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This information reflects a review of legislation proposed as of 2010-01-30. Note that some are non-highway, if I find them of interest. Last items examined:

• Assembly: Index AB 1696, ABX1 14, ABX2 1, ABX3 77, ABX4 36, ABX5 2, ABX6 3, ABX7 14, ABX8 33, ACA 31, ACAX3 2, ACAX4 2, ACAX8 1, ACR 113, ACRX1 1, ACRX3 1, ACRX5 1, ACRX7 1, AJR 29, AJRX4 1, HR 21.
• Senate: Index SB 915, SBX1 14, SBX2 16, SBX3 58, SBX4 32, SBX5 2, SBX6 2, SBX7 9, SBX8 20, SCA 25, SCAX1 2, SCAX2 2, SCAX3 2, SCR 65, SCRX1 2, SCRX2 2, SCRX3 1, SCRX4 2, SCRX5 1, SCRX6 1, SCRX7 1, SCRX8 1, SJR 21, SR 33

Bills of interest under active consideration by the California State Assembly

• AB 87 (Davis) Single-use carryout bags: environmental effects: mitigation.
  This bill would prohibit, on and after July 1, 2010, a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag, including a green carryout bag, to a customer unless the store charges a fee of not less than $0.25 per bag at the point of sale. The bill would exempt certain customers from paying the fee. The bill would establish the Bag Pollution Fund in the State Treasury and, by January 31, 2011, would require a store that collects the single-use carryout bag fees to remit the fees, less a specified amount to be used as required, to the State Board of Equalization for deposit in that fund, and do so on a quarterly basis thereafter.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 01/21/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS

• AB 102 (Smyth) Santa Susana State Park.
  This bill would require the Director of Parks and Recreation, not later than January 1, 2012, to establish the Santa Susana State Park Advisory Committee, which would be responsible for assisting the department, in an advisory capacity, to plan for interim and permanent land uses and facilities through the general planning process for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory site in Ventura County. The bill would also require the department to take specified actions with respect to the development of a state park at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory site.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/18/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and RLS. COMM. LOCATION : SEN NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER

• AB 263 (Miller) Riverside County Transportation Commission.
  Existing law authorizes the Riverside County Transportation Commission to impose tolls for 50 years on transportation facilities, as defined, on a portion of Route 91, subject to extension beyond that time if reauthorized by the Legislature, and authorizes toll revenues to be used for capital and operating expenses of the facilities, including debt service, and for related transportation purposes in the Route 91 corridor. Existing law authorizes the commission to issue bonds for the transportation project, as defined, within the Route 91 corridor. This bill would, until January 1, 2020, authorize the Riverside County Transportation Commission to approve and award one best-value design build contract for transportation improvements on the Route 91 corridor based on criteria established by the commission, as specified.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/04/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on TRANS. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION

• AB 266 (Carter) Transportation needs assessment.
  Existing law creates the California Transportation Commission, with various duties and responsibilities relative to the programming and allocation of funds for transportation capital projects. Existing law requires the commission to submit, by December 15 of each year, an annual report to the Legislature summarizing the commission's prior-year decisions in allocating transportation capital funds and identifying timely and relevant transportation issues facing the state. This bill would require the commission, on an every-5-year basis, to develop an assessment of the unfunded costs of programmed state projects and federally earmarked projects in the state, as well as an assessment of available funding for transportation purposes and unmet transportation needs on a statewide basis. The bill would require the Department of Transportation to assist in conducting the assessment. The bill would require the commission to submit the first assessment report to the Legislature by March 1, 2011.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/11/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on RLS. COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS COMM. ACTION DATE : 05/28/2009 COMM. ACTION : Do pass. COMM. VOTE SUMMARY : Ayes: 12 Noes: 05 PASS

• AB 496 (Davis) Tire age degradation: consumer disclosure.
  This bill would require a tire dealer to disclose the date of manufacture of each passenger or light truck tire in writing prior to, or at the point of, the sale or prior to the installation of that tire. The bill would require sale documents for tires to include a statement as to the date of manufacture of the tires, next to which the customer would be required to initial and date prior to, or at the point of, the sale. The bill would require a tire dealer to provide a clear and conspicuous written disclosure to the customer prior to, or at the point of, the sale or prior to the installation of any tire about the risk associated with tire age. The bill's provisions would not apply to the private sale of used tires, the sale or lease of any new or used vehicle, or the sale of tires by a motor vehicle dealer whose primary business is the sale or service of motor vehicles. The bill would provide that any violation of its provisions is subject to a civil penalty of $250 per violation.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 07/13/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. COMM. LOCATION : SEN BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• AB 508 (Torlakson) Vehicles: driver education: provisional licenses.
  Existing law, the Brady-Jared Teen Driver Safety Act of 1997, allows for the issuance of a driver's license to a person at least 16 years of age but under 18 years of age pursuant to the provisional licensing program. Under the act, licensees are required to meet specified requirements, driver education, and training, and are prohibited during the first 12 months after issuance of a license from driving between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. or from transporting passengers who are under 20 years of age, except as provided. The act further prohibits a law enforcement officer from stopping a vehicle for the sole purpose of determining whether the driver is in violation of those restrictions. This bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to collect an additional fee of $10 for each provisional license application. The bill would create in the State Treasury the Young Driver Education and Safety Fund and would require the additional fee to be deposited into that fund to, upon appropriation by the Legislature, support the Young Driver Education and Safety Fund Advisory Group and to fund automobile driver's education and training in the public schools, including providing grants to local educational agencies to provide driver education and training programs in the public schools, under the direction of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in consultation with the Director of Motor Vehicles. The bill would require the State Department of Education to establish a program to provide the grants to local educational agencies, as specified, and would provide that the department may recover its actual costs from the moneys that would be allocated for the program. The bill would require the Director of Motor Vehicles and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish the Young Driver Education and Safety Fund Advisory Group, composed of members representing specified organizations, for purposes of assessing and recommending strategies to improve access to driver education and training, evaluating the effectiveness of current driver education and training standards and curriculum, and reviewing and making recommendations regarding the regulation of private, Internet-based driver education schools. The bill would require the advisory group to meet and hold public hearings and to submit a specified report to the director, the Superintendent, and relevant policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would require the director and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide to the advisory group necessary facilities and administrative support and would provide that members of the advisory group are subject to the conflict-of-interest provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 05/28/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS

• AB 522 (Blumenfield) Transportation: bond funds.
  This bill would require the California Transportation Commission to ensure that bond funds previously committed to a project from the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Fund of 2006 remain available to the sponsoring agency of the project for another qualifying project, if funds from any federal economic recovery legislation enacted in 2009 are used to fund the project, as specified.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/12/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on TRANS. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION

• AB 529 (Blumenfield) Income tax: Golden State Scholarshare Savings Trust.
  The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various deductions in computing income that is subject to tax under that law. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010, authorize a deduction under that law for the amount, not to exceed $5,000 or $2,500, as specified, contributed to the Golden State Scholarshare Savings Trust during the taxable year.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/12/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. COMM. LOCATION : ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION HEARING DATE : 05/11/2009

• AB 597 (Gaines) Transportation.
  Placeholder transportation bill: "This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions."
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 02/26/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.

• AB 670 (Bill Berryhill) Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: veterans.
  This bill would authorize the Department of Transportation and local authorities to permit exclusive or preferential use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes to be used by a vehicle driven by a veteran or active duty member of the United States Armed Forces, regardless of the number of passengers in the vehicle or the type of vehicle, provided that the vehicle is driven by the veteran or active duty member and the vehicle displays an insigne approved by the Department of Motor Vehicles. The bill would also state that this provision would only apply if the Director of Transportation determines that the application would not subject the state to a loss in federal aid for highways.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/20/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION

• AB 675 (Gilmore) Tax deductions: 529 college savings plans.
  This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, would allow as a deduction under that law the lesser of (1) the amount contributed by a qualified taxpayer, as defined, to a qualified tuition program, as provided, or (2) $3,000 in the case of a taxpayer who is single or is a married individual filing a separate return, and $6,000 in the case of a taxpayer who is a married individual filing a joint return or an individual filing a head of household return.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 05/19/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. COMM. LOCATION : ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION

• AB 732 (Jeffries) Transportation projects: design-sequencing contracts.
  Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation, until January 1, 2010, to conduct phase 2 of a pilot project through the utilization of design-sequencing contracts, as defined, for the design and construction of not more than 12 transportation projects, which are selected by the Director of Transportation taking into consideration specified geographical considerations. This bill would extend the operative date of those provisions until July 1, 2010, thereby extending the authority of the department to conduct phase 2 of the pilot project. The bill would instead specify that the pilot project consist of not more than 9 transportation projects.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 08/27/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Held under submission. COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS

• AB 744 (Torrico) Transportation: toll lanes: Express Lane Network.
  Existing law specifies the respective powers and duties of the Bay Area Toll Authority and the Department of Transportation relative to the operation of the state-owned Bay Area toll bridges and the allocation of toll bridge revenues. Existing law provides for the department to designate certain lanes for the exclusive use of buses and high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs). Existing law provides for various agencies, including the Sunol Smart Carpool Lane Joint Powers Authority, the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency, and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, to implement high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes on state highways, which are high-occupancy vehicle lanes that may also be used by vehicles without the requisite number of occupants upon payment of a toll. This bill would authorize the Bay Area Toll Authority to develop, administer, operate, and maintain a Bay Area Express Lane Network on state highways within the 9 Bay Area counties pursuant to a development plan recommended by the Bay Area Express Lane Network Project Oversight Committee, which the authority would be required to establish. The bill would authorize the authority to establish the fee structure for use of the express lanes and would require a public hearing in that regard. The bill would authorize the authority to determine the types of vehicles that may use the lanes. The bill would prohibit the authority from converting existing nontolled general purpose lanes to express lanes. The bill would provide for agreements between the authority and the Department of Transportation and the Department of the California Highway Patrol. The bill would require revenues from the express lanes to be deposited in the Bay Area Express Lane Network Account, which the authority would be required to create. The bill would authorize the authority to issue revenue bonds for the express lane program. The bill would specify the use of revenues in the account, including the net revenues remaining after expenses and obligations, including revenue bond obligations, for the express lane program are satisfied. The bill would provide for certain payments by the authority to the Department of Transportation and the Department of the California Highway Patrol relative to their responsibilities with regard to the express lane program, and would continuously appropriate the amount of those payments to those agencies for those purposes. The bill would require the Sunol Smart Carpool Lane Joint Powers Authority, the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency, and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to enter into agreements with the Bay Area Toll Authority by January 1, 2011, to provide for the transfer of their rights and obligations relative to HOT lane projects to the Bay Area Toll Authority. The bill would enact other related provisions. Existing law specifies certain major projects that may be undertaken with toll revenues from the Bay Area state-owned toll bridges. This bill would provide that the Bay Area Express Lane Network is eligible for funding from bridge toll revenues under certain conditions. Existing law provides for the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with various agencies, to develop and adopt functional specifications and standards for an automatic vehicle identification system for toll collection purposes on toll facilities. This bill would require the Bay Area Toll Authority, in its role as the administrator of the automatic vehicle identification system, among other things, to provide a cash-based opportunity for customers to obtain an account for paying tolls that does not require the customer to provide a name or address. Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, to authorize the exclusive or preferential use if highway lanes for high-occupancy vehicles. Existing law requires the department to obtain the approval of the applicable transportation planning agency or county transportation commission prior to implementing this provision. This bill would authorize the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, in cooperation with the department, to increase the vehicle occupancy qualification requirements for any vehicle using an express lane located within the geographic jurisdiction of the commission by one additional passenger above the occupancy level required on January 1, 2010.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 12/10/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : (Corrected December 10.) COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS

• AB 959 (Garrick) Vehicles: instruction permits.
  (1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles, for good cause, to issue an instruction permit to a physically and mentally qualified person who is at least 15 years and 6 months of age and who has, among other qualifications, successfully completed an approved course in automobile driver education. Existing law requires a person, prior to the issuance of an instruction permit, to have complied with one of 3 alternative programs of driver education and training. This bill would reduce the number of programs to 2 and would revise the requirements of those programs. The bill would also require that the instruction permit not be issued until that person is enrolled in an approved driver training course and completes the first 2 hours of behind-the-wheel instruction. The instruction permit would not be valid until the permit is signed by the instructor. This bill would also require that a person be prohibited from commencing an approved course in automobile driver education prior to attaining 15 years of age. (2) Existing law authorizes a person, with immediate possession of a valid permit, to operate a motor vehicle, when accompanied by, and under the immediate supervision of, a California licensed driver with a valid license who is 18 years of age or older, with exceptions. This bill would change the minimum age of the California licensed driver required to accompany and supervise a person with immediate possession of a valid permit in the operation of a motor vehicle, to 25 years of age. (3) Existing law authorizes the issuance of a provisional driver's license to a person at least 16 years of age, but under 18 years of age. Existing law requires a person, prior to the issuance of a provisional license, to complete 50 hours of supervised driving practice and, upon application for the provisional license, submit a certification of a parent, spouse, guardian, or licensed or certified driving instructor that the applicant has completed the required amount of driving practice and is prepared to take the driving test. This bill would additionally require the parent, spouse, or guardian to complete a debriefing with the driving instructor. The bill would require that before obtaining a provisional license the person successfully complete an approved course of driver training conducted by a California secondary school, licensed driving school, or equivalent instruction in a secondary school of another state or a driving school licensed by another state, or completes an approved integrated driver education and training program. (4) This bill would make conforming changes.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 07/02/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION

• AB 1104 (Monning) Vehicles: parking violations.
  Existing law allows a person to request a review of a notice of parking violation by the issuing agency if the request is made within 21 calendar days from the issuance of the notice or 14 calendar days from the mailing of the notice of delinquent parking violation. Existing law also requires a processing agency, within 15 days of a request, to mail or otherwise provide a copy or facsimile of the original parking violation notice to the person who has received the parking violation notice. This bill, for purposes of counting the number of days a person has to request an initial review of the notice of parking violation, would exclude the period of time between the day a processing agency receives a request for a copy of the original parking violation notice and the day the processing agency complies with the request.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 05/14/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on T. & H. COMM. LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING

• AB 1492 (Bonnie Lowenthal) Vehicles: wireless telephones and communication devices.
  This bill would prohibit a person from using a wireless telephone or other communication device, as the bill would define that term, during a vehicle stop made by a law enforcement officer for a violation of the Vehicle Code, thereby creating a new infraction. The bill would exempt from its provisions a person using a wireless telephone or other communication device for emergency purposes or to record, tape, or otherwise film anything that occurs during a traffic stop.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/23/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. COMM. LOCATION : ASM PUBLIC SAFETY

• AB 1670 (Beall) State Highway Routes 82 and 130: relinquishment.
  This bill would authorize the commission to relinquish to the City of San Jose specified portions of Route 82 and Route 130, under certain conditions.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 01/27/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on TRANS. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION

• ABX3 77 (Torlakson) Unclaimed property: gift certificates: poison control center funding.
  Existing law regulates the sale of gift certificates, as defined, and excludes unredeemed gift certificates from the unclaimed property law. This bill would, instead, include gift certificates within the unclaimed property law and would require the full value of a gift certificate issued commencing July 1, 2006, or portion thereof that has not been redeemed within 3 years after issuance of the gift certificate to escheat to the state and be forwarded to the Controller. The bill would provide that it does not alter the rights and responsibilities of the seller and buyer under the terms of the gift certificate and would authorize a seller to claim the value of a subsequently redeemed gift certificate as a credit against the seller's next payment to the Controller.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 07/17/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : From printer.

• ABX4 35 (Jeffries) State highways: relinquishment.
  This bill would generally authorize the California Transportation Commission to relinquish any portion of a state highway within a county or city to that county or city, subject to an agreement between the department and the local agency, without requiring a legislative enactment deleting the state highway segment from the state highway system. The bill would also require the department to expeditiously consider and respond to each request it receives from a city or county relative to an agreement relating to the proposed relinquishment of a state highway segment within the jurisdiction of the entity making the request, and would require the department, from time to time, to recommend to the Legislature any revisions to the statutory descriptions of Routes occasioned by relinquishments approved by the commission. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on July 1, 2009.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 07/17/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : From printer.

• ABX4 36 (Jeffries) The Lieutenant Governor.
  This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to streamline the performance of the duties of the Lieutenant Governor, thereby resulting in a reduction in the expenses of the office of the Lieutenant Governor and an increase in the efficiency of state government.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 07/17/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : From printer.

Resolutions of interest under consideration by the California State Assembly

• ACR 102 (Coto) Joe Colla Interchange.
  Designates the interchange of I-680, I-280, and US 101 in the City of San Jose as the "Joe Colla Interchange."
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 01/14/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on TRANS. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION

• ACR 103 (John A. Perez) Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Juan Abel Escalante Memorial Highway.
  Designate the southbound and northbound on ramps and off ramps of North Vignes Avenue on US 101 in Los Angeles County as the "Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Juan Abel Escalante Memorial Highway"
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 01/14/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on TRANS.

• ACR 106 (Caballero) CDF Firefighter Matt Will Memorial Highway.
  Designates the portion of Route 156 from Route 25 to US 101 as the "CDF Firefighter Matt Will Memorial Highway".
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 01/26/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From printer.

• ACR 109 (Nestande) Roy Wilson Memorial Highway.
  Designates the portion of Route 74 beginning at the entrance to the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument visitor center and extending four miles to the west thereof, in the City of Palm Desert and Riverside County as the "Roy Wilson Memorial Highway".
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 01/27/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From printer.

• ACR 113 (Caballero) Bracero Memorial Highway.
  Ddesignates the 15 mile portion of US 101 from exit 302, south of Soledad, to exit 317, south of Chualar, in Monterey County, as the "Bracero Memorial Highway".
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 01/28/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From printer.

Bills of interest under consideration by the California State Senate

• SB 146 (Cox) Route 49: relinquishment.
  This bill would authorize the commission to relinquish portions of Route 49 that are in the town of Downieville, in Sierra County, to Sierra County under certain conditions.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 05/28/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set, first hearing. Held in committee and under submission. COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS

• SB 275 (Walters) Professional engineers.
  Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline. Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as provided by the act. This bill would prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system, fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would make other changes to related provisions.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 01/21/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). COMM. LOCATION : SEN BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• SB 297 (Wyland) Science and mathematics instruction.
  Existing law establishes the system of public education in this state. Under this system, school districts throughout the state maintain and operate public elementary and secondary schools, which offer instruction to pupils in kindergarten and in grades 1 to 12, inclusive. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to science and mathematics instruction in public elementary and secondary schools.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/09/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : To Com. on RLS.

