Bill Text: CA SB389 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 389 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Department of Transportation: transportation project delivery services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-09-01 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB389 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB389-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly July 03, 2017

Amended IN Senate May 16, 2017

Amended IN Senate March 21, 2017

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 389

Introduced by Senator Roth

February 14, 2017

An act to add Section 182.1 to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 389, as amended, Roth. Department of Transportation: ~~programmatic testing and inspection services.~~ transportation project delivery services.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of all state highways and associated property. Existing law creates the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund, and requires all money appropriated, contributed, or made available from any source for expenditure on work within the powers and duties of the department, including sources other than state appropriations, to be transferred to or deposited in the account.

This bill would authorize the department to establish a ~~special subaccount of the State Highway Account to accommodate deposits and expenditures of moneys~~ fee schedule and to charge a fee relative to ~~routine programmatic testing and inspection~~ transportation project delivery services requested by a local agency or other ~~entity that are not directly related to a particular project,~~ entity, as specified, including, but not limited to, ~~aggregate qualifications,~~ job mix formula verifications, material quality plant program inspections, and laboratory certifications. The bill would authorize the department to assign a nondistributive project identification number for those services, and charge a fee to the requesting party for services performed by the department in order to reimburse the department for its associated costs, which costs shall be payable from the subaccount. accreditations. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to, among other things, specify the terms and conditions for providing these services and would require that the department’s total estimated revenue from the fee schedule not exceed the department’s estimated total cost for providing these services. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require that the moneys ~~in the subaccount~~ collected and deposited in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund pursuant to these provisions be allocated to the department for these purposes.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 182.1 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:

182.1.
(a) The purpose of this section is to do all of the following:
(1) Accelerate transportation project delivery.
(2) Make transportation project delivery more efficient.
(3) Optimize the scheduling of the department’s testing, inspection, and certification workload by performing some of this work before testing.
(b) The department may establish a fee schedule and charge a fee for providing all of the following services:
(1) Job mix formula verifications.
(2) Material quality plant program inspections.
(3) Annual aggregate source verifications.
(4) Independent assurance of accreditation of laboratories and qualification of testers.
(c) The department’s total estimated revenue from the fee schedule shall not exceed the department’s estimated total cost for providing the services authorized pursuant to this section.
(d) Funds collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys collected pursuant to this section shall be allocated to the department for the purposes of this section.
(e) The department may adopt regulations to specify all of the following:
(1) The fee schedule.
(2) The services that the department will provide to a local agency or other entity.
(3) The terms and conditions for providing these services.
(4) The entities that may apply for these services.

SECTION 1.Section 182.1 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:
182.1.
The department may establish a special subaccount of the State Highway Account to accommodate deposits and expenditures of moneys relative to routine programmatic testing and inspection services requested by a local agency or other entity that are not directly related to a particular project, including, but not limited to, aggregate qualifications, mix verifications, plant inspections, and laboratory certifications. The department may assign a nondistributive project identification number for those services, and charge a fee to the requesting party for services performed by the department in order to reimburse the department for its associated costs, which costs shall be payable from the subaccount. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in the subaccount shall be allocated to the department for the purposes of this section.