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AB = Assembly Bill · ACR = Assembly Concurrent Resolution
SB
= Senate Bill · SCR = Senate Concurrent Resolution
This information reflects a review of legislation proposed as of 2010-06-25. Note that some are non-highway, if I find them of interest. Last items examined:
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
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
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
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 would provide that the information in the system may not be used for any
purpose other than to meet the requirements of, or comply with, this act or a
certain federal act, as specified. The bill would specify legislative findings,
declarations, and intent. 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: 06/22/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Do pass, and
re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 22). COMM.
LOCATION : SEN JUDICIARY HEARING DATE : 06/29/2010
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: 06/10/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on T. & H. COMM. LOCATION : SEN
TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING HEARING DATE : 06/29/2010
AB
1815 (Emmerson) Vehicles: special interest license plates:
NASCAR..
Existing law authorizes private organizations to apply to
the Department of Motor Vehicles for participation in special interest license
plate programs authorized by legislation in which the department issues license
plates with a participating organization's distinctive design, decal, or
descriptive message and specifies the design criteria for the special license
plate. Existing law requires that the organization collect and receive a
minimum of 7,500 applications and fees for the special interest license plates
from the date of the enactment of the legislation authorizing the special
interest license plate. Existing law permits any individual to apply for an
organization's special interest license plate. This bill would make a
technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions. Existing law
also authorizes a state agency to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles to
sponsor a specialized license plate program and requires the department to
issue the specialized license plates for the program if the state agency
complies with specified requirements. This bill would authorize the Bureau of
Automotive Repair (bureau) to apply to the department to sponsor a program for
a series of specialized NASCAR license plates that bear emblems, seals, or
other symbols or designs displaying themes of professional stock car auto
racing, or professional stock car auto racing drivers. The bill would require
the department to issue the specialized plates if the bureau complies with
existing requirements applicable to specialized license plate programs. The
bill would require that the design of each specialty plate in the series be
approved by the department and the Department of the California Highway Patrol.
The bill would authorize the department and the bureau to contract with
3rd-party vendors or the Prison Industry Authority for the manufacture,
processing, and distribution of the specialized NASCAR license plates. The bill
would specify that the fee for the original issuance of the specialized license
plates be $60, and, for the renewal of registration with the plates, the fee
would be $50. The bill would also require that these fees be distributed no
less frequently than each quarter annually to the department and the bureau in
specified amounts.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE:
06/10/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on T. & H. COMM. LOCATION :
SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING
AB
1840 (Tom Berryhill) Credit unions.
Existing law provides
for the regulation and certification of credit unions by the Commissioner of
Financial Institutions. Existing law sets forth the purposes of credit unions
and provides that a credit union is a cooperative that conducts its business
for the mutual benefit and general welfare of its members. This bill would make
nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
LAST HIST.
ACT. DATE: 02/16/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From printer. May be heard in
committee March 18.
AB
1871 (Jones) Motor vehicle insurance coverage:
carsharingpersonal vehicle sharing.
This bill would
prohibit a private passenger motor vehicle from being classified for
insurance purposes as a commercial, for-hire, or permissive use vehicle, or
livery solely on the basis of it being used for carsharing
personal vehicle sharing, as defined, if the annual revenue
received by the motor vehicle's owner that is generated by
carsharing personal vehicle sharing does not exceed the
monthly annual expenses of operating the vehicle,
including, but not limited to, depreciation, interest, lease payments,
auto loan payments, insurance, maintenance, and fuel, provided that motor
vehicle insurance coverage is provided by the and the personal vehicle sharing is conducted p ursuant to a
personal vehicle sharing program. The bill would define a personal
vehicle sharing program as carsharing personal
vehicle sharing organization for the period when the vehicle is being used
by a carsharing member who is not person other than the
ownerana legal entity
facilitating qualified to do business in the state that
facilitates personal vehicle sharing and providing automobile
liability insurance coverage for a privately owned motor vehicle, as
prescribed, when it is being used by a person other than the owner, as
specified. The bill would require a personal vehicle sharing program, among
other things, during all times that the vehicle is engaged in personal vehicle
sharing, to provide insurance coverage, as specified, and collect, maintain,
and make available to the vehicle owner and the vehicle owner's primary
automobile liability insurer verifiable electronic records identifying the
date, time, initial and final locations of the vehicle, and miles driven when
it is being used as part of the personal vehicle sharing program. The bill
would limit the circumstances under which the motor vehicle owner's liability
insurance can be subject to liability, and require that automobile insurance
policies not be canceled, voided, terminated, rescinded, or nonrenewed on the
basis that the motor vehicle has been made available for personal vehicle
sharing. The bill would authorize the insurer of the vehicle to exclude any
and all coverage afforded under the vehicle owner's automobile insurance policy
while the vehicle is used by a person other than the owner as part of a
personal vehicle sharing program.
