Bill Text: CA AB2418 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Transportation: emerging transportation technologies: California Smart Cities Challenge Grant Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-25 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2418 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2418-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 15, 2018 |
Assembly Bill | No. 2418 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Mullin |
February 14, 2018 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law provides various sources of funding for transportation purposes, including funding for the state highway system and the local street and road system.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish a pilot program that
allows municipalities to compete for grant funding, and to leverage both public and private funding to promote flexible innovation and encourage the use of advanced technologies to improve the state’s transportation system.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Part 5 (commencing with Section 75250) is added to Division 44 of the Public Resources Code, to read:PART 5. California Smart City Challenge Grant Program
75250.
The California Smart City Challenge Grant Program is hereby established to enable municipalities to compete for grant funding for emerging transportation technologies to serve their transportation system needs.75251.
It is the intent of the Legislature that the program demonstrate how advanced data and intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies and applications can be used to meet all of the following program goals:75252.
(a) The California Transportation Commission, in consultation with the California Smart City Challenge Workgroup formed pursuant to Section 75253, shall develop guidelines for the program and may revise them as necessary. The commission shall adopt the guidelines following at least two public hearings.75253.
The California Transportation Commission shall form the California Smart City Challenge Workgroup to provide the commission with guidance on program matters including, but not limited to, the development of and subsequent revisions to the guidelines developed pursuant to Section 75252, schedules and procedures, project selection criteria, performance measures, and evaluations. The workgroup may include, but shall not be limited to, representatives of local governmental agencies, local transportation organizations, and the University of California’s Institute of Transportation Studies.75254.
Implementation of this part is contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act for purposes of the California Smart City Challenge Grant Program.It in the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish a pilot program that allows municipalities to compete for grant funding, and to leverage both public and private funding to promote flexible innovation and encourage the use of advanced technologies to improve the state’s transportation system.