Bill Text: CA SB936 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Office of Planning and Research: study: road safety projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-25 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [SB936 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 936
| Introduced by Senator Seyarto (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Lackey, and Sanchez) |
January 17, 2024 |
An act to add Section 21095.5 to the Public Resources Code, relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 936, as amended, Seyarto.
Office of Planning and Research: study: road safety projects.
Existing law establishes the Office of Planning and Research (OPR) in the Governor’s office for the purpose of serving the Governor and the Governor’s cabinet as staff for long-range planning and research and constituting the comprehensive state planning agency. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires OPR to prepare and develop proposed guidelines for the implementation of CEQA by public agencies.
This bill would require OPR, in coordination with the Department of Transportation, to conduct a study to identify (1) the top 15 certain locations in the state highway system with the highest rate of vehicle collisions during each calendar year within a
range of calendar years selected by OPR for purposes of the study, and (2) regard to vehicle collisions and crash exposure, projects that could improve road safety at each of those locations. locations, and common factors, if any, contributing to the delay in the delivery of those projects. The bill would require the study to also identify the most common types of road safety projects across the state and the type of review typically required under CEQA for those projects. The bill would require OPR to post the study on its internet website on or before January 1, 2026.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 21095.5 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:21095.5.
(a) The Office of Planning and Research, in coordination with the Department of Transportation, shall conduct a study to identify all of the following:(1) The most common types of road safety projects across the state and the type of review typically required under this division for those road safety projects.
(2) The top 15 locations in the state highway system with the highest rate of vehicle collisions during each calendar year within a range of calendar years selected by the office for purposes of the study.
(3) The top 15 locations in the state highway system with the highest levels of crash exposure as calculated using the department’s Transportation Equity Index during each calendar year within a range of calendar years selected by the office for purposes of the study.
(3)
(4) Projects that could improve road safety at each of the locations identified pursuant to paragraph
(2). paragraphs (2) and (3).
(5) Common factors, if any, contributing to the delay in the delivery of the projects identified pursuant to paragraph (4).
(b) On or before January 1, 2026, the office shall post the study conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) on its internet website.