LAST HIST.
ACT. DATE: 06/10/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on B., F. & I.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to
committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., F. &
I. COMM. LOCATION : SEN BANKING, FINANCE AND INSURANCE HEARING DATE :
06/30/2010
AB
1908 (Cook) Vehicles: specialized license plates: Veterans'
organization.
Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles
(DMV) issues environmental and other specialized license plates, including
veterans' organization license plates. Those license plates are required to
have a distinctive design or decal. The issuance of those license plates is
subject to additional fees, the revenue from which, less the DMV's costs, is
required to be deposited in the Veterans Service Office Fund, except that
½ of a specified additional fee is required to be deposited in the
California Environmental License Plate Fund. Existing law requires money in the
Veterans Service Office Fund to be available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to the Department of Veterans Affairs for allocation and
disbursement to counties for the operation of county veterans service offices.
This bill would authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs to modify the
distinctive design or decal for those veterans' organization license plates.
The bill would authorize those newly designed plates or decals to be issued
only after all existing plates or decals have been issued. The bill also would
delete the requirement that ½ of the specified additional fee be
deposited in the California Environmental License Plate Fund, and, instead,
would require all revenue from those additional fees, less the DMV's costs, to
be deposited in the Veterans Service Office Fund. The bill would require the
DMV, by July 1, 2011, to maintain on its Internet Web site, a link to order
online the veterans' organization license plates.
LAST
HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/23/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Do pass, and
re-refer to Com. on T. & H. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 22). COMM.
LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING HEARING DATE : 06/29/2010
AB
1944 (Fletcher) Vehicles: special license plates: disabled veterans.
Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles is required, upon
application and without additional fees, to issue a special license plate or
plates to a disabled person, a disabled veteran, or an organization or agency
involved in the transportation of those persons pursuant to procedures adopted
by the department. Existing law requires the department, prior to issuing a
special license plate to a disabled person or disabled veteran, to require the
submission of a certificate signed by a medical professional, as provided, that
substantiates the disability of the person or veteran, in certain situations.
This bill, in addition, would require the department to accept, in lieu of the
certificate signed by a medical professional, a certificate from the United
States Department of Veterans Affairs that certifies the applicant is a
disabled veteran. Existing law authorizes a disabled person or veteran to apply
to the department for the issuance of a distinguishing placard to be used in
lieu of the special license plate. Existing law requires the department, prior
to issuing the placard to a disabled person or disabled veteran, to require the
submission of a certificate signed by a medical professional, as provided, that
substantiates the disability of the person or veteran, in certain situations.
This bill, in addition, would require the department to accept, in lieu of the
certificate signed by a medical professional, a certificate from the United
States Department of Veterans Affairs that certifies the applicant is a
disabled veteran.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/24/2010
LAST HIST. ACTION : Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on T. &
H. COMM. LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING HEARING DATE : 06/29/2010
AB
1984 (Nielsen) Highways: county signs: honoring veterans.
Existing law authorizes county officials to place and maintain on any state or
county highway within their respective jurisdictions, at or near the county
line and at county expense, signs stating or adding "Where We Honor Veterans."
If located on a state highway, these signs are subject to approval by the
Department of Transportation. This bill would include "In Honor of Our Vietnam
Veterans" as an alternative or additional statement for these signs.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/19/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : In
committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION
AB
1998 (Brownley) Solid waste: single-use carryout bags.
This
bill would repeal those at-store recycling program requirements on January 1,
2011 , and would instead, on and after January 1, 2012, prohibit certain types
of stores , as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer.
