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Current California Highway-Related Legislation

This information reflects a review of legislation proposed as of 2021-10-16. Note that some are non-highway, if I find them of interest. Also note that the California State Legislature has a new website to obtain bill information, which includes the ability to subscribe to bills and to comment on them. Last items examined:

• Assembly: AB 1593, ACA 10, ACR 110, AJR 21, HR 77
• Senate: SB 828, SCA 5, SCR 61, SJR 9, SR 62

Note: ★ indicates new items as of this update. ✠ indicates items that are essentially dead (no activity for two update cycles or six months, whichever is longer)

See the section titled Legislative Calendar for a summary of the timelines of the legislative process.

Bills of interest under active consideration by the California State Assembly

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Resolutions of interest under consideration by the California State Assembly

• ACR 74 (Salas) Gary Helming Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of Route 41 from KIN 8.1 to KIN 3.75 in the County of Kings as the “Gary Helming Memorial Highway“”.
  04/29/21    Referred to Com. on TRANS.
• ACR 79 (Nazarian) Amelia Earhart Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of US 101 and Route 134 between the Laurel Canyon Boulevard exit on US 101 (~ LA 11.866R to LA 12.88) and the North Pass Avenue exit on Route 134 (~ LA 0.000 to LA 1.798) in the County of Los Angeles as the “Amelia Earhart Memorial Highway”.
  07/14/21    Referred to Com. on TRANS.
• ACR 88 (O'Donnell) Long Beach International Gateway Bridge.
  This measure would designate the portion of Route 710 in the City of Long Beach, from LA 3.6 R3.773 to LA 6 R5.452R, covering the full length of State Bridge number 53-3000, as the “Long Beach International Gateway Bridge.”
  Note: There is no bridge 53-3000 in the bridge log, nor is there a bridge at LA R3.773 to LA R5.452 (that would be over a mile long). This appears to be referring to the Gerald Desmond Bridge (~ LA 4.525) (not in the bridge log)
  08/26/21    In committee: Held under submission.
• ACR 89 (Bigelow) California Highway Patrol Officer Charles D. Goss Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of Route 152, west of Road 10 from PM MAD 2.350 to MAD 7.350, in the County of Madera as the “California Highway Patrol Officer Charles D. Goss Memorial Highway”
  07/14/21    Referred to Com. on TRANS.
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Bills of interest under consideration by the California State Senate

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Resolutions under consideration by the California State Senate

• SCR 39 (Allen) Officer Tommy Scott Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the southbound portion of I-405 between the Imperial Highway exit (~ LA R21.226)  and the West Century Boulevard exit (~ LA 22.224) in the County of Los Angeles as the “Officer Tommy Scott Memorial Highway”.
  09/02/21    Referred to Com. on TRANS.
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Bills/Resolutions sent to the Governor of Signature

• None pending.

Chaptered Bills/Resolutions: Entered into Law

• AB 37 (Berman) Elections: vote by mail ballots.
  Existing law requires county elections officials to mail a ballot to every registered voter for all elections proclaimed or conducted prior to January 1, 2022. Existing law requires county elections officials to use a specified Secretary of State vote by mail tracking system or a system that meets the same specifications.
  
  This bill would extend the requirements to mail a ballot to every registered voter to all elections and apply them to all local elections officials. This bill would require a vote by mail tracking system to be accessible to voters with disabilities. The bill would also make various conforming and technical changes.
  
  Existing law requires county elections officials to permit voters with a disability, and military or overseas voters, to cast a ballot using a certified remote accessible vote by mail system, and required county elections officials to permit any voter to cast a ballot using a certified remote accessible vote by mail system for the November 3, 2020, statewide general election.
  
  This bill would require county elections officials to permit any voter to cast a ballot using a certified remote accessible vote by mail system for any election.
  
  Under existing law, a vote by mail ballot is timely cast if it is voted on or before election day and, if returned by mail, received by the voter’s elections official via the United States Postal Service, or a bona fide private mail delivery company, no later than 3 days after election day.
  
