 | Topic | Supporters | Opponents | Bill number | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicles: fees: funding. | 4 | 7 | AB 1767 (2003-2004) | ||
| Increases certain vehicle fees and regulations related to trucking. | |||||
| Air pollution. | 7 | 3 | AB 923 (2003-2004) | Firebaugh | |
| This bill increases the maximum vehicle registration surcharge in selected counties and increases the per tire fee paid at the retail level. | |||||
| Vehicles: driver's license. | 6 | 2 | SB 1160 (2003-2004) | Cedillo | |
| Allows persons without legal presence in the United States to be eligible to apply for a license and allows an applicant that does not possess a social security number to sign an affidavit attesting that the applicant does not qualify for a social security number. | |||||
| Vehicles: driver's license. | 6 | 2 | AB 2895 (2003-2004) | Berg | |
| Allows persons to apply for driver's licenses without submitting proof of legal residence. | |||||
| Vehicles: special interest license plates: California Arts Council. | 6 | 1 | SB 1213 (2003-2004) | Scott | |
| This bill would increase the fee imposed for special interest license plates. Further, the bill requires the council to use revenues derived from the fee increase exclusively for arts education. | |||||
| Vehicles: registration: local charge. | 1 | 4 | AB 574 (2003-2004) | Yee | |
| This bill imposes an additional registration fee on vehicles registered in San Francisco. | |||||
| Local officers and employees: identity of individuals. | 3 | 1 | AB 522 (2003-2004) | Diaz | |
| This bill requires local officers and employees to accept the identification card issued by the Mexican Consulate Office for the purposes of personal identification. | |||||
| Rental cars. | 3 | 1 | AB 2209 (2003-2004) | Wiggins | |
| Allows rental car companies to rent out-of-state vehicles in California without paying state registration fees if cars are rented for 19 days or less and comply with state emissions standards. | |||||
| Driver's license: identification and identity. | 2 | 1 | AB 70 (2003-2004) | Wyland | |
| This bill defines the term "satisfactory proof" for purposes of the requirements of Department of Motor Vehicles concerning identification. | |||||
| Vehicles: commercial driver's licenses: third-party testers. | 1 | 2 | AB 1072 (2003-2004) | Nakanishi | |
| Creates a program to authorize third-party testers to administer the skills test for the issuance of a commercial driver's license. | |||||
| Vehicles: New Motor Vehicle Board: recreational vehicles. | 1 | 1 | SB 248 (2003-2004) | Murray | |
| This bill requires that the practices and activities of recreational vehicle dealers be regulated by the New Motor Vehicle Board. | |||||
| Construction contractors. | 1 | 1 | AB 1538 (2003-2004) | Berg | |
| This bill requires a contractor to display his or her contractor's license number and business name in or on each commercially registered motor vehicle used in his or her construction business. Specified contractors, who already are covered by similar requirements contained in current law, are exempt from the requirements of this bill. | |||||
| Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority: vehicle fee for traffic congestion management. | 1 | 1 | AB 3011 (2003-2004) | Laird | |
| Allows the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to impose a maximum $4 fee on the registration and renewal of motor vehicles registered in Santa Clara County, the revenue from which would help fund a program designed to manage traffic and maintain roads. | |||||
| Vehicle/ATV | 1 | 0 | SB 232 (2003-2004) | Karnette | |
| This bill allows the operator of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) to carry a passenger while on public lands as long as the ATV is designed to carry both an operator and a passenger. | |||||
| Vehicles: transfer of legal ownership. | 1 | 0 | SB 237 (2003-2004) | Florez | |
| This bill imposes a deadline on the transfer of vehicle titles after a lien has been satisfied. | |||||
| Organ and tissue donation: donations to incarcerated persons. | 0 | 3 | SB 38 (2003-2004) | Denham | |
| This bill requires the forms provided by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), for purposes of organ donation, to include a provision allowing the donor to prohibit donation of their organs to incarcerated persons. | |||||
| Vehicles: social security account number: driver's licenses: identification cards. | 5 | 0 | SB 60 (2003-2004) | Cedillo | |
| This bill makes several changes regarding the eligibility requirements for an original driver's license, including allowing persons who do not have legal presence in the United States to be eligible to apply for a California driver's license. | |||||