The bill would, on and after July 1, 2013, prohibit convenience food stores,
foodmarts, and certain specified stores from providing a single-use carryout
bag to a customer. The bill would require a store, on and after July 1, 2013,
to only provide reusable bags, as defined, or to make available for sale
recycled paper bags at a reasonable cost, but not less than $0.05. The bill
would exempt the sale of certain specified bags from the above prohibition and
restriction. The bill would, beginning January 1, 2013, require a reusable bag
manufacturer to obtain a biennial certification from the Department of
Resources Recycling and Recovery by submitting a certification fee and a
certification that its reusable bag meets specified requirements. The bill
would specify administrative civil penalties for a person who violates the
above requirements. The bill would require the department to deposit the
certification fees into the Reusable Bag Account, which would be established by
the bill in the Integrated Waste Management Fund, and to deposit the penalties
and fines collected into the Penalty Subaccount, which would be established by
the bill in the account. The bill would provide that moneys in the account and
the subaccount would be expended by the department, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to implement the above requirements. This bill would preempt local
regulations on the use and sales of reusable bags, single-use carryout bags,
recycled paper bags, or other specified bags at stores, as defined.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/10/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to
Com. on EQ. COMM. LOCATION : SEN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY HEARING DATE :
06/28/2010
AB
2489 (Tom Berryhill) Vehicles: bicycles: state highways.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and local
authorities, by order, ordinance, or resolution, with respect to freeways,
expressways, or designated portions thereof under their respective
jurisdictions, to which vehicle access is completely or partially controlled,
to prohibit or restrict the use of those freeways, expressways, or any portion
thereof by pedestrians, bicycles or other nonmotorized traffic or by any person
operating a motor-driven cycle, motorized bicycle, or motorized scooter. This
bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 02/22/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION :
Read first time.
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.
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: 06/16/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR.
Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 15). COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS
HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
ACR
103 (John A. Perez) Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Juan Abel
Escalante Memorial Highway.
Designate the portion of US 101 from
North Mission Road to North Alameda Street, including the on ramp and off ramp
of North Vignes Street, in Los Angeles County as the "Los Angeles County
Deputy Sheriff Juan Abel Escalante Memorial Highway"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/17/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Read second
time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. COMM. LOCATION : SEN
APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
ACR
113 (Caballero) Bracero Memorial Highway.
Designates the
portion of US 101 from milepost 312 to exit 317, south of Chualar, in Monterey
County, as the "Bracero Memorial Highway".
LAST
HIST. ACT. DATE: 05/06/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Amended. COMM. LOCATION : SEN
APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
ACR
124 (Bass) Culver City Police Lieutenant Curtis Massey Memorial
Overpass.
Designates the eastbound portion of the National Boulevard
overpass on the I-10 Freeway in the City of Los Angeles as the "Culver City
Police Lieutenant Curtis Massey Memorial Overpass".
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/16/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes
1.) (June 15). COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
ACR
127 (Adams) CHP Officer Larry L. Wetterling and San Bernardino
County Sheriff's Lieutenant Alfred E. Stewart Memorial Highway.
Designates the segment of I-15 between its junction with I-215 and Oak
Hill Road, in the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino, as the “CHP
Officer Larry L. Wetterling and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Lieutenant
Alfred E. Stewart Memorial Highway”.
LAST
HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/24/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Amend, and be
adopted as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 15).
FILE : SEN SECOND READING FILE DATE : 06/28/2010 ITEM : 8 COMM. LOCATION : SEN
TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING COMM. ACTION DATE : 06/15/2010 COMM. ACTION : Be
adopted as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. COMM. VOTE
SUMMARY : Ayes: 06 Noes: 01 PASS
ACR
130 (De La Torre) Arnold C. Garcia Memorial Highway.
Designate the portion of I-5 between East Olympic Boulevard and South
Atlantic Boulevard, in the City of Commerce, as the “Arnold C. Garcia
Memorial Highway”.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE:
06/24/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. COMM.
LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING COMM. ACTION DATE : 06/22/2010 COMM.
ACTION : Be adopted as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on
Appropriations. COMM. VOTE SUMMARY : Ayes: 05 Noes: 01 PASS
ACR
146 (Hayashi) Sergeant Mark Dunakin, Sergeant Ervin Romans, and
Officer John Hege Memorial Bridge.
Designate the Keller Avenue Bridge
that crosses I-580 in the City of Oakland as the “Sergeant Mark
Dunakin, Sergeant Ervin Romans, and Officer John Hege Memorial
Bridge”.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/23/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR.
Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 22). COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS
ACR
149 (Hall) Kevin Murray Highway.
Designates the portion of
I-405 between I-10 and Route 90 in the County of Los Angeles as the "Kevin
Murray Highway"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/20/2010
LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR.
with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.)
(April 19). COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS
ACR
159 (Eng) CHP Officer Johnny R. Martinez Memorial Highway.
