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AB-1614 Transportation.(2009-2010)

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Amended  IN  Senate  October 07, 2010
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 19, 2010

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2009–2010 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1614

Introduced  by Committee on Budget  (Blumenfield (Chair))

January 11, 2010

An act relating to the Budget Act of 2010. An act to amend Sections 8879.52, 8879.61, 8879.65, and 14556.7 of the Government Code, to amend Sections 185024 and 185035 of, and to add Section 185032.1 to, the Public Utilities Code, to amend Sections 167 and 2103 of, and to add Article 4.6 (commencing with Section 172) to Chapter 1 of Division 1 of, the Streets and Highways Code, and to amend Sections 2413, 2814.1, and 12811 of, and to add Section 2814.2 to, the Vehicle Code, relating to transportation, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1614, as amended, Committee on Budget. Budget Act of 2010. Transportation.
(1) Existing law creates the California Transportation Commission, with various duties and responsibilities relative to the programming and allocation of funds for transportation capital projects. Existing law requires the commission to submit, by December 15 of each year, an annual report to the Legislature summarizing the commission’s prior year decisions in allocating transportation capital funds and identifying timely and relevant transportation issues facing the state. Existing law, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of $19.25 billion of general obligation bonds for specified purposes, including $2 billion to be transferred to the Trade Corridors Improvement Fund to be available, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act by the Legislature and subject to such conditions and criteria as the Legislature may provide by statute, for allocation by the commission. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to, on or before February 18, 2009, report to specified committees of the Legislature a summary of any memorandum of understanding or any other agreement executed between a railroad company and any state or local transportation agency relative to any project funded with moneys allocated from the Trade Corridors Improvement Fund.
This bill would instead require the commission to provide that report to specified committees of the Legislature within 30 days of receiving such a memorandum of understanding or executed agreement. The bill would also, commencing January 1, 2011, require the commission to provide semiannual reports to those committees on the status of all railroad projects programmed in the Trade Corridors Improvement Fund program. The bill would make these reporting requirements inoperative on January 1, 2015.
(2) The Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 also requires that $1,000,000,000 of bond funds be deposited in the Transit System Safety, Security, and Disaster Response Account, administered by the California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA), for capital projects that provide increased protection against a security and safety threat, and for capital expenditures to increase the capacity of transit operators to develop disaster response transportation systems, as specified. Existing law requires 25% of available funds to be allocated to certain regional public waterborne transit agencies. Existing law requires entities receiving funds from that account to expend those funds within 3 fiscal years of the fiscal year in which the funds were allocated and requires that funds remaining unexpended after those 3 years revert to Cal EMA for reallocation in subsequent fiscal years.
This bill, notwithstanding these provisions, would provide that entities receiving an allocation of the funds set aside for regional public waterborne transit agencies, relative to allocations of funds made prior to June 30, 2011, shall have 4 fiscal years from the last day of the fiscal year in which the funds were received by that entity to expend those funds.
(3) Existing law requires funds from the Local Street and Road Improvement, Congestion Relief, and Traffic Safety Account of 2006 to be made available to the Controller for allocation to cities, counties, and a city and county, for purposes of the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, as specified. Upon receipt of funds, a city, county, or city and county is required to expend those funds within 3 fiscal years from the date that the funds are allocated to it by the Controller, and any funds not expended within that period are required to be returned to the Controller and reallocated to other cities, counties, or a city and county, as specified.
Existing law establishes the Highway Users Tax Account in the Transportation Tax Fund for various purposes, including the research, planning, construction, improvement, maintenance, and operation of public streets and highways, the research and planning for exclusive public mass transit guideways, and the construction and improvement of exclusive public mass transit guideways, as specified.
This bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county that receives these funds in a fiscal year in which funds from the Highway Users Tax Account are deferred, suspended, borrowed, or shifted, to expend those funds within 4 fiscal years from the last date of the fiscal year in which the funds are allocated to it by the Controller.
(4) Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to transfer funds among 5 specified transportation funds or accounts as short-term loans, subject to certain conditions and any terms and conditions imposed by the Director of Finance. These provisions are inoperative on July 1, 2011, and are repealed on January 1, 2012.
This bill would extend the inoperative and repeal dates of these provisions to July 1, 2014, and January 1, 2015, respectively.
(5) Existing law, the California High-Speed Rail Act, creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state, with specified powers and duties. Existing law provides for appointment of an executive director by the authority, who is exempt from civil service and serves at the pleasure of the authority. Existing law requires the executive director to be paid a salary established by the authority and approved by the Department of Personnel Administration.
This bill, for purposes of managing and administering the ongoing work of the authority in implementing the high-speed train project, would authorize the Governor, upon the recommendation of the executive director, to appoint up to 6 additional authority employees, exempt from civil service, who would serve in specified positions at the pleasure of the executive director. The bill would require a salary survey to be conducted to determine the compensation for the executive director and additional exempt employees, and would require the salaries to be established by the authority and approved by the Department of Personnel Administration.
(6) Existing law requires the High-Speed Rail Authority to establish an independent peer review group for the purpose of reviewing the authority’s plans and issuing analyses of the authority’s assumptions and the authority’s funding plan for each corridor. Existing law requires the peer review group to consist of persons meeting specified requirements and to be designated by certain public officers.
This bill would require the initial designations to the peer group to be made by November 1, 2010. The bill would require the peer review group to designate a chairperson and would require the authority to designate a member of its staff to serve as a liaison to the peer review group. The bill would require members of the peer review group to receive specified per diem compensation and reimbursement for travel expenses.
The bill would require the authority to provide a specified progress report to the Legislature commencing March 1, 2011, and biannually thereafter.
(7) Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law creates various programs to fund transportation capital improvement programs and provides for allocation of those funds. Existing law requires the department to prepare an annual budget, as specified for submission to the Governor.
This bill would require the department to submit specified supplemental information by May 1 of each year to the Legislative Analyst and to the appropriations committees to substantiate the department’s proposed capital outlay support budget.
(8) Existing law, the Outdoor Advertising Act, provides for the regulation by the Department of Transportation of advertising displays, as defined, within view of public highways.
This bill would enact the Transportation Revenue Partnership Act. The bill would authorize the department, upon approval of the federal Highway Administration, to enter into an agreement pursuant to a competitive process for an experimental project to plan, develop, finance, maintain, and operate a network of changeable message signs within the rights-of-way of the state highway system, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to allow the person with whom it has entered into the agreement to place advertisements, meeting certain standards established by the department, on the changeable message signs when they are not being used by the department. The bill would require revenues derived from the experimental project to be allocated between the department and the person with whom the department has entered into the agreement and would require those revenues received by the department to be subject to appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would authorize the department to adopt guidelines and procedures relative to advertising on changeable message signs. The bill would require the department to submit specified reports to the fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over transportation matters and would prohibit an agreement from being entered into on or after January 1, 2014.
(9) Existing law requires specified revenues from an increase in the gasoline excise tax, pursuant to Chapters 11 and 12 of the 8th Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2010, to be used to reimburse the General Fund for the amount needed for debt service on specified general obligation transportation bonds, and in the 2010–11 fiscal year, after the reimbursement of the General Fund, requires the sum of $54,167,000 per month to be held in the Highway Users Tax Account for future appropriation by the Legislature.
This bill would instead require, in the 2010-11 fiscal year, after the reimbursement of the General Fund for debt service on those specified general obligation transportation bonds, the sum of $63,470,000 per month to be held in the account for future appropriation by the Legislature.
Existing law also provides for apportionment by the Controller of a specified amount of gasoline excise tax revenues in the Highway Users Tax Account to cities and counties for local street and road purposes, including revenues from the increase in the gasoline excise tax, pursuant to Chapters 11 and 12 of the 8th Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2010. These revenues, including the revenues from the increase in the gasoline excise tax, are not subject to expenditure requirements and restrictions that were applicable to revenues from the gasoline sales tax that was repealed by the above-referenced legislation.
This bill would clarify that the revenues apportioned to cities and counties from the increase in the gasoline excise tax may be used for any local street and road purpose and are not subject to the requirements and restrictions applicable to the former gasoline sales tax revenues.
(10) Existing law designates the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol as the Statewide Vehicle Theft Investigation and Apprehension Coordinator and authorizes the commissioner to establish vehicle theft prevention, investigation, and apprehension programs and to assist local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in combating vehicle theft.
Existing law requires the commissioner to submit a report to the Legislature, no later than 90 days following the end of the fiscal year, accounting for funds received and disbursed from the Motor Vehicle Account for the purposes of preventing and enhancing investigative efforts to deter economic automobile theft.
This bill would authorize the Department of the California Highway Patrol to retain license plate data captured by a license plate reader (LPR) for not more than 72 hours unless the data is being used as evidence or for a legitimate law enforcement purpose. The bill would prohibit the department from selling the data or from making the data available to an agency that is not a law enforcement agency or an individual that is not a law enforcement officer. The bill would authorize the use of the data for purposes of locating vehicles or persons reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of a public offense. The bill would require the department to monitor internal use of the data to prevent unauthorized use and to submit to the Legislature, as a part of the annual automobile theft report, information on the department’s LPR practices and usage.
(11) Existing law authorizes a city or a county to establish a sobriety checkpoint program in highways under its jurisdiction to check for violations of driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenses and authorizes the board of supervisors of a county to establish, by ordinance, a combined vehicle inspection and sobriety checkpoint program to check for violations of motor vehicle exhaust standards in addition to DUI offenses.
Existing law authorizes a peace officer, whenever the peace officer determines, among other things, that a person was driving a vehicle (A) without ever having been issued a driver’s license, to immediately arrest that person and cause the removal and seizure of his or her vehicle for an impoundment period of 30 days, or (B) if the person is currently without a valid driver’s license, to remove the vehicle for a shorter period of time upon issuance of a notice to appear if the registered owner or the registered owner’s agent presents a currently valid driver’s license and proof of current vehicle registration, or upon order of the court.
This bill would authorize the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and a city, county, and city and county, by ordinance or resolution, to establish a sobriety checkpoint program on highways within their respective jurisdictions to identify drivers who are in violation of specified DUI offenses. The bill would require that the program be conducted by the local governmental agency or department with the primary responsibility for traffic law enforcement.
The bill would, notwithstanding other provisions of law, require that a peace officer or any other authorized person not cause the impoundment of a vehicle at a sobriety checkpoint, established pursuant to these provisions or any other law, unless at least one of a number of specified conditions applies. The bill would delete the county board of supervisors authority to conduct a combined vehicle inspection and sobriety checkpoint program.
(12) Under existing law, when the Department of Motor Vehicles determines that an applicant is lawfully entitled to a driver’s license, the department is required to issue that license to the applicant. Existing law specifies the contents of a driver’s license. Existing law requires that the front of an application for an original or renewal of a driver’s license or identification card contain a space for an applicant to give his or her consent to be an organ and tissue donor upon death.
This bill would also require the front of an application for an original or renewal of a driver’s license or identification card to contain a space for an applicant to indicate whether he or she has served in the Armed Forces of the United States and to give his or her consent to be contacted regarding eligibility to receive state or federal veteran benefits. The bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to electronically transmit to the Department of Veterans Affairs specified information on an applicant who has identified on his or her application for a driver’s license or identification card that he or she has served in the Armed Forces of the United States and consents to being contacted about veterans benefits.
(13) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2010.

