BILL ANALYSIS SB 1318 Page 1 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the bill: 1)Require license plates to be mounted parallel with the ground so that the characters are upright. 2)Repeal outdated sections, revise inaccurate cross-references, and update various definitions in the transportation code. 3)Eliminate outdated reporting requirements. 4)Bring state statutes into conformity with recent federal law changes.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 SB 1318 Page 2 provision of concern will be deleted from this bill. Analysis Prepared by : Brad Williams / APPR. / (916) 319-2081