Designates the portion of I-10 from eastbound milepost marker 10 LA
22.31 to westbound milepost marker 10 LA 22.33 in the City of Alhambra as
"the CHP Officer Johnny R. Martinez Memorial Highway"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/16/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes
1.) (June 15). COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
ACR
160 (V. Manuel Perez) Imperial Valley Pioneers Expressway.
Designates the portion of Route 111 between I-8 and Route 78, in
Imperial County, as the "Imperial Valley Pioneers Expressway"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/10/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To
Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 7). COMM. LOCATION :
ASM APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
ACR
164 (Villines) Deputy Sheriff Joel B. Wahlenmaier Memorial Highway.
Designates the portion of Route 168 from approximately 0.5 miles east
of Lodge Road to Ockenden Ranch Road in Fresno County as the "Deputy Sheriff
Joel B. Wahlenmaier Memorial Highway"
LAST HIST.
ACT. DATE: 06/15/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Re-referred to Com. on APPR. COMM.
LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
ACR
165 (Blakeslee) Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial Highway.
Designates the portion of Route 246 from mile marker 9.56, the westerly
Buellton city limit, to mile marker R25.04, the East Junction Route 01/246, in
the City of Lompoc as the "Mayor Dick DeWees Memorial Highway"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/15/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To
Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 14). COMM. LOCATION :
ASM APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
ACR
172 (Villines) Ernest N. Mobley Memorial Interchange.
Designates the State Highway Route 180 interchange at Temperance Avenue
in the City of Fresno as the "Ernest N. Mobley Memorial Interchange"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/15/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION :
From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation:
To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 14). COMM. LOCATION
: ASM APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
ACR
174 (Eng) Roberto "Bobby" Salcedo Memorial Highway.
Designates the portion of Route 60 between I-710 and the city limit of
the City of Rosemead in the County of Los Angeles as the "Roberto "Bobby"
Salcedo Memorial Highway"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE:
06/22/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 13. Noes
0.) (June 21). COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
ACR
175 (Anderson) Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier Memorial Bridge.
Designates the Oak Canyon Bridge on Route 52 in Santee, located between
Post Mile 11.662 and Post Mile 11.799, as the "Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James
Collier Memorial Bridge"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE:
06/17/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on TRANS. COMM. LOCATION : ASM
TRANSPORTATION HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
ACR
176 (Conway) Detective Monty L. Conley and Detective Joe R. Landin
Memorial Highway.
Designates the portion of Route 198 between Road 204
East and Route 216, in the County of Tulare, as the "Detective Monty L.
Conley and Detective Joe R. Landin Memorial Highway"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/24/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to
Com. on TRANS. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
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 COMM. ACTION DATE
: 01/11/2010 COMM. ACTION : Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on
Appropriations. COMM. VOTE SUMMARY : Ayes: 02 Noes: 00 FAIL
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
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
sale of a gift certificate that contains a dormancy fee, subject to specified
exceptions. This bill would require that a gift certificate sold after
January 1, 2012,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 that any gift certificate with
a cash value of less than $10 may be redeemed in cash for its cash value.
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: 06/22/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set, first hearing. Further
hearing to be set. COMM. LOCATION : ASM BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND CONSUMER
PROTECTION HEARING DATE : 06/29/2010
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:
06/03/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : To Com. on JUD. COMM. LOCATION : ASM JUDICIARY
COMM. ACTION DATE : 06/22/2010 COMM. ACTION : Do pass as amended. COMM. VOTE
SUMMARY : Ayes: 06 Noes: 03 PASS
SB
927 (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 technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision of law.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 02/11/2010
LAST HIST. ACTION : To Com. on RLS.
SB
969 (Liu) Public postsecondary education: student fee policy.
