Bill Text: CA SB1098 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Passenger and freight rail: LOSSAN Rail Corridor.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-22 - April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file. [SB1098 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1098-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
March 20, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1098
| Introduced by Senator Blakespear (Coauthors: Senators Allen, Laird, Limón, Newman, and Umberg) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Boerner, Davies, Dixon, and Hart) |
February 13, 2024 |
An act to add Sections 14072.8 and 14072.10 to, and to add and repeal Section 14072.6 of, the Government Code, relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1098, as amended, Blakespear.
Passenger and freight rail: LOSSAN Rail Corridor.
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation in the Transportation Agency under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Transportation. Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation, subject to approval of the Secretary of Transportation, to enter into an interagency transfer agreement under which a joint powers board assumes responsibility for administering the state-funded intercity rail service in certain rail corridors, including the LOSSAN Rail Corridor. Existing law defines the LOSSAN Rail Corridor as the intercity passenger rail corridor between San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Luis Obispo. Pursuant to this authority, the department entered into an interagency transfer agreement with the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency to administer intercity passenger rail service in the LOSSAN Rail Corridor.
This bill would require the Secretary of Transportation to provide strategic guidance, recommendations, and facilitate all necessary coordination, collaboration, and intervention when necessary between stakeholders, guidance and recommendations to, and coordination between, stakeholders as necessary to ensure the performance of the LOSSAN Rail Corridor, as specified.
This bill would also require the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Director of Transportation,
the California Transportation Commission, the Secretary for Environmental Protection, and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, to submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026, regarding the LOSSAN Rail Corridor that includes specified information, including certain recommendations made by the department and the California Transportation Commission, in consultation with the Secretary for Environmental Protection. information.
The bill would also require the Secretary of Transportation Transportation, in coordination with stakeholders responsible for operating rail services along the LOSSAN Rail Corridor, to submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2027, and biennially thereafter, on the management performance of the LOSSAN Rail Corridor, as provided.
This bill would require the metropolitan planning organizations for the counties located within the LOSSAN Rail Corridor to jointly
an unspecified entity to convene a working group composed of representatives of certain types of entities, including, among others, metropolitan planning organizations from specified counties. The bill would require the working group to submit a report to the Legislature a report on or before January 1, 2026, that provides recommendations on various topics relating to rail service in the corridor. LOSSAN Rail Corridor. Before the report is submitted to the Legislature, the bill would require the report to be reviewed and approved by the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency, the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, and the
North County Transit District. By adding to the duties of local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the LOSSAN Rail Corridor.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Southern California Rail Revitalization Act.SECTION 1.SEC. 2.
Section 14072.6 is added to the Government Code, to read:14072.6.
(a) (1) The secretary, in consultation with the director, the commission, the Secretary for Environmental Protection, and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026, regarding the LOSSAN Rail Corridor that includes all of the following information:(A) Prioritized capacity capital improvement projects in the corridor necessary
to improve current services and accommodate future passenger and freight service growth. growth consistent with the State Rail Plan prepared pursuant to Section 14036.
(B) Prioritized resiliency improvement projects in the corridor necessary to ensure the safe and continued movement of trains.
(C) A description of administrative actions taken by the Transportation Agency using authority in existence before January 1, 2025, to improve the management operations and performance
of the corridor.
(D) Recommendations received pursuant to paragraph (2). for the corridor to connect with other passenger rail services.
(E) Strategies to support and improve existing rail service and resiliency planning in the corridor.
(2)The department and commission, in consultation with the Secretary for Environmental Protection, shall submit recommendations to the secretary for inclusion in the report required pursuant to this subdivision regarding updates or changes to state agencies, policies, planning documents, programs, including the state transportation improvement program and the interregional transportation improvement program, and guidelines, needed to support the LOSSAN Rail Corridor. These recommendations shall include a review of how state rail planning documents are implemented, managed, and enforced.