| Vehicles: license plates. | 1 | 0 | SB 378 (2003-2004) | Morrow | |
| This bill requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles to immediately issue replacement license plates when requested by subjects of stalking. | |||||
| Instruction: automobile driver education. | 1 | 0 | SB 524 (2003-2004) | Vasconcellos | |
| This bill establishes conditions that must be met by a private school before the Department of Motor Vehicles accepts completion of a driver education course taken for a provisional driver's license. | |||||
| Vehicles: accident reports. | 2 | 0 | SB 871 (2003-2004) | Burton | |
| Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to make certain information from traffic accident reports available to commercial firms for the purpose of identifying damaged vehicles. | |||||
| Vehicles: fees: funding. | 3 | 0 | SB 1055 (2003-2004) | ||
| Increases various vehicle fees to prevent a shortfall in the Motor Vehicle Account and the State Department of the California Highway Patrol's budget and adjusts the truck weight fee schedule to a level supported by the trucking industry. | |||||
| Vehicles: special interest license plates. | 0 | 1 | SB 1235 (2003-2004) | Murray | |
| This bill would repeal the existing provision authorizing the establishment of special interest license plate programs. | |||||
| Vehicles: special interest license plates. | 2 | 0 | SB 1470 (2003-2004) | Cedillo | |
| This bill would increase the minimum number of applications a participating organization has received, for special interest license plates, from 7,500 to 8,000. | |||||
| Vehicles: driving under the influence: driver's license sanctions. | 1 | 0 | SB 1697 (2003-2004) | Torlakson | |
| This bill, effective September 20, 2005, consolidates the drivers license sanctions with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and removes them from the jurisdiction of the court. | |||||
| Vehicles: collector motor vehicles. | 1 | 0 | SB 1784 (2003-2004) | Karnette | |
| This bill defines a collector motor vehicle as a motor vehicle owned by a collector that is used primarily in shows, parades, charitable functions, and historical exhibitions for display, maintenance, and preservation, and is not used primarily for transportation. | |||||
| Department of Motor Vehicles: records. | 7 | 0 | AB 184 (2003-2004) | Lowenthal | |
| This bill allows certain domestic violence and stalking victims to request that the Department of Motor Vehicles suppress their records. | |||||
| Vehicles: taxicabs and passenger vehicles for hire: violations: impoundment: charter-party carriers of passengers: advertisement as taxicabs. | 3 | 0 | AB 299 (2003-2004) | Lowenthal | |
| This bill impounds a taxicab if reasonable cause exists that the vehicle is out of compliance with licensing requirements. This bill also prohibits limousines from advertising as taxicabs. | |||||
| Vehicles: video displays. | 2 | 0 | AB 301 (2003-2004) | Reyes | |
| This bill prohibits, with specified exceptions, the operation of a motor vehicle if a video monitor, video screen, or any device capable of receiving a video signal is located in view of the driver. | |||||
| Vehicles: driver's licenses: issuance and renewal: registered sex offenders. | 1 | 0 | AB 417 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |
| This bill further restricts the regulation of driver's licenses issued to sex offenders. | |||||
| Vehicles: special interest license plates. | 1 | 0 | AB 477 (2003-2004) | Haynes | |
| This bill transfers to the Department of Motor Vehicles the responsibility for authorizing special interest license plates. | |||||
| Vehicles: 15-passenger vans. | 5 | 0 | AB 626 (2003-2004) | Liu | |
| This bill finds that 15-passenger vans are unsafe, and in schools only a driver with a class B license may operate these vans. | |||||
| Vehicle sale and lease contracts: disclosures. | 1 | 0 | AB 964 (2003-2004) | Frommer | |
| This bill establishes that vehicle sale and lease contracts must disclose the fees sellers and lessers may charge for optional automated vehicle registration processing. | |||||
| Vehicles: commercial requester accounts: access. | 1 | 0 | AB 1116 (2003-2004) | Mountjoy | |
| Allows the DMV to issue special recognition license plates to members of the Coast Guard or their spouses. | |||||
| Vehicles: license plates and placards: parking privileges: persons with disabilities. | 2 | 0 | AB 1138 (2003-2004) | Frommer | |
| Requires users of disabled license plates to substantiate their eligibility for those plates. | |||||