Vote: MAJORITY2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 8879.52 of the Government Code is amended to read:

8879.52.
 (a) The commission shall evaluate, consistent with the commission’s Trade Corridors Improvement Fund (TCIF) Guidelines, adopted November 27, 2007, as part of the 2010 TCIF review, the total potential costs and total potential economic and noneconomic benefits of the program to California’s economy, environment, and public health. The commission shall consult with the State Air Resources Board in order to utilize the appropriate models, techniques, and methods to develop the evaluation required by this subdivision.
(b) With respect to the two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000) appropriated from the TCIF, as described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 8879.23, and the five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) to be made available from the State Highway Account, the following programming schedule shall apply:
(1) The Los Angeles/Inland Empire Corridor shall receive a minimum of one billion five hundred million dollars ($1,500,000,000).
(2) The San Diego/International Border Corridor shall receive a minimum of two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000).
(3) The San Francisco Bay/Central Valley Corridor shall receive a minimum of six hundred forty million dollars ($640,000,000).
(4) Other corridors, as determined by the commission, shall receive a minimum of sixty million dollars ($60,000,000).
(c) The corridors referenced in subdivision (b) shall receive the minimum amount of funding programmed for that corridor notwithstanding the deprogramming of any project or projects in that corridor by the commission. If a project is or projects are deprogrammed, the commission shall collaborate with the local transportation agencies in that corridor to select another project or projects for programming of those funds within the minimum amount provided to each corridor pursuant to subdivision (b).
(d) If the Colton Crossing project programmed in the commission’s TCIF Program as of April 10, 2008, does not meet the requirements or delivery schedule contained in its project baseline agreement when reviewed by the commission no later than March 2010, the project shall be ineligible to receive an allocation from the TCIF. The ninety-seven million dollars ($97,000,000) associated with the project shall then be available for programming in the Los Angeles/Inland Empire Corridor. In that event, the commission shall collaborate with the local transportation agencies in that corridor to select another project or projects for programming of those funds, and, in making that selection, shall take into consideration the Los Angeles/Inland Empire Corridor Tier One or Tier Two Project Lists and any other project identified by the local agencies. Projects currently receiving TCIF funding shall not be considered for selection.