Existing law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, provides for a
public postsecondary education system in this state. This system consists of
the University of California, the California State University, and the
California Community Colleges. Existing law authorizes these institutions to
require that mandatory systemwide fees, among other fees, be paid by students
at these institutions. The provisions of the Donahoe Higher Education Act apply
to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the
University of California act by resolution to make them applicable. This bill
would limit mandatory systemwide fees that are charged to resident
undergraduate students enrolled in the University of California and the
California State University to a specified amount, based on the average total
cost of education, as defined, at in the respective
segments. The bill would prohibit the trustees and the regents from
increasing those mandatory systemwide fees by an amount exceeding a specified
percentage of those fees charged to students for the immediately preceding
academic year, and would prohibit a specified mandatory systemwide fee increase
adopted on or after January July 1, 2011, from being
effective before 6 months have elapsed after the date on which the fee increase
is adopted. The bill would also require the regents and the trustees to develop
methodologies for the adjustment of fees in accordance with a prescribed
procedure, and would require the California Postsecondary Education Commission
to annually review, and report to the Legislature and the Director of Finance,
its findings, conclusions, or recommendations regarding the implementation of
policies implemented pursuant to the bill. This bill would provide that
the act does its provisions would not apply to the University
of California, except to the extent that the Regents of the University of
California adopt a resolution making it applicable. The bill would request the
regents to adopt policies that are consistent with the act this
bill. These provisions would become operative on July 1, 2011.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/22/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION :
Hearing postponed by committee. COMM. LOCATION : ASM HIGHER EDUCATION HEARING
DATE : 06/30/2010
SB
993 (Huff) State Highway Route 66: City of Claremont.
This
bill would authorize the commission to relinquish to the City of Claremont that
portion of State Highway Route 66 within its city limits under specified
conditions.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/22/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on
APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) Re-referred
to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 21.) COMM. LOCATION : ASM
APPROPRIATIONS
SB
1061 (Hancock) San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: capital projects.
Existing law specifies the respective powers and duties of the
Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and
the Bay Area Toll Authority relative to the state-owned toll bridges in the Bay
Area. Existing law specifies major capital projects on the bridges and other
expenditures that may be funded from toll revenues. Existing law provides that
the authority may increase the toll rates to provide funds for various
purposes, including the planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance,
repair, replacement, rehabilitation, and seismic retrofit of these bridges.
This bill would include, among the projects that may be funded from state-owned
toll bridge revenues, a major project on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
consisting of a bicycle-pedestrian-maintenance pathway linking the pathway on
the replacement eastern span with San Francisco. The bill would provide that
the project may be sponsored by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
The bill would prohibit the Bay Area Toll Authority from increasing tolls to
fund this project.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE:
06/22/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Do pass, but first be
re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
(Heard in committee on June 21.) COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS
SB
1245 (Simitian) High-occupancy vehicle lanes.
This bill
would require an HOV lane, including, but not limited to, a HOT lane, on a
highway or bridge that was free of tolls to HOVs as of January 1, 2010, to
remain free of tolls with respect to HOVs. provide that a vehicle that
meets the applicable occupancy level for a high-occupancy vehicle for use of an
HOV lane, including a HOT lane, shall not be charged a toll. The bill would
also provide that an increase in the vehicle occupancy level for an HOV lane
may only be implemented if the department determines that the change will
maximize person throughput with respect to the affected highway. The bill would
require the department to obtain the approval of the applicable transportation
planning agency and report to the Legislature before implementing the change .
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/21/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION
: Held in committee without recommendation. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION
SB
1286 (Strickland) Driving under the influence: transdermal alcohol
monitoring.
This bill would encourage any county that is using a
continuous alcohol monitoring system, as defined, to monitor alcohol-related
driving by persons convicted of driving under the influence to report specified
information to the Department of Motor Vehicles, and would require any
information provided to be included in the department's Annual Report of the
California DUI Management System.
LAST HIST. ACT.
DATE: 03/04/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : To Com. on RLS.
SB
1299 (Lowenthal) Vehicles: vehicle miles traveled fee (VMT).
This bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop
and implement, by January 1, 2012, a pilot program designed to assess the
following issues related to implementing a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee in
California. The bill would also require the department to prepare and submit a
specified report of its findings to the policy and fiscal committees of the
Legislature no later than June 30, 2012.
LAST HIST.
ACT. DATE: 05/27/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Held in committee and under
submission. COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS
SB
1361 (Corbett) Social networking Internet Web sites: privacy:
minors.
This bill would prohibit a social networking Internet Web site,
as defined, from displaying, to the public or other registered users, the home
address or telephone number of a registered user of that Internet Web site who
is under 18 years of age, as provided. This bill would impose a civil penalty,
not to exceed $10,000, for each willful and knowing violation of this
prohibition.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/22/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : Hearing postponed by committee. COMM. LOCATION : ASM ARTS,
ENTERTAIN, SPORTS, TOURISM, & INTERNET MEDIA HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
SB
1393 (Simitian) Vehicles: biennial registration.