  This bill would provide instead that a vote by mail ballot is timely cast if it is voted on or before election day and, if returned by mail, received no later than 7 days after election day. This bill would authorize an elections official to consider any information from the United States Postal Service or a bona fide private mail delivery company that indicates the date on which the ballot was mailed, in order to determine whether a vote by mail ballot was timely cast.
  
  Existing law authorizes a jurisdiction in which vote by mail ballots are cast to begin processing vote by mail ballot return envelopes 29 days before the election. Existing law authorizes a jurisdiction having the necessary computer capability to start processing vote by mail ballots on the 15th business day before the election, except, for the statewide general election held on November 3, 2020, these jurisdictions were authorized to start processing the ballots on the 29th day before the election. Existing law authorizes all other jurisdictions to start processing vote by mail ballots at 5 p.m. on the day before the election.
  
  Existing law authorizes a county elections official to establish vote by mail ballot drop-off locations, as defined. Existing law authorizes a county to conduct any election as an all-mailed ballot election under certain specified conditions.
  
  This bill would require any county that does not conduct an all-mailed ballot election to provide at least two vote by mail ballot drop-off locations within the jurisdiction where the election is held, or at least one vote by mail ballot drop-off location for every 30,000 registered voters within the jurisdiction where the election is held, whichever results in more vote by mail ballot drop-off locations. In a jurisdiction with fewer than 30,000 registered voters, the bill would require at least one vote by mail ballot drop-off location, and would require the elections official to make a reasonable effort to provide a ballot drop-off location in the jurisdiction where the election is held. This bill would require the operation of vote by mail ballot drop-off locations to meet certain specified criteria.
  
  This bill would authorize a jurisdiction having the necessary computer capability to start processing vote by mail ballots the 29th day before any election.
  
  By requiring local elections officials to mail a ballot to every registered voter, and to take other actions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
  
  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.
  09/27/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 312, Statutes of 2021.
• AB 744 (Rodriguez) State highways: State Route 83: reduction.
  Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with 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 authorizes the commission to relinquish to local agencies state highway segments that have been deleted from the state highway system by legislative enactment or have been superseded by relocation, and in certain other cases. Existing law designates State Route 83 from Route 71 to Route 10 near the City of Upland.
  