(e)On or before February 18, 2009, the department shall report to the policy committees of each house of the Legislature with jurisdiction over transportation matters, a summary of any memorandum of understanding or any other agreement executed between a railroad company and any state or local transportation agency as it relates to any project funded with moneys allocated from the TCIF.

(e) (1) The commission shall report to the Assembly Committee on Transportation, the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing, and the Senate and Assembly Committees on Budget and on Appropriations a summary of any memorandum of understanding, along with a copy of the memorandum, or any agreement executed between a railroad company and any state or local transportation agency as it relates to any project funded with moneys allocated from the TCIF within 30 days of the commission’s receipt of those documents.
(2) Commencing January 1, 2011, the commission shall provide semiannual reports to the Assembly Committee on Transportation, the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing, and the Senate and Assembly Committees on Budget and on Appropriations on the status of all railroad projects programmed in the TCIF program.
(3) This subdivision shall become inoperative on January 1, 2015, pursuant to Section 10231.5.

SEC. 2.

 Section 8879.61 of the Government Code is amended to read:

8879.61.
 (a) (1) Entities described in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 8879.57 receiving an allocation of funds pursuant to this article shall expend those funds within three fiscal years of the fiscal year in which the funds were allocated. Funds remaining unexpended thereafter shall revert to OHS or OES, as applicable, the California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) for reallocation under this article in subsequent fiscal years.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), for an allocation of funds made prior to June 30, 2011, to an entity described in subdivision (b) of Section 8879.57, that entity shall have four fiscal years from the last day of the fiscal year in which the funds were received by that entity to expend those funds.
(b) Entities that receive grant awards from funds allocated pursuant to subdivisions (b) or (c) of Section 8879.57 are not eligible to receive awards from the funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 8879.57.
(c) On or before May 1 of each year, OHS and OES Cal EMA shall report to the Legislature on their its activities under this article. The report shall include a summary of the projects selected for funding during the fiscal year in which awards were made, as well as the status of projects selected for funding in prior fiscal years.
(d) Funds appropriated for the program established by this article in the Budget Act of 2007 shall be allocated consistent with the allocation schedule established in Section 8879.57.

SEC. 3.

 Section 8879.65 of the Government Code is amended to read:

8879.65.
 (a) Funds appropriated from the Local Street and Road Improvement, Congestion Relief, and Traffic Safety Account of 2006, established by subdivision (l) of Section 8879.23, shall be made available to the Controller for allocation to cities, counties, and a city and county. From bond funds appropriated in the 2007–08 fiscal year for cities, including a city and county, each city, and city and county, shall receive at least a minimum allocation of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), as described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (l) of Section 8879.23. The remainder of the funds appropriated for cities, including a city and county, shall be allocated in the proportion described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (l) of Section 8879.23. In no case shall a city, or a city and county, receive an allocation in excess of its total share, as described in subdivision (l) of Section 8879.23, except as described in subdivision (d).
(b) Prior to receiving an allocation of funds from the Controller in a fiscal year, an eligible local agency shall submit to the Department of Finance a list of projects expected to be funded with bond funds pursuant to an adopted city, county, or city and county budget. All projects proposed to be funded with funds from the account shall be included in a city, county, or city and county budget that is adopted by the applicable city council or board of supervisors at a regular public meeting. The list of projects expected to be funded with bond funds shall include a description and the location of the proposed project, a proposed schedule for the project’s completion, and the estimated useful life of the improvement. The project list shall not limit the flexibility of an eligible local agency to fund projects in accordance with local needs and priorities so long as the projects are consistent with subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (l) of Section 8879.23.
(1) The Department of Finance shall report monthly to the Controller the eligible local agencies that have submitted a list of projects as described in this subdivision.
(2) Upon receipt of the information described in paragraph (1), the Controller shall allocate funds to those agencies that have submitted a list of projects, as reported by the Department of Finance.
(c) Each fiscal year upon expending funds from the account, a city, county, or city and county shall submit documentation to the Department of Finance which includes a description and location of each completed project, the amount of funds expended on the project, the completion date, and the project’s estimated useful life. The documentation shall be forwarded to the department, in a manner and form approved by the department, at the end of each fiscal year until the funds in the account are exhausted. The department may post the information contained in the documentation on the department’s official Web site.
(d) (1) A city, county, or city and county receiving funds pursuant to this section shall have three fiscal years to expend the funds following the fiscal year in which the allocation was made by the Controller, and any funds not expended within that period shall be returned to the Controller and be reallocated to other cities, counties, or a city and county, as applicable, pursuant to the allocation formulas set forth in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (l) of Section 8879.23, but excluding the requirement for a minimum city allocation as described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of that subdivision and section.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a city, county, or city and county receiving funds pursuant to this section, during any fiscal year in which funds from the Highway Users Tax Account are deferred, suspended, borrowed, or shifted, shall have four fiscal years from the last date of the fiscal year in which the funds are allocated to it by the Controller to expend the funds.
(e) Subject to the requirements and conditions of this section, it is the intent of the Legislature to appropriate funds from the account so that the Controller may allocate the balance of these funds to eligible local agencies over the next four years, following the 2007–08 fiscal year. Nothing in this section shall prevent the Legislature from appropriating funds on a more expedited basis based on local agency need.
(f) The sum of three hundred fifty million dollars ($350,000,000) is hereby appropriated from funds in the Local Street and Road Improvement, Congestion Relief, and Traffic Safety Account of 2006 created pursuant to subdivision (l) of Section 8879.23, for allocation pursuant to this article, as an augmentation to the amount appropriated in Item 9350-104-6065 of the Budget Act of 2007. The total 2007–08 fiscal year appropriation of nine hundred fifty million dollars ($950,000,000) shall be allocated as follows: four hundred million dollars ($400,000,000) to counties and five hundred fifty million dollars ($550,000,000) to cities.
(g) Notwithstanding the provisions of Item 9350-104-6065 of the Budget Act of 2008, a city or city and county that receives any portion of the funds appropriated by that item shall agree to encumber the funds before July 1, 2010.

