Transportation: omnibus bill.

(1) Existing law establishes the California Transportation Financing Authority, which consists of 7 members, with all powers reasonably necessary to carry out the powers and responsibilities expressly granted or imposed under the California Transportation Financing Authority Act. The act requires that 4 members of the authority constitute a quorum and that the affirmative vote of a quorum of the members present at a duly constituted meeting of the authority is necessary for any action taken by the authority. This bill would instead require that an affirmative vote of a majority of the members present at a duly constituted meeting of the authority is necessary for any action to be taken by the authority. (2) Existing law authorizes specified persons to apply for a set of commemorative Olympic reflectorized license plates and the Department of Motor Vehicles is required to issue those special license plates in lieu of regular license plates. Existing law requires that the commemorative Olympic reflectorized license plates be of a distinctive design and available in a special series of letters or numbers, or both, as determined by the department after consultation with the United States Olympic Committee. Existing law authorizes specified persons to apply for a set of commemorative collegiate reflectorized license plates, and the department is required to issue those special license plates in lieu of the regular license plates. Existing law requires that the collegiate reflectorized license plates be of a distinctive design, and available in a special series of letters or numbers, or both, as determined by the department. This bill would authorize the department to also issue those commemorative reflectorized license plates as environmental license plates in a combination of numbers or letters, or both, as requested by the owner or lessee of the vehicle. (3) Existing law allows any registrant issued apportioned fleet registration, 20 days to file a written request for a hearing following a determination by the Department of Motor Vehicles that fees are due, including penalties and service fees, for the operation of a fleet of apportionately registered vehicles and requires that a lien be placed upon all vehicles operated as part of the fleet and on any other fleet vehicles operated by the registrant. This bill would extend the time to file a written request for a hearing to 30 days in order to conform to federal law. (4) This bill would also delete obsolete provisions, correct an erroneous cross-reference, and make other technical, nonsubstantive changes to related transportation provisions. (5) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 1808.1 of the Vehicle Code proposed by AB 1648 to be operative only if AB 1648 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would also incorporate additional changes in Section 5007 of the Vehicle Code proposed by AB 1944 to be operative only if AB 1944 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is chaptered last.