• SB 339 (Wyland) Education: civics.
  This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to civics education in public schools.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/09/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : To Com. on RLS.

• SB 351 (Huff) Vehicles: High-occupancy vehicle lanes.
  Existing law authorizes local authorities and the Department of Transportation to establish exclusive or preferential use of highway lanes for high-occupancy vehicles. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision of law.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/09/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : To Com. on RLS.

• SB 484 (Wright) Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine.
  This bill would provide, in addition, that any person who obtains ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and specified related drugs without a prescription, as specified, shall be guilty of an infraction or a misdemeanor. By creating new crimes or revising the penalties for existing crimes involving ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and specified related drugs, involving ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and specified related drugs, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/30/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set, second hearing. Failed passage in committee. Reconsideration granted. COMM. LOCATION : ASM PUBLIC SAFETY

• SB 648 (Oropeza) Transportation.
  This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation on the subject of transportation.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/19/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : To Com. on RLS.

• SB 659 (Pavley) Transportation.
  Existing law generally provides for programming of transportation capital projects pursuant to the state transportation improvement program process. Existing law authorizes a local agency to request that a portion of the cost of any project in the program funded by the local agency be eligible for reimbursement from federal funds, as specified. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/26/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. COMM. LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING

• SB 885 (Corbett) Gift certificates: redemption.
  Existing law also provides that a gift certificate with a cash value of less than $10 may be redeemed in cash, as defined, for its cash value. Existing law prohibits the selling of a gift certificate that contains a dormancy fee, subject to specified exceptions. This bill would require that a gift certificate with a cash value of less than $20 be redeemable in cash for its cash value, and would require that a gift certificate contain a statement to that effect. This bill would also delete the exceptions to the prohibition on the sale of a gift certificate that contains a dormancy fee.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 01/20/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From print. May be acted upon on or after February 19.

• SB 906 (Leno) Marriage.
  Existing law defines marriage as a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman, to which the consent of the parties capable of making that contract is necessary. This bill would instead define the term civil marriage as a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman, established pursuant to a State of California marriage license issued by the county clerk, to which the consent of the parties capable of making that contract is necessary. The bill would also make conforming related changes by changing certain references to marriage to civil marriage. Existing law enumerates persons who are authorized to solemnize a marriage, including, but not limited to, any priest, minister, rabbi, or authorized person of any religious denomination. The bill would specify that no priest, minister, rabbi, or authorized person of any religious denomination would be required to solemnize a marriage that is contrary to the tenets of his or her faith. The bill would state that any refusal to solemnize a marriage under that provision shall not affect the tax exempt status of any entity.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 01/28/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From print. May be acted upon on or after February 27.

• SCAX1 1 (Wyland) Transportation Investment Fund.
  Article XIX B of the California Constitution requires, commencing with the 2003-04 fiscal year, that sales taxes on motor vehicle fuel that are deposited into the General Fund be transferred to the Transportation Investment Fund (TIF) for allocation to various transportation purposes. Article XIX B authorizes this transfer to be suspended in whole or in part for a fiscal year during a fiscal emergency pursuant to a proclamation by the Governor and the enactment of a statute by a 2/3 vote in each house of the Legislature, subject to various restrictions. This measure would delete the provisions authorizing the transfer of revenues to the TIF to be suspended during a fiscal emergency. The measure would also prohibit a loan of TIF revenues under any circumstances, and would prohibit any statute that would reduce the extent to which these tax revenues are deposited into the General Fund for transfer to the TIF for transportation purposes.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 12/18/2008 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee without further action. COMM. LOCATION : SEN RULES

• SCAX2 1 (Wyland) Transportation Investment Fund.
  Article XIX B of the California Constitution requires, commencing with the 2003-04 fiscal year, that sales taxes on motor vehicle fuel that are deposited into the General Fund be transferred to the Transportation Investment Fund (TIF) for allocation to various transportation purposes. Article XIX B authorizes this transfer to be suspended in whole or in part for a fiscal year during a fiscal emergency pursuant to a proclamation by the Governor and the enactment of a statute by a 2/3 vote in each house of the Legislature, subject to various restrictions. This measure would delete the provisions authorizing the transfer of revenues to the TIF to be suspended during a fiscal emergency. The measure would also prohibit a loan of TIF revenues under any circumstances, and would prohibit any statute that would reduce the extent to which these tax revenues are deposited into the General Fund for transfer to the TIF for transportation purposes.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 02/19/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee without further action. COMM. LOCATION : SEN RULES

Resolutions under consideration by the California State Senate

• SCR 37 (Wiggins) The Silverado Trail.
  Designates the portion of Route 29 from post mile 37.9 to post mile 39.5 in Napa County as the "Silverado Trail"
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/30/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. COMM. LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING

• SCR 50 (Cox) Raymond Carpenter Memorial Highway.
  Designates the westbound portion of I-80, between Rocklin Road and Route 65, in Placer County, as Rocklin Road interchange on I-80 in Placer County as the "CHP Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial Highway Interchange"
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 08/19/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Read second time. To third reading. FILE : SEN THIRD READING FILE DATE : 08/24/2009 ITEM : 45 COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS COMM. ACTION DATE : 08/17/2009 COMM. ACTION : Senate Rule 28.8.

• SCR 54 (Cogdill) Kirk Lindsey Memorial Highway.
  Designates the portion of Route 108 beginning in Modesto at Five Points (J Street, Needham Street, Downey Avenue, McHenry Avenue, and 17th Street) continuing east through Riverbank and Oakdale to the Stanislaus and Tuolumne County line as the "Kirk Lindsey Memorial Highway"
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 08/17/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Introduced. To Com. on RLS.

Bills/Resolutions sent to the Governor of Signature

• None pending.

Chaptered Bills/Resolutions: Entered into Law

• AB 62 (Portantino) Vehicles: television broadcast or video signal displays.
  Existing law makes it unlawful for a person to drive a motor vehicle if a television receiver, a video monitor, or a television or video screen, or any other similar means of visually displaying a television broadcast or video signal that produces entertainment or business applications, is operating and is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or is operating and visible to the driver while he or she is driving the motor vehicle. Under existing law, that provision does not apply to specified equipment, including, among other things, a television receiver, video monitor, television or video screen, or similar means of visually displaying a television broadcast or video signal, if that equipment has an interlock device that, when the motor vehicle is driven, disables the equipment for all uses except as a vehicle information display, global positioning display, mapping display, or a visual display used to enhance or supplement the driver' s view forward, behind, or to the sides of a motor vehicle for the purpose of maneuvering the vehicle. This bill would additionally exempt from the prohibition this equipment if the operation of equipment that is designed, operated, and configured in a manner that prevents the driver of the motor vehicle from viewing the television broadcast or video signal while operating the vehicle in a safe and reasonable manner.
  Chaptered August 6, 2009. Chapter 73.

• AB 344 (Caballero) State highways: relinquishment.
  This bill would authorize the commission to relinquish to the City of Soledad and the Counties of Monterey and San Benito the portions of Route 146 that are located within those jurisdictions under specified conditions. The bill would also authorize the commission to relinquish to the City of Newport Beach specified portions of Route 1 and Route 55 that are located within the city limits of that city under specified conditions.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 238.

• AB 798 (Nava) California Transportation Financing Authority: toll facilities.
  (1) Existing law generally provides for programming and allocation of transportation capital improvement funds pursuant to the state transportation improvement program process administered by the California Transportation Commission. Existing law authorizes the development of toll road projects under certain conditions. Existing law authorizes the commission and the Department of Transportation to operate and manage the Transportation Finance Bank to make loans for transportation projects. Existing law creates the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to assist in the financing of various public infrastructure projects. Existing law authorizes the state to issue tax-exempt revenue anticipation notes backed by federal transportation appropriations. This bill would create the California Transportation Financing Authority with specified powers and duties relative to issuance of bonds to fund transportation projects to be backed, in whole or in part, by various revenue streams of transportation funds, and toll revenues under certain conditions, in order to increase the construction of new capacity or improvements for the state transportation system consistent with specified goals. The bill would set forth the requirements for a project sponsor to obtain bond funding from the authority, would allow the authority to approve the imposition and collection of tolls on a proposed project under certain conditions, and would require the authority to report to the California Transportation Commission annually beginning June 30, 2011. The bill would create the California Transportation Financing Authority Fund, which would be continuously appropriated for these purposes. The bill would enact other related provisions. (2) Existing law, until January 1, 2012, authorizes a regional transportation agency, in cooperation with the department, to apply to the commission to develop and operate high-occupancy toll lanes, with not more than 4 facilities to be approved under these provisions. Following public hearings by the commission, the commission is required to forward an eligible application and public comments to the Legislature for approval or rejection of the project, with approval to be achieved by the enactment of a statute. This bill, with respect to these 4 projects, would delete the requirement for the commission to forward the applications to the Legislature for approval or rejection.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 474

• AB 1143 (Ma) Marriage: name.
  Existing law allows one or both parties to a marriage to change the middle or last name by which that party wishes to be known after solemnization of the marriage. Existing law also requires the adoption of a new name, or the choice not to adopt a new name, by means of a marriage license application to be made only at the time the license is issued, as provided. This bill would allow one or both parties to change both the middle and last names by which that party wishes to be known after solemnization of the marriage. This bill would also allow for an amendment to be issued to correct a clerical error in the new name fields on the marriage license, as provided.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 512.