(3)
(2) In preparing the report pursuant to this subdivision, the secretary and director
shall consult existing plans and studies for the LOSSAN Rail Corridor, including, but not limited to, the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Optimization Study and the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency Business Plan adopted by the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency.
(b) The _____ shall convene a working group that includes, but is not limited to, representatives of all of the following entities:
(1) LOSSAN Rail Corridor track owners.
(2) LOSSAN Rail Corridor passenger and freight rail operators.
(3) The county transportation commissions for the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura established pursuant to Division 12 (commencing with Section 130000) of the Public Utilities Code.
(4) The metropolitan planning organizations for the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura.
(5) Business, community, transportation, environmental, labor, and civic organizations.
(b)
(c) (1) The metropolitan planning organizations for the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara shall jointly
working group convened pursuant to subdivision (b) shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026, that provides recommendations on all of the following as necessary to ensure the long-term viability of comprehensive and coordinated passenger and freight rail services in the LOSSAN Rail Corridor:
(A) Dedicated and formula funding distributions available for passenger rail operations, including intercity and regional rail services along the corridor.
(B) Strategies to increase rail service coordination and reduce
disruptions or delays, including, but not limited to, those caused by climate resiliency, track closures, state of good repair, equipment, and staffing. The recommendations made pursuant to this subparagraph should result in improved maintenance and conditions of assets, reduced track closures, and greater on-time performance.
(C) Changes to local or regional governance, Alternative management structures, and consolidation for and
operations models or structures that improve intercity and regional rail services.
(D) Changes to state statutes or policies statutes, rules, or funding relating to intercity and regional rail services.
(E)Changes to enabling state legislation, policies, rules, or funding.
(F)
(E) Opportunities for rail to accelerate and support equity, safety, sustainability, zero-emissions, equipment, and economic development goals.
(G)
(F) Opportunities for these metropolitan planning organizations to analyze, describe, and report progress in operating, maintaining, and improving the corridor consistent with state and local planning documents in their sustainable communities strategies or, if applicable, alternative planning strategies, adopted pursuant to Section 65080.
(H)
(G) Opportunities for these metropolitan planning organizations to adopt multiregional goals relating to passenger and freight rail service, capital improvement projects related to those services, and resiliency of those services along the corridor to include in their respective sustainable communities strategies or, if applicable, alternative planning strategies, adopted pursuant to Section 65080.
(H) Improving connections to existing and planned public transit services.
(I) Strategies that increase ridership and use of rail services.
(2) The report required pursuant to this subdivision shall include meaningful public engagement led by the metropolitan planning organizations and be developed with the support of a steering committee composed of representatives of business, community,
transportation, environmental, labor, and civic organizations. The report shall be adopted by the governing boards of each metropolitan planning organization before submission to the Legislature. working group convened pursuant to subdivision (b).
(3) Before submitting the report required pursuant to this subdivision to the Legislature, the working group shall submit the report to the governing boards of the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency, the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, and the North County Transit District for review and approval.
(c)
(d) (1) The reports to be submitted pursuant to this section shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795.
(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.
SEC. 2.SEC. 3.
Section 14072.8 is added to the Government Code, to read:14072.8.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5, the(1) Performance, ridership, usage, and quality of intercity, regional rail, and freight rail services.
(2) Updates to capital improvement planning.
(3) Progress in delivering fleet and infrastructure improvement projects.
(4) Improvements to service and fare coordination.
(5) Opportunities to increase the quality and frequency of services.
(b) A report to be
submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795.
SEC. 3.SEC. 4.
Section 14072.10 is added to the Government Code, to read:14072.10.
(a) The secretary shall provide(b) The responsibilities set forth in subdivision (a) shall include oversight and development of plans,
planning, as needed, for any of the following:
(1) Service frequencies.
(2) Equipment and fleet management.
(3) Infrastructure improvement and state-of-good repair projects.
(4) Resiliency of the corridor.
