Bill Text: CA AB744 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: California Transportation Commission: data, modeling, and analytic software tools procurement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 541, Statutes of 2023. [AB744 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB744-Amended.html
Bill Title: California Transportation Commission: data, modeling, and analytic software tools procurement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 541, Statutes of 2023. [AB744 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB744-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 744
| Introduced by Assembly Member Juan Carrillo (Coauthors: Assembly Members Friedman, Hart, and Ward) (Coauthor: Senator Cortese) |
February 13, 2023 |
An act to add Section 14533.4 to the Government Code, relating to data analytics.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 744, as amended, Juan Carrillo.
California Transportation Commission: data, modeling, and analytic software tools procurement.
Existing law establishes the California Transportation Commission in the Transportation Agency. Existing law vests the California Transportation Commission with various powers and duties relative to the programming of transportation capital projects and allocation of funds to those projects pursuant to the state transportation improvement program and various other transportation funding programs.
Upon the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, this bill would require the commission to acquire public domain or procure commercially available or open-source licensed data, modeling, and analytic software tools to support the state’s sustainable transportation, congestion management, affordable housing, efficient land use, air quality, and climate change strategies and goals. The bill would require the commission to provide access to the data,
modeling, and analytic software tools to state and local agencies, as specified. goals, as provided.
This bill would authorize the commission to provide a direct allocation of funding to local agencies for the above purposes, and would require state and local agencies that receive the funds or access to data, modeling, and analytic software tools to submit reports to the commission no later than February August 1, 2026, regarding their use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools. The bill would require the commission, based on those reports, to submit a report to the Legislature no later than December 1, 2026,
June 1, 2027, regarding the use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools by state and local agencies.
This bill would authorize the commission to establish best practices for use of data in transportation planning and to identify data elements that should be made available to state and local agencies for transportation planning.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) The adoption of 21st century data, modeling, and analytic software tools is in the best interests of state and local agencies with responsibility for implementing the state’s climate goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
(b) State agencies, including the Department of Transportation, the State Air Resources Board, and the California Transportation Commission, have already begun procurement programs for “big data” analytics, but lack coordination and sustainable funding for ongoing investments and determinations about
the value of those programs. Regional and local agencies are also participating in
procurements without ongoing sustainable funding options.
(c) In accordance with travel demand data and modeling provisions set forth in Section 11205 of the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Public Law 117-58), and in an effort to align with IIJA provisions for travel demand data and modeling, it is in the state’s interest to procure data and analytical solutions that allow for solutions for vehicular transportation, active transportation, transit modes, and other modes of transportation, including both passenger and commercial freight traffic.
(d) Other benefits include evaluation and assessment of the state’s progress on climate goals, roadway safety, enhancing and connecting the state’s multimodal transportation network, improved outcomes in
transportation, and land use equity and livability.
(e) The California Transportation Commission already plays a leadership role in the assessment and implementation of data, modeling, and analytic software tools, and should serve as a convener in assisting state and local agencies in accessing data analytic and analysis platforms and programs for the aforementioned goals.
SEC. 2.
Section 14533.4 is added to the Government Code, to read:14533.4.
(a) (1) Upon the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, the commission shall acquire public domain or procure commercially available or open-source licensed data, modeling, and analytic software tools to support the state’s sustainable transportation, congestion management, affordable housing, efficient land use, air quality, economic, and climate change strategies and goals.(2) Data, modeling, and analytic software tools procured pursuant to this section may include, but are not limited to, the purchase of software licenses, or subscription licenses to travel demand models, models informed by global positioning system or other
spatial information, and other mobility information and data, modeling, and analytic software tools related to commercial freight, demographics, census-tract level land use, transportation safety, transportation-induced emissions, consumer spending, or travel forecasts.
(3) The commission shall identify general types of data sources, desired data outputs, and modeling parameters that may be used by state and local agencies to allow for high-level consistency of data.
(4) The commission may provide a direct allocation of funding to local agencies for procurement of data, modeling, and analytic software tools. The commission may grant local agencies access to the data, modeling, and analytic software tools it procures directly.
(b) The commission shall convene state agencies to assess and implement data, modeling, and analytic software tools to promote related commercial freight, demographics, census-tract level land use, transportation safety, transportation-induced emissions, consumer spending, or travel forecasts.
(c)The commission shall provide access to the data, modeling, and analytic software tools described in subdivision (a) to state and local agencies that have a role in transportation planning, including, but not limited to, regional transportation planning agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, and transportation authorities and commissions.
(d)
(c) The commission shall develop a proposal to procure data, modeling, and analytic software tools described in subdivision (a) or a process by which the commission grants access to the data it procures directly, no later than July 1, December 31, 2024. The proposal shall include a process for making the data procurement and analytics available to state and local agencies, no later than 30 days after the award of one or more contracts for the data, modeling, and analytic tools pursuant to this
section. agencies that have a role in transportation planning, including, but not limited to, regional transportation planning agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, and transportation authorities and commissions.
(e)
(d) (1) As a condition of receiving a grant of funds or access to data, modeling, and analytic software tools provided by the commission under this section, a state or local agency
shall submit a report to the commission no later than February
August 1, 2026, about the use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools for sustainable transportation, safety, active transportation planning, equity, affordable housing, efficient land use, air quality, or climate change-related programs.
(2) (A) The commission shall submit a report to the Legislature, in compliance with Section 9795, no later than December 1, 2026, June 1, 2027, based on the reports received pursuant to paragraph (1) regarding the use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools procured pursuant to this section by state and local agencies for sustainable transportation, safety,
active transportation planning, equity, affordable housing, efficient land use, air quality, and climate change-related programs.
(B) The requirement for submitting a report imposed pursuant to subparagraph (A) is inoperative on December 1, 2030, pursuant to Section 10231.5.
(f)
(e) Taking into account the information included in the reports outlined in subdivision (e),
(d), the commission may establish best practices for the use of data in transportation planning and may identify data elements that should be made available to state and local agencies wherever possible and consistently used in transportation planning. The commission may incorporate best practices or guidance provided by the secretary in accordance with the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58).
(g)
(f) For purposes of this section,
“local agency” means a county, city, city and county, special district, authority, agency, any other municipal public corporation or district, or other political subdivision of the state.