| Local vehicle license fees: City and County of San Francisco. | 5 | 0 | AB 1187 (2003-2004) | Leno | |
| This bill allows the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, by a 2/3rds vote of the board, to place before its voters a measure to levy an additional Vehicle Licensing Fee on vehicles owned by residents. | |||||
| Vehicles: regulation. | 6 | 0 | AB 1238 (2003-2004) | Firebaugh | |
| Establishes new commercial motor carrier applicant fees for the California Highway Patrol Biennial Inspection of Terminals program, and requires motor carrier permit applicants to provide the Department of Motor Vehicles with enrollment information. Also extends the sunset date that a specified stretch of road may continue to be enforced as a "Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zone." | |||||
| Vehicles: license plates. | 2 | 0 | AB 1272 (2003-2004) | Dutra | |
| This bill prohibits a dealer from delivering any vehicle unless specified requirements are met pertaining to the installation of front license plates. | |||||
| Sexually violent predators. | 2 | 0 | AB 1285 (2003-2004) | Salinas | |
| This bill establishes an agricultural design license plate. | |||||
| Identity theft: driver's license and identification card . | 0 | 1 | AB 1305 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |
| This bill requires establishment of a fingerprint identification system; extends the terms of driver's licenses. | |||||
| Vehicles: instruction permits: driving instructor licenses: provisional licensing program. | 0 | 1 | AB 1343 (2003-2004) | Spitzer | |
| This bill eliminates the option of a person 15 years of age to receive an instruction permit issued by the State Department of Motor Vehicles simply by enrolling in a simultaneously administered program of driver education and driver training, and it makes other changes relating to driver education. | |||||
| Motorized recreational vessels. | 1 | 0 | AB 1555 (2003-2004) | Nakano | |
| This bill changes allowable noise levels and increases noise measurement tests for motorized recreational vessels. | |||||
| Vehicles: house cars. | 1 | 0 | AB 1662 (2003-2004) | Plescia | |
| This bill allows recreational vehicles to exceed 102 inches in width if the excess width was caused by specified equipment. | |||||
| Vehicle: additional registration fees. | 4 | 0 | AB 1663 (2003-2004) | Dutra | |
| This bill extends, until January 1, 2010, the authority for a county to impose a $1 additional fee on vehicle registrations, which funds local vehicle theft abatement programs. | |||||
| Vehicles: child passenger restraint system. | 3 | 0 | AB 1697 (2003-2004) | Pavley | |
| This bill requires that all children under the age of six or who weigh less than 60 pounds are secured in a child passenger restraint system located in the rear seat, unless under specified circumstances. | |||||
| Vehicles: registration: late penalties: exemptions: deployed military. | 2 | 0 | AB 1787 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |
| Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to waive all penalty fees for the late payment of registration renewal fees for registrants who are members of the military deployed outside of California. | |||||
| Vehicle license fees. | 2 | 0 | AB 1804 (2003-2004) | Dutra | |
| Revises provisions of the Vehicle License Fee law. | |||||
| Commercial motor vehicle: weight fee exclusion. | 3 | 0 | AB 1809 (2003-2004) | La Malfa | |
| Reduces annual vehicle weight fees imposed by the DMV on flatbed trucks used for agricultural operations. | |||||
| Identification cards: mail renewal and application. | 1 | 0 | AB 1824 (2003-2004) | Reyes | |
| Requires the DMV Director to establish a program that allows persons to renew their DMV-issued identification cards by mail instead of having to appear at a DMV office. | |||||
| Vehicles: driver's license: restrictions. | 0 | 1 | AB 1877 (2003-2004) | Maze | |
| Raises to 17 years the minimum age at which a person may obtain a provisional driver's license. | |||||
| Motor scooters. | 4 | 0 | AB 1878 (2003-2004) | Chan | |
| Requires operators of motor scooters to be licensed or permitted and places restrictions on the alteration or modification of a motor scooters exhaust system to amplify or create excessive noise. | |||||
| Vehicles: driver's license: identification card: disabled persons. | 1 | 0 | AB 1915 (2003-2004) | Lowenthal | |
| Establishes a process at the DMV by which disabled persons would be issued driver's licenses and ID cards imprinted with the International Symbol of Access. | |||||
| Vehicles. | 1 | 0 | AB 2201 (2003-2004) | Firebaugh | |