SEC. 4.

 Section 14556.7 of the Government Code is amended to read:

14556.7.
 (a) To provide adequate cash for projects, including, but not limited to, projects in the State Transportation Improvement Program, the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, and the Traffic Congestion Relief Program, and for the support of the department, the department may transfer funds as short-term loans among and between the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund, the Transportation Investment Fund in the State Treasury, the Transportation Deferred Investment Fund, the Public Transportation Account in the State Transportation Fund and the Traffic Congestion Relief Fund (TCRF), subject to those terms and conditions that the Director of Finance may impose upon those transfers. When loan balances authorized in this subdivision are outstanding, the Director of Transportation shall report the amounts of loans outstanding with respect to each fund or account as of the last business day of each quarter to the commission. The commission shall monitor the cash-flow loan program authorized in this section and shall provide guidance to the department to ensure that sufficient resources will be available for all projects and all other authorized expenditures from each fund or account so as to not delay any authorized expenditure.
(b) For the purposes of this section, a “short-term loan” is a transfer that is made subject to the following conditions:
(1) That any amount loaned is to be repaid in full to the fund or account from which it was loaned during the same fiscal year in which the loan was made, except that repayment may be delayed until a date not more than 30 days after the date of enactment of the annual Budget Act for the subsequent fiscal year.
(2) That loans shall be repaid whenever the funds are needed to meet cash expenditure needs in the loaning fund or account.
(c) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2011 2014, and, as of January 1, 2012 2015, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2012 2015, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

SEC. 5.

 Section 185024 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:

185024.
 (a) The authority shall appoint an executive director, exempt from civil service, who shall serve at the pleasure of the authority, to administer the affairs of the authority as directed by the authority.
(b) The executive director is exempt from civil service and shall be paid a salary established by the authority and approved by the Department of Personnel Administration. For purposes of managing and administering the ongoing work of the authority in implementing the high-speed train project, the Governor, upon the recommendation of the executive director, may appoint up to six additional employees, exempt from civil service, who shall serve at the pleasure of the executive director. Pursuant to this subdivision, the Governor may appoint employees only for the following positions:
(1) Chief program manager.
(2) Regional director.
(3) Chief financial officer.
(4) Director of risk management and project controls.
(c) The compensation of the executive director and the additional employees authorized by subdivision (b) shall be established by the authority, and approved by the Department of Personnel Administration, in an amount that is reasonably necessary, in the discretion of the authority, to attract and hold a person of superior qualifications. The authority shall cause to be conducted, through the use of independent outside advisers, a salary survey to determine the compensation for the positions under this subdivision. The Department of Personnel Administration may, in its discretion, accept a previously completed salary survey that meets the requirements of this subdivision, and shall review the methodology used in the survey. The salary survey shall consider both of the following:
(1) Other state, regional, and local transportation agencies that are most comparable to the authority and its responsibilities.
(2) Other relevant labor pools.
The compensation set by the authority shall not exceed the highest comparable compensation for a position of that type, as determined by the salary survey. Based on the salary survey, these positions shall be paid a salary established by the authority and approved by the Department of Personnel Administration.

(c)

(d) The executive director may, as authorized by the authority, appoint necessary staff to carry out the provisions of this part.

SEC. 6.

 Section 185032.1 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

185032.1.
 (a) Commencing March 1, 2011, and biannually thereafter, the authority shall provide a report to the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing, the Assembly Committee on Transportation, the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, and the Assembly Committee on Budget for the development and implementation of intercity high-speed rail service pursuant to Section 185030.
(b) The report, at a minimum, shall include a programwide summary, as well as details by project segment, with all information necessary to clearly describe the status of the project, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(1) A summary describing the overall progress of the project.
(2) The baseline budget for all project phase costs, by segment or contract, beginning with the 2009 business plan.
(3) The current and projected budget, by segment or contract, for all project phase costs.
(4) Expenditures to date, by segment or contract, for all project phase costs.
(5) A comparison of the current and projected work schedule and the baseline schedule contained in the 2009 business plan.
(6) A summary of milestones achieved during the prior year and milestones expected to be reached in the coming year.
(7) Any issues identified during the prior year and actions taken to address those issues.
(8) A thorough discussion of various risks to the project and steps taken to mitigate those risks.

SEC. 7.

 Section 185035 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:

185035.
 (a) The authority shall establish an independent peer review group for the purpose of reviewing the planning, engineering, financing, and other elements of the authority’s plans and issuing an analysis of appropriateness and accuracy of the authority’s assumptions and an analysis of the viability of the authority’s financing plan, including the funding plan for each corridor required pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2704.08 of the Streets and Highways Code.
(b) The peer review group shall include all of the following:
(1) Two individuals with experience in the construction or operation of high-speed trains in Europe, Asia, or both, designated by the Treasurer.
(2) Two individuals, one with experience in engineering and construction of high-speed trains and one with experience in project finance, designated by the Controller.
(3) One representative from a financial services or financial consulting firm who shall not have been a contractor or subcontractor of the authority for the previous three years, designated by the Director of Finance.
(4) One representative with experience in environmental planning, designated by the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing.
(5) Two expert representatives from agencies providing intercity or commuter passenger train services in California, designated by the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing.
(c) (1) The initial designations to the peer review group described in subdivision (b) shall be made by November 1, 2010.
(2) The peer review group shall designate a chairperson.
(3) The authority shall designate a specific member of its staff to serve as a liaison to the peer review group.
(d) (1) Each member of the peer review group shall receive compensation of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day that the member is attending to the business of the peer review group, but shall not receive more than five hundred dollars ($500) in any calendar month.
(2) Members of the peer review group shall be reimbursed for their actual travel expenses incurred in attending to the business of the peer review group.

(c)

(e) The peer review group shall evaluate the authority’s funding plans and prepare its independent judgment as to the feasibility and reasonableness of the plans, appropriateness of assumptions, analyses, and estimates, and any other observations or evaluations it deems necessary.

(d)

(f) The authority shall provide the peer review group any and all information that the peer review group may request to carry out its responsibilities.

