Bill Text: CA SB1228 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Trade Corridors Improvement Fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 787, Statutes of 2014. [SB1228 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1228-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1228	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 25, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 27, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hueso

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to add Chapter 4.8 (commencing with Section 2192) to
Division 3 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to
transportation.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1228, as amended, Hueso. Trade Corridors Improvement Fund.
   Existing law, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality,
and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, approved by the voters as
Proposition 1B at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election,
provides for transfer of $2 billion of bond proceeds to the Trade
Corridors Improvement Fund, created by the bond act, for
infrastructure improvements along federally designated Trade
Corridors of National Significance, to be allocated by the California
Transportation Commission to eligible projects, as specified.
   This bill would continue the Trade Corridors Improvement Fund in
existence for the purpose of receipt and expenditure of revenues from
sources other than the bond act. The bill would provide for
allocation of these revenues, upon appropriation, by the California
Transportation Commission for largely similar purposes as the bond
act funds, but would specifically reference, as eligible projects,
infrastructure improvements that benefit the state's land ports of
entry  , seaports, and airports  .  In that regard,
the bill would also omit references to infrastructure improvements
relating to goods movement to and from airports.  The 
bill would require the commission to consult specified plans and a
specified strategy in determining the projects eligible for funding.

    The  bill, to the extent funds are transferred to the
Trade Corridors Improvement Fund from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund, would require projects funded with those funds to  be
consistent with the purposes of the Trade Corridors Improvement Fund
and the guid   elines adopted for the fund by the commission
and to  demonstrate how they will reduce greenhouse gas
emissions consistent with the goals and objectives of the Greenhouse
Gas Reduction Fund.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares that international
trade in California is an increasingly important component of the
state's $2 trillion economy. In 2013, California exported $168
billion in products, an increase of more than 4 percent over the
amount exported in 2012. California has five major land ports of
entry, yielding $535.9 billion in economic activity in 2012.
California is also home to 11 seaports on over 1,000 miles of
coastline. Seaports generate billions of dollars in economic activity
and millions of jobs. Land ports of entry and seaports create busy
borders and harbors with heavy industrial commerce. It is imperative
that safety issues and pollution generated by trade are mitigated in
order to reduce those impacts and to allow additional growth in
international trade.
  SEC. 2.  Chapter 4.8 (commencing with Section 2192) is added to
Division 3 of the Streets and Highways Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 4.8.  TRADE CORRIDORS IMPROVEMENT FUND


   2192.  (a) The Trade Corridors Improvement Fund, created pursuant
to subdivision (c) of Section 8879.23 of the Government Code, is
hereby continued in existence to receive revenues from sources other
than the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port
Security Bond Act of 2006. This chapter shall govern expenditure of
those other revenues.
   (b) The moneys in the fund from those other sources shall be
available upon appropriation for allocation by the California
Transportation Commission for infrastructure improvements in this
state on federally designated Trade Corridors of National and
Regional Significance, on the Primary Freight Network, and along
other corridors that have a high volume of freight movement, as
determined by the commission. In determining the projects eligible
for funding, the commission shall consult  the state
Transportation Agency's state freight plan as described in Section
13978.8 of the Government Code, the Air Resources Board's Sustainable
Freight Strategy adopted by Resolution 14-2, and  the trade
infrastructure and goods movement plan submitted to the commission by
the Secretary of  the United States Department of 
Transportation and the Secretary  for   of the
United States  Environmental Protection  Agency  . The
commission shall also consult trade infrastructure and goods movement
plans adopted by regional transportation planning agencies, adopted
regional transportation plans required by state and federal law, and
the statewide port master plan prepared by the California Marine and
Intermodal Transportation System Advisory Council (Cal-MITSAC)
pursuant to Section 1730 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, when
determining eligible projects for funding. Eligible projects for
these funds include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
   (1) Highway capacity improvements and operational improvements to
more efficiently accommodate the movement of freight, particularly
for ingress and egress to and from the state's land ports of entry
and seaports, including navigable inland waterways used to transport
freight between  seaports,  land ports of  entry
  entry,  and  seaports and between
seaports,   airports,  and to relieve traffic
congestion along major trade or goods movement corridors.
   (2) Freight rail system improvements to enhance the ability to
move goods from  seaports,  land ports of  entry
  entry,  and  seaports  
airports  to warehousing and distribution centers throughout
California, including projects that separate rail lines from highway
or local road traffic, improve freight rail mobility through
mountainous regions, relocate rail switching yards, and other
projects that improve the efficiency and capacity of the rail freight
system.
   (3) Projects to enhance the capacity and efficiency of 
land ports of entry and seaports   ports  .
   (4) Truck corridor improvements, including dedicated truck
facilities or truck toll facilities.
   (5) Border access improvements that enhance goods movement between
California and Mexico and that maximize the state's ability to
access coordinated border infrastructure funds made available to the
state by federal law. 
   (6) Surface transportation and connector road improvements to
effectively facilitate the movement of goods, particularly for
ingress and egress to and from the state's land ports of entry,
airports, and seaports, to relieve traffic congestion along major
trade or goods movement corridors. 
   (c) (1) The commission shall allocate funds for trade
infrastructure improvements from the fund  consistent with 
 Section 8879.52 of the Government Code and the Trade Corridors
Improvement Fund (TCIF) Guidelines adopted by the commission on
November 27, 2007, or as amended by the commission, and  in a
manner that (A) addresses the state's most urgent needs, (B) balances
the demands of various land ports of  entry and 
 entry,  seaports,  between large and small land
ports of entry and small and large seaports, as well as between land
ports of entry and seaports,   and airports,  (C)
provides reasonable geographic balance between the state's regions,
and (D) places emphasis on projects that improve trade corridor
mobility while reducing emissions of diesel particulate and other
pollutant emissions.
   (2) In addition, the commission shall also consider the following
factors when allocating these funds:
   (A) "Velocity," which means the speed by which large cargo would
travel from the land port of entry or seaport through the
distribution system.
   (B) "Throughput," which means the volume of cargo that would move
from the land port of entry or seaport through the distribution
system.
   (C) "Reliability," which means a reasonably consistent and
predictable amount of time for cargo to travel from one point to
another on any given day or at any given time in California.
   (D) "Congestion reduction," which means the reduction in recurrent
daily hours of delay to be achieved.
   (d) To the extent moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,
attributable to the auction or sale of allowances as part of a
market-based compliance mechanism relative to reduction of greenhouse
gas emissions, are transferred to the Trade Corridors Improvement
fund, projects funded with those moneys shall demonstrate how they
will reduce emissions consistent with the goals and objectives of the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
   (e) The commission shall allocate funds made available by this
section to projects that have identified and committed supplemental
funding from appropriate local, federal, or private sources. The
commission shall determine the appropriate amount of supplemental
funding each project should have to be eligible for moneys from the
fund based on a project-by-project review and an assessment of the
project's benefit to the state and the program. Except for border
access improvements described in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b),
improvements funded with moneys from the fund shall have supplemental
funding that is at least equal to the amount of the contribution
from the fund. The commission may give priority for funding to
projects with higher levels of committed supplemental funding.
   (f) The commission shall include in its annual report to the
Legislature, required by Section 14535 of the Government Code, a
summary of its activities related to the administration of this
section. The summary shall, at a minimum, include a description and
the location of the projects contained in the program funded by the
fund, the amount of funds allocated to each project, the status of
each project, and a description of the mobility and air quality
improvements the program is achieving.