| Revises various provisions governing the operation of dump trucks, gravel trucks and motor carriers regulated by the California Highway Patrol and DMV. | |||||
| Natural resources: California Environmental License Plate Fund: California Environmental Protection Program. | 1 | 0 | AB 2514 (2003-2004) | ||
| This bill increases from $25 to $30 the annual renewal fee for environmental license plates. | |||||
| Vehicles: registration and title: expedited issuance. | 1 | 0 | AB 2606 (2003-2004) | Plescia | |
| This bill allows licensed auto registration services to apply for duplicate certificates of ownership or duplicate license plates until 2008, authorizes the State Department of Motor Vehicles to charge $15 for expedited processing of these applications, and increases the bond requirements for these registration services from $5,000 to $25,000. | |||||
| Vehicle: financial responsibility. | 0 | 2 | AB 2709 (2003-2004) | Levine | |
| Requires an applicant for an original vehicle registration, or transfer of registration, to submit an insurance form establishing financial responsibility and for insurance companies to notify the DMV of the policy's status. | |||||
| New Motor Vehicle Board: all-terrain vehicles. | 1 | 0 | AB 2848 (2003-2004) | Keene | |
| This bill brings all-terrain vehicle dealers, manufacturers, and distributors under regulation by the New Motor Vehicle Board. | |||||
| Vehicles: San Francisco 49ers special license plate. | SB 49 (2003-2004) | Speier | |||
| This bill would authorize the DMV to issue San Francisco 49ers license plates. | |||||
| Vehicles: state preemption. | SB 194 (2003-2004) | Oller | |||
| This bill makes technical, nonsubstantive changes in existing Vehicle code. | |||||
| Department of Motor Vehicles. | SB 313 (2003-2004) | Murray | |||
| This bill makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the Vehicle Code of the DMV. | |||||
| Transportation. | SB 315 (2003-2004) | ||||
| This committee bill makes various technical, nonsubstantive changes to the Revenue and Taxation Code and the Vehicle Code. | |||||
| Vehicle license fee revenues: allocation. | SB 500 (2003-2004) | Margett | |||
| This bill makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to the Vehicle License Fee Law. | |||||
| Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission. | SB 554 (2003-2004) | Florez | |||
| This bill amends the Vehicle Code, relating to off-road vehicles. | |||||
| Vehicles: exemptions: nursery operations. | SB 630 (2003-2004) | Hollingsworth | |||
| This bill exempts a person with at least a class C driver's license who is employed in nursery or farm operation from the specified commercial motor vehicle endorsement. | |||||
| Vehicles: registration: exemption: hay retriever unit. | SB 788 (2003-2004) | Denham | |||
| This bill exempts a hay retriever unit from registration, if the vehicle displays the specified identification plates and is in operation for a distance of not more than 10 continuous road miles on a highway from one parcel of property to another parcel of property owned, leased, or controlled by that farmer. | |||||
| Vehicles: registration: exemption: retriever units. | SB 799 (2003-2004) | Denham | |||
| This bill exempts retriever units from the vehicle registration requirement if certain operational and equipment requirements are met. | |||||
| Vehicle license fees. | SB 1057 (2003-2004) | ||||
| Updates and corrects the definition of the Vehicle License Fee to backfill the funding gap for local government and appropriates funds for hardship allocations. | |||||
| Vehicles: special interest license plates: California museums. | SB 1133 (2003-2004) | Chesbro | |||
| Establishes a special interest license plate to benefit California museums. | |||||
| Vehicles: driver's licenses: renewal. | SB 1139 (2003-2004) | Cedillo | |||
| Decreases the time allowed for a driver's license to be renewed before one has to reapply. | |||||
| Lighting equipment. | SB 1236 (2003-2004) | Murray | |||
| This bill would allow a vehicle to be equipped with a system to supplement the driver's visibility of the roadway during darkness. | |||||
| Agricultural inspection. | SB 1411 (2003-2004) | Poochigian | |||
| This bill makes nonsubstantive changes in vehicular law. | |||||
| Driver's examination. | SB 1471 (2003-2004) | Cedillo | |||
| This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the driver's examination. | |||||
| Vehicles: disabled person: disabled veterans: parking privileges. | SB 1725 (2003-2004) | Knight | |||
| This bill updates and makes changes to the provisions relating to parking placards and license plates for the disabled. | |||||
