Bill Text: CA AB2261 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transportation: federal funding: tribes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Enrolled) 2024-07-01 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. [AB2261 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2261-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 01, 2024

Amended  IN  Assembly  March 11, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2261

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Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia

February 08, 2024

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An act to add Chapter 18 (commencing with Section 2702) to Division 3 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2261, as amended, Garcia. Transportation: federal funding: tribes.

Existing law provides for the use and allocation of various federal transportation funding sources, including, but not limited to, the Federal-Aid Secondary Highways Act, the Federal-Aid Combined Road Plan Act, and the Federal Aid for Safer Off-System Roads Act.

This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal and state law, require a federally recognized Native American tribe to be eligible for federal funding for a transportation project and authorize the tribe to be the lead agency for a transportation project that receives federal funding, as specified. funding.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Chapter 18 (commencing with Section 2702) is added to Division 3 of the Streets and Highways Code, to read:

CHAPTER  18. Federal Aid for Tribes

2702.

 (a)To the extent permitted by federal law, and subject to subdivision (b), and state law, a federally recognized Native American tribe shall be eligible for federal funding for a transportation project and may be the lead agency for a transportation project that receives federal funding.

(b)Subdivision (a) shall apply to the federal funding described in all of the following:

(1)The Federal-Aid Secondary Highways Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2200)).

(2)The Federal-Aid Combined Road Plan Act (Chapter 5.1 (commencing with Section 2220)).

(3)The Federal Aid for Metropolitan Transportation Planning Act (Chapter 5.5 (commencing with Section 2230)).

(4)Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 2300).

(5)The Federal Aid for Highway Safety Improvements Act (Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 2330)).

(6)The Federal Aid for Urban Systems Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 2350)).

(7)Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 2370).

(8)The Bridge Reconstruction and Replacement Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 2400)).

(9)The Transportation Economic Stimulus Act of 2009 (Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 2420)).

(10)The Rural Highway Public Transportation Act (Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 2500)).

(11)The Federal Aid for Safer Off-System Roads Act (Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 2520)).