Bill Text: CA SB1279 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Transportation Commission: funding prohibition: coal shipment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 215, Statutes of 2016. [SB1279 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1279-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1279	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 14525.3 to the Government Code, relating to
transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1279, as introduced, Hancock. California Transportation
Commission: funding prohibition: coal shipment.
   Existing law creates the California Transportation Commission,
with various duties and responsibilities relative to the programming
and allocation of funds for transportation capital projects.
   This bill would prohibit the commission from programming or
allocating any public funds for any project at a port facility that
is located at, or adjacent to, a disadvantaged community and that
exports or proposes to export coal from the state.
   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.  Section 14525.3 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   14525.3.  The commission shall not program or allocate any public
funds, including proceeds from the sale of general obligation bonds,
under its jurisdiction for any project at a port facility that is
located in, or adjacent to, one or more disadvantaged communities
identified pursuant to Chapter 4.1 (commencing with Section 39710) of
Part 2 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code and that exports
or proposes to export coal from the state.