Check this out...To the Faithful This bulletin is about SB 1077 Mileage Based Fee Pilot Program. When I first saw this bill, I said to myself it will never fly; WRONG. It is now in the CA Senate Transportation Committee, has been amended and is coming up for a vote on Tuesday, April 29. Below is the Legislative Council Digest with the amended verbiage. Please read it carefully. legislative counsel’s digest SB 1077, as amended, DeSaulnier-D. Vehicles: vehicle-miles-traveled charges. mileage-based fee pilot program. Existing law establishes the Department of Motor Vehicles and provides for its general powers and duties, including, among other things, the registration of vehicles, the licensing of drivers, and the regulation of vehicles generally. Transportation Agency, which consists of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the California Transportation Commission, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Transportation, the High-Speed Rail Authority, and the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. This bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles agency to develop and implement, develop, by July 1, 2015, January 1, 2016, a pilot program designed to assess specified issues related to implementing a vehicle-miles-traveled mileage-based fee (MBF) in California to replace the state’s existing fuel excise tax. The bill would require the agency, at a minimum, to assess certain issues related to implementing an MBF, including, among others, different methods for calculating mileage and collecting road use information, processes for managing, storing, transmitting, and destroying data to protect the integrity of the data and ensure drivers’ privacy, and costs associated with the implementation and operation of the MBF system, as specified. The bill would also require the department to prepare and submit a specified report of its findings to the policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature no later than June 30, 2016 2017. The bill would require the report to include, among other things, recommendations on how best to implement an MBF, as specified, and recommendations regarding public and private agency access to MBF data that ensures privacy rights as protected by the California Constitution. The bill would provide that repeal these provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2018. There has been a lot rhetoric on this bill about high mileage cars, improved mileage vehicles, hybrids, alternative-fueled vehicles and electrics, however I see this as a means to increase tax revenues and implement the ARBs Sustained Communities. Please keep in mind this is CAs version on U.N. Agenda 21 and the State debt is now $419,465,023,500. Part of the Agenda 21 thrust is to end urban sprawl, move people into high rise condos in the city and use public transportation. I urge all to send letters of opposition to the Senate Transportation Committee before April 29. Simply say you oppose this bill because the citizens of CA do not need more taxes, we are now taxed and feed too much now. Clubs should use their letterheads and include the number of members. I would prefer not to supply a sample letter because sometimes they lump them in as a form letter. I suggest FAX and remember, Silence is Our Enemy Senator Mark DeSaulnier, Chairman Senate Transportation Committee State Capitol, Room 5035 State Capitol, Room 2209 Sacramento, CA 95814 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 651-4007 Phone: (916) 651-4121 Fax: (916) 651-4907 Fax: (916) 445-2209
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 02:39:20 +0000