AB 2838: A cleaner coast: pollution fee with opt-in

As with AB 2444, AB 2838 (Pavley) would have authorized any of twelve coastal and Bay Area counties to impose a fee up to $6 per vehicle to reduce the environmental impacts of motor vehicles and roads. Unlike AB 2444, AB 2838 required only a majority vote of county supervisors to approve the fee, but allowed fees to be collected only after five counties opted in. In his veto message for AB 2838 as well as AB 2444, Governor Schwarzenegger insisted on a direct vote of all voters in a county instead of a vote by elected supervisors.