• AB 1175 (Torlakson) Toll facilities.
  (mostly uninteresting, except) (2) This bill would add seismic safety improvement projects on the Antioch and Dumbarton Bridges to the toll bridge seismic safety program. The bill would provide that surplus cost overrun revenues to be shared between the state and the Bay Area Toll Authority be redirected to the authority for the Antioch and Dumbarton seismic safety projects, and would appropriate those funds for that purpose. The bill would require the authority to provide all other funds necessary to complete those seismic safety projects. The bill would provide for the authority to increase tolls on all Bay Area state-owned toll bridges in that regard. The bill would continuously appropriate to the department all amounts paid to the department by the authority for various purposes relative to the toll bridges. The bill would also authorize the authority to make contributions to the commission in furtherance of the exercise of the authority's powers, as specified. (5) Existing law provided for submission of 2 regional measures to the voters of 7 Bay Area counties in 1988 and 2004 relative to respective $1 increases in bridge auto tolls on the Bay Area state-owned toll bridges, subject to approval by a majority of the voters. This bill would generally authorize the Bay Area Toll Authority to submit a regional measure containing a toll increase to the voters of those counties for approval along with a statement of the projects and programs to be undertaken with the increased toll revenues. The bill would require the projects and programs to consist of infrastructure projects, the acquisition of transit vehicles, transit operating assistance, and other improvement projects intended to reduce congestion and improve travel options in the bridge and associated transportation corridors. The bill would require the boards of supervisors of these counties to call a special election, which may be consolidated with a general or primary election, upon the request of the authority, and would require the authority to reimburse the counties from bridge toll revenues for the incremental cost of submitting the regional measure to the voters. (6) Existing law specifies the basic uniform toll rate for various classes of vehicles for all of the Bay Area state-owned toll bridges, but authorizes the authority to increase tolls as may be necessary to meet bond obligations. This bill, notwithstanding these provisions, would authorize the authority to vary the toll structure on each bridge and to provide discounts for vehicles classified by the authority as high-occupancy vehicles and for vehicles paying tolls via electronic toll collection. (7) Existing law authorizes the Bay Area Toll Authority to reduce the amount of the seismic toll surcharge to encourage electronic toll payment. This bill would delete this provision. (8) This bill would also require the Bay Area Toll Authority to contract with a nationally recognized independent entity with expertise in privacy issues associated with the electronic transmission and storage of data to conduct a review and an analysis of the privacy issues associated with the authority's electronic toll payment collection system, and to report to the Legislature in that regard by January 31, 2011. The bill would thereby impose a state-mandated local program.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 515.

• AB 1361 (Portantino) Vehicles: commercial vehicle ban: State Route 2.
  This bill would prohibit, with specified exemptions, the operation of a commercial vehicle with 3 or more axles, or a gross vehicle weight or a combined gross weight of 9,000 pounds or more on the segment of Route 2 that is located between I-210 in the City of La Canada Flintridge and Los Angeles County Route N4 (Big Pine Highway) in the County of Los Angeles. The bill would provide that, upon conviction, a violation of the above prohibition is subject to a fine of $1,000. Because the bill would create a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the department to erect suitable signs to give adequate notice of the prohibition.
  Chaptered August 6, 2009. Chapter 147

• AB 1381 (John A. Perez) High-occupancy toll lanes.
  Existing law authorizes a regional transportation agency, in cooperation with the Department of Transportation, to apply to the California Transportation Commission to develop and operate high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, including administration and operation of a value-pricing program and exclusive or preferential lane facilities for public transit. Existing law specifically authorizes a value-pricing and transit development demonstration program involving HOT lanes to be conducted, administered, developed, and operated on Routes 10 and 110 in Los Angeles County by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) under certain conditions. This bill would require the LACMTA program to be implemented with the active participation of the Department of the California Highway Patrol. The bill would require LACMTA, with the consent of the department, to establish appropriate performance measures for the purpose of ensuring optimal use of the HOT lanes without adversely affecting other traffic on the state highway system. The bill would also state that the authorization for this project shall not prevent the construction of competing facilities, and that LACMTA is not entitled to compensation for the adverse effects on toll revenue due to those facilities.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 289

• AB 1386 (Hayashi) State highways.
  Existing law authorizes a city or county in which a planned transportation facility was to be located on Route 238 in Alameda County to develop and file with the California Transportation Commission a local alternative transportation improvement program that addresses transportation problems and opportunities, and provides for the use of revenues from the sales of excess properties acquired for the planned state facility in order to fund the local alternative transportation improvement program, but limits the use of revenues from excess property sales to state highway purposes. Existing law provides that the commission may not approve a local alternative transportation improvement program under these provisions after July 1, 2010. Similar provisions apply to Route 84 in the Cities of Fremont and Union City, except that the use of revenues from excess property sales in that corridor are limited to state highway purposes or projects in the local voter-approved transportation sales tax measure. This bill would modify the restriction limiting use of revenues from excess property sales to state highway purposes applicable to Route 238 by authorizing those revenues to be used for any highway purpose. This bill would require revenues from excess property sales for Route 238 and Route 84 to be deposited into separate accounts in the Special Deposit Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to be available for expenditure by local agencies for purposes of an approved local alternative transportation improvement program for the applicable corridor route. The bill would thereby make an appropriation. This bill would also authorize local agencies to advance projects in the local alternative transportation improvement program with local funds, to be repaid when revenues from excess property sales become available, as specified. Existing law requires a local alternative transportation improvement program for Route 238 to provide, among other things, relocation assistance and replacement housing units for persons displaced as a result of the sale of excess properties to fund the local alternative transportation improvement program. This bill would make these provisions inoperative, and would enact new provisions to become operative, on the date on which the superior court issues the final approval order for the settlement agreement related to the disposition of excess properties acquired for the State Route 238 Hayward Bypass Project signed by the department, the City of Hayward, and representatives for members of the class of residents, or on January 1, 2010, whichever comes later. The new provisions would, among other things, require monetary assistance to eligible tenant households and provision of 237 additional new low-income housing units. The new provisions would also require the department to offer the direct sale of eligible excess single-family residences on an as-is, fair market value basis, to current tenants meeting specified requirements and would enact other related provisions in that regard. The bill would authorize proceeds from the sale of excess properties to be used for the cost of selling the properties and various administrative, commercial, or legal costs, including program administration costs to develop and administer the home purchase program and an administrative hearing process for tenants. This bill would require the California Transportation Commission to adopt guidelines in that regard. Existing law provides for state highways to be constructed, as determined by the California Transportation Commission, on routes authorized by law. Existing law provides for relinquishment by the commission of state highways to local agencies under certain conditions. This bill would authorize the commission to relinquish portions of Route 92, Route 185, and Route 238 in the City of Hayward to that city subject to various conditions.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 291.

• AB 1403 (Eng) Local transportation funds: planning and programming.
  Existing law, pursuant to the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act, also known as the Transportation Development Act, provides for allocation by the transportation planning agency of 1/4% of the sales tax in each county deposited in the local transportation fund to various transportation purposes, including transportation planning and programming, public transit, and, in some cases, local streets and roads. Up to 3% of annual revenues may be allocated to the transportation planning agency, if it is statutorily created, for transportation planning and programming purposes. In the multicounty region that is within the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), which is also known as the multicounty designated transportation planning agency, specified percentages of annual revenues may be allocated to the statutorily created county transportation commissions in 5 individual counties, and up to 3/4 of 1% of annual revenues, but not more than $1,000,000, may be allocated by the commissions in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties, proportionately, to SCAG for its transportation planning and programming functions. This bill would delete the $1,000,000 limitation on allocations of these funds by the 4 county transportation commissions to SCAG.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 530.

• AB 1464 (Smyth) Transportation: California Bicycle Routes of National, State or Regional Significance Act.
  This bill would enact the California Bicycle Routes of National, State or Regional Significance Act, which would authorize the department to establish a process for identifying and promoting bicycle routes of national, state, or regional significance, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to form an advisory committee to help implement the process for identifying and promoting these bicycle routes. The bill would authorize the department to establish a process for organizations, including, but not limited to, local bicycle organizations, private entities, or local or state government entities to nominate a route for inclusion in the system of bicycle routes of national, state, or regional significance. The bill would authorize the department to install bicycle route signs identifying these bicycle routes, as specified.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 396.