  This bill would authorize the commission to relinquish to the City of Ontario all or a portion of State Route 83 within the city’s jurisdiction and prescribe conditions that apply upon relinquishment.
  09/22/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 198, Statutes of 2021.
• ACR 19 (Gallagher) National Purple Heart Trail.
  This measure would designate Route 20 from YUB 0.000 to YUB R3.389 and Route 70 from YUB 13.604 to YUB 15.850 in the City of Marysville in the County of Yuba for inclusion in the National Purple Heart Trail.
  09/07/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 106, Statutes of 2021.
• ACR 21 (Megan Dahle) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge.
  This measure would designate the South Yuba River Bridge over Route 49 (NEV R21.857, South Yuba River Bridge No. 17-07) in the County of Nevada as the “Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge”.
  09/07/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 107, Statutes of 2021.
• ACR 27 (Gallagher) Farm-to-Fork Corridor.
  This measure would designate the portion of Route 99 from TEH 20.400 at Eldrid Avenue near the community of Dairyville to TEH 24.529 near Arch Street in the City of Red Bluff in the County of Tehama as the “Farm-to-Fork Corridor”.
  09/07/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 109, Statutes of 2021.
• ACR 32 (Megan Dahle) High Desert State Prison Correctional Officer Richard Bianchi, Jr., Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate a specified portion of Route 36 near Susanville, from LAS 25.356 at State Route 139 to LAS R29.390 at Junction US 395, in the County of Lassen as the “High Desert State Prison Correctional Officer Richard Bianchi, Jr., Memorial Highway”.
  09/07/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 110, Statutes of 2021.
• ACR 40 (Mathis) Harry Tow Memorial Highway Overcrossing.
  This measure would designate the highway overcrossing in the City of Visalia off Plaza Drive and Route 198 at TUL R4.796 as the “Harry Tow Memorial Highway Overcrossing”.
  09/07/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 112, Statutes of 2021.
• ACR 47 (Stone) Staff Sergeant Robert Scott Johnson Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of Route 1 between Exit 406 for Lightfighter Drive, MON R82.759, and Exit 404 for Fremont Boulevard and Del Monte Boulevard, MON R80.970, in the City of Seaside as the “Staff Sergeant Robert Scott Johnson Memorial Highway”.
  09/17/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 135, Statutes of 2021.
• ACR 51 (Gabriel) Dr. Sally Ride Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of US 101 between the junction with I-405, at LA 17.165 and Balboa Boulevard, at LA 19.217, as the “Dr. Sally Ride Memorial Highway”.
  09/07/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 114, Statutes of 2021.
• ACR 52 (Patterson) Tom Seaver Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of Route 41 from the East Jensen Avenue Overcrossing No. 42-268 (FRE R21.113) to the South Fresno Viaduct No. 42-226 (FRE R22.107) as the “Tom Seaver Memorial Highway”.
  09/17/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 136, Statutes of 2021.
• ACR 64 (Fong) Harvey L. Hall Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of Westside Parkway between the Coffee Road offramp and the Allen Road offramp on Route 58 in the County of Kern as the “Harvey L. Hall Memorial Highway”.
  Note: Technically, the Westside Parkway is not Route 58 yet, and the segment of existing Rosedale Highway (shown by Google as part of Route 58) between Coffee Road and Allen Road has been relinquished to the City of Bakersfield.
  09/17/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 138, Statutes of 2021.
• ACR 67 (Quirk-Silva) Tommy Lasorda Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate I-5 from Ball Road OC 55-670 at ORA 37.638 to Eastbound exit Route 91 at ORA 42.671, within the County of Orange as the “Tommy Lasorda Memorial Highway”.
  09/07/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 115, Statutes of 2021.
• SB 51 (Durazo) Surplus residential property.
  (1) Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency, as defined. Existing law provides that certain dispositions of real property by local agencies are subject to surplus land disposal procedures as they existed on December 31, 2019, without regard to specified amendments that took effect on January 1, 2020, if those dispositions comply with specified requirements. Under existing law, these provisions apply to dispositions by a local agency that, as of September 30, 2019, has entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement or legally binding agreement to dispose of property, provided that the disposition is completed not later than December 31, 2022.
  
  This bill, except in the case of specified property, would additionally provide that the surplus land disposal procedures as they existed on December 31, 2019, apply if a local agency, as of September 30, 2019, has issued a competitive request for proposals for the development of the property that includes a residential component of at least 100 residential units and 25% of the total units developed complying with specified affordability criteria, provided that a disposition and development agreement, as defined, is entered into not later than December 31, 2024. If the property is not disposed of pursuant to a qualifying disposition and development agreement before March 31, 2026, or if no disposition and development agreement is entered into before December 31, 2024, the bill would require that future negotiations for and disposition of the property comply with the surplus land disposal procedures then in effect. The bill would extend these dates in the event of a judicial challenge to 6 months following the final conclusion of litigation.
  
  (2) Existing law establishes priorities and procedures that any state agency disposing of surplus residential property is required to follow. Under existing law, specified single-family residences must first be offered to their former owners or present occupants, as specified. Existing law then requires the property to be offered to housing-related entities, as provided, prior to placing the property up for sale, subject to specified priorities. Existing law requires, if a property that is not a historic home is sold to a private housing-related entity or a housing-related public entity, that the entity develop the property as limited equity cooperative housing with first right of occupancy to present occupants, or use the property for low- and moderate-income rental or owner-occupied housing where the development of cooperative or cooperatives is not feasible. Existing law requires, if a property is a historic home, as defined, that the property be offered first to a housing-related entity, subject to the above-described requirements, or a nonprofit private entity dedicated to rehabilitating and maintaining the historic home for public and community access and use, as provided.
  
