Bill Text: CA AB2233 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Highways: exit information signs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2233 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2233-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2233	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brown

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 101.15 to the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to highways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2233, as introduced, Brown. Highways: exit information signs.
   Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to adopt
rules and regulations that allow the placement, near exits on
freeways in rural areas, of information signs identifying specific
roadside businesses.
   This bill would require the department to adopt rules and
regulations that allow the placement, near exits and off-ramps on
freeways located in urban and rural areas, of information signs
identifying the closest hospital owned and operated by a county that
includes the full name of the hospital, if the county requests the
sign or signs and agrees to pay for the cost. The bill would require
the department to erect the sign or signs within 30 days of the
receipt of payment from the county.
   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 101.15 is added to the Streets and Highways
Code, to read:
   101.15.  (a) The department shall adopt rules and regulations that
allow the placement, near exits and off-ramps on freeways located in
urban and rural areas, of information signs identifying the closest
hospital owned and operated by a county that includes the full name
of the hospital, if both of the following conditions are met:
   (1) The county requests the placement of the sign.
   (2) The county agrees to pay for the cost of the sign.
   (b) The Department of Transportation shall determine the cost of
appropriate signs consistent with the signing requirements for the
state highway system showing the name of the hospital, and, upon
receiving funding or donations from the county from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover that cost, shall erect the sign or signs.
   (c) The department shall erect the sign or signs within 30 days of
the receipt of payment from the county.