This bill
generally would require the Director of Motor Vehicles, commencing in 2012, to
establish a biennial registration period for vehicles, except the bill would
require the director to retain an annual registration period for vehicles
registered pursuant to the International Registration Plan or commercial motor
vehicles with a declared gross weight of 10,101 pounds or more. The bill would
require the Department of Motor Vehicles, commencing in 2012, to collect
2-years' worth of registration fees, vehicle license fees, and associated
charges at the time of biennial registration, rather than collecting those fees
and charges annually. The bill would make conforming changes and would require
the department to inform a person who renews his or her vehicle registration in
2011 of biennial registration beginning in 2012 and collection of registration
fees and charges on a biennial rather than annual basis.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/20/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set, second
hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. COMM. LOCATION : SEN
TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING
SB
1453 (Price) Vehicles: digital electronic license plates.
Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon the
registration of a vehicle, to issue to the owner of the vehicle license plates
meeting specified requirements for the vehicle. This bill would authorize the
department to take specified actions for the purposes of developing and
evaluating the use of digital electronic license plates, as defined. The bill
would authorize the department to contract with a private vendor for the
purposes of researching, reporting, developing, acquiring, and exploring the
utilization of the digital electronic license plates. The bill would require
the department, on or before January 1, 2013, to submit to the Legislature a
report on its investigation on the utilization of the digital electronic
license plates.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/21/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
SB
1475 (Simitian) Vehicles: electronic wireless communications
devices: prohibitions.
(1) Existing law requires the Department of
Motor Vehicles to examine applicants for specific driver's licenses and
requires that the examination include, among other things, a test of the
applicant' s knowledge and understanding of the provisions of the Vehicle Code
governing the operation of vehicles upon the highways. This bill would require
the department to include a test of the applicant's understanding of the
distractions and dangers of handheld cell phone use and text messaging while
operating a motor vehicle. (2) Existing law establishes that specified
convictions and violations under the Vehicle Code and traffic-related incidents
count as points against a driver's record for purposes of the suspension or
revocation of the privilege to drive. Under existing law, it is an infraction
for any person to drive a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone,
unless that telephone is designed and configured to allow hands-free listening
and talking operation, and is used in that manner while driving, except as
otherwise provided. A person under 18 years of age is prohibited from driving a
motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone, even if equipped with a
hands-free device, or while using a mobile service device. A point is not
given for a violation of these provisions. This bill
would assess a violation point on a 2nd or subsequent violation of these
provisions. Under (3) Under
existing law, a person is also prohibited from driving
a motor vehicle while using an electronic wireless communications device to
write, send, or read a text-based communication, except as specified. This
bill would require that this provision does not apply if the person is using a
voice-operated, hands-free device. A violation of these
provision is an infraction and a violation point is not given for a violation
of these provisions. This bill would delete the exemption
from the violation point count that would be given for a conviction of the 3
provisions specified above, except for a violation committed by a person riding
a bicycle. The The bill also would increase the
base fines for a conviction under each of the first 2 provisions
violation of any of the above described prohibitions involving
driving a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone or electronic wireless
communications device from $20 to $50 and the fine for a 2nd or
subsequent offense from $50 to $100 and , would
also apply these those
prohibitions to a person riding a bicycle . The bill would also
increase the base fine for driving while using an electronic wireless
communications device to write, send, or read a text-based communication from
$20 to $50 for a first offense and from $50 to $100 for each subsequent offense
and would apply this prohibition to a person riding a bicycle. The bill
, and would also impose a total fine
amount of $20 for a first offense and $50 for each subsequent offense for a
violation of the above those prohibitions when
the offense is committed while riding a bicycle. By expanding the scope of
existing crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(3) (4) Existing law prohibits a law enforcement officer
from stopping a vehicle for the sole purpose of determining whether the driver
is violating the prohibition of driving a motor vehicle while using a wireless
telephone. This bill would delete that prohibition. (4)
(5) Existing law requires that the base fines collected from violations
of the Vehicle Code for crimes other than parking offenses are subject to
distribution to specified funds of a state or local agency as set forth by
statute or to the proper funds of a city or county, as applicable. This bill
would require the county treasurer to submit $10 from each fine collected under
(2) above this provision for violating the
above-described prohibitions involving driving a motor vehicle or riding a
bicycle while using a wireless telephone or electronic wireless communications
device to the Controller, for deposit into the Distracted Driver
Education Fund, which would be created in the State Treasury for an education
program on the dangers of cell phone use and text messaging while driving,
thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by imposing a new duty on local
officials. The bill would require the Legislature, upon appropriation in the
Budget Bill, to allocate this money to the Office of Traffic Safety in the
Business, Transportation and Housing Agency for this purpose. (5)
(6) 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.
