Bill Text: CA AB2432 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Designated state and local truck routes and services.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2432 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB2432-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2432 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Brown
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
An act to add Section 14053.1 to the Government Code, relating to
transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2432, as introduced, Brown. Designated state and local truck
routes and services.
Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has
full possession and control of all state highways and all property
and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing
law requires the department, among other things, to develop, in
cooperation with local and regional transportation entities, the full
potential of all resources and opportunities that are now, and may
become, available to the state and to regional and local agencies for
meeting California's transportation needs, as specified.
Existing federal law establishes the National Network of highways
available to commercial motor transportation as truck routes
authorized by provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act
of 1982 (STAA), as amended, that can safely and efficiently
accommodate the large vehicles authorized by the STAA. Existing
federal law provides that this network includes the Interstate System
plus other qualifying Federal-aid Primary System Highways.
This bill would require the department to prepare an inventory of
all state and locally designated truck routes and services, publish
or cause to be published a statewide Truck Route Network Internet Web
site, and prepare a plan and schedule for addressing all
inefficiencies and truck transportation network gaps, including an
estimate of the annual cost and the total cost of carrying out the
plan. The bill would require the department to submit the plan and
schedule, together with the cost estimates, to the Governor and the
Legislature not later than July 1, 2019.
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. The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) California's vast transportation system connects 38 million
residents and supports an economy with $2.2 trillion in annual gross
domestic product, including a complex freight transportation system
that is responsible for one-third of the state's economy and jobs,
with freight-dependent industries accounting for over $700 billion in
revenue and over five million jobs.
(b) The efficient movement of freight through our state is
critical to the growth and health of our local, regional,
intraregional, intrastate, interstate, and international freight
economies and supply chains. Inefficiencies and bottlenecks in our
freight transportation infrastructure and highway network result in
unnecessary congestion and emissions.
(c) While a patchwork of truck routes throughout the state is the
inevitable result of a statewide transportation that melds state
highways and local roadways serving freight facilities governed
primarily by local land use decisions, the integration of statewide
and local truck routes to the greatest extent possible is preferable
to the current system and will help to ensure the most efficient
operation of the state's freight transportation networks.
(d) There are gaps in trucking services, including fueling
stations, parking, and rest areas, and inconsistent rules from
jurisdiction to jurisdiction regarding truck weights, heights, hours
of operations, and routes.
(e) The state is the best entity to consolidate the various
components of the state highway and local roadway system into a
functional trucking transportation network.
SEC. 2. Section 14053.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:
14053.1. (a) The department shall prepare an inventory of all
state-designated truck routes. This inventory shall include all truck
route information including maps, weight limits, and height
restrictions for all routes, as well as all trucking services
provided on those routes.
(b) The department shall prepare an inventory of all
locally-designated truck routes. This inventory shall include all
truck route information including maps, weight limits, and height
restrictions for all routes, as well as all trucking services
provided on those routes.
(c) The department shall publish or cause to be published a
statewide Truck Route Network Internet Web site that shall include an
interactive map that details all of the information for every route
included in subdivisions (a) and (b).
(d) The department shall identify infrastructure inconsistencies
in designated truck routes that might result in unnecessary
bottlenecks, hours of delay, system inefficiencies, and
nonstandardized weight limits and height restrictions across
jurisdictions. In addition, the department shall determine where gaps
in services, parking, and rest area locations may result in
significant inefficiencies in the trucking network.
(e) The department shall notify local governments of both of the
following:
(1) Trucking transportation network gaps and cross-jurisdictional
inefficiencies identified pursuant to subdivision (d).
(2) Deficiencies in locally designated truck route information
identified pursuant to subdivision (b).
(f) (1) The department shall prepare a plan and schedule for
addressing all inefficiencies and trucking transportation network
gaps identified pursuant to subdivision (d). The schedule shall be
based upon the department's estimates of the shortest possible time
to perform the work.
(2) The plan shall include the department's estimate of the annual
cost and the total cost of carrying out the plan.
(3) The department shall submit the plan and schedule, together
with the cost estimates, to the Governor and the Legislature, in the
manner provided in Section 9795, not later than July 1, 2019.
