Bill Text: CA AB61 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Shuttle services: loading and unloading of passengers.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-01-12 - From committee: Without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB61 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB61-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 61	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Travis Allen
    (   Principal coauthor:   Assembly Member
  Obernolte   ) 
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Baker,   Harper,   Linder,  
Maienschein,   Mayes,   Olsen,  
Patterson,   Steinorth,   and Waldron   )

    (   Coauthors:   Senators   Allen,
  Anderson,   and Bates   ) 

                        DECEMBER 12, 2014

   An act to amend Section 22500.5 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
shuttle services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 61, as amended, Travis Allen. Shuttle services: loading and
unloading of passengers.
   Under existing law, a person may not stop, park, or leave a
vehicle standing alongside a curb space authorized for the loading or
unloading of passengers of a bus engaged as a common carrier in
local transportation when indicated by a sign or red paint on the
curb, except that existing law allows local authorities to permit
schoolbuses to stop alongside these curb spaces upon agreement
between a transit system operating buses as common carriers in local
transportation and a public school district or private school.
   This bill would also allow local authorities to permit shuttle
service vehicles, as defined, to stop for the loading or unloading of
passengers alongside these curb spaces upon agreement between a
transit system operating buses engaged as common carriers in local
transportation and a shuttle service provider, as defined.  The
bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to not
replace public transit services. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature, in
allowing local authorities to permit shuttle service vehicles to
utilize designated transit system curb spaces, to not replace public
transit services. The Legislature finds and declares that this act
applies only to shuttle services that do not offer services to the
general public as common carriers. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Section 22500.5
of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   22500.5.  (a) Upon agreement between a transit system operating
buses engaged as common carriers in local transportation and a public
school district or private school, local authorities may, by
ordinance, permit schoolbuses owned by, or operated under contract
for, that public school district or private school to stop for the
loading or unloading of passengers alongside any or all curb spaces
designated for the loading or unloading of passengers of the transit
system buses.
   (b) Upon agreement between a transit system operating buses
engaged as common carriers in local transportation and a shuttle
service provider, local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution,
permit shuttle service vehicles to stop for the loading or unloading
of passengers alongside any or all curb spaces designated for the
loading or unloading of passengers of the transit system buses.
   (1) As used in this subdivision, "shuttle service vehicle" means a
motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained by or for a
charter-party carrier of passengers, as defined in Section 5360 of
the Public Utilities Code, or a passenger stage corporation, as
defined in Section 226 of the Public Utilities Code, or any highway
carrier of passengers required to register with the Public Utilities
Commission.
   (2) As used in this subdivision, "shuttle service" means
transportation by private vehicles offered for the exclusive or
primary use of a discrete group, including, but not limited to,
clients, patients, students, paid or unpaid staff, visitors, or
residents, between an organization or entity's facilities or between
the organization or entity's facilities and other locations, on a
regularly scheduled basis.
   (3) As used in this subdivision, "shuttle service provider" means
any person using shuttle service vehicles to provide shuttle service.