  This bill would, with respect to surplus residential property that is located within the City of Los Angeles, instead require that if the surplus residential property is not sold to a former owner or present occupant, as described above, the property be offered at fair market value to present tenants who have occupied the property for 5 years or more and who are in good standing with all rent obligations current and paid in full, with first right of occupancy to the present occupants. If the surplus residential property is a historic home, as defined, the bill would then require that the property be offered to the city in which the property is located or a nonprofit private entity dedicated to rehabilitating and maintaining the historic home for public and community access and use, subject to specified terms and conditions. Finally, the bill would require that surplus residential property be offered to a housing-related entity, subject to specified terms and conditions. The bill would require a housing-related entity to cause the property to be used, under specified conditions, either for low- and moderate-income rental housing for a term of at least 55 years, subject to a recorded covenant, to ensure use as affordable housing, as provided, and to provide a first right of occupancy to the present tenants, or, if the surplus residential property is a single-family residence, the bill would provide the surplus residential property may be used for owner- occupied affordable housing for a term of at least 45 years, subject to a covenant recorded against the property to ensure its use as affordable housing. The bill would require the Department of Transportation to monitor or designate a public agency to monitor a property’s compliance with the bill’s terms, conditions, and restrictions, in the case of a historic home, and require the City of Los Angeles to monitor compliance with the recorded covenant, in the case of surplus residential properties sold to a housing-related entity, and authorize the monitoring entity to charge the property owner a fee to cover the cost of monitoring and reporting. The bill would require the city to prepare and submit to the Legislature reports that describe how the purchasers complied with these provisions and how they were monitored for compliance, as specified. By requiring additional duties by the City of Los Angeles, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
  
  This bill would prohibit surplus residential property from being sold at less than the price paid by the Department of Transportation for original acquisition of the property. The bill would prohibit the adjustment of this original acquisition price for inflation. The bill would require the Department of Transportation to offer to sell specified unimproved properties at the original acquisition price paid by the department to a housing-related entity for affordable housing purposes, as provided.
  Note: Only the provisions related to the I-710 Corridor housing are included
  07/23/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 130, Statutes of 2021.
• SB 231 (McGuire) Department of Transportation: transfer of property: Blues Beach property.
  Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights on property acquired for state highway purposes. Various provisions of existing law specifically provide for the acquisition, transfer, and use of property owned by the department.
  
  This bill would authorize the department, upon terms, standards, and conditions approved by the California Transportation Commission, to transfer the Blues Beach property located in the unincorporated community of Westport in the County of Mendocino at no cost to a qualified nonprofit corporation, which the bill would define as a nonprofit corporation that is organized by one or more specified California Native American tribes for the purpose of environmental protection. The bill would require a nonprofit corporation that is transferred the Blues Beach property to be responsible for the future maintenance of the property, would require the property to only be used to provide public access, maintain natural habitat, and protect Native American cultural resources, and would require the property to revert to the department if the property is not maintained.
  09/24/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 289, Statutes of 2021.
• SB 381 (Portantino) Surplus residential property: priorities, procedures, price, and fund.
  (1) Existing law establishes priorities and procedures that any state agency disposing of surplus residential property is required to follow. Under existing law, specified single-family residences must first be offered to present occupants, as specified. Existing law then requires the property to be offered to housing-related entities, as provided, prior to placing the property up for sale for fair market value, subject to specified priorities. Existing law also requires historic homes, as defined, to be offered first to a housing-related public entity or to a nonprofit private entity, as described.
  
