Bill Text: CA AB2542 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Bill 2542 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Streets and highways: reversible lanes.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 525, Statutes of 2016. [AB2542 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2542-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2542	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  525
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 12, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 15, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 100.15 to the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to streets and highways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2542, Gatto. Streets and highways: reversible lanes.
   Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation is in
full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law
generally provides for the California Transportation Commission to
program available funding for transportation capital projects, other
than state highway rehabilitation projects, through the State
Transportation Improvement Program, which includes projects
recommended by regional transportation planning agencies through the
adoption of a regional transportation improvement program and
projects recommended by the department through the adoption of an
interregional transportation improvement program, as specified.
   This bill would require the department or a regional
transportation planning agency, when submitting a capacity-increasing
project or a major street or highway lane realignment project to the
commission for approval, to demonstrate that reversible lanes were
considered for the project.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 100.15 is added to the Streets and Highways
Code, immediately following Section 100.1, to read:
   100.15.  Before the commission approves a capacity-increasing
project or a major street or highway lane realignment project, the
department or a regional transportation planning agency submitting
the project for approval shall demonstrate that reversible lanes were
considered for the project.