(e)

(g) The peer review group shall report its findings and conclusions to the Legislature no later than 60 days after receiving the plans.

SEC. 8.

 Section 167 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read:

167.
 (a) Funds in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund shall be programmed, budgeted subject to Section 163, and expended to maximize the use of federal funds and shall be based on the following sequence of priorities:
(1) Operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of the state highway system.
(2) Safety improvements where physical changes, other than adding additional lanes, would reduce fatalities and the number and severity of injuries.
(3) Transportation capital improvements that expand capacity or reduce congestion, or do both.
(4) Environmental enhancement and mitigation programs.
(b) With respect to the funds in the State Highway Account, in the Public Transportation Account, and in the Passenger Rail Bond Fund, the proposed budget shall be organized on a program basis. The proposed budget shall list the proposed expenditures for the transportation program under the following program elements:
(1) Administration.
(2) Program development.
(3) Maintenance.
(4) State highway operation and protection.
(5) Local assistance.
(6) Interregional improvements.
(7) Regional improvements.
(8) Environmental enhancement and mitigation programs.
(c) State operations expenditure amounts of the department for interregional and regional transportation improvement projects shall be listed as required by subdivision (b) of Section 14529 of the Government Code, but those amounts other than those for the acquisition of rights-of-way and construction shall not be subject to allocation by the commission.
(d) To align the annual budget with the adopted state transportation improvement program, the department may submit to the Department of Finance revised capital outlay support and capital outlay budget estimates as part of its May revision process. Budget proposals related to these changes shall be provided to the Legislature no later than May 1.
(e) The budget shall not include specific appropriations for specific transportation improvement projects, and the Legislature shall not enact legislation containing specific individual transportation projects.
(f) The basis for defining major and minor capital outlay projects shall be established by the commission.
(g) The Legislative Analyst shall prepare an analysis of the proposed expenditures for each program element as a part of the budget analysis.
(h) The department shall submit to the Legislative Analyst and the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and Assembly, on an annual basis, supplemental information to substantiate the department’s proposed capital outlay support budget. The information shall be provided no later than May 1 of each year, and may be provided at an earlier date. The information shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) A list of projects for which the department will perform capital outlay support work in the budget year. For each project, the department shall include:
(A) The planned project support budget for support of environmental, design, right-of-way, and construction phases.
(B) The planned capital costs, including construction capital costs and right-of-way capital costs.
(C) The estimated or actual construction start date.
(D) The name and year of the state transportation program in which the project is programmed, if applicable.
(E) Total prior fiscal year expenditures for capital outlay support.
(F) The number of full-time equivalent positions requested to perform support of environmental, design, right-of-way, and construction support work in the fiscal year of the budget request.
(G) Milestones of project work by phases that are planned to be completed in the fiscal year of the budget request.
(2) The capital-to-support ratio for all projects completed in the prior fiscal year in each program in each district.
(3) The current total number of authorized and vacant positions in the capital outlay support program in headquarters and in each district.
(4) A five-year projection of the department’s staffing needs to support the state’s transportation capital programs and any workload performed by the department related to federal or local funding for highway capital projects.
(5) The average cost of a personnel-year equivalent in each district based on the department’s existing contracts for capital outlay support work performed by a private company under contract with the department. For each average cost, the department shall provide a description of what factors are included in that cost.
(6) The average cost of a state staff personnel-year in the capital outlay support program in each district and in headquarters. The cost shall include the salary and wages, benefits, program overhead, and administrative and other costs. The department shall provide a description of each component of the average cost.

SEC. 9.

 Article 4.6 (commencing with Section 172) is added to Chapter 1 of Division 1 of the Streets and Highways Code, to read:
Article  4.6. Transportation Revenue Partnership Act

172.
 This article shall be known and may be cited as the Transportation Revenue Partnership Act.

172.1.
 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) A network of changeable message signs may provide one source of additional transportation funding. The department’s current network of changeable message signs has proven to be an effective way to inform road users of critical safety and transportation-related conditions and of other important information and to protect the safe and efficient utilization of the highways.
(b) Changeable message signs have played a critical role in the success of California’s Emergency Alert System, initiated by Assembly Bill 415 in 2002 (Chapter 517, Statutes of 2002). The current network of changeable message signs operated by the department, in coordination with the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the Office of Traffic Safety, has helped keep our children and families safer by bringing public resources and private citizens together to help save lives during emergencies.
(c) Recent advances in technology have made it possible to create a more reliable network of changeable message signs that combine text with graphics in order to rapidly and clearly communicate important information to the users of California’s highways more safely and effectively than the current network of changeable message signs. This advanced technology could improve the effectiveness and reliability of the network of changeable message signs, thereby enhancing the health, safety, and welfare of the people of California.
(d) Private sponsors and advertisers could provide additional transportation funding in return for the right to place advertisements on the changeable message signs in a manner that does not detract from their system management function.
(e) All changeable message signs on state highway rights-of-way shall be placed or upgraded in accordance with department guidelines for orientation toward motorists on the traveled way and minimal impact outside of those rights-of-way, and the department shall retain the right to determine whether a location will negatively impact a residential area or community.
(f) The authority to use changeable message signs for commercial advertising shall require that the advertising and department messaging, when displayed in combination, is safe and does not create an unsafe distraction to motorists, and will require either a waiver from the Federal Highway Administration or a change in federal law.

172.2.
 For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) “Agreement” means a legally enforceable agreement regarding changeable message signs or the network of changeable message signs, including, but not limited to, a lease, highway improvement agreement, easement, encroachment permit, or operation and maintenance agreement.
(b) “Best value” means a value determined by objective criteria that may include, but is not limited to, features, experience, functions, life cycle costs, price, and other criteria deemed appropriate by the department.
(c) “Changeable message sign” means a department-owned sign that is designed to display various messages that benefit the public, such as traffic information or advertising, by mechanical or electronic means, including, but not limited to, light emitting diode (LED) and liquid crystal display (LCD) technology.
(d) “Department” means the Department of Transportation.
(e) “Existing camera” means a camera located on a changeable message sign on January 1, 2010.
(f) “Experimental project” means an agreement with a person to study, plan, design, construct, reconstruct, develop, finance, maintain, rebuild, improve, repair, lease, or operate a state-of-the art, full-color network of changeable message signs within the rights-of-way of the state highway system.
(g) “Network” means the integrated network of enhanced changeable message signs. The network shall include upgraded changeable message signs at existing sign locations, and new changeable message signs at any additional locations as determined by the department.
(h) “Person” means an individual, partnership, limited partnership, trust, estate, association, corporation, limited liability company, or other public or private entity.

