Development and Financing Development and FinancingAppropriates $300 million from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund to the State Controller for allocation to counties (50 percent) and cities (50 percent) for street and highway reconstruction and repair of storm damage to local streets and highways, as specified, and in a city and county, for other purposes related to transportation, as specified.
Appropriates $20 million for demonstration grants to improve transportation services for those receiving aid under the CalWORKs program.
Revises the method for determining the allocation, by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) of the San Francisco Bay Area, to some local transit operators, of interest earned on local transportation funds controlled by MTC, by eliminating the effect a transit operator's service demands have on the calculation.
Enacts the Transportation Infrastructure Bond Acts of 2000, if adopted by the voters, and authorizes the sale of an unspecified amount of bonds.
Creates the 11-member San Diego Regional Government Efficiency Commission (RGEC). Specifies that six of the commissioners represent existing agencies and the Governor is to appoint five public members. Requires that, by August 1, 2001, the RGEC must give the Legislature a plan for consolidating regional agencies and a plan to improve coordination of regional agencies. Implementing legislation