• ABX4 10 (Committee on Budget) Transportation.
  (1) Existing law, pursuant to Proposition 116 of 1990, creates the Public Transportation Account as a trust fund in the State Transportation Fund, provides that revenues are to be deposited in that account from specified portions of the sales taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, and provides that moneys in the account are available for expenditure only for transportation planning and mass transportation purposes. Certain provisions of Proposition 116 may be amended by the Legislature only by a 2 /3 vote of both houses and if the amendment is consistent with the purposes of the provision being amended. Existing law creates the Mass Transportation Fund in the State Treasury and provides that for the 2009-10 to 2012-13 fiscal years, inclusive, all of gasoline sales tax revenues commonly known as the "spillover" that would otherwise be deposited in the Public Transportation Account shall be deposited instead in that fund. Existing law specifies the transportation purposes that may be funded by the fund, including payment of debt service on transportation general obligation bonds by transfer of funds from the Mass Transportation Fund to the Transportation Debt Service Fund. For the 2008-09 fiscal year, $939,408,000 of "spillover" revenues are to be transferred to the Mass Transportation Fund. Existing law creates the Transportation Debt Service Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose, among other things, of using transportation revenues rather than the General Fund for the payment of debt service on transportation bonds or to reimburse the General Fund in that regard. This bill, for the 2008-09 fiscal year, would instead require $1,041,234,000 of the "spillover" revenues to be transferred to the Mass Transportation Fund. This bill, for the 2009-10 fiscal year, would provide that $225,044,000 from the Public Transportation Account may be used for the purpose of reimbursing the General Fund for current debt service payments on transit-related general obligation bonds. The bill would also provide for transfer from the Mass Transportation Fund to the Transportation Debt Service Fund of any amount of the "spillover" funds received during the 2009-10 to 2012-13 fiscal years, inclusive, necessary to offset the cost of debt service payments made from the General Fund during any fiscal year for transportation-related general obligation bond expenditures. (2) Existing law establishes the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund. Existing law imposes a per gallon jet fuel tax on aircraft jet fuel dealers and requires that the funds be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account in the Transportation Tax Fund. Existing law requires that moneys deposited to the credit of the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account attributable to the distribution of motor vehicle fuel for use in propelling an aircraft in the state be transferred to the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund. Existing law requires funds in the Aeronautics Account to be used to pay the Controller and the State Board of Equalization for their pro rata costs in carrying out the duties imposed on them by the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law and to pay the Department of Transportation for the administration of the State Aeronautics Act. Existing law allows the remaining balance of moneys in the account to be used for preapproved eligible projects that are for airport and aviation purposes, to make allocations to public entities for the aquisition or development of airports if the department determines that it is feasible, and to allow the California Transportation Commission to provide local matching funds for federal Airport Improvement Program Grants. This bill would suspend these grants and funding programs for the 2009-10 fiscal year. The bill would require $4,000,000 to be transferred from the Aeronautics Account to the General Fund, upon the order of the Director of Finance. These provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2011. (3) Existing law, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for various transportation purposes, including $2,000,000,000 for local street and road improvement, congestion relief, and traffic safety. Existing law requires a city or city and county that receives an allocation of those funds in the 2008-09 fiscal year to agree to encumber the funds before July 1, 2009. This bill would instead require a city or city and county that receives an allocation of those funds in the 2008-09 fiscal year to agree to encumber the funds before July 1, 2010. (4) Existing law establishes as base fee amounts certain driver's license and identification card fees imposed by the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to specified provisions of the Vehicle Code. Existing law requires, on January 1 of every year, the department to adjust those base fee amounts by increasing each fee in an amount equal to the increase in the California Consumer Price Index for the prior year, as calculated by the Department of Finance, with amounts equal to or greater than $0.50 rounded to the next highest whole dollar. Existing law also provides that a statutory increase to the fees is deemed to be a change to the base fee. This bill would include within this scheme specified fee provisions applicable to restricted firefighter licenses and commercial driver's licenses and would increase, on or after January 1, 2010, the amount of these and other fees subject to this scheme. (5) This bill would make other related changes. (6) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on July 1, 2009. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on July 1, 2009, pursuant to the California Constitution.
  Chaptered July 28, 2009. Chapter 10

• ACR 12 (Blakeslee) National Purple Heart Trail.
  Designates US 101 from mile marker 9.67 in Monterey County to mile marker 36.16 in Santa Barbara for inclusion in the “National Purple Heart Trail”.
  Chaptered August 24, 2009. Resolution Chapter 84.

• ACR 15 (Furutani) John Sanford Todd Memorial Highway.
  Designate the portion of I-605 between Carson Street and Del Amo Boulevard, in the County of Los Angeles, as the "John Sanford Todd Memorial Highway".
  Chaptered July 17, 2009. Resolution Chapter 76.

• ACR 20 (Bill Berryhill) Sergeant Howard K. Stevenson Memorial Interchange.
  Designates the interchange at Route 99 and Whitmore Avenue in the City of Ceres as the "Sergeant Howard K. Stevenson Memorial Interchange".
  Chaptered July 17, 2009. Resolution Chapter 77.

• ACR 24 (Carter) John Knabenbauer Fifth Street Bridge.
  Designates the Fifth Street Bridge the crosses I-215 in San Bernardino as the "John Knabenbauer Fifth Street Bridge"
  Chaptered July 16, 2009. Resolution Chapter 66

• ACR 30 (Mendoza) Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff David Powell Memorial Highway.
  Designates the segment of Route 91 between I-605 and Pioneer Boulevard, in Los Angeles County, as the "Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff David Powell Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered 6/9/2009. Resolution Chapter 47.

• ACR 33 (Jeffries) Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway.
  Designates the 4.3 mile portion of I-15 from the I-215 interchange to the South Route 79 Exit at Route 79 in Temecula as the "Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered September 1, 2009. Resolution Chapter 89.

• ACR 34 (Furutani) The Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Maria Cecilia Rosa Memorial Highway.
  Designates Route 710 from Wardlow Road to the Pacific Coast Highway in the City of Long Beach as the "Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Maria Cecilia Rosa Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered June 9, 2009. Resolution Chapter 48.

• ACR 36 (Conway) Greatest Generation Memorial Highway.
  Designates the 1.6 mile portion of Route 63, also known as South Mooney Boulevard, from West Visalia Parkway to Avenue 264 in Visalia as the "Greatest Generation Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered July 17, 2009. Resolution Chapter 78.

• ACR 48 (Gilmore) Deputy James Throne Memorial Highway.
  Designates Route 184, also known as Weedpatch Highway, in Kern County as the "Deputy James Throne Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered July 17, 2009. Resolution Chapter 80.

• ACR 60 (Gilmore) The Medal of Honor Recipient Larry Stanley Pierce Memorial Highway.
  Designates the portion of Route 46 within the city limits of the City of Wasco as the "Medal of Honor Recipient Larry Stanley Pierce Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered July 16, 2009. Resolution Chapter 68.

• ACR 61 (Villines) Deputy David G. Graves Memorial Freeway.
  Designates the portion of Route 41 from Herndon Avenue in the City of Fresno to Avenue 10 in Madera County as the "Deputy David G. Graves Memorial Freeway"
  Chaptered September 1, 2009. Resolution Chapter 90.

• ACR 71 (Nielsen) Milton La Malfa Memorial Highway.
  Designates the portion of the Route 99 between Oroville Dam Boulevard West and Nelson Avenue in Oroville as the "Milton La Malfa Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered September 23, 2009. Resolution Chapter 107.

• ACR 78 (Buchanan) The CHP Officer John P. Miller Memorial Highway.
  Designates Route 580 from Airway Boulevard (eastbound milepost marker 14.98) to North Flynn Road (westbound milepost marker 6.00) in Livermore as the "CHP Officer John P. Miller Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered September 23, 2009. Resolution Chapter 110.

• ACR 79 (Hayashi) Sergeant Daniel Sakai Memorial Highway.
  Designates I-580, between Strobridge Avenue and East Castro Valley Boulevard, as the "Sergeant Daniel Sakai Memorial Highway".
  Chaptered September 23, 2009. Resolution Chapter 111.

• ACR 94 (Charles Calderon) CHP Officer Joseph P. Sanders Memorial Highway
  Designates the portion of Route 60 eastbound (mile post marker 15.96) from Hacienda Boulevard to (mile post marker 20.44) Nogales Street and westbound from (mile post marker 20.44) Nogales Street to (mile post marker 15.96) Hacienda Boulevard, as well as the portion of northbound Hacienda Boulevard to eastbound and westbound Route 60, as well as the Hacienda Boulevard off ramp from westbound Route 60, as well as the eastbound and westbound on ramps and off ramps for Azusa Avenue and Fullerton Road, as well as the eastbound off ramp to Nogales Street and southbound Nogales Street to eastbound and westbound Route 60 as the "CHP Officer Joseph P. Sanders Memorial Highway."
  Chaptered September 23, 2009. Resolution Chapter 116.

• SB 40 (Correa) Personal information: social security numbers.
  Existing law requires any person, entity, or government agency that is presenting a document for recording or filing with a county recorder to only list the last 4 digits of a social security number. Existing law also requires a county recorder to use due diligence to truncate social security numbers in the public record version of official records. This bill would provide that a document containing more than the last 4 digits of a social security number is not entitled for recording. This bill would also provide a recorder shall be deemed to be in compliance if he or she uses due diligence to truncate social security numbers in documents recorded, as provided . Existing law requires an abstract of judgment ordering a party to pay spousal, child, or family support to contain the social security number of the party who is ordered to pay. This bill would instead require an abstract of judgment to contain only the last 4 digits of the social security number of the party who is ordered to pay. The provisions of this bill would not apply to documents created prior to January 1, 2010.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 552.

