California 2019 2019-2020 Regular Session

California Assembly Bill AB1187 Amended / Bill

Filed 03/21/2019

                    Amended IN  Assembly  March 21, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1187Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-SawyerFebruary 21, 2019 An act to amend Section 12506 of the Vehicle Code, relating to drivers licenses. An act to add Section 4602.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicle registration.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1187, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Temporary drivers licenses. Renewal of registration: safe parking program participants.Existing law prohibits a person from operating a vehicle without registering the vehicle and paying the applicable fee, except as specified. Existing law requires drivers wishing to renew a vehicle registration to submit an application prior to the expiration of the registration year and pay the applicable fee. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew a vehicle registration upon specified grounds, including if the applicant has not paid the required fee or if the owner or lessee of the vehicle, at the time of the application for renewal, fails to pay the full amount of any outstanding parking penalties and administrative fees, as specified.This bill would require the department, notwithstanding the provisions above, to issue a 90-day temporary operating permit to a participant of a safe parking program, as defined, whose vehicle registration has expired, upon the request of the safe parking program.Existing law authorizes the department to issue a temporary drivers license to any person applying for a drivers license, to any person applying for renewal of a drivers license, or to any licensee whose license is required to be changed, added to, or modified. Existing law permits the operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways for a period of 60 days with a temporary license, as specified, and makes the temporary license invalid when the applicants license has been issued or refused.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NOYES  Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 4602.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:4602.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the department shall, upon a request from a safe parking program, issue a temporary operating permit, valid for 90 days, to a participant of the safe parking program whose vehicle registration has expired.(b) For purposes of this section, safe parking program means a program operated by a service provider that is funded by a city, county, or city and county and provides a designated area for homeless persons and families enrolled in the program to park their vehicles, and provides persons enrolled in the program onsite case management support or linkage and referrals to housing navigation or the Coordinated Entry System.(2)A temporary license permits the operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways for a period of 60 days, if the licensee has the temporary license in their immediate possession, and while the department is completing its investigation and determination of all facts relative to the applicants right to receive a license. The temporary license is invalid when the applicants license has been issued or refused.

 Amended IN  Assembly  March 21, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1187Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-SawyerFebruary 21, 2019 An act to amend Section 12506 of the Vehicle Code, relating to drivers licenses. An act to add Section 4602.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicle registration.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1187, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Temporary drivers licenses. Renewal of registration: safe parking program participants.Existing law prohibits a person from operating a vehicle without registering the vehicle and paying the applicable fee, except as specified. Existing law requires drivers wishing to renew a vehicle registration to submit an application prior to the expiration of the registration year and pay the applicable fee. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew a vehicle registration upon specified grounds, including if the applicant has not paid the required fee or if the owner or lessee of the vehicle, at the time of the application for renewal, fails to pay the full amount of any outstanding parking penalties and administrative fees, as specified.This bill would require the department, notwithstanding the provisions above, to issue a 90-day temporary operating permit to a participant of a safe parking program, as defined, whose vehicle registration has expired, upon the request of the safe parking program.Existing law authorizes the department to issue a temporary drivers license to any person applying for a drivers license, to any person applying for renewal of a drivers license, or to any licensee whose license is required to be changed, added to, or modified. Existing law permits the operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways for a period of 60 days with a temporary license, as specified, and makes the temporary license invalid when the applicants license has been issued or refused.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NOYES  Local Program: NO 

 Amended IN  Assembly  March 21, 2019

Amended IN  Assembly  March 21, 2019

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill No. 1187

Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-SawyerFebruary 21, 2019

Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer
February 21, 2019

 An act to amend Section 12506 of the Vehicle Code, relating to drivers licenses. An act to add Section 4602.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicle registration.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1187, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Temporary drivers licenses. Renewal of registration: safe parking program participants.

Existing law prohibits a person from operating a vehicle without registering the vehicle and paying the applicable fee, except as specified. Existing law requires drivers wishing to renew a vehicle registration to submit an application prior to the expiration of the registration year and pay the applicable fee. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew a vehicle registration upon specified grounds, including if the applicant has not paid the required fee or if the owner or lessee of the vehicle, at the time of the application for renewal, fails to pay the full amount of any outstanding parking penalties and administrative fees, as specified.This bill would require the department, notwithstanding the provisions above, to issue a 90-day temporary operating permit to a participant of a safe parking program, as defined, whose vehicle registration has expired, upon the request of the safe parking program.Existing law authorizes the department to issue a temporary drivers license to any person applying for a drivers license, to any person applying for renewal of a drivers license, or to any licensee whose license is required to be changed, added to, or modified. Existing law permits the operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways for a period of 60 days with a temporary license, as specified, and makes the temporary license invalid when the applicants license has been issued or refused.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Existing law prohibits a person from operating a vehicle without registering the vehicle and paying the applicable fee, except as specified. Existing law requires drivers wishing to renew a vehicle registration to submit an application prior to the expiration of the registration year and pay the applicable fee. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew a vehicle registration upon specified grounds, including if the applicant has not paid the required fee or if the owner or lessee of the vehicle, at the time of the application for renewal, fails to pay the full amount of any outstanding parking penalties and administrative fees, as specified.

