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FROM: Phil Batchelor Contra
County Administrator Costa
DATE: February 17 , 1987 County
SUBJECT:
Legislation: Senate Bill 330 (Robbins)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(_S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position of support for SB 330 by Senator Robbins which
would extend to any county the authority San Diego and Alameda
counties now have to impose an administrative fee for the cost of
recording and maintaining a record of the defendant' s prior
convictions for violations of the Vehicle Code, and for notifying
the Department of Motor Vehicles that a defendant' s driver' s
license or automobile registration is attached, or restricted.
SB 330 would also authorize any county to establish a fee in both
municipal and superior court for the cost of processing accounts
receivable for fines owed in criminal cases.
BACKGROUND:
Under current law, only Alameda and San Diego counties have this
authority to impose the administrative assessment for DMV
notification and to impose a fee for accounts receivable. Last
year, Senator Petris carried SB 1740 which provided this.
authorization for Alameda County. We had initially asked that
Contra Costa County be added to SB 1740 . So many counties asked
to be added to SB 1740 that Senator Petris amended the bill to
include any county. The bill later had to be amended back to
only Alameda County. It had been Senator Petris' intent to leave
Contra Costa County in the bill. Through an error, our County
was left out so that the final bill added only Alameda County.
This year we have asked Senator Robbins to carry legislation
similar to last year' s SB 1740 and again expand it to include all
counties. The result is SB 330. The administrative fee for DMV
records and notification could not exceed $10, and the fee for
processing accounts receivable in municipal and superior courts
for criminal fines could not exceed $30. It is estimated that
passage of SB 330 would generate additional revenue in the County
of $300, 000 per year.
Passage of this legislation is a part of the Board' s 1987
Legislative Program. We are, therefore, recommending that the
Board support SB 330.
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CC: County Administrator ATTESTED _ FEB 2 4 1967
Clerk-Administrators, Muni Courts
Superior Court Administrator PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Director, Office of Revenue Collections SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Senator Alan Robbins
Jackson/Barish & Associates BY .�.r7�'� Y,/.1�- DEPUTY
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