  This bill would, with respect to surplus residential properties located within the State Route 710 corridor in the City of South Pasadena, require surplus single-family residential properties, which includes any applicable locally-designated historic home as defined, and any historic home to be offered to the City of South Pasadena after the properties are offered to present occupants, including present occupants who have occupied the property for 5 years or more and meet certain conditions, pursuant to specified provisions and the present occupants either decline to purchase or do not qualify and close on the property within 274 days of the Department of Transportation adopting emergency regulations. The bill would require a multifamily residential property in the State Route 710 corridor area of the city to first be offered to certain present occupants who have formed a limited equity cooperative housing entity or an entity for the ownership of common interest developments before offering those properties to the city. The bill would also require all other occupied, unoccupied, and unimproved surplus residential properties in the State Route 710 corridor area of the city to first be offered to the city. The bill would set forth procedures that apply to properties under the bill’s provisions, including that each property be subject to a recorded covenant requiring the property remain available and affordable for ownership or rental by persons and families of low or moderate income, except as specified. The bill would require all proceeds from the city’s sale of any property purchased pursuant to the bill’s provisions to be reinvested into low- or moderate-income housing within its jurisdiction. The bill would require, following an offer of these properties to the City of South Pasadena, the properties to then be offered in accordance with the priorities and procedures in existing law relating to the sale of the property to a private housing-related entity or housing-related public entity and sale for fair market value.
  
  (2) Existing law, known as the Administrative Procedure Act, governs the procedures for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. Existing law establishes procedures for the adoption of emergency regulations, including requiring that the state agency make a finding that the adoption of a regulation or order of repeal is necessary to address an emergency, as defined. Under existing law, a regulation, amendment, or repeal adopted as an emergency regulatory action may only remain in effect for up to 180 days, unless the adopting agency complies with specified requirements relating to notice of regulatory action and public comment.
  
  This bill would require the Department of Transportation to adopt emergency regulations within 60 days of the effective date of the bill’s provisions, to implement the above-described requirements relating to the disposal of surplus property. The bill would include findings that an emergency exists for purposes of specified provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill, notwithstanding the 180-day limit for emergency regulations, would provide that emergency regulations adopted under its provisions would remain in effect for 2 years after adoption, or until the adoption of permanent regulations, whichever occurs sooner.
  
  (3) Existing law creates the SR-710 Rehabilitation Account, which is continuously appropriated to the Department of Transportation, and into which proceeds from the sale of surplus residential property by the department are deposited. Existing law requires that the total funds maintained in the account not exceed $500,000 and that funds exceeding that amount, less any reimbursements due to the federal government, be transferred to the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund to be used for allocation by the California Transportation Commission, as specified.
  
  This bill would authorize an increase in the amount of the total funds maintained in the account up to $1,200,000. By authorizing an increase in the funds held in a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.
  
  (4) Existing law requires a surplus residence or property to be sold to present occupants at an affordable price, as described.
  
