Bill Text: CA AB1243 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Strategic Area Freeway Enforcement Task Force.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-08-27 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB1243 Detail]
Download: California-2009-AB1243-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1243 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 18, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 14, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 29, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 1, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 14, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
An act to add and repeal Section 34503.5 of the Vehicle Code,
relating to vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1243, as amended, Bonnie Lowenthal. Strategic Area Freeway
Enforcement Task Force.
Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway
Patrol to adopt reasonable rules and regulations that, in the
judgment of the department, are designed to promote the safe
operation of specified commercial vehicles, regarding, among other
things, inspection and maintenance of vehicles and to adopt
procedures for the enforcement of these rules and regulations.
This bill would, until January 1, 2012, establish the Strategic
Area Freeway Enforcement Task Force in the Business, Transportation
and Housing Agency to develop a work program that will optimize the
effectiveness and efficiencies of the commercial vehicle enforcement
network in southeast Los Angeles County through a multiagency
collaborative effort focused on addressing ongoing commercial vehicle
enforcement issues and to recognize the potential benefits from
specified technologies.
The bill would require the task force to report annually, on or
before December 31 of each year, to the Governor, the Business,
Transportation and Housing Agency, and the Assembly Committee on
Transportation and the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing
on the progress made towards implementation
adoption of the recommendations developed to improve commercial
vehicle enforcement in southeast Los Angeles County pursuant to a
specified list of 12 6 objectives, that
include, among other things, review of Vehicle
Dimension-in-Motion vehicle dimension-in-motion
(VDIM) and Automated Vehicle Identification (AVI)
automated driver identification (ADI) devices as a legal
enforcement tool.
The bill would require that the task force consist of 4 specified
members, that the members of the task force serve without
compensation, and that no state funds be used to compensate the
members for expenses incurred in the performance of their official
duties. The bill would also provide that the task force would not be
required to implement the provisions of the bill except to the extent
that nonstate funds are available for that purpose.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 34503.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
34503.5. (a) There is hereby established in the Business,
Transportation and Housing Agency the Strategic Area Freeway
Enforcement Task Force, which shall be convened on or before April 1,
2010. The goal of the task force is to develop a work program that
will optimize the effectiveness and efficiencies of the commercial
vehicle enforcement network in southeast Los Angeles County through a
multiagency collaborative effort focused on addressing ongoing
commercial vehicle enforcement issues and to recognize the potential
benefits from emerging technologies. The activities of the task force
are intended to contribute to maintaining the state's strategic
advantage in goods movement through improved
decisionmaking and prudent and adequate investment.
(b) The task force shall report annually on or before December 31
of each year to the Governor, the Business, Transportation and
Housing Agency, and the Assembly Committee on Transportation and the
Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing on the progress made
toward implementation adoption of the
recommendations developed to improve the commercial vehicle
enforcement in southeast Los Angeles County pursuant to the
objectives set forth in subdivision (f).
(c) The task force shall consist of four members. The Secretary of
Business, Transportation and Housing shall appoint one member each
from nominations provided by the Gateway Cities Council of
Governments (COG), the Director of Transportation (Caltrans), the Los
Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the
Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The Secretary of
Business, Transportation and Housing shall designate a chair and
vice chair.
(d) Members of the task force shall serve without compensation,
and no state funds may be used to compensate the members for expenses
incurred in the performance of their official duties.
(e) The task force shall be responsible for development of a work
program and coordinating efforts of the participating agencies in
implementation efforts the development, and
subsequent progress towards implementation of discrete elements,
of the work program. The task force shall from time to
time consult stakeholders affected by the work plans as they are
developed shall consult stakeholders at all task force
meetings and seek specific input from stakeholders affected by the
individual work plan elements as they are developed in support of the
overall work program . The stakeholders should include, at a
minimum, representatives from port-related trucking
organizations, labor organizations, businesses engaged in commercial
vehicle operations, and representatives from the San Pedro
Bay Ports as well as other stakeholders, as agreed upon by the
task force .
(f) The task force shall consider the following activities, which
address areas to be emphasized, including, but not be limited to,
major policy issues related to commercial vehicle enforcement:
(1) Evaluate the current commercial vehicle fine structure and the
relative distribution of the resulting revenues.
(2) Evaluate the potential to standardize fine structure and
process.
(3) Make recommendations as to whether it is desirable to relate
the level of fines to the level of damage to infrastructure and the
risk of harm to people.
(4)
(1) Review current statutory authority for rerouting
vehicles.
(5)
(2) Review role of transponders or other technology
devices in relation to registration of commercial vehicles
including, but not limited to, weigh-in-motion (WIM)
devices, vehicle dimension-in-motion (VDIM) devices, automated driver
identification (ADI) devices, and automated load identification
devices .
(6) Review Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) devices as a legal enforcement
tool.
(7) Review Vehicle Dimension-in-Motion (VDIM) devices as a legal
enforcement tool.
(8) Review Automated Vehicle Identification (AVI) devices as a
legal enforcement tool.
(9) Review Automated Driver Identification (ADI) devices as a
legal enforcement tool.
(10) Review Automated Load Identification (ALI) devices as a legal
enforcement tool.
(11)
(3) Evaluate the siting of truck enforcement facilities
in southeast Los Angeles County.
(12)
(4) Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages in the
development of automated systems for truck enforcement and inspection
for southeast Los Angeles County.
(5) Evaluate potential funding sources for the construction,
operation, and maintenance of manned and unmanned enforcement
facilities.
(6) Provide an assessment of whether the automated devices
referenced in paragraph (2) have the potential to improve the
efficiency of the goods movement in southeast Los Angeles County and
to extend to the state's goods movement network.
(g) The task force shall provide a summary of its recommendations
regarding all action items to each member agency prior to submitting
the annual report required pursuant to subdivision (b).
(h) Initial tasks for the task force shall be the development of a
work program that results in the development of a series of specific
targeted actions in conformance with each of the following four
major action steps to address the areas to be emphasized as specified
in subdivision (f):
(1) Convening participants.
(2) Gathering and analyzing relevant data.
(3) Brainstorming of actions.
(4) Refinement of actions.
(i) The task force shall not be required to implement the
provisions of this section except to the extent that nonstate funds
are available to the task force for that purpose.
(j) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends
that date.
