Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

N N ci> :> <( ~ W A.... u.s. guile as to cycle legislatifll Z CALIFORNIA w -' U >U New BillS Introduced HCR-92 (Deddeh) ReQuests the Department .of Motor Vehicles to conduct a study relating to the desirabilIty of making completion of a course in defensive driving a reQuirement for obtaining a California driver's license, and to report thereon to the legislature by January 4, 1972 - PASSED HOUSE REFERRED TO RULES (SENATE). HCR-101 - (Chappie) MOTORCYCLES To conduct a study of specified road surfaces with respect to their effect on the" operation of motorcycles REPORTED FAVORABLY, RECOMMENDED TO WAYS & MEANS. - H·391 - (Foran) Requ"ires the State Air Resources Board to adopt for the South Coast Air Basin a passenger vehicle emission test procedure and standards, taking Into consideration specified factors regarding maximum allowable emission of pollutants from passenger vehicles HEARING COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED. H-392 - (Z'berg) Relating to financing of a program of acquiring and developing state and municipal beach, park, recreational, and historical facilities by providing the funds necessary therefor through the issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California, and by providing for the handling and diSPOSition of such fundS, and providing for the SUbmission of the measure to a vote of the people at a special election to be consolidated with the 1974 direct primary election, and making an appropriation therefor REPORTED WITH AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED TO FINANCE. H406 - (Deddeh & Foran) States that it Is the Intent of the LegiSlature, In enacting this Act, to provide for a substantial demonstration program in the South Coast Air Basin of California, as defined by the State AIr Resources Board, for an annual Inspection of motor veh Icles and declares that an effective system of periodic inspection, maintenance, and consumer education will reduce the level of vehicular air pollution, Improve the safety characteristics of motor vehicles, reduce vehicular noise emission levelS, and provide motorists with objective motor vehicle maintenance information HEARING REPORTED WITH AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED' TO WAYS & MEANS. H·579 (Biddle) Deletes provision re action the State Resources Board may take and the procedure to be followed to such action, if it finds, after investigation and testing, that Its ambient air Quality standards are not being complied with within an air basin or that a local or regional authority has not taken reasonable action to control emission!'> from non·vehicular sources PASSED HOUSE REFERRED TO GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION (SENATE) - REPORTED FAVORABLY RECOMMENDED TO FINANCE (SENATE). H-638 - (Dunlap) Prohibits any person, except law enforcement personnel when on duty, operating any motor vehicle from wearing any earphone or apparatus Which, in both ears, simultaneously interferes with, or prevents or restricts, the hearing of sounds emanating from sources other than the earphone or apparatus so as to constitute an immediate hazard - KILLED. H·70a - (Dunlap) Requires Department of Parks and Recreation to establish, maintain, and operate, as specified, overnight accommodations for non·motorlzed travelers, as defined, within all existing and future units of state park system that provide overnight campipg facilities. Authorizes departJ'llent to acquire lands and facilities for the establishment of additional non·motorized HAWAII d AddT I I f tl A c '· Ion an ,I 19na norma on H-14 - The Hawaii Revised Statutes is amended by adding a new chapter to be appropriately numbered and to read as follows: "Chapter - Motor Vehicle Pollution Control" _ FAILED TO PASS. H-1545 (Kigano) MOTORCYCLE Provides for the licensing and plates of , I FAILED TO PASS mo orcyc es - . H-1789 (Lee) NOISE CONTROL Prohibits the operation of a motor vehicle when it exceeds a noise level of 85 decibels measured at a distance of twenty feet or greater from any point along the outer perimeter of the vehicle and when the sound level immediately before or after the measurement is seven decibels or more lower t · I ' th an th e ve h ICU ar nOise measuremen FAILED TO PASS. H-2153 (Klhano) MOTORCYCLE TRAILS - Authorizes the establishment of motorcycle ··'traii-riding" facilities on state land - FAILED TO PASS. HR·211 (Kimano) PARK TRAIL PLANNING - Requests the establishment of recreational facilities for off-road motorcycles - F;AILED TO PASS. H.1670 - Relating to the condemnation of Ian d 1or open space purposes - VETOED . HR-343 (Kawakami) OPEN SPACE PLAN Requests the formulation of an · d ' t I . I tt ac t Ion program an appropr'la e egis a Ion a well as counties and cities, to acquire various interests in open-space areas and Includes condemnatIon as one of the methods of acwtlirlng such Interests. Defines various open·space functions. Restricts disposal of lands preserved as open space. Makes related changes RECOMMENDED TO WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED. H·2364 (Foran) Deletes provision granting "limited production vehicles" exe"mption from the Pure Air Act of 1968 HEARING - REPORTED FAVORABLY. H·966 - (Dunlap) Extends