  This bill would require that a surplus residence or property located in the City of South Pasadena that is offered by a selling agency to a present occupant of the residence or property be offered at a price based on the appraisal of the residence or property in 2016 if certain conditions apply. The bill would require an offer made or accepted prior to January 1, 2022, that is not in compliance with this provision to be corrected so the price is based on the 2016 appraisal. The bill would provide that an offer made based on the 2016 appraisal shall only be effective until December 31, 2022.
  09/28/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 362, Statutes of 2021.
• SCR 7 (Roth) CHP Officer Andre Maurice Moye, Jr. Memorial Freeway.
  This measure would designate the portion of Route 215 from the Eucalyptus Avenue overcrossing, number 56-757, at PM RIV R37.436 to the Route 60 junction separator, number 56-507R, at PM RIV R38.339 in the County of Riverside as the “CHP Officer Andre Maurice Moye, Jr. Memorial Freeway”.
  07/16/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 80, Statutes of 2021.
• SCR 12 (Bates) CAL-FIRE Chief William R. Clayton Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of I-5 from La Costa Avenue (PM R44.071) to Cannon Road (PM R47.975) in the City of Carlsbad as the “CAL-FIRE Chief William R. Clayton Memorial Highway”.
  07/16/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 81, Statutes of 2021.
• SCR 14 (Hurtado)  Fire Captain Ramon Figueroa and Firefighter Patrick Jones Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of Route 65 in the County of Tulare, between PM TUL 16.130 and PM TUL 20.880, as the “Fire Captain Ramon Figueroa and Firefighter Patrick Jones Memorial Highway”.
  07/16/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 82, Statutes of 2021.
• SCR 15 (Hueso) U.S. Army SP4 Dwayne M. Patterson Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of Route 111 in the County of Imperial, between PM IMP 33 and PM IMP 37.6 as the “U.S. Army SP4 Dwayne M. Patterson Memorial Highway”.
  07/16/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 83, Statutes of 2021.
• SCR 24 (Stern) Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Solano Memorial Overcrossing.
  This measure would designate the overcrossing on Route 118 at Balboa Boulevard in the County of Los Angeles as the “Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Solano Memorial Overcrossing”.
  07/16/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 85, Statutes of 2021.
• SCR 26 (Gonzalez) Detective Raul Vasquez Gama Memorial Highway.
  This bill would designate the portion of I-710 from PM LA 19.730 to PM LA 24.466 in the County of Los Angeles as the “Detective Raul Vasquez Gama Memorial Highway”.
  07/16/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 86, Statutes of 2021.
• SCR 27 (McGuire) Jeffrey Stevenson Memorial Bike Path.
  This measure would designate the bike path, which was formerly known as Pacheco Hill Path, with entrances on the east side of Pacheco Creek Bridge and the intersection of Marinwood Avenue and Miller Creek Road in the County of Marin as the “Jeffrey Stevenson Memorial Bike Path”.
  Note: This path parallels US 101 from MRN 15.561 to MRN 16.615. See https://www.traillink.com/trail/pacheco-hill-path/.
  07/09/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 63, Statutes of 2021.
• SCR 28 (Umberg) Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway.
  This measure would designate the portion of Route 37 between the Atherton Avenue undercrossing at postmile 13.773 and its junction with State Highway Route 121 at postmile 3.900 as the “Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway”.
  07/09/21    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 64, Statutes of 2021.

Bills/Resolutions Vetoed

• AB 604 (Daly) Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account: apportionment of funds: accrued interest.
  Existing law creates the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program to address deferred maintenance on the state highway system and the local street and road system. Existing law provides for the deposit of various funds, including revenues from certain fuel taxes and vehicle fees, for the program in the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account. Existing law requires funds available for the program to be allocated for various specified purposes and requires the remaining funds available for the program to be continuously appropriated 50% for allocation to the Department of Transportation for maintenance of the state highway system or for the State Highway Operation and Protection Program and 50% for apportionment to cities and counties by the Controller pursuant to a specified formula.
  
  This bill would continuously appropriate interest earnings derived from revenues deposited in the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account to the department for maintenance of the state highway system or for purposes of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program.
  09/22/21    Vetoed by Governor. Veto Message: I am returning Assembly Bill 604 without my signature. This bill would continuously appropriate interest earnings from revenues deposited in the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA) to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for maintenance of the state highway system or for purposes of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP). Interest earnings from the RMRA, including accumulated revenue and future earnings, have already been appropriated in the 2021 Budget Act through 2028. I look forward to re-engaging with the Legislature to finalize and pass a comprehensive transportation package early next year that invests in a wide variety of critically-necessary projects including high speed rail, connectivity projects in advance of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, road and bridge repair, and a variety of other rail system improvements. That comprehensive package, and the corresponding budget process, would be the appropriate venue to consider any continuous appropriation of RMRA interest earnings, such as that proposed in this bill..

Dead, Inactive, Joint Rule 56, or Moribund Proposals

Alas, sometimes this proposals come back to life when a legislator wants to introduce a bill, but is past the bill introduction date. The bill or resolution is then amended beyond recognition and morphed into a new bill, often on a different subject. Often these are the unpassed bill from the first year of a two-year legislative session.