This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement
is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other
mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement
for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/23/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION :
Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. COMM. LOCATION : ASM
APPROPRIATIONS
SCR
37 (Wiggins) Robert Louis Stevenson's Historic Trail to Silverado.
Designates the portion of Route 29 from post mile 37.9 to post mile
39.5 in Napa County as the "Robert Louis Stevenson's Historic Trail to
Silverado. "
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/18/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : Set for hearing June 28. COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS
HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
SCR
50 (Cox) Raymond Carpenter Memorial Highway.
Designates the
Rocklin Road interchange on I-80 in Placer County as the "CHP Officer
Raymond Carpenter Memorial Highway Interchange"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/10/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee: Be adopted, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on
APPR. (Heard in committee on June 7.) COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS
HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
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 to
Riverbank as the "R. Kirk Lindsey Memorial Highway"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/10/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee: Be adopted, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on
APPR. (Heard in committee on June 7.) COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS
HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
SCR
69 (Runner) CHP Officer Richard D. Duvall Memorial Highway.
Designates I-15 (formerly known as Route 66) in the City of Victorville
between the exit of D Street and the US 395 interchange as the “CHP
Officer Richard D. Duvall Memorial Highway”.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/10/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee: Be adopted, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on
APPR. (Heard in committee on June 7.) COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS
HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
SCR
83 (Negrete McLeod) Officer Russell M. Miller, Sr. Memorial Highway.
Designates the section of Route 60 between Mountain Avenue and Ramona
Avenue in Chino as the “Officer Russell M. Miller, Sr. Memorial
Highway”.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/10/2010
LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Be adopted, but first be re-referred to
Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 7.) COMM. LOCATION :
ASM APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
SCR
84 (Aanestad) Patricia Ann Weston Memorial Highway.
Designates the portion of Route 99 in Sutter County, from post mile 36
to post mile 40, inclusive,as the “Patricia Ann Weston Memorial
Highway”.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/10/2010
LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Be adopted, but first be re-referred to
Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 7.) COMM. LOCATION :
ASM APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
SCR
85 (Denham) Joseph A. Zanger Memorial Flyover.
Designates
the flyover ramp at the interchange of Route 152 and Route 156 as the
“Joseph A. Zanger Memorial Flyover”.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/10/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee: Be adopted, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on
APPR. (Heard in committee on June 7.) COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS
HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
SCR
88 (DeSaulnier) Officer Larry Lasater Memorial Overcrossing.
Designates the Harbor Avenue Overcrossing over Route 4 in Contra Costa
County as the “Officer Larry Lasater Memorial
Overcrossing”.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE:
06/15/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Be adopted, but first be
re-referred to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes
12. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 14.)
COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
SCR
89 (Correa) Nguyen Ngoc Phu Human Rights Memorial Interchange.
Designates the Beach Boulevard interchange on Route 22 in the County of
Orange as the “Nguyen Ngoc Phu Human Rights Memorial
Interchange”.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE:
06/15/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Be adopted, but first be
re-referred to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes
12. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 14.)
COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
SCR
100 (Cox) CHP Officer Douglas "Scott" Russell Memorial Freeway.
Designates the portion of US 50, in the vicinity of eastbound Post-mile
08.533 and westbound Post-mile 08.598 in the community of Shingle Springs in El
Dorado County, as the "CHP Officer Douglas "Scott" Russell Memorial
Freeway"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/15/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : From committee: Be adopted, but first be re-referred to Com. on
APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) Re-referred
to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 14.) COMM. LOCATION : ASM
APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/30/2010
SCR
105 (Florez) National Purple Heart Trail.
Designates the
portion of Route 223 from Route 99 to Route 58, in the County of Kern, for
inclusion in the National Purple Heart Trail.
LAST
HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/18/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set for hearing June 28. COMM.
LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
SCR
106 (Wright) Deputy Chief Kenneth O. Garner Memorial Exit.
Designates the Florence Avenue exit of State Highway Route 110 in the
City of Los Angeles, as the "Deputy Chief Kenneth O. Garner Memorial
Exit".
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/18/2010 LAST HIST.
ACTION : Set for hearing June 28. COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS HEARING
DATE : 06/28/2010
SCR
107 (Wright) Rudolph B. Davila Memorial Interchange.
