Bill Text: CA AB2620 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Bill 2620 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Passenger rail projects: funding.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 763, Statutes of 2016. [AB2620 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2620-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2620	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  763
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 29, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dababneh
   (Coauthors: Senators Galgiani and Vidak)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 99684.5 to the Public Utilities Code,
relating to transportation, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2620, Dababneh. Passenger rail projects: funding.
   Proposition 116, an initiative measure, enacted the Clean Air and
Transportation Improvement Act of 1990, which establishes the Clean
Air and Transportation Improvement Fund, continuously appropriates
specified amounts from the fund for, among other things,
rights-of-way for rail purposes and capital expenditures deemed
necessary for a specified rail service, and requires the California
Transportation Commission to adopt guidelines for the approval of
grants for transit projects which are essential to the implementation
of safe and reliable transit services.
   The act authorizes, if any of the funds are not expended or
encumbered prior to July 1, 2010, the Legislature to reallocate the
funds for any other passenger rail project in the state by a statute
passed in each house by a 2/3 vote.
   This bill would reallocate funds allocated pursuant to the act
that are not expended or encumbered by July 1, 2020, to any other
existing passenger rail project with existing rail service, as
specified. The bill would require the commission to determine the
projects pursuant to this reallocation. By reallocating unexpended or
unencumbered funds to any other existing passenger rail project, the
bill would make an appropriation.
   Appropriation: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 99684.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
to read:
   99684.5.  (a) Funds allocated pursuant to this part that are not
expended or encumbered by July 1, 2020, are hereby reallocated
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 99684 to any other existing
passenger rail project with existing rail service.
   (b) The California Transportation Commission shall determine the
projects pursuant to the reallocation as described in subdivision
(a). The high-speed rail project as described in Chapter 20
(commencing with Section 2704) of Division 3 of the Streets and
Highways Code is not eligible to receive reallocated funds pursuant
to subdivision (a) as it is not providing existing rail service.