from June 30, 1972 to June 30, 1973, date by which cities and counties must adopt, prepare, and submit open-S'Pace plans to secretary of Resources Agency. Requires by August 31, 1972, adoption and submission to secretary of interim open-space plan effective June 30, 1973, and prescribes contents. Requires adoption of ordinances consistent with such plans by June 30, 1973, rather than January 1, 1973 - PASSED HOUSE - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SENATE) HEARING REPORTED WITH ADMENDMENT. S-256 - (Petrls) Revises provisions which provide for the selection or appointment of regional park district officers and specifies their powers and duties - HEARING. - S-289 (PetriS) --,=-0 - create the State Planning and Development Commission and to provide for Its powers and duties RECOMMENDED TO RULES. S·328 - (Nejedly) Prohibits any county, city, or pUblic district from selling watershed protection lands except pursuant to ordina"nce subject to referendum. Exempts specified sales or transfers of land from such requirement. Authorizes adoption of such ordinance by public entities without statutory power to enact ordinances. S-382 (Petris) Requires, beginning January I, 1973, and quarterly thereafter, any person manufacturing new motor vehicles for sale in this state to file with the State Air Resources Board a report as to such person's efforts and progress in meeting federal standards re emissions of carbon monoxide a nd hydrocarbons COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED REPORTED FAVORABLY. S437 - (RichardSon) Requires, except as to motor vehicles designed, licensed, and being used for commercial purposes, that rules and regulations of local authorities regulating motor vehicles apply with equal force and effect to all properly licensed PASSED SENATE - HEARING (HOUSE) COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED. S-487 - (COOmbS) Requires vehicle dealers, with certain exceptions, upon transferrIng by sale, lease or otherwise, any vehicle of a type subject to registration under the Vehicle COde, to give written notice of such transfer to the Department of Motor Vehicles not later than the end of the fifth calendar day thereafter, not counting the day of mailing, rather than not later than the end of the third business day thereafter _ PASSED SENATE I 5·302 - (Brown) POLLUTION - Proposed constitutional amendment relating to the right of the people to clean air, pure water and freedom from excessive noise - FAILED TO PASS. S-868 - (Brown) NOISE POLLUTION Relating to the problems of noise pollution _ FAILED TO PASS. S-879 (Hulten) MOTORCYCLES Relating to motorcycle license plates _ FAILED TO PASS. S.1377 (Yoshlnaga) Establishes standards, consistent with the latest recommendations of the Uniform Vehicle Code, for brakes on vehicles that arc operated on the streets and highways of the State _ FAILEDTOPASS. REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION (HOUSE). S-864 - (Carpenter) ReQuires that exhaust emissions from a new motor vehicle reQuired to meet specified emission standards to be posted on a decal affixed to the vehicle, be determined from factory assembly !Ine or predellvery tests, rather than only from such tests adopted by the State Air Resources Board after consideration of specified recommendations to an Assembly Committee In 1968 - REPORTED WITH AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED TO FINANCE HEARING _ COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED REPORTED FAVORABLY. S--888 _ (Cusanovich) Increases from 60 to 120 days the maximum dura1ion of temporary permit issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles to permit an applicant for an instructor's or driving school license to operate a driving school or give instructions while the department investigates the qualifications of such applIcant _ PASSED SEN ATE R E PO R TED WIT H S·1906 - (McClung) NOISE CONTROL Provides for a network of noise control standard with capabIlities to develop a forcefUl noise control program - FAILED TO PASS. 5-2075 - (Altiery) No person shall operate a motorcycle or motor scooter on any highway in the State unless he and any passenger he carries on the motorcycle or motor scooter wears a safety helmet securely fastened with a chin strap, safety 9lasses, AMENDMENT (HOUSE). S-938 - (WalSh) Provides that the lowest prima facie speed limit which the Department ot Public Works may establish whenever it goggles, or a face shield, in the case of motorcycle or motor scooter that Is not eQuipped with windscreens or windShields, implement the Hawaii Open Space Plan and any other protective devices required by FAILED TO PASS. rules and regulations adopted by the state HCR45 (Kawakami) OPEN SPACE highway safety coordinator - FAILED TO PLAN Requests the formulation of an PASS. action program and appropriate legislatio(l to New Laws Enacted implement the Hawaii Open Space Plan S-1719 It shall be unlawful for any FAILED TO PASS person. to possess a motor vehicle, a motor block, or any part thereof, knowin9 that the HCR - '6 - (W·) OPEN SPACE PLAN ong providtes I,Ot~ the Im'hPlementa,tion of a certain ~~~~~actu~~~sb~~mbes:,rlpa:acedn~~b:~e ~yr tl y open repor re a 109 t 0 e usc 0 presen land - FAILED TO PASS. the manufacturer for the purpose of S-15 (Hara) NOISE CONTROL identification, has been changed, altered, Regulates the maximum amount of vehicular erased, mutilated, for the purpose of changing the ,'dentlty 01 the motor veh,'cle motor noise wh,'ch any motor vehicle may cause and , ~ 'j , Dlt~cl~vt~d~e~.