• SB 391 (Liu) California Transportation Plan.
  Existing law requires various transportation planning activities by state and regional agencies, including preparation of sustainable communities strategies by metropolitan planning organizations. Existing law provides for the Department of Transportation to prepare the California Transportation Plan for submission to the Governor by December 1, 1993, as a long-range planning document that incorporates various elements and is consistent with specified expressions of legislative intent. This bill would require the department to update the California Transportation Plan by December 31, 2015, and every 5 years thereafter. The bill would require the plan to address how the state will achieve maximum feasible emissions reductions in order to attain a statewide reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. The bill would require the plan to identify the statewide integrated multimodal transportation system needed to achieve these results. The bill would require the department, by December 31, 2012, to submit to the California Transportation Commission and specified legislative committee chairs an interim report providing specified information regarding sustainable communities strategies and alternative planning strategies , including an assessment of how their implementation will influence the configuration of the statewide integrated multimodal transportation system. The bill would also specify certain subject areas to be considered in the plan for the movement of people and freight. The bill would require the department to consult with and coordinate its planning activities with specified entities and to provide an opportunity for public input. The bill would make additional legislative findings and declarations and require the plan to be consistent with that statement of legislative intent.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 585.

• SB 532 (Cogdill) Routes 1, 108, 132, and 201.
  Existing law gives the Department of Transportation full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law describes the authorized routes in the state highway system and establishes a process for adoption of a highway on an authorized route by the California Transportation Commission. Existing law also authorizes the commission to relinquish certain state highway segments to local agencies. Existing law identifies a system of interregional and intercounty Routes that are eligible for funding from funds made available to the department for interregional improvements, while other state highway improvements may be funded as regional improvements. This bill would revise the authorized route description for Route 108 in Stanislaus County. The bill would include additional portions of Route 108 and Route 132 in the system of interregional and intercounty routes eligible to be funded as interregional improvements. This bill would also authorize the commission to relinquish to the City of Santa Monica the portion of Route 1 that is located within the city limits of that city, and to the City of Kingsburg the portion of Route 201 that is located within the city limits of that city, under certain conditions.
  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 189.

• SB 649 (Ashburn) Transportation.
  Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system and associated property. Existing law authorizes the department to sell real property that is no longer necessary for highway purposes. This bill would require the Department of Transportation to transfer, for fair market value, on or before June 30, 2010, ownership of a specified portion of a parcel of land in Kern County acquired for the Mojave Bypass to the East Kern Airport District for open-space purposes.
  Chaptered August 6, 2009. Chapter 59.

• SB 716 (Wolk) Local transportation funds.
  Existing law requires that 1/4% of the local sales and use tax be transferred to the local transportation fund of the county for allocation, as directed by the transportation planning agency, to various transportation purposes. Existing law specifies the allowable uses for local transportation funds, and generally requires these funds to be used for transit purposes in urban counties, while in counties with a population under 500,000 as of the 1970 census and certain other counties, these funds may also be used for local streets and roads, if the transportation planning agency finds that there are no unmet transit needs or no unmet transit needs that are reasonable to meet, and for other specified purposes.

  This bill, for counties that had a population of less than 500,000 as of the 1970 decennial census, but that have a population of 500,000 or more as of the 2000 decennial census or at a subsequent census, would require the local transportation funds apportioned to the urbanized areas of those counties to generally be allocated for public transit purposes and not for street and road purposes, except that cities in those counties with a population of 100,000 or fewer would be exempt from this requ irement. Local transportation funds apportioned to the nonurbanized areas in those counties would remain available for allocation to street and road purposes and for other specified purposes. The bill would delay, until July 1, 2014, the application of these new provisions in counties where they apply.

  The bill exempt Ventura County from these provisions and instead would authorize the Ventura County Transportation Commission to submit, by December 31, 2011, a report to the Legislature analyzing options for organizing public mass transportation services in the county and for expenditure of revenues in the local transportation fund, along with a recommended legislative proposal. If a legislative proposal is not enacted by the end of the 2011-12 Regular Session of the Legislature, local transportation funds in Ventura County would be available solely for transit purposes beginning July 1, 2014.

  The bill, in counties and areas of counties where local transportation funds may be allocated to local streets and roads, would also authorize allocation of those funds for specified farmworker vanpool purposes upon a finding by the transportation planning agency that there are no unmet transit needs or no unmet transit needs that are reasonable to meet and after all of the capital and operating funds necessary to meet unmet transit needs that are reasonable to meet are allocated. The bill would make other related changes .

  Chaptered October 11, 2009. Chapter 609.

• SCR 4 (DeSaulnier) Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway.
  Designates the portion of I-680 that is between the Benicia-Martinez Bridge in Contra Costa County and Route 24 in the City of Walnut Creek as the "Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway".
  Chaptered July 14, 2009. Resolution Chapter 69

• SCR 5 (Runner) Marine Corporal Christopher D. Leon Memorial Highway.
  Designates the portion of Route 14 in the County of Los Angeles, between Avenue M and Avenue L in the City of Lancaster as the "Marine Corporal Christopher D. Leon Memorial Highway".
  Chaptered July 14, 2009. Resolution Chapter 70.

• SCR 9 (Wiggins) The James F. McManus Memorial Bridge.
  Designates the Salmon Creek Bridge on US 101 in Humboldt County as the “James F. McManus Memorial Bridge”.
  Chaptered July 14, 2009. Resolution Chapter 71.

• SCR 12 (Dutton) Steve Faris Memorial Highway.
  Designates Route 330 in the County of San Bernardino as the "Steve Faris Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered July 14, 2009. Resolution Chapter 72.

• SCR 30 (Simitian) Betty Meltzer Memorial Highway.
  Designates the segment of Route 82 between Page Mill Road (PM 24.04) and San Francisquito Creek (SCL/SM County line, PM 26.37) in the City of Palo Alto as the "Betty Meltzer Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered July 16, 2009. Resolution Chapter 74.

• SCR 57(Calderon) The CHP Officer David M. Romero Memorial Highway.
  Designate the portion of Route 60 eastbound from Route 605 (Mile Post Marker 11.71) to Hacienda Boulevard (Mile Post Marker 15.93) and westbound from Hacienda Boulevard (Mile Post Marker 15.96) to Route 605 (Mile Post Marker 11.59) in the County of Los Angeles as the "CHP Officer David M. Romero Memorial Highway"
  Chaptered September 25, 2009. Resolution Chapter 123.

Bills/Resolutions Vetoed

• AB 84 (Hill) Vote by mail ballots.
  Existing law sets forth procedures for voting by mail and requires the local elections official to compare the signature on a vote by mail ballot received with the voter's signature that appears on the affidavit of registration. Existing law requires the elections official to establish procedures to track and confirm the receipt of vote by mail ballots that are voted and to make that information available by means of online access using the county's elections division Internet Web site, or, if it has no Internet Web site, then by toll-free telephone number that may be used to confirm the date the ballot was received. This bill would further require the local elections official to establish a free access system by which a vote by mail voter may find out whether his or her ballot was counted and, if not, the reason why it was not counted, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
  Vetoed by Governor, 10/11/2009

• AB 101 (Anderson) Elections: vote by mail ballots.
  Existing law requires that a ballot contain all supplies necessary for the return of the ballot and that the identification envelope for a vote by mail ballot contain specified information. This bill would also require a notice that the identification envelope of a vote by mail ballot must be actually received by elections officials before the polls close on election day in order to be counted, except as specified.
  Vetoed by Governor. 10/11/2009.

• AB 632 (Davis) Internet-based social networking: privacy.
  This bill would require a social networking Internet Web site to provide a specified disclosure to a user, as defined, of the site stating an image which is uploaded to the social networking Internet Web site is capable of being copied with out the consent of the user who initially uploads the image, or copied in violation of the privacy policy, terms of use, or other policy of the site.
  Vetoed by Governor. October 11, 2009

• AB 882 (Fuller) Highways: victim memorial signs.
  Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to design, construct, place, and maintain, or cause to be designed, constructed, placed, and maintained, "Please Don't Drink and Drive" signs on state highways in memory of accident victims killed in accidents involving another party who was convicted of drunk driving or various other alcohol-related offenses, as specified, if the sign is requested or consented to by an immediate family member of the accident victim and the requester pays a fee to cover the department' s costs, as specified. This bill would expand these provisions to also include "Please Drive Safely" signs in memory of victims killed in vehicular accidents unrelated to drugs or alcohol. The bill would limit to 20 the number of signs that may be placed each calendar year under these new provisions.
  Vetoed by Governor. October 11, 2009

• ABX1 5 (Evans) Transportation projects.
  This bill would, until January 1, 2011, exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) specified transportation projects if certain conditions are met. Because a lead agency would be required to determine the applicability of, and to give notice of, that exemption, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill would also extend the authorization for comprehensive development lease agreements with public and private entities, or consortia of those entities, for certain transportation projects that may charge certain users of those projects tolls and user fees to January 1, 2014, and would increase the number of projects authorized to 5 projects in northern California and 5 projects in southern California. The bill would require the projects to be primarily designed to achieve improved mobility, improved operations or safety, and quantifiable air quality benefits. The bill would also eliminate the prohibition for the legislature to amend lease agreements, as well as eliminating the provision requiring approval or rejection by the Legislature. The bill would require that all lease agreements be submitted to the Legislature and the Public Infrastructure Advisory Commission, as defined, for review, as specified. The bill would also require the Public Infrastructure Advisory Commission to perform specified acts and would authorize that commission to charge the department and regional transportation agencies a fee for specified services. The bill would also eliminate the prohibition for tolls and user fees to be charged to noncommercial vehicles with 3 or fewer axles. This bill would specify that these provisions shall not become operative unless AB 2 of the 2009-10 First Extraordinary Session is enacted and becomes operative.
  Vetoed by Goernor. January 6, 2009.

• SB 20 (Simitian) Personal information: privacy.
  Existing law requires any agency, and any person or business conducting business in California, that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to disclose in specified ways, any breach of the security of the system or data, as defined, following discovery or notification of the security breach, to any California resident whose unencrypted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person. This bill would require any agency, person, or business that is required to issue a security breach notification pursuant to existing law to fulfill certain additional requirements pertaining to the security breach notification, as specified. The bill would also require any agency, person, or business that is required to issue a security breach notification to more than 500 California residents pursuant to existing law to electronically submit a single sample copy of that security breach notification to the Attorney General, as specified. The bill would also incorporate additional changes made by the Governor's Reorganization Plan.
  Vetoed by Governor, October 11, 2009

• SB 545 (Cedillo) I-710 Construction: Subsurface Routing Only
  Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to enter into an agreement prior to any closure of a city street or county highway due to construction of a freeway with a city council or board of supervisors having jurisdiction. Existing law provides an exception to those provisions for a freeway segment within the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, if specified requirements have been met, including that an agreement with one or more counties and cities is not possible because an impasse has existed for 10 or more years after an initial route was adopted. This bill would limit this exception to construction of a segment of a freeway that consists solely of a subsurface transportation facility, as specified. The bill would also require, as a condition for the exception to apply, that an agreement with one or more counties and cities is not possible because an impasse has existed for 20 or more years after an initial route was adopted. Existing law establishes Route 710 from Route 1 to Route 210 in Pasadena. This bill would provide that Route 710 between Valley Boulevard in the City of Los Angeles and Del Mar Boulevard in the City of Pasadena may not be a surface or above-grade highway.
  Vetoed by Governor. October 11, 2009

Dead, Inactive, Joint Rule 56, or Moribund Proposals

Alas, sometimes this proposals come back to life when a legislator wants to introduce a bill, but is past the bill introduction date. The bill or resolution is then amended beyond recognition and morphed into a new bill, often on a different subject.

• AB 113 (Portantino) Highways: Route 710: sale of property.
  This bill would require the department to sell the real property it owns relative to the unconstructed portion of Route 710 in Los Angeles County located to the north of I-10, with residential property to be sold using the process for sale of surplus residential real property, except that property occupied since at least January 1, 2004, by a school or nonprofit organization would first be offered to the occupant. The bill would require proceeds from the sale of each parcel equal to the department's acquisition price of the parcel to be deposited in the State Highway Account. All remaining sale proceeds would be deposited in the General Fund, to be available, upon appropriation, for increasing funding for public higher education.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/20/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION HEARING DATE : 04/27/2009

• AB 251 (Knight) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
  Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority with specified powers and duties relative to transportation planning, programming, and operations in Los Angeles County. The authority is governed by a 14-member board of directors, including the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, 2 public members and one Los Angeles city council member appointed by the mayor, 4 members appointed from the other cities in the county, the 5 members of the board of supervisors, and a nonvoting member appointed by the Governor. This bill would provide for the appointment of one member by the city councils of the Cities of Palmdale, Lancaster, and Santa Clarita, as specified, and would delete one of the public members appointed by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles. The bill would also exclude the Cities of Palmdale, Lancaster, and Santa Clarita from the selection of the 4 members appointed from other cities in the county.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 05/20/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). COMM. LOCATION : ASM LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• AB 255 (Anderson) Internet security: virtual globe technology.
  This bill would prohibit an operator, as defined, of a commercial Internet Web site or online service that makes a virtual globe browser available to members of the public from providing aerial or satellite photographs or imagery of places in this state that have been identified on the Internet Web site by the operator as a school, place of worship, or government or medical building or facility unless those photographs or images have been blurred. The bill would also prohibit that operator from providing street view photographs or imagery of those buildings and facilities. An operator that violates these provisions would be guilty of a crime and subject to a fine of not less than $250,000 for each day the operator is in violation of these provisions. In addition, an operator who is an executive officer or member of a board of directors who knowingly violates these provisions would also be subject to imprisonment in the state prison for one, 2, or 3 years. Because the bill would create new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/17/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : ASM ARTS, ENTERTAIN, SPORTS, TOURISM, & INTERNET MEDIA

• AB 497 (Block) Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: used by physicians.
  This bill would authorize the Department of Transportation and local authorities to also permit exclusive or preferential use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes by a vehicle driven by a physician if the vehicle is driven by a physician in response to an emergency call and the vehicle displays the insignia approved by the Department of the California Highway Patrol. The exemption from certain speed limit requirements would not apply to the use of an HOV lane by a physician under this provision. The bill would also increase the fines for the unauthorized use of an HOV lane in violation of this provision. The bill would provide that this provision only applies if the Director of Transportation determines that the application would not subject the state to a loss of federal aid for highways.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/16/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING

• AB 619 (Blumenfield) Transportation projects: federal funds: delays.
  This bill would require the department to notify the Legislature within 30 days of making a determination that a project, including a project designated in the National Corridor Infrastructure Improvement Program, will be delayed beyond its scheduled completion date due to state cashflow or other funding issues, if the delay places at risk federal funds, including funds earmarked for the project.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/17/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING

• AB 726 (Nielsen) Transportation capital improvement projects.
  Existing law generally provides for allocation of transportation capital improvement funds pursuant to the State Transportation Improvement Program process. Existing law provides for 75% of funds available for transportation capital improvement projects to be made available for regional projects, and 25% for interregional projects. Existing law describes the types of projects that may be funded with the regional share of funds, and includes local road projects as a category of eligible projects. This bill would state that local road rehabilitation projects are eligible for these funds.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/16/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING HEARING DATE : 07/07/2009

• AB 925 (Saldana) Recycling: single-use plastic beverage container caps.
  The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which is administered by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, requires every rigid plastic packaging container, as defined, sold or offered for sale in this state, to generally meet one of specified criteria. This bill would define terms and would prohibit a retailer, on and after January 1, 2012, from selling or offering for sale a single-use plastic beverage container with a cap that is not tethered to or contiguously affixed to the beverage container.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 09/08/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : To inactive file on motion of Senator Liu. FILE : SEN INACTIVE FILE - ASSEMBLY BILLS FILE DATE : 10/14/2009 ITEM : A- 43 COMM. LOCATION : SEN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMM. ACTION DATE : 07/06/2009 COMM. ACTION : Do pass. COMM. VOTE SUMMARY : Ayes: 04 Noes: 02 PASS

• AB 1010 (Galgiani) Internet.
  Existing law requires an operator of a commercial Internet Web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its commercial Internet Web site or online service to conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Internet Web site. This bill would require an Internet company to remove visual material that depicts the commission of a violent or serious felony, as specified, upon the written or electronic request of the victim, next of kin, member of the victim's immediate family, or a representative designated by the victim or victim's immediate family.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 05/12/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : ASM JUDICIARY

• AB 1455 (Hill) Ephedrine: retail sale.
  This bill would instead provide that it is a misdemeanor, punishable as specified, for any retail distributor, except pursuant to a valid prescription from a licensed practitioner with prescriptive authority, to sell or distribute to a person specified amounts of nonprescription products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine within specified time limits, to sell or distribute any of those substances to a person whose information has generated an alert, or, except under specified conditions, to sell or distribute to any purchaser a nonprescription product containing any amount of those substances. The bill would contain provisions requiring the secure storage of products containing any amount of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine and providing for the creation of an electronic authorization and monitoring system for the collection of, access to, and sharing of information regarding these transactions, as specified. The bill's provisions would remain in effect only until January 1, 2017. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 08/24/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : SEN PUBLIC SAFETY

• AB 1500 (Lieu) High-occupancy lanes: single occupancy vehicles: sunset date.
  Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate certain lanes for the exclusive use of high-occupancy vehicles (HOV), which lanes may also be used, until January 1, 2011, by certain low-emission and hybrid vehicles not carrying the requisite number of passengers otherwise required for the use of an HOV lane if the vehicle displays a valid identifier issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law, until January 1, 2011, makes it a misdemeanor to illegally use a decal, label, or other identifiers issued by the department. This bill would extend the date, to January 1, 2014, that specified vehicles can use high-occupancy lanes, the department can issue low-emission and hybrid decals or other identifiers, and illegal use of a department-issued decal is considered a misdemeanor, creating a state-mandated local program.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 09/11/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : To inactive file on motion of Senator Florez. FILE : SEN INACTIVE FILE - ASSEMBLY BILLS FILE DATE : 10/14/2009 ITEM : A- 58 COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS COMM. ACTION DATE : 08/17/2009 COMM. ACTION : Senate Rule 28.8.

• AB 1502 (Eng) Vehicles: HOV lanes.
  Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate certain lanes for the exclusive use of high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs), which lanes may also be used, until January 1, 2011, or until the Secretary of State receives a specified notice, by certain low-emission, hybrid, or alternative fuel vehicles not carrying the requisite number of passengers otherwise required for the use of an HOV lane if the vehicle displays a valid identifier. This bill would revise that provision to provide that it shall remain in effect until January 1, 2017, or until the Secretary of State receives a specified notice, except that with respect to a hybrid or alternative fuel vehicle the provision would be operative only until January 1, 2011, or until the Secretary of State receives the specified notice.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/27/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION

• ABX4 24 (Bass) Transportation finance.
  The Motor Vehicle Fuel License Tax Law imposes a tax of $0.18 per gallon on motor vehicle fuel, commonly referred to as gasoline. The Diesel Fuel Tax Law imposes a tax of $0.18 per gallon on diesel fuel. These revenues, after certain deductions for nonhighway fuel uses, are deposited in the Highway Users Tax Account. Approximately 1/3 of the revenues in the account are appropriated, to be apportioned by various formulas to cities and counties, and most of the remaining revenues are deposited in the State Highway Account after specified transfers to the Bicycle Transportation Account and the State Parks and Recreation Fund. This bill would require the Controller, if a specified portion of the Highway Users Tax Account is transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund, to make certain calculations regarding the amount of funding that has been transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund. The bill would, commencing in the 2011-12 fiscal year, and in each fiscal year thereafter for a total of 10 years, continuously appropriate a certain amount of revenues from the General Fund, which would be required to be apportioned to local agencies in a manner that fully restores the funds transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 07/24/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. To inactive file on motion of Assembly Member Torrico. FILE : SEN THIRD READING FILE DATE : 07/23/2009 ITEM : 24

• ABX4 30 (Evans) Transportation finance: Highway Users Tax Account.
  (1) The Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law imposes a tax of $0.18 per gallon on motor vehicle fuel, commonly referred to as gasoline. The Diesel Fuel Tax Law imposes a tax of $0.18 per gallon on diesel fuel. These revenues, after certain deductions for nonhighway fuel uses, are deposited in the Highway Users Tax Account. Approximately 1/3 of the revenues in the account are apportioned by various formulas to cities and counties, and most of the remaining revenues are deposited in the State Highway Account after specified transfers to the Bicycle Transportation Account and the State Parks and Recreation Fund. Under Article XIX of the California Constitution, the portion of fuel tax revenues that is derived from use in motor vehicles upon public streets and highways is restricted for expenditure on street and highway and certain mass transit guideway purposes, and up to 25% of these and other vehicle-related revenues that are available for street and highway purposes may be pledged or used for the payment of principal and interest on voter-approved bonds issued for those purposes. This bill would modify the apportionment of fuel tax revenues designated for street and highway and guideway purposes for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 fiscal years. For those years, the bill would provide for 65% of revenues to be deposited in the State Highway Account and 25% to be deposited in the Transportation Debt Service Fund. Of the remaining 10% of revenue, additional fuel tax revenues would be transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund in an amount equivalent to 25% of vehicle weight fee revenues for the 2009-10 fiscal year only, certain amounts would be made available to the Bicycle Transportation Account and the State Parks and Recreation Fund, and the remaining revenues would be apportioned to cities and counties by certain formulas. This bill would authorize the Director of Finance to provide a hardship exemption from reduced apportionments for 2009-10 fiscal year to a county or city under certain conditions. The bill would also provide an exemption for specified smaller cities for that fiscal year. The bill would make other related changes. This bill would also authorize the Director of Finance to reimburse the General Fund, from revenues transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund from the Highway Users Tax Account, any amount necessary to offset the cost of debt service payments made from the General Fund during any fiscal year for transportation-related general obligation bond expenditures consistent with specified provisions of Article XIX of the California Constitution. The bill would also provide for transfer from the Mass Transportation Fund to the Transportation Debt Service Fund of any amount of the "spillover" gasoline sales tax funds received during the 2009-10 to 2012-13 fiscal years necessary to offset the cost of debt service payments made from the General Fund during any fiscal year for transportation-related general obligation bond expenditures. (2) Existing law authorizes the county recorder to charge certain fees for recording and indexing every instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded. Existing law requires $1 for recording the first page and $1 for each additional page to be available solely to support, maintain, improve, and provide for the full operation for modernized creation, retention, and retrieval of information in the county's system of recorded documents. This bill, for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 fiscal years, would authorize a county to loan the records modernization funds to the county road fund in an amount not to exceed the amount of any revenues from the Highway Users Tax Account diverted from the county in the applicable fiscal year. (3) This bill would make various findings and declarations relative to transportation funding. (4) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on July 1, 2009. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on July 1, 2009, pursuant to the California Constitution.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 07/24/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. To inactive file on motion of Assembly Member Torrico. FILE : SEN THIRD READING FILE DATE : 07/23/2009 ITEM : 30

• SB 29 (Denham) State surplus property: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
  (1) Existing law creates the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission as a joint powers agreement between the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, and the Sixth District Agricultural Association, referred to as the California Science Center. This bill would require the California Science Center to sell the parcel of land that the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena occupy and the state's share of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena structure by authorizing the Department of General Services to establish a process to solicit bids for the fair market sale of the parcel of the land and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena structure. Any buyer or buyers who specify that they will continue with the same use of the parcel of land and the Los Angeles Memorial sports Arena structure would be exempt from any applicable state and local environmental laws and regulations with regard to improvements, construction, or remodeling. (2) The California Constitution provides that the proceeds from the sale of surplus state property be used to pay the principal and interest on bonds issued pursuant to the Economic Recovery Bond Act until the principal and interest on those bonds are fully paid, after which these proceeds are required to be deposited into the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties. Existing statutory law similarly requires that the net proceeds received from any real property disposition be paid into the Deficit Recovery Bond Retirement Sinking Fund Subaccount, a continuously appropriated fund, until the bonds issued pursuant to the act are retired. By increasing the amount transferred into a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill would terminate the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission upon the completion of the sale of the land that the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena occupy.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/23/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : SEN GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION

• SB 60 (Cedillo) Vehicles: driver's licenses.
  This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2011, in the issuance of driver' s licenses and identification cards, to issue licenses and cards that are in compliance with specified requirements of the federal Real ID Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-13).
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/22/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION

• SB 485 (Wright) State Highway Operation and Protection Program Emergency Funding Act.
  This bill would enact the State Highway Operation and Protection Program Emergency Funding Act and state the intent of the Legislature to provide adequate funding to meet the needs of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program in the 2009-10 fiscal year.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/23/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING

• SB 528 (Negrete McLeod) Toll facilities: comprehensive development lease agreements.
  Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and regional transportation agencies, as defined, until January 1, 2012, to enter into comprehensive development lease agreements with public and private entities, or consortia of those entities, for certain transportation projects that may charge users of those projects tolls and user fees, subject to various terms and conditions. Existing law limits the number of projects authorized pursuant to these provisions to 2 in northern California and 2 in southern California. Existing law provides that a lease agreement may provide for reasonable compensation to the leaseholder for the adverse effects on toll or user fee revenue due to competing transportation projects that may be undertaken, as specified. This bill would prohibit a lease agreement entered into on or after January 1, 2010, from providing for compensation for adverse effects of competing projects.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 05/12/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING

• SB 535 (Yee) Vehicles: High-occupancy vehicle lanes.
  (1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate certain lanes for the exclusive use of high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs), which lanes may also be used, until January 1, 2011, or until the Secretary of State receives a specified notice, by certain low-emission, hybrid, or alternative fuel vehicles not carrying the requisite number of passengers otherwise required for the use of an HOV lane, if the vehicle displays a valid identifier. A violation of provisions relating to HOV lane use by vehicles with those identifiers is a crime. This bill would revise that provision to provide that it shall remain in effect only until the Secretary of State receives that specified notice, with respect to a vehicle that meets California's super ultra-low exhaust emission standard and the federal inherently low-emission evaporative emission (ILEV) standard and a vehicle produced during the 2004 model-year or earlier that meets the California ultra-low emission vehicle standard and the ILEV standard. With respect to all other vehicles described above, this provision shall be operative only until January 1, 2011, or only until the Secretary of State receives that specified notice, whichever occurs first. The bill, between January 1, 2011, and January 1, 2014, would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue up to 65,000 identifiers to vehicles that meet California's enhanced advanced technology partial zero-emission vehicle (enhanced AT PZEV) standard and have a 65 miles per gallon or greater combined fuel economy rating, except the department's authorization to do so would end if the secretary receives the specified notice before then. The bill would authorize vehicles with that identifier to use HOV lanes until January 1, 2014, or until the Secretary of State receives a specified notice, whichever occurs first. By extending and changing the definition of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make technical and conforming changes. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 09/10/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Placed on inactive file on request of Assembly Member Torrico. FILE : ASM INACTIVE FILE FILE DATE : 10/26/2009 ITEM : A- 37 COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS COMM. ACTION DATE : 08/19/2009 COMM. ACTION : Do pass. COMM. VOTE SUMMARY : Ayes: 15 Noes: 00 PASS

• SCA 3 (Wyland) Transportation Investment Fund.
  Article XIX B of the California Constitution requires, commencing with the 2003-04 fiscal year, that sales taxes on motor vehicle fuel that are deposited into the General Fund be transferred to the Transportation Investment Fund (TIF) for allocation to various transportation purposes. Article XIX B authorizes this transfer to be suspended in whole or in part for a fiscal year during a fiscal emergency pursuant to a proclamation by the Governor and the enactment of a statute by a 2/3 vote in each house of the Legislature, subject to various restrictions. This measure would delete the provisions authorizing the transfer of revenues to the TIF to be suspended during a fiscal emergency. The measure would also prohibit a loan of TIF revenues under any circumstances, and would prohibit any statute that would reduce the extent to which these tax revenues are deposited into the General Fund for transfer to the TIF for transportation purposes.
  LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/23/2009 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : SEN REVENUE AND TAXATION

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