• ✠ AB 34 (Muratsuchi) Broadband for All Act of 2022.
  This bill would enact the Broadband for All Act of 2022, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to support the 2022 Broadband for All Program that would be administered by the department for purposes of providing financial assistance for projects to deploy broadband infrastructure and broadband internet access services.
  
  The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 8, 2022, statewide general election.
  05/20/21 In committee: Held under submission..
• ✠ AB 512 (Holden) Surplus unimproved property: sale procedures: City of Los Angeles: City of Pasadena: City of South Pasadena State Highway Route 710.
  Existing law establishes priorities and procedures that any state agency disposing of surplus residential property is required to follow.
  
  This bill would, with certain exceptions, require the Department of Transportation, prior to selling specified unimproved properties in the City of Los Angeles, City of Pasadena, and City of South Pasadena, to offer to sell those properties at the original acquisition price paid by the department to a housing-related entity for affordable housing purposes, as provided.
  
  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 authorizes the commission to relinquish to the City of Pasadena the specified portions of Route 710 within its city limits, upon terms and conditions the commission finds to be in the best interests of the state, if the department and the city enter into an agreement providing for that relinquishment.
  
  This bill would revise the portion of Route 710 that the commission may relinquish to the City of Pasadena under that provision and would authorize that portion of Route 710 to be relinquished for nontransportation purposes if certain conditions are met.
  
  This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the sale of surplus unimproved property located in the City of Los Angeles, the City of Pasadena, and the City of South Pasadena.
  06/22/21    In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• ✠ AB 581 (Irwin) Cybersecurity.
  Existing law establishes the Office of Information Security within the Department of Technology, under the direction of the Chief of the Office of Information Security, for the purpose of ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of state systems and applications and to promote and protect privacy as part of the development and operations of state systems and applications to ensure the trust of the residents of this state. The law requires an entity within the executive branch that is under the direct authority of the Governor to implement the policies and procedures issued by the office. The law additionally authorizes the office to conduct, or require to be conducted, an independent security assessment of every state agency, department, or office, as specified. The law authorizes the Military Department to perform an independent security assessment of any state agency, department, or office.
  
  This bill would require all state agencies, as generally defined, to review and implement specified National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines for, among other things, reporting, coordinating, publishing, and receiving information about a security vulnerability relating to information systems and the resolution thereof, no later than July 1, 2022. The bill would require the chief to review the NIST guidelines and to create, update, and publish any appropriate standards or procedures in the State Administrative Manual and Statewide Information Management Manual to apply the NIST guidelines to certain state governmental agencies, as defined, no later than April 1, 2022. The bill would authorize a state agency to satisfy their requirement to implement NIST guidelines by adopting those standards and procedures published in the State Administrative Manual and Statewide Information Management Manual. The bill would require the office to provide assistance to any state agency that requests assistance in implementing the guidelines or the standards and procedures, and to provide operational and technical assistance to state agencies on reporting, coordinating, publishing, and receiving information about cybersecurity vulnerabilities of information systems, until that agency withdraws their request for assistance with implementation or cybersecurity.
  05/20/21    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• ✠ AB 809 (Irwin) Information security.
  Existing law establishes the Office of Information Security within the Department of Technology for the purpose of ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of state systems and applications and to promote and protect privacy as part of the development and operations of state systems and applications to ensure the trust of the residents of this state. The law requires an entity within the executive branch that is under the direct authority of the Governor to implement the policies and procedures issued by the office. The law additionally authorizes the office to conduct, or require to be conducted, an independent security assessment of every state agency, department, or office, as specified. The law authorizes the Military Department to perform an independent security assessment of any state agency, department, or office.
  
  This bill would require state agencies not covered by the provisions described above to adopt and implement information security and privacy policies, standards, and procedures based upon standards issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Federal Information Processing Standards, as specified. This bill would require these state agencies to perform a comprehensive, independent security assessment every 2 years and would authorize them to contract with the Military Department for that purpose.
  
