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          Date of Hearing:   June 30, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

           SB 1318 (Committee on Transportation and Housing) - As Amended:  
                                    June 3, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                              
          TransportationVote:12-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          Yes    Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes numerous, mostly technical, changes to  
          transportation-related statutes. Key provisions of the bill:

          1)Require license plates to be mounted parallel with the ground  
            so that the characters are upright.

          2)Repeal outdated sections, revise inaccurate cross-references,  
            and update various definitions in the transportation code.

          3)Eliminate outdated reporting requirements.

          4)Bring state statutes into conformity with recent federal law  
            changes.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Minor state and local enforcement costs and fine revenues  
          associated with license plate requirement. Local enforcement  
          costs not reimbursable.

           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  . The Senate Transportation and Housing Committee is  
          authoring this bill as a means of combining multiple,  
          non-controversial, changes to statutes into one bill, so that  
          the Legislature can make minor amendments in a cost-effective  
          manner.  Consistent with the committee policy on committee  
          omnibus bills, there is no known opposition to any item in the  
          bill, and if concerns arise that cannot be resolved, the  








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          provision of concern will be deleted from this bill.  

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Brad Williams / APPR. / (916) 319-2081