~.';l"~~.J~'>~"Y:.;.J;:_~ A~~~I"'I.~~~ln~~~:t!~Q.~·D="'~ _F .,,~~.!;;:c:;:_=..:.:'::.:.~Wf:!!i0J:~~~r _~b~tQ~c!='t~Jg:!!!t='~n~y~'p~a:~~~~r.~n,,'=:' :-::::'__L·" _1GC.ae.t _ It' WlL"'A:: - • '-11&: .----, RECOMMENDED TO WAYS & MEANS. H-2019 - (Hayden) Requires county air pollution control officers to observe and enforce specified provisions, rather than all provisions, in the Vehicle Code relating to the emission or control of air contaminants PASSED HOUSE COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED - HEARING (SENATE). H-2136 (Dunlap) Establishes High Priority Open Space Action Program. ReQuires appropriate state agencies to undertake studies, with respect to specified areas, to define specific acquisition projects to be included in the program - REPORTED WITH AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED TO WAYS & MEANS REPORTED FAVORABLY. H-2140 - (Dunlap) Authorizes the state. as traveler accommodations - PASSED HOUSE - REFERRED TO NATURAL RESOURCES (SENATE) - COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED HEARING. H·1224 - (Beverly) Specifically authorizes any regularlY employed and salaried police officer or deputy Sheriff, to Inspect any vehicle of a type reQuired to be registered under the Vehicle Code, which is not being operated on a highway and is in any public garage, repair ShOP, parking lot, used car lot, automobile dismantler's lot, or similar establishment, investigating the title and registration of vehicles, or inspection of vehicles wrecked or dismantled COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED. H-1272 (Fenton) ReQuires every applicant for an original driver's license, with specified exception, to submit proof to the Department of Motor VehiCles, in a manner to be determined by the department, of satisfactory completion of a three-hour course in automobile driver education if such applicant is at the time of application, and has been continuously for at least one year immediately prior to making such application, licensed in another state, or, If the applicant is not so licensed, of a 10-hour course in automobile driver education, given by specified schools or Instructors REPORTED WITH AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED TO WAYS & MEANS. H·1308 (Bee) Prohibits any person, rather than any dealer, from selling a new or used motor vehicle subject to the Pure Air Act of 1968 which is not in compliance with such act, with specified exceptions PASSED HOUSE - PASSED SENATE. H-1374 (Hayden) Makes It a misdemeanor for any person to install, sell, offer for sale, or advertise, or, except in an application to the State Air Resources Board for certification or accreditation of a device, to represent any device as a motor vehicle pollution control device unless that device has been certified· or accredited by the board PASSED HOUSE REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION (SENATE) COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED HEARING. H·1583 - (Biddle) ReQuires the Dept. of Consumer Affairs in conjunction with the Highway Patrol and the Air Resources Board to accept bids for the purpose of awarding a contract for a pilot study to develop methods of training and retraining mechanics to properly perform work for safe and low-emission automobiles. Specifies matters to be included in the studY - HEARING COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED. H-1659 - (Lewis) ReQuires, on and after Jan. I, 1974, all pre·1970 model year motor vehicles and motor trucks to be eQuipped with at least one fuel system, approved by the State Air Resources Board, which permits such passenger vehicle or motor truck to be powered by propa_e, butance, or natural gas. H-1813 (Biddle) Requires any fleet vehiCle, as defined, except a motor vehicle leased from any person whose principal business is leaSing motor vehicles or a motorCycle, registered within the South Coast Air Basin for any calendar year December 31, 1973, to be equipped with a dual fuel system, a gaseous fuel system,or a catalytic converter, as defined. H-1973 (Priolo) Creates the Park and Recreation ReVOlving Account in the General Fund. Requires all federal grants which result from the expenditure of state funds appropriated to the Dept. of ParkS and Recreation to be deposited in the account REPORTED WITH AMENDMENT determines that the limit of 65 miles per hour is more than reasonable or safe upon any portion of a state highway having four or more traffic lanes where the limit of 65 miles is applicable, is 35, rather than 25 miles per hour COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED HEARING. S-1327 (Lagomarsino) Requires an application to lease public lands to be approved Qr rejected by the State Lands Commission either within 180 days after receipt thereof or within 90 days after completion of the commiSSion's environmental impact report, whichever shall occu r la'er, rath er than reQ u Ir i n g approval or .... rejectiCUll withtf'to.l"8&o1i8'Y'S ....1terrecetP1-ot-tt'l. 