Bill Text: CA SB698 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 698 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Active Transportation Program: school zone safety projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB698 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB698-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 698	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cannella

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 39719 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 698, as introduced, Cannella. Active Transportation Program:
school zone safety projects.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the
State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based
compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for
fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to
be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing law
continuously appropriates 60% of the annual proceeds of the fund for
transit, affordable housing, sustainable communities, and high-speed
rail purposes.
   Existing law creates the Active Transportation Program in the
Department of Transportation for the purpose of encouraging increased
use of active modes of transportation, such as biking and walking,
with available funds to be allocated to eligible projects by the
California Transportation Commission, as specified.
   This bill would continuously appropriate an unspecified amount
from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the State Highway Account
in the State Transportation Fund for purposes of funding school zone
safety projects within the Active Transportation Program.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 39719 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   39719.  (a) The Legislature shall appropriate the annual proceeds
of the fund for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in
this state in accordance with the requirements of Section 39712.
   (b) To carry out a portion of the requirements of subdivision (a),
annual proceeds are continuously appropriated for the following:
   (1) Beginning in the 2015-16 fiscal year, and notwithstanding
Section 13340 of the Government Code, 35 percent of annual proceeds
are continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, for
transit, affordable housing, and sustainable communities programs as
following:
   (A) Ten percent of the annual proceeds of the fund is hereby
continuously appropriated to the Transportation Agency for the
Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program created by Part 2
(commencing with Section 75220) of Division 44 of the Public
Resources Code.
   (B) Five percent of the annual proceeds of the fund is hereby
continuously appropriated to the Low Carbon Transit Operations
Program created by Part 3 (commencing with Section 75230) of Division
44 of the Public Resources Code. Funds shall be allocated by the
Controller, according to requirements of the program, and pursuant to
the distribution formula in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 99312
of, and Sections 99313 and 99314 of, the Public Utilities Code.
   (C) Twenty percent of the annual proceeds of the fund is hereby
continuously appropriated to the Strategic Growth Council for the
Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program created by
Part 1 (commencing with Section 75200) of Division 44 of the Public
Resources Code. Of the amount appropriated in this subparagraph, no
less than 10 percent of the annual proceeds, shall be expended for
affordable housing, consistent with the provisions of that program.

   (D) ____ percent of the annual proceeds of the fund is hereby
continuously appropriated to the State Highway Account in the State
Transportation Fund for purposes of funding school zone safety
projects within the Active Transportation Program established in
Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 2380) of Division 3 of the Streets
and Highways Code. 
   (2) Beginning in the 2015-16 fiscal year, notwithstanding Section
13340 of the Government Code, 25 percent of the annual proceeds of
the fund is hereby continuously appropriated to the High-Speed Rail
Authority for the following components of the initial operating
segment and Phase I Blended System as described in the 2012 business
plan adopted pursuant to Section 185033 of the Public Utilities Code:

   (A) Acquisition and construction costs of the project.
   (B) Environmental review and design costs of the project.
   (C) Other capital costs of the project.
   (D) Repayment of any loans made to the authority to fund the
project.
   (c) In determining the amount of annual proceeds of the fund for
purposes of the calculation in subdivision (b), the funds subject to
Section 39719.1 shall not be included.