Vehicles: traffic violator schools.

(1) Existing law requires the department to charge traffic violator school owners, operators, and instructors fees for certain activities related to traffic violator school programs, including the issuance of a branch or classroom location license. These fees are required to be set to defray the actual cost to the department to administer the traffic violator school program, except for the costs for routine monitoring of instruction. This bill, until January 1, 2015, would revise the activities for which the department is authorized to impose certain of these fees and would authorize the department to charge fees instead for an approval for a branch office or a classroom location or the renewal of an approved branch office or current classroom location. The bill would require all of these fees to be equal to the fees charged for the 2011–12 fiscal year, except the fee for the renewal of an approved current classroom location would be required to be set at $50 per year per location. The bill would, as of January 1, 2015, delete those proposed revisions and would reestablish the fee requirements imposed under existing law. (2) Existing law requires the court to collect a single administrative fee that is assessed against a driver traffic violator who attends traffic violator school, and requires the fee to include the cost of routine monitoring of traffic violator school instruction. This bill, until January 1, 2015, would instead require the amount of the administrative fee assessed and collected by the court to be set by the department at an amount sufficient to defray the actual costs to the department to administer the provisions regulating the traffic school violator program, except for the costs defrayed by the fees authorized for specific department activities described in (1) above. The bill would, as of January 1, 2015, delete that proposed change and would reestablish the fee amount required under existing law.