Vehicles: California Housing Crisis Awareness specialized license plate.

Under existing law, a state agency is authorized to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and the DMV is required to issue those license plates if the agency meets certain requirements. Existing law also requires the DMV to charge specified fees for certain services related to the issuance of those plates. This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to apply to the DMV to sponsor the "California Housing Crisis Awareness" specialized license plate program, and would authorize the DMV to establish the program under the existing provisions described above. The bill would establish the California Housing Crisis Awareness Specialized License Plate Account within the Specialized License Plate Fund. The bill would require specified fees be imposed on the issuance, renewal, or transfer of the specialized license plate, and would further require the DMV, after deducting ongoing administrative costs, to transfer any additional revenue from the California Housing Crisis Awareness Specialized License Plate Account to the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for certain housing-related projects and programs.