Hybrid HOV extension on California Governor’s desk

Hybrid HOV extension on Governor’s desk

The Orange County Prius Club and it’s President, Cathy Margolin, urges every Prius owner to email Governor Schwarzenegger to sign the Assembly Bill 2600 authored by Assembly Member Ted Lieu (D,53rd district, Torrance). It will extend the HOV use for Hybrid models which achieve 45 MPG or better, until January 1, 2011 and will raise the limit on the number of stickers from 75,000 to 85,000.

This bill will continue what the original bill achieved, by encouraging the sales of ultra low pollution, high-miles-per-gallon vehicles that reduce our imported oil dependency and help reduce California's automobile caused pollution index.

Governor’s Email:
http://www.govmail.ca.gov/


Below is the current text of AB 2600:
AB 2600 by Assembly Member Ted Lieu (D,53rd district, Torrance)

Existing law provides for the Department of Transportation to
designate certain lanes for the exclusive use of high-occupancy
vehicles (HOVs), which lanes may also be used by certain low-emission
and hybrid vehicles not carrying the requisite number of passengers
otherwise required for use of an HOV lane if the vehicles display a
valid identifier issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles until
January 1, 2008. Existing law requires the department to make
available for issuance, no more than 75,000 distinctive decals,
labels, and other identifiers for certain hybrid or alternative fuel
vehicles meeting specified mileage and emission standards. Existing
law authorizes, but does not require, the Bay Area Toll Authority to
grant toll-free or reduced-rate passage on the state-owned Bay Area
toll bridges to any vehicle. Existing law requires that if such
authority is exercised the same toll-free or reduced rate passage be
extended to certain low-emission vehicles and hybrid vehicles
displaying the identifier issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles,
until January 1, 2008, subject to various conditions.
This bill would extend these provisions until January 1, 2011, or
until the Director of Transportation determines that federal law does
not authorize the state to allow these low-emission and hybrid
vehicles to so operate in HOV lanes, whichever occurs first.

This bill would increase the number of described distinctive
decals, labels, and other identifiers that are required to be issued
by the department to no more than 85,000, rather than no more than
75,000.

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Thanks everyone to sending a message to the Gov. - You never know what will happen- with it being an election year....

 

Can you please send an email to the Govenor? Thanks.