172.3.
 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law, and upon approval of the Federal Highway Administration by the grant of a waiver or a change in federal law authorizing the department to do so, the department may enter into an agreement to conduct an experimental project to utilize changeable message signs within the state highway right-of-way in a manner to best effectuate the purposes of this article. The department may issue requests for proposals and develop tentative agreements before federal approval is obtained. The department may provide services for which it is reimbursed with respect to preliminary design, inspection, and oversight of the experimental project.
(b) The agreement described in subdivision (a) shall do all of the following:
(1) Provide for construction or reconstruction, operation, and maintenance of the network of changeable message signs for an initial period that shall not exceed 20 years.
(2) Provide for complete reversion of the privately constructed, improved, operated, and maintained changeable message signs to the department at the expiration of the agreement at no charge to the department and free and clear of any encumbrances.
(3) Specify that the department shall retain ownership of the changeable message signs, notwithstanding any improvement or enhancement to the changeable message signs.
(4) Provide that emergency notifications and traveler information shall have priority over advertising.
(5) Provide that the department, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, shall retain the ability to make a determination on the safety of the changeable message signs, and may take those actions deemed necessary to protect public safety.
(6) Require the person to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless, the department for any injury or damage in connection with the advertising on changeable message signs.
(c) Advertising revenue derived from the experimental project shall be allocated between the person selected and the department in accordance with the agreement as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 172.4. Advertising revenue derived from the experimental project and received by the department shall be subject to appropriation by the Legislature.
(d) The department shall have full responsibility and liability for the operation and maintenance of all existing cameras.
(e) The changeable message signs on state highway rights-of-way shall meet the design, construction, and operating requirements in the department’s standards and guidelines, including, but not limited to, controls, such as state-of-the-art sensors that control the brightness of the display based on the surrounding ambient light levels and other technologies muting adjacent glare, that focus the zone of vision toward motorists on the traveled way and to prevent neighborhood impacts in the vicinity of the changeable message signs.
(f) The department, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, shall retain the ultimate right to determine whether the location of an existing changeable message sign or proposed location for the placement of a new changeable message sign will negatively impact a residential area or community. If the department determines that the location of a changeable message sign will have a negative impact, the department may, in its discretion, either place additional requirements on its placement or not allow its placement.

172.4.
 (a) The department may enter into an agreement, as described in Section 172.3, with any person to place advertisements on changeable message signs, to receive funds for commercial advertising messages on those changeable message signs, except during times and to the extent that they are in use by the department, and to share revenues generated in connection with their use for commercial advertising in furtherance of the public interest.
(b) The network of changeable message signs shall, during the term of the experimental project, be deemed to be part of the state highway system for purposes of identification and enforcement of traffic laws, and the purposes of Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code.

172.5.
 (a) Advertising on changeable message signs shall be in the form and under those conditions as may be determined by the department and as may be set forth in guidelines and procedures to be developed and adopted by the department, and shall not interfere with any traveler-information or emergency notification message function of the network of changeable message signs. All changeable message signs subject to this article shall be exempt from Section 5408 of the Business and Professions Code and from any and all regulations promulgated in connection with Section 5408 of the Business and Professions Code.
(b) The experimental nature of the program established by this article may require frequent modifications to the guidelines and procedures. The department shall not be required to adopt regulations to effectuate each modification to the guidelines and procedures. The department shall post modifications to the guidelines and procedures on the department’s Internet Web site and distribute directly to any person requesting to be notified of those modifications at least 30 days prior to the effective date of the modifications to the guidelines and procedures.

172.6.
 The department shall not enter into an agreement with any person that would cause or permit any changeable message sign to display or advertise tobacco, firearms, or sexually explicit material. The department shall adopt policies and guidelines in connection with the content of the advertising.

172.7.
 The department may use the changeable message signs for emergency notification, traveler information, and motorist safety and awareness campaigns without providing compensation to the person with whom it enters into an agreement pursuant to this article.

172.8.
 When choosing the person with which to partner pursuant to Section 172.3 to effectuate the purposes of this article, the department shall select, pursuant to a competitive process, the person that the department determines will provide the best value. The competitive process shall require the bidders to provide a technical proposal, which shall identify the proposed improvements to the changeable message sign network with a cost and revenue proposal. The department’s selection criteria shall include the demonstrated competence, experience, and qualifications of the potential person to design, construct, operate, and maintain the changeable message sign network; the potential person’s demonstrated competence and capacity to integrate changeable message signs into an efficient network and to maintain and operate the necessary equipment to manage the network and related software systems; cost and revenue projections based on advertising revenue; and any other criteria as the department, in its sole discretion, may determine to consider. The department may retain a consultant or advisor to assist in preparing the best value criteria, selection of a person, and oversight of the program, provided that the consultant or advisor may not bid on the experimental project or work as an employee, consultant, or advisor to any person or persons seeking to bid on the experimental project.

172.9.
 (a) At least 30 days prior to executing an agreement pursuant to Section 172.3, the department shall submit the agreement to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature.
(b) No later than one year after execution of an agreement pursuant to Section 172.3, and every two years thereafter until the completion of the experimental project, the department shall submit a report to the fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature with jurisdiction over transportation matters. The report shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) The status of implementation of the agreement, including the number of signs placed and the locations of the signs placed.
(2) The amount of revenue received and the costs incurred by the department from the experimental project, including costs incurred prior to the time the department entered into an agreement.
(3) An assessment of the effect the experimental project has had on public safety, emergency notification, traveler information, and motorist safety and awareness campaigns.
(4) A list of the types of advertising placed on the signs.

172.10.
 No agreement shall be entered into pursuant to this article on or after January 1, 2014.

SEC. 10.

