Bill Text: CA SB1175 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Senate Bill 1175 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Department of Transportation: intermodal passenger services: rail corridors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 303, Statutes of 2022. [SB1175 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB1175-Chaptered.html

Senate Bill No. 1175

CHAPTER 303

An act to amend Section 14035 of the Government Code, relating to transportation.

[ Approved by Governor September 13, 2022. Filed with Secretary of State September 13, 2022. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1175, McGuire. Department of Transportation: intermodal passenger services: rail corridors.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to construct, acquire, or lease, and improve and operate, rail passenger terminals and related facilities that provide intermodal passenger services along specified corridors.

This bill would expand that authorization to include the Sacramento-Larkspur-Novato-Cloverdale corridor.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 14035 of the Government Code is amended to read:

14035.

(a) The department may enter into contracts with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation under Section 403(b) of the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, or any successor statute, to provide commuter and intercity passenger rail services. The contracts may include, but are not limited to, the extension of intercity passenger rail services or the upgrading of commuter rail services.

(b) The department may contract with railroad corporations for the use of tracks and other facilities and the provision of passenger services on terms and conditions as the parties may agree.

(c) The department may construct, acquire, or lease, and improve and operate, rail passenger terminals and related facilities that provide intermodal passenger services along the following corridors: the San Diego-Los Angeles-Santa Barbara corridor, the San Francisco-San Jose-Monterey corridor, the Los Angeles-Riverside-San Bernardino-Calexico corridor, the San Jose-Oakland-Sacramento-Reno corridor, the Los Angeles-Bakersfield-Fresno-Stockton-Sacramento-Oakland corridor, the Sacramento-Larkspur-Novato-Cloverdale corridor, and the Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Oakland-Sacramento-Redding corridor.

(d) The department may enter into a contract with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to provide additional trains over the San Joaquin route running between Bakersfield and Oakland and to extend the existing route to Sacramento.

(e) The Transportation Agency of Monterey County may be a party to any contract entered into under this section between the department and the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for passenger rail service along the San Francisco-San Jose-Monterey corridor.