  This bill would require these state agencies to certify, by February 1 annually, to the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection that the agency is in compliance with all adopted policies, standards, and procedures and to include a corrective action plan to address any outstanding deficiencies, the estimated dates of compliance, and any additional resources it requires in order to cure each deficiency. The bill would require that the certification be kept confidential and not be disclosed, except that the information and records would be allowed to be shared with the members of the Legislature and legislative employees, at the discretion of the chairperson of the committee.
  
  Because the required certification would be made under penalty of perjury, the bill would expand the crime of perjury and would thereby impose a state-mandated local program.
  05/20/21    In committee: Held under submission.
• ✠ AB 1189 (Bloom) Transportation: indirect cost recovery: wildlife crossing projects.
  Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with possession and control of the state highway system and associated property. Existing law provides for cooperative agreements between the department and public entities for the performance of work by the department and those entities and apportionment of associated expenses.
  
  This bill would, on and before June 30, 2024, prohibit the department from charging for administration indirect cost recovery, as outlined in the department’s Indirect Cost Recovery Proposal, for any wildlife crossing project that receives private funding for more than 50% of the project cost, and would require the department to charge these projects for functional overhead. The bill would require the department to report, on or before July 1, 2024, to the Legislature on the amount of private funding invested in wildlife crossing projects for the 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, and 2023–24 fiscal years.
  03/04/21    Referred to Com. on TRANS.
• ✠ SB 760 (Bates) State highways: State Route 241: reduction.
  Existing law establishes the state highway system throughout the state and designates State Route 241 from State Route 5 south of the City of San Clemente to State Route 91 in the City of Anaheim.
  
  This bill would delete from the state highway system the portion of State Route 241 from State Route 5 south of the City of San Clemente to Oso Parkway east of the City of Mission Viejo.
  05/13/21    May 17 hearing postponed by committee.

Legislative Calendar for 2021

Note that, unless otherwise indicated, committee meetings take place once the legislature is in session. In particular, note that last day for most bills to be introduced is February; after that date, if you want to introduce a new bill, you have to modify an existing one. Thus, the legislature creates loads of "non-substantive" changes bills, in the various areas of operation of government, that it can either ignore and let die, or gut and amend into something new in lieu of introducing a new bill. Further, in September, bills can be amended on the floor at the last minute, after all committee hearings.

• Jan. 1 Statutes from 2020 take effect
• Jan 10 Budget  must be submitted by Governor (Art. IV,  Sec. 12(a)).
• Jan. 11 Legislature reconvenes
• Jan 22 Last day to submit bill requests  to the Office of Legislative Counsel.
• Feb. 19 Last day for bills to be introduced
• Mar 25 Spring Recess  begins upon adjournment.
• Apr 5 Legislature reconvenes from Spring Recess.
• May 14 Last day  for policy committees  to meet prior to June 7.
• May 21 Last day for fiscal committees to meet prior to June 7.
• Jun 1-4 Floor session only.    No committee may  meet for any purpose except for Rules Committee,  bills referred pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2,  and Conference Committees.
• Jul 14 Last day for policy committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(b)(14)).
• July 16 Summer Recess begins upon adjournment, provided Budget Bill has been passed (J.R. 51(b)(2)).
• Aug. 16 Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess (J.R. 51(b)(2)).
• Aug. 27 Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(b)(15)).
• Aug 30-Sep 10 Floor session only. No committee may meet for any purpose except Rules Committee, bills referred pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2, and Conference Committees (J.R. 61(b)(16)).
• Sep 3 Last day to amend bills on the floor (J.R. 61(b)(17)).
• Sep 10 Last day for each house to pass bills (Art. IV, Sec 10(c), J.R. 61(b)(18)). Fi nal Recess begins upon adjournment (J.R. 51(b)(3)).
• Oct 10 Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills passed by the  Legislature before Sept. 10  and in the Governor's possession on or  after Sept. 10 (Art. IV, Sec.  10(b)(2)).

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