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SENATE BILL 833 (KOPP-1995)

CHAPTER 922, STATUTES OF 1995

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As enacted Senate Bill 833 amended Vehicle Code sections 14602.6, 14604, and 40000.11, amended, repealed, and added Vehicle Code sections 210, 22451, and 40518, and added and repealed Vehicle Code section 21455.5.  (See Exhibit #1j)  Senator Quentin L. Kopp introduced the measure on February 23, 1995 at the request of: 1) the City of Santa Rosa Chief of Police with regards to the red light enforcement provisions; 2) Senator Kopp with regards to vehicle impound provisions; and 3) the Judicial Council with regards to the Supreme Court license plates provisions.  (See Exhibits #1a and #7, document AP-5)

Senate Bill 833 was assigned to the Senate Committee on Transportation and the Assembly Committee on Transportation where policy issues raised by the bill were considered.  (See Exhibits #3 and #6)  After approval by those Committees, the measure was heard in the Senate and Assembly Committees on Appropriation which examined its fiscal ramifications.  (See Exhibits #2 and #8)  Senate Bill 833 was amended eight times, four in each House.  (See Exhibits #1b through #1i and #2)  Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor Pete Wilson signed Senate Bill 833 on October 14, 1995, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State as Chapter 922 of the Statutes of 1995.  (See Exhibits #1j and #2)  

An Unfinished Business analysis of Senate Bill 833 as last amended prepared by the Office of Senate Floor Analyses described the measure as follows:

This bill (1) authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles, for three years, to withhold the registration of a vehicle owned by a person cited for running a red light when a camera was used to record the violation and the subsequent citation was ignored, and (2) clarify conditions and procedures for the release of a vehicle impounded because the driver’s license was suspended or revoked.
(See Exhibit #12a, pages 2 and 3)