 Section 2103 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read:

2103.
 (a) Of the net revenues deposited to the credit of the Highway Users Tax Account that are derived from the increases in the rates of taxes that are imposed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 7360 and Section 7361.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, all of the following shall occur on a monthly basis:
(1) (A) By the 15th day of every month, the Treasurer’s office, in consultation with the Department of Finance, shall notify the Controller of the amount of debt service that will be paid on each transportation bond during that month.
(B) Within two business days following the 28th day of each month, the Controller shall transfer to the Transportation Debt Service Fund an amount equal to the amount of monthly debt service paid by the General Fund on any bonds issued pursuant to the Seismic Retrofit Bond Act of 1996 (Chapter 12.48 (commencing with Section 8879) of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code) or any other highway bonds, and three-quarters of the amount of monthly debt service paid on any bonds issued pursuant to the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 (Chapter 12.49 (commencing with Section 8879.20) of Division 1 of Title 2) for reimbursement of the General Fund for these costs. If revenues available pursuant to this subdivision in any given month are insufficient to fully reimburse the General Fund for the debt service payments made, the first revenues available pursuant to this subdivision in the following month or months shall be transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund so that all debt service payments made on these bonds from the General Fund in a given fiscal year are fully reimbursed.
(2) In the 2010–11 fiscal year, after the monthly transfer made pursuant to paragraph (1), the sum of fifty-four million one hundred sixty-seven thousand dollars ($54,167,000) sixty-three million four hundred seventy thousand dollars ($63,470,000) per month shall be held in the account for future appropriation by the Legislature.
(3) The Controller shall transfer any remaining net revenues subject to this subdivision as follows:
(A) Forty-four percent shall be transferred to the State Highway Account to fund projects in the State Transportation Improvement Program that are consistent with Section 1 of Article XIX of the California Constitution, except in the 2010–11 fiscal year, 50 percent shall be transferred for purposes of this subparagraph.
(B) Twelve percent shall be transferred to the State Highway Account to fund projects in the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, except in the 2010–11 fiscal year, no revenues shall be transferred for purposes of this subparagraph.
(C) Forty-four percent shall be apportioned by the Controller for local street and road purposes, except in the 2010–11 fiscal year, 50 percent shall be transferred for purposes of this subparagraph as follows:
(i) Fifty percent shall be apportioned by the Controller to cities, including a city and county, in the proportion that the total population of the city bears to the total population of all the cities in the state.
(ii) Fifty percent shall be apportioned by the Controller to counties, including a city and county, in accordance with the following formulas:
(I) Seventy-five percent shall be apportioned among the counties in the proportion that the number of fee-paid and exempt vehicles that are registered in the county bear to the number of fee-paid and exempt vehicles registered in the state.
(II) Twenty-five percent shall be apportioned among the counties in the proportion that the number of miles of maintained county roads in each county bear to the total number of miles of maintained county roads in the state. For the purposes of apportioning funds under this subparagraph, any roads within the boundaries of a city and county that are not state highways shall be deemed to be county roads.
(b) After the transfers or other actions pursuant to subdivision (a), at least 90 percent of the balance deposited to the credit of the Highway Users Tax Account in the Transportation Tax Fund by the 28th day of each month shall be apportioned or transferred, as applicable, by the Controller by the second working day thereafter, except for June, in which case the apportionment or transfer shall be made the same day. These apportionments or transfers shall be made as provided for in Sections 2104 to 2122, inclusive. If information is not available to make the apportionment or transfer as required, the apportionment or transfer shall be made on the basis of the information of the previous month. Amounts not apportioned or transferred shall be included in the apportionment or transfer of the subsequent month.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the funds apportioned by the Controller to cities and counties pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) are not subject to Section 7104 or 7104.2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. These funds may be expended for any street and road purpose consistent with the requirements of this chapter.

SEC. 11.

 Section 2413 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

2413.
 (a) The Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol is designated as the Statewide Vehicle Theft Investigation and Apprehension Coordinator. The commissioner may establish vehicle theft prevention, investigation, and apprehension programs. The commissioner may assist local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies by coordinating multijurisdictional vehicle theft investigations and may establish programs to improve the ability of law enforcement to combat vehicle theft.
(b) The Department of the California Highway Patrol may retain license plate data captured by a license plate reader (LPR) for no more than 72 hours, except in circumstances when the data is being used as evidence or for legitimate law enforcement purposes.
(c) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall not sell LPR data for any purpose and shall not make the data available to an agency that is not a law enforcement agency or an individual who is not a law enforcement officer. The data may only be used by a law enforcement agency for purposes of locating vehicles or persons when either are reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of a public offense.
(d) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall monitor internal use of the LPR data to prevent unauthorized use.
(e) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall, as a part of the annual automobile theft report submitted to the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 10901, report the LPR practices and usage, including the number of LPR data disclosures, a record of the agencies to which data was disclosed and for what purpose, and any changes in policy that affect privacy concerns.

SEC. 12.

 Section 2814.1 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

2814.1.
 (a) A board of supervisors of a county may, by ordinance, establish, on highways under its jurisdiction, a combined vehicle inspection and sobriety checkpoint program to check for violations of Sections 27153 and 27153.5 and to identify drivers who are in violation of Section 23140 or 23152. The program shall be conducted by the local agency or department with the primary responsibility for traffic law enforcement.
(b) A driver of a motor vehicle shall stop and submit to an inspection conducted under subdivision (a) when signs and displays are posted requiring that stop.
(c) A county that elects to conduct the combined program described under subdivision (a) may fund that program through fine proceeds deposited with the county under Section 1463.15 of the Penal Code.

SEC. 13.

 Section 2814.2 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

2814.2.
 (a) The Department of the California Highway Patrol may, and the governing body of a city, county, or city and county may adopt an ordinance or resolution to, establish, on highways under its jurisdiction, a sobriety checkpoint program to identify drivers who are in violation of Section 23140 or 23152. The program shall be conducted by the local governmental agency or department with the primary responsibility for traffic law enforcement.
(b) A driver of a motor vehicle shall stop and submit to an inspection conducted under subdivision (a) when signs and displays are posted requiring that stop.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 14602.6, Section 14607.6, or subdivision (p) of Section 22651, a peace officer or any other authorized person shall not cause the impoundment of a vehicle at a sobriety checkpoint established pursuant to this section or any other law, unless at least one of the following applies:
(1) The driver of the vehicle is suspected of driving in violation of Section 14601, 14601.2, 14601.3, 14601.5, 23140, or 23152.
(2) The vehicle is subject to impoundment pursuant to Section 14602.7.
(3) There is probable cause to believe that the vehicle was used as the means of committing a public offense, other than a violation of Section 12500 or 14604.
(4) There is probable cause to believe that the vehicle is itself evidence that tends to show that a crime has been committed or that the vehicle contains evidence, that cannot readily be removed, that tends to show that a crime has been committed, other than a violation of Section 12500 or 14604.
(5) The driver of the vehicle is not driving with a valid driver’s license and none of the following apply:
(A) The driver is able to obtain a validly licensed driver to drive the vehicle.
(B) (i) Notwithstanding Sections 12500 and 16020, the driver is able to park or remove the vehicle in a manner that does not impede traffic or threaten public safety until a validly licensed driver can retrieve the car.
(ii) The state or local governmental agency that established or conducted the checkpoint pursuant to subdivision (a) shall not be liable for any claims related to the parking or removal of the vehicle as described in subparagraph (i).
(C) A peace officer, or a similarly authorized traffic enforcement officer, is able to readily and lawfully remove the vehicle to a place that does not impede traffic or threaten public safety.
(d) This section does not authorize a combined sobriety checkpoint and vehicle inspection program.

