Bill Text: CA SB904 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: High-speed rail: private property: owner consent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-22 - Set, first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 7. Page 3236.) Reconsideration granted. [SB904 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB904-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 904	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 7, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Vidak
    (   Coauthors:   Senators   Fuller
  and Walters   ) 
    (  Coauthors:   Assembly Members  
Donnelly,   Gorell,   Harkey,   Jones,
  and Olsen   ) 

                        JANUARY 16, 2014

   An act to add Section 185037.6 to the Public Utilities Code,
relating to high-speed rail, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 904, as amended, Vidak. High-speed rail: private property:
owner consent.
   (1) Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with
specified powers and duties relating to the development and
implementation of an intercity high-speed train system. Existing law,
for any project along the high-speed rail network, authorizes the
authority to contract with the Department of Transportation to
perform specified project design services, including construction
inspection services.
   This bill would require the authority to require  that 
any employee of the authority, or any employee working for a public
or private entity that has contracted with the authority, prior to
entering onto any  privately-owned   privately
owned  property,  to  identify himself or
herself to the property owner and obtain the consent of the property
owner, as specified.
   (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 185037.6 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
to read:
   185037.6.  Notwithstanding any other law, the authority shall
require  that  any employee of the authority, or any
employee of a public or private entity that has contracted with the
authority,  to  do both of the following before
entering onto any privately owned property to perform a survey or
inspection or for any other purpose:
   (a) Identify himself or herself to the property owner as an
employee of the authority or a contractor of the authority working on
the high-speed rail project.
   (b) Obtain the consent of the property owner to enter upon the
property.
  SEC. 2.  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 Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to make statutory changes necessary to permit the
High-Speed Rail Authority to acquire real property to be used for the
high-speed rail system, at the earliest possible time, it is
necessary that this act take effect immediately.