| Vehicles: special interest license plates. | SB 1799 (2003-2004) | Murray | |||
| This bill makes a number of changes regarding special interest license plates. | |||||
| Department of Motor Vehicles: records. | AB 130 (2003-2004) | Campbell | |||
| This bill adds California state senators and representatives to the DMV list of state officers and employees whose address may be kept confidential. | |||||
| Department of Motor Vehicles. | AB 246 (2003-2004) | Cox | |||
| This bill adds members of Congress to the list of officers and employees that may request confidentiality of DMV information, e.g. home addresses. | |||||
| Vehicles: special interest license plates: classroom instruction support. | AB 532 (2003-2004) | Mullin | |||
| This bill requires the issuance of special interest license plates with a design relating to classroom instruction, and specifies that the revenues generated by these plates be used for classroom instruction support. | |||||
| Vehicles: residence addresses: release to private parking entities. | AB 559 (2003-2004) | Harman | |||
| This bill authorizes the release of confidential Department of Motor Vehicles residence information for the collection of unpaid parking fees by a private parking entity. | |||||
| Vehicles: special interest license plates: collegiate and professional sports teams. | AB 618 (2003-2004) | Levine | |||
| This bill requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue collegiate and professional sports teams license plates. | |||||
| Vehicles: driver's licenses: fees. | AB 737 (2003-2004) | Longville | |||
| This bill increases fees and restrictions on the renewal of driver’s licenses. | |||||
| Vehicles: license plates: display: persons with disabilities. | AB 1303 (2003-2004) | Simitian | |||
| This bill allows the view of a rear license plate to be obstructed by a wheelchair lift or wheelchair carrier. | |||||
| Vehicles: Department of Motor Vehicles: records. | AB 1675 (2003-2004) | Longville | |||
| This bill prohibits attorneys from gaining access to confidential DMV records for the purpose of collecting fees or delinquent charges owed to private parking facilities. | |||||
| Local government: vehicle license fees. | AB 1768 (2003-2004) | ||||
| Repays local governments for their loss of Vehicle License Fee backfill payments during the "gap" period. | |||||
| Vehicle license fees: local government. | AB 1935 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |||
| Expands the list of circumstances that can be used by a local government to document a hardship for the purpose of obtaining an advance of its vehicle license fee reimbursement. | |||||
| Vehicles: parking privileges: disabled persons. | AB 1947 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |||
| Authorizes a person who is in the third trimester of pregnancy to apply to the DMV for a temporary disabled parking permit. | |||||
| Vehicles: New Motor Vehicle Board: powers and duties. | AB 1968 (2003-2004) | Dutra | |||
| Changes the duties of the New Motor Vehicle Board. | |||||
| Vehicles: golf carts: motorized quadricycles: motorized tricycles: low-speed vehicles: operation on highway. | AB 2020 (2003-2004) | Maze | |||
| Permits senior citizens and physical disabled persons, to operate golf carts, motorized quadricycles, motorized tricycles, and low-speed vehicles, on streets and highways. | |||||
| Vehicles: hazardous materials endorsement. | AB 2040 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |||
| This bill tightens the requirements for persons authorized to operate commercial vehicles transporting hazardous materials. | |||||
| Vehicles: blue warning lights: authorized emergency vehicles. | AB 2215 (2003-2004) | Nakanishi | |||
| Adds certain peace officers to the list of peace officers authorized to operate a vehicle displaying the blue warning lights. | |||||
| California: Child Identification System. | AB 2217 (2003-2004) | Shirley Horton | |||
| Requires the DMV to issue a “California Child Identification Card" to children 15 and under upon receipt of an application and $20 fee from a parent or guardian who has evidence of the age and identity of the child. | |||||
| Vehicles: driver's licenses. | AB 2754 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |||
| This bill makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the DMV's driver's license tests. | |||||
| Motor vehicles: commercial. | AB 3049 (2003-2004) | ||||
| Codifies California's commercial motor vehicle laws to ensure substantial compliance with recent changes made to federal regulations. | |||||
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