SEC. 14.

 Section 12811 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

12811.
 (a) (1) (A) When the department determines that the applicant is lawfully entitled to a license, it shall issue to the person a driver’s license as applied for. The license shall state the class of license for which the licensee has qualified and shall contain the distinguishing number assigned to the applicant, the date of expiration, the true full name, age, and mailing address of the licensee, a brief description and engraved picture or photograph of the licensee for the purpose of identification, and space for the signature of the licensee.
(B) Each license shall also contain a space for the endorsement of a record of each suspension or revocation thereof of the license.
(C) The department shall use whatever process or processes, in the issuance of engraved or colored licenses, that prohibit, as near as possible, the ability to alter or reproduce the license, or prohibit the ability to superimpose a picture or photograph on the license without ready detection.
(2) In addition to the requirements of paragraph (1), a license issued to a person under 18 years of age shall display the words “provisional until age 18.”
(b) (1) The front of an application for an original or renewal of a driver’s license or identification card shall contain a space for an applicant to give his or her consent to be an organ and tissue donor upon death. An applicant who gives consent shall be directed to read a statement on the back of the application that shall contain the following statement:

“If you marked on the front of the application that you want to be an organ and tissue donor upon death, your consent shall serve as a legally binding document as outlined under the California Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Except in the case where the donor is under the age of 18, the donation does not require the consent of any other person. For donors under the age of 18, the legal guardian of the donor shall make the final decision regarding the donation. If you want to change your decision to consent in the future, or if you want to limit the donation to specific organs, tissues, or research, you must contact Donate Life California by mail at 1760 Creekside Oaks Drive, #220, Sacramento, CA 95833, or online at www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org, or www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org.”

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person under age 18 may register as a donor. However, the legal guardian of that person shall make the final decision regarding the donation.
(3) The department shall collect donor designation information on all applications for an original or renewal driver’s license or identification card.
(4) The department shall print the word “DONOR” or another appropriate designation on the face of a driver’s license or identification card to a person who registered as a donor on a form issued pursuant to this section.
(5) On a weekly basis, the department shall electronically transmit to Donate Life California, a nonprofit organization established and designated as the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registrar pursuant to Section 7150.90 of the Health and Safety Code, all of the following information on every applicant that has indicated his or her willingness to participate in the organ donation program:
(A) His or her true full name.
(B) His or her residence or mailing address.
(C) His or her date of birth.
(D) His or her California driver’s license number or identification card number.
(6) (A) A person who applies for an original or renewal driver’s license or identification card may designate a voluntary contribution of two dollars ($2) for the purpose of promoting and supporting organ and tissue donation. This contribution shall be collected by the department, and treated as a voluntary contribution to Donate Life California and not as a fee for the issuance of a driver’s license or identification card.
(B) The department may use the donations collected pursuant to this paragraph to cover its actual administrative costs incurred pursuant to paragraphs (3) to (5), inclusive. The department shall deposit all revenue derived pursuant to this paragraph and remaining after the department’s deduction for administrative costs in the Donate Life California Trust Subaccount, that is hereby created in the Motor Vehicle Account in the State Transportation Fund. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all revenue in this subaccount is continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the Controller for allocation to Donate Life California and shall be expended for the purpose of increasing participation in organ donation programs.
(7) The enrollment form shall be posted on the Internet Web sites for the department and the California Health and Human Services Agency.
(8) The enrollment shall constitute a legal document pursuant to the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 7150) of Part 1 of Division 7 of the Health and Safety Code) and shall remain binding after the donor’s death despite any express desires of next of kin opposed to the donation. Except as provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b), the donation does not require the consent of any other person.
(9) Donate Life California shall ensure that all additions and deletions to the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry, established pursuant to Section 7150.90 of the Health and Safety Code, shall occur within 30 days of receipt.
(10) Information obtained by Donate Life California for the purposes of this subdivision shall be used for these purposes only and shall not be disseminated further by Donate Life California.
(c) A public entity or employee shall not be liable for loss, detriment, or injury resulting directly or indirectly from false or inaccurate information contained in the form provided pursuant to subdivision (b).
(d) (1) The front of an application for an original or renewal of a driver’s license or identification card shall contain a space for an applicant to indicate whether he or she has served in the Armed Forces of the United States and to give his or her consent to be contacted regarding eligibility to receive state or federal veteran benefits.
(2) The department shall collect the information obtained pursuant to paragraph (1).
(3) Periodically, as mutually agreed between the department and the Department of Veterans Affairs, the department shall electronically transmit to the Department of Veterans Affairs the following information on each applicant who has identified that he or she has served in the Armed Forces of the United States since the last data transfer and has consented to be contacted about veteran benefits:
(A) His or her true full name.
(B) His or her residence or mailing address.
(4) Information obtained by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the purposes of this subdivision shall be used for the purpose of assisting individuals to access veteran benefits and shall not be disseminated except as needed for this purpose.

(d)

(e) A contract shall not be awarded to a nongovernmental entity for the processing of driver’s licenses, unless the contract conforms to all applicable state contracting laws and all applicable procedures set forth in the State Contracting Manual.

(e)This section shall become operative on July 1, 2006.

SEC. 15.

 It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 12 and 13 of this act provide clarification to state and local governmental agencies and law enforcement regarding sobriety checkpoints in order to better address the continuing problem of individuals driving-under-the-influence. Because sobriety checkpoints have proven to be an effective deterrent to driving-under-the-influence, this act is intended to assist state and local governmental agencies in establishing sobriety checkpoints with the goal of deterring driving-under-the-influence. When adopting an ordinance or resolution authorizing sobriety checkpoints, it is crucial that local jurisdictions consider the appropriate time and place for the greatest impact of deterring driving under the influence.

SEC. 16.

 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 make conforming changes necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2010, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2010.