Bill Text: CA SB151 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State highway operation and protection program.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-14 - Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [SB151 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB151-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 151	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 30, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 9, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator DeSaulnier
   (  Coauthor:   Senator  
Gaines   Coauthors:   Senators  
Cannella   and Gaines  )
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Lowenthal   ) 

                        JANUARY 31, 2013

   An act to add Section 14526.6 to the Government Code, relating to
transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 151, as amended, DeSaulnier. State highway operation and
protection program.
   Existing law generally provides for the programming and allocation
of state and federal transportation capital improvement funds
pursuant to the state transportation improvement program process
administered by the California Transportation Commission.
   Existing law additionally requires the Department of
Transportation to prepare a state highway operation and protection
program for the expenditure of funds for major capital improvements
that are necessary to preserve and protect the state highway system
but that do not add a new traffic lane to the system. The state
highway operation and protection program is based on a 10-year
rehabilitation plan and a 5-year maintenance plan prepared by the
department. Existing law provides for the program to be submitted to
the commission for approval in every even-numbered year.  Existing
law authorizes the commission to review the program relative to its
overall adequacy, level of annual funding needed to implement the
program, and impact of those expenditures on the state transportation
improvement program, but does not provide for the commission to
allocate funds to specific projects in the state highway operation
and protection program.
   This bill would require the commission to allocate funding for all
capital and support costs for a project in the state highway
operation and protection program. For a project that experiences
increases in capital or support costs above the amount originally
allocated, the bill would require the department to submit a
supplemental project allocation request for approval by the
commission.  The bill would authorize the commission to establish
guidelines to provide exceptions to the requirements relating to
these   supplemental project allocation requests, as
necessary to ensure projects are not unnecessarily delayed. 
   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 14526.6 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   14526.6.  (a) Beginning February 1, 2016, an allocation by the
commission of all capital and support costs for a project in the
state highway operation and protection program shall be required.
   (b) For a project that experiences increases in capital or support
costs above the amount in the allocation approved pursuant to
subdivision (a), a supplemental project allocation request shall be
submitted by the department for approval by the commission. 
   (c) The commission may establish guidelines to provide exceptions
to the requirements in subdivision (b) that it determines are
necessary to ensure projects are not unnecessarily delayed.