Bill Text: CA SB414 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Transportation bonds: highway, street, and road projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [SB414 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB414-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
January 03, 2018 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 414 |
| Introduced by Senator Vidak |
February 15, 2017 |
An act to add Section 2704.096 to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation. transportation, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 414, as amended, Vidak.
Transportation bonds: highway, street, and road projects.
Existing law, the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, general election, provides for the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $9 billion for high-speed rail purposes and $950 million for other related rail purposes. Article XVI of the California Constitution requires measures authorizing general obligation bonds to specify the single object or work to be funded by the bonds and further requires a bond act to be approved by a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature and a majority of the voters.
This bill would provide that no further bonds shall be sold for high-speed rail purposes pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed
Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, except as specifically provided with respect to an existing appropriation for high-speed rail purposes for early improvement projects in the Phase 1 blended system. The bill, subject to the above exception, would require redirection of the unspent proceeds from outstanding bonds issued and sold for other high-speed rail purposes prior to the effective date of these provisions, upon appropriation, for use in retiring the debt incurred from the issuance and sale of those outstanding bonds. The bill, subject to the above exception, would also require the net proceeds of bonds subsequently issued and sold under the high-speed rail portion of the bond act, upon appropriation, to be made available to the California Transportation Commission for allocation for repair and new construction projects on state highways and freeways, and to the Controller for apportionment to cities and
counties for transportation projects or other infrastructure projects, and local transit projects, as specified. The bill would make no changes to the authorization under the bond act for the issuance of $950 million in bonds for rail purposes other than high-speed rail. These provisions would become effective only upon approval by the voters at the June 5, 2018, statewide primary election.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 2704.096 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:2704.096.
(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and except as provided in paragraph (2), no further bonds shall be issued and sold for purposes of Section 2704.06 on and after the effective date of this section.(2) This section shall not apply to bonds issued and sold for purposes of Section 2704.06 with respect to the appropriation in Item 2665-104-6043 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2012, as added by Section 3 of Chapter 152 of the Statutes of 2012.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), the
unspent proceeds from the outstanding bonds issued and sold
pursuant to Section 2704.06 prior to the effective date of this section shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be redirected from high-speed rail purposes for use in retiring the debt incurred from the issuance and sale of those outstanding bonds.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the remaining unissued bonds, as of the effective date of this section, that were previously authorized pursuant to Section 2704.06, except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), are hereby authorized to be issued and sold, and 50 percent one-third of the net proceeds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, shall be made available to
the California Transportation Commission for allocation to repair and new construction projects on state highways and freeways, and the remaining 50 percent one-third of the net proceeds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, shall be made available to Controller for apportionment to cities and counties for
transportation projects or other infrastructure improvements. projects, and one-third of the net proceeds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, shall be made available to the Controller for apportionment to cities and counties for local transit projects.
SEC. 2.
Section 1 of this act would modify the single object or work of a general obligation bond act previously submitted to the voters by the Legislature pursuant to Section 1 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, and subsequently approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, statewide general election. Accordingly, Section 1 of this act shall become effective only upon approval by the voters.SEC. 3.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to require the proceeds of specified bonds authorized by Proposition 1A (2008) to be used for certain transportation purposes instead of for high-speed rail purposes at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