This bill would require the department, notwithstanding the provisions above, to issue a 90-day temporary operating permit to a participant of a safe parking program, as defined, whose vehicle registration has expired, upon the request of the safe parking program.

Existing law authorizes the department to issue a temporary drivers license to any person applying for a drivers license, to any person applying for renewal of a drivers license, or to any licensee whose license is required to be changed, added to, or modified. Existing law permits the operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways for a period of 60 days with a temporary license, as specified, and makes the temporary license invalid when the applicants license has been issued or refused.



This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.



## Digest Key

## Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 4602.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:4602.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the department shall, upon a request from a safe parking program, issue a temporary operating permit, valid for 90 days, to a participant of the safe parking program whose vehicle registration has expired.(b) For purposes of this section, safe parking program means a program operated by a service provider that is funded by a city, county, or city and county and provides a designated area for homeless persons and families enrolled in the program to park their vehicles, and provides persons enrolled in the program onsite case management support or linkage and referrals to housing navigation or the Coordinated Entry System.(2)A temporary license permits the operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways for a period of 60 days, if the licensee has the temporary license in their immediate possession, and while the department is completing its investigation and determination of all facts relative to the applicants right to receive a license. The temporary license is invalid when the applicants license has been issued or refused.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 4602.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:4602.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the department shall, upon a request from a safe parking program, issue a temporary operating permit, valid for 90 days, to a participant of the safe parking program whose vehicle registration has expired.(b) For purposes of this section, safe parking program means a program operated by a service provider that is funded by a city, county, or city and county and provides a designated area for homeless persons and families enrolled in the program to park their vehicles, and provides persons enrolled in the program onsite case management support or linkage and referrals to housing navigation or the Coordinated Entry System.

SECTION 1. Section 4602.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

### SECTION 1.

4602.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the department shall, upon a request from a safe parking program, issue a temporary operating permit, valid for 90 days, to a participant of the safe parking program whose vehicle registration has expired.(b) For purposes of this section, safe parking program means a program operated by a service provider that is funded by a city, county, or city and county and provides a designated area for homeless persons and families enrolled in the program to park their vehicles, and provides persons enrolled in the program onsite case management support or linkage and referrals to housing navigation or the Coordinated Entry System.

4602.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the department shall, upon a request from a safe parking program, issue a temporary operating permit, valid for 90 days, to a participant of the safe parking program whose vehicle registration has expired.(b) For purposes of this section, safe parking program means a program operated by a service provider that is funded by a city, county, or city and county and provides a designated area for homeless persons and families enrolled in the program to park their vehicles, and provides persons enrolled in the program onsite case management support or linkage and referrals to housing navigation or the Coordinated Entry System.

4602.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the department shall, upon a request from a safe parking program, issue a temporary operating permit, valid for 90 days, to a participant of the safe parking program whose vehicle registration has expired.(b) For purposes of this section, safe parking program means a program operated by a service provider that is funded by a city, county, or city and county and provides a designated area for homeless persons and families enrolled in the program to park their vehicles, and provides persons enrolled in the program onsite case management support or linkage and referrals to housing navigation or the Coordinated Entry System.



4602.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the department shall, upon a request from a safe parking program, issue a temporary operating permit, valid for 90 days, to a participant of the safe parking program whose vehicle registration has expired.

(b) For purposes of this section, safe parking program means a program operated by a service provider that is funded by a city, county, or city and county and provides a designated area for homeless persons and families enrolled in the program to park their vehicles, and provides persons enrolled in the program onsite case management support or linkage and referrals to housing navigation or the Coordinated Entry System.

(2)A temporary license permits the operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways for a period of 60 days, if the licensee has the temporary license in their immediate possession, and while the department is completing its investigation and determination of all facts relative to the applicants right to receive a license. The temporary license is invalid when the applicants license has been issued or refused.



(2)A temporary license permits the operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways for a period of 60 days, if the licensee has the temporary license in their immediate possession, and while the department is completing its investigation and determination of all facts relative to the applicants right to receive a license. The temporary license is invalid when the applicants license has been issued or refused.