Bill Text: CA AB744 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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
Amended
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Senate
September 01, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Senate
June 21, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Senate
June 08, 2023 |
Amended
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Assembly
May 18, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Juan Carrillo (Coauthors: Assembly Members Friedman, Hart, and Ward) (Coauthor: Senator Cortese) |
February 13, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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, 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 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
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.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 14533.4 is added to the Government Code, to read:14533.4.
(a) (1)(3)The
(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 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 December 31, 2024. The proposal shall include a process for making the data procurement and analytics available 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)(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
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 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.
(e)Taking into account the information included in the reports outlined in subdivision
(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).
(f)