Martin Garrick
- Republican
Author
Existing law prohibits any person, except as specified, from driving any motor vehicle with any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied in or upon the vehicle that obstructs or reduces the driver's clear view through the windshield or side windows. Existing law exempts from this prohibition specified devices, including, among other things, a video event recorder, as defined, if the device conforms to certain mounting requirements, including that when a person is driving for hire as an employee in a vehicle with a video event recorder, the person's employer is required to provide unedited copies of the recordings upon the request of the employee or the employee's representative. Existing law requires the copies to be provided within 5 days of the request. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. Existing federal regulations adopted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration prohibit, among other things, the mounting of devices on top of the windshield. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is authorized, pursuant to federal law, to provide exemptions from these regulations and to renew that exemption for a temporary 2-year period. This bill would exempt from the prohibition against placing an object that obstructs or reduces the driver's clear view, as specified above, a video event recorder, as described, mounted in a commercial motor vehicle that meets specified requirements. The bill would provide that this exemption would become inoperative on the date that the Department of the California Highway Patrol determines is the expiration date of the temporary exemption granted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from that federal regulation or the date of the expiration of any subsequent exemption, as specified. The bill would provide that, notwithstanding this nonoperation, on the date when the Department of the California Highway Patrol determines is the effective date of federal regulations that allow the placement of video event recorders at the top of the windshield on commercial motor vehicles, the exemption provided by the bill would remain operative, or, if the federal temporary exemption lapsed, would become operative.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 375, Statutes of 2012.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6055.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4481.).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26).
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4986.)
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 16).
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 16).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.
Read first time.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
Introduced. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB2477 | HTML |
| 02/24/12 - Introduced | |
| 04/09/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/23/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/28/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/23/12 - Enrolled | |
| 09/19/12 - Chaptered |
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