'i..J application. Provides that in no event shall a application be held more than 270 days afte receipt without approval or rejectio"n by th commiS5lon PASSED SENATE REF.ERRED TO PLANNING (HOUSE) REPORTED FAVORABLY. S·1464 - (COOmbS) Changes date by whlc the State Lands Commission is required t submit a report to the LegiSlature identifyln state lands determined to possess uniqu environmental values from January I, 1973 t January I, 1975. Changes date by which th Commission is required to submit a report t the LegiSlature identifying granted land having unique environmental values 0 statey/ide interest from January I, 1973 t January I, 1974 REPORTE FAVORABLY RECOMMENDED TO FINANCE - COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED. 5-1495 - (Bradley) Excludes bicycles with a motor attached from definition of motor-driven cycle for purposes of provision specIfying headlamp requirements. Provides that such bicycles are subject to the lighting reQuirements applicable to bicycles REFERRED TO TRANSPORATION HEARING. S-329 - (Nejedly) Prohibits, with specified exceptions, any person from driving a motor vehicle with any object or material displayed, installed, affixed or applied, 1M addition to placed, upon the windshield, or side or rear windows, or with any object or material so displayed, installed, affixed or applied, In addition to so placed, in or upon the vehicle which obstructs or reduces the driver's clear view through the windshield or side windows - PASSED SENATE. S-661 - (Beilenson) States that it is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this Act to establish a pilot program in the South Coast Air Basin, as defined by the State Air Resources Board, for the periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles to reduce vehicular air pollution as rapidlY as possible. This act exempts motorCYCles COM MIT TEE D'I S C H A R G ED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED. S--657 - (Beilenson) Requires every fleet vehicle, as defined and with specified exception, operating within the South Coast Air Basin, as defined by the state Air Resources Board, to be equipped with a specified fuel system or other device, in accordance with a schedule prescribed by the Board. Requires that ail such vehicles comply not later than December 31, 1974. This act exempts motorcycles COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED. S.-659 - .(Bellenson) Requires every motor vehicle having a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight of under 6,001 poundS, with specified exception, operating within the South Ward Ajr Basin, as defined by the State Air Resources Board, to have its vacuum spark advance disconnected or be eQuipped with a vacuum spark advance disconnect device approved by the Board, and to have any necessary engine adjustments made, which the Board specifies are reQuired, In accordance with a schedule prescribed by the Board. Requires that ali such vehicles comply no later than December 31, 1974. This act exempts motorcycles COMMITTEE DISCHARGED, AMENDMENT RECOMMENDED. S-1338 - (Beilenson) Prohibits any person from operating motorcycle·within any area on public or private property where signs forbidding the operation of motorcycles are displayed at specific Intervals and places on such area - HEARING. Action and Additional Information H-428 - (Wood) MOTORCYCLES - To revise the definition of "motor-driven cycle" to mean any motorcycle, including every motor scooter, with an engine piston displacement of less than ~ 70 cubic centimeters PASSED HOUSE REFERRED TO TRANSPORATION (SENATE) - HEARING. H-643 - (Chappie) MOTORCYCLES - To require application for registration of motorcycles to be accompanied by a tracing, tape lift or photograph of the motor and frame numbers REFER RED TO TRANSPORATION (SENATE) - HEARING REPORTED FAVORABLY RECOMMENDED TO FINANCE (SENATE). H..s86 - (Biddle) Requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol. to establish and maintain Inspection stations to inspect motor vehicles having a manufacturers' gross vehicle weight rating of under 6,001 pounds to determine whether such a vehicle required to be eQuipped with certified or accredited motor vehicle control devices is so equipped and whether such devices are correctly installed and In operation condition, and, if such vehicles are not required to be so equipped, whether the vehicle emits excessive smoke when operated - HEARING. H-1533 (Lanterm"an) MUFFLERS ReQuires all trucks and motorcycles to be equipped with mufflers after January I, 1974 - HEARING. H-20S7 - (Chappie) TURN SIGNALS To require all motor vehicles, other than motorcycles, to be equipped with specified turn signals - HEARING. HRJ-22 (Deddeh) NOISE To'· memorialize Congress to amend H.R. 11021 to permit California to adopt more stringent noise standards. NOTE: M.I.C. supported HR 1102"1 and does not agree to permit any state from establiShing noise standards more stringent than those of the Federal government. PASSED HOUSE - REFERRED TO RULES (SENATE) - HEARING. H-2135 - (Dunlap) CONSERVATION To reQuire the formulation of an open space and resources conservation plan REPORTED WITH AMENDMENT REPORTED FAVORABLY. ~0&4------~M+ lOt 1J:j1..11, /II6OfI9Inizes a

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