Designates the intersection of I-110 and Route 91, in the City of Los
Angeles, as the "Rudolph B. Davila Memorial Interchange"
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 06/18/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Set for
hearing June 28. COMM. LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS HEARING DATE : 06/28/2010
None pending.
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.
ACR
106 (Caballero) CAL-FIRE Firefighter Matt Will Memorial Highway.
Designates the 5-mile portion of Route 156 from Route 25 to US 101 as
the "CAL-FIRE Firefighter Matt Will Memorial Highway".
Chaptered June 17, 2010. Resolution Chapter 38
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".
Chaptered June 2, 2010.
Resolution Chapter 31.
ACR
122 (Logue) Eric W. Rood Memorial Expressway.
Designates a
specified portion of Route 20 between its junction with Route 49 and the
intersection of the Rough and Ready Highway and Penn Valley Drive, in Nevada
County as the "Eric W. Rood Memorial Expressway".
Chaptered June 2, 2010. Resolution Chapter 32
ACR
131 (Anderson) Historic Highway Route 94.
Designates Route 94 from the junction of Jamacha Road in Rancho San Diego to the eastern
terminus at the junction with Historic Highway Route 80 in Boulevard as
“Historic Highway Route 94”
Chaptered
June 2, 2010. Resolution Chapter 33.
ACR
136 (Chesbro) Lake County Veterans Memorial Highway.
Designates Route 53 from its junction with Route 29 in Lower Lake to
the Junction of Route 20 in Clearlake Oaks as the “Lake County Veterans
Memorial Highway”.
Chaptered June 2, 2010.
Resolution Chapter 34.
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.
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
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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
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
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: 02/02/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Filed with the
Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS
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: 02/02/2010 LAST HIST.
ACTION : From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
COMM. LOCATION : ASM ARTS, ENTERTAIN, SPORTS, TOURISM, & INTERNET MEDIA
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: 02/02/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. COMM. LOCATION
: ASM TRANSPORTATION
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
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: 02/02/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. 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: 02/02/2010
LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to
Joint Rule 56. 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: 02/02/2010 LAST HIST.
ACTION : From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
COMM. LOCATION : ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION
AB
597 (Gaines) Transportation.
Placeholder transportation bill:
"This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions."
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 02/02/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Died at
Desk.
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
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: 02/02/2010 LAST HIST.
ACTION : From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
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: 02/02/2010 LAST HIST.
ACTION : From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
COMM. LOCATION : ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION
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
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:
02/02/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk
pursuant to Joint Rule 56. COMM. LOCATION : ASM TRANSPORTATION
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:
02/02/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk
pursuant to Joint Rule 56. COMM. LOCATION : ASM JUDICIARY
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: 02/02/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk
pursuant to Joint Rule 56. COMM. LOCATION : ASM 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.
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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: 10/26/2009 LAST HIST.
ACTION : Died at Desk.
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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
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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: 02/01/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Returned to Secretary of Senate
pursuant to Joint Rule 56. 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
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: 02/01/2010 LAST HIST.
ACTION : Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. COMM.
LOCATION : SEN APPROPRIATIONS
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: 02/01/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Returned to
Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
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: 02/01/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
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: 02/01/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
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: 02/01/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Returned to
Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. 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:
02/01/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to
Joint Rule 56. 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
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: 02/01/2010 LAST
HIST. ACTION : Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
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: 02/01/2010 LAST HIST.
ACTION : Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. COMM.
LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING
SBX8
36 (Lowenthal) Federal transportation economic stimulus funds: 2nd
round.
This bill would require the Department of Transportation to
work with local transportation agencies to develop a list of potential projects
that may be awarded within a 90-day period of the award to the state of 2nd
round federal transportation economic stimulus funds. The bill would require
the department to submit a monthly status report to the Legislature, as
specified, with respect to certain milestones for expenditure of these funds.
The bill would make related legislative findings and declarations. 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 January 8, 2010. This bill would state that it
addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued
on January 8, 2010, pursuant to the California Constitution.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/11/2010 LAST HIST. ACTION : From
committee without further action. COMM. LOCATION : SEN TRANSPORTATION AND
HOUSING
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
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
Note: The Southern California Transit Advocates also has, among its regular news items, a Legislative Update page. Visit them at http://socata.net. This page summarizes bills of interest to transit folks (but ignores many highway only bills, especially naming bills).
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