funds from a specialized license plate
program are available as soon as possible to allow the Veterinary
Medical Board to support the critically important efforts of city and
county animal shelters to address serious animal care and control
problems facing the state, it is necessary that this act go into
effect immediately.