Bill Text: CA AB2398 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 2398 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Transportation: state highways.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2398 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2398-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2398	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chau

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act  to amend Section 75 of the Streets and Highways Code,
  relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2398, as amended, Chau. Transportation:  private
funding.   state highways.  
   Existing law establishes in state government the Transportation
Agency, which includes various departments and state entities,
including the California Transportation Commission. Existing law
vests the commission with specified powers, duties, and functions
relative to transportation matters. Existing law authorizes the
commission to select, adopt, and determine the location for state
highways, and to allocate available moneys for the construction,
improvement, or maintenance of the highways.  
   This bill would require the commission, every 5 years, to report
to the Speaker of the Assembly, the President pro Tempore of the
Senate, and the chairs of specified committees the number of
selections, adoptions, and location determinations for state highways
undertaken and the amount of moneys allocated for the construction,
improvement, or maintenance of the highways.  
   Existing law, until January 1, 2017, authorizes the Department of
Transportation and regional transportation agencies, as defined, to
enter into 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, subject to various terms and
requirements. These arrangements are commonly known as public-private
partnerships.  
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to private funding for transportation projects.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 75 of the   Streets
and Highways Code   is amended to read: 
   75.   (a)    Except as otherwise provided by
law, the commission at any time and from time to time may: 
   (a) 
    (1)  Select, adopt, and determine the location for
 State   state  highways on routes
authorized by law. 
   (b) 
    (2)  Allocate, from the funds available therefor, moneys
for the construction,  improvement  
improvement,  or maintenance of the various highways or portions
thereof under the jurisdiction of the department. The commission may
determine in each case the maximum sum of money that shall be made
available therefor. 
   (c) 
    (3)  Authorize preliminary surveys to determine the
advisability of including in or excluding from the  State
  state  highway system any highway or portion
thereof. 
   (b) Every five years, the commission shall report to the Speaker
of the Assembly, the President pro Tempore of the Senate, and the
chairs of the Assembly Committee on Transportation and the Senate
Committee on Transportation and Housing, or the successor committees
with jurisdiction over transportation, both of the following: 

   (1) The number of selections, adoptions, and location
determinations for state highways that were undertaken pursuant to
paragraph (1) of subdivision (a).  
   (2) The amount of moneys, pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision
(a), allocated for the construction, improvement, or maintenance of
the various highways or portions thereof under the jurisdiction of
the department.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation relating to private funding for transportation
projects.