Bill Text: CA AB405 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Highways: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: County of Los

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2014-03-06 - Last day to consider Governor's veto pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5. [AB405 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB405-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 405	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2013

   An act to add and repeal Section 21655.95 of the Vehicle Code,
relating to highways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 405, as introduced, Gatto. Highways: high-occupancy vehicle
lanes: State Highway Route 134.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and local
authorities, with respect to highways under their respective
jurisdictions, to designate certain lanes for the exclusive or
preferential use of high-occupancy vehicles. When those exclusive or
preferential use lanes are established and double parallel solid
lines are in place to the right thereof, existing law prohibits any
person driving a vehicle from crossing over those double lines to
enter into or exit from the lanes, and entrance or exit from those
lanes is authorized only in areas designated for these purposes or
where a single broken line is in place to the right of the lanes,
except as specified.
   This bill would prohibit, until June 1, 2014, any high-occupancy
vehicle lane from being established on State Highway Route 134
between State Route 170 and Interstate 5 unless that lane is
established as a high-occupancy vehicle lane only during the hours of
heavy commuter traffic, as determined by the department. This bill
would require any existing high-occupancy vehicle lane established at
the specified location to be modified to conform with those
requirements. This bill would require the Legislative Analyst to
report to the Legislature on the impact on traffic by limiting the
use of high-occupancy lanes as provided in the bill.
   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.  Section 21655.95 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

   21655.95.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, no high-occupancy
vehicle lane may be established on State Highway Route 134 between
State Highway Route 170 and Interstate 5 unless the lane is
established as a high-occupancy vehicle lane only during the hours of
heavy commuter traffic, as determined by the Department of
Transportation.
   (b) Any existing high-occupancy vehicle lane located as described
in subdivision (a) shall be modified as necessary to conform with
subdivision (a).
   (c) The Legislative Analyst shall report to the Legislature on or
before March 31, 2014, on the impact on traffic by limiting the use
of high-occupancy vehicle lanes during the hours of heavy commuter
traffic as provided in subdivision (a).
   (d) This section shall become inoperative on June 1, 2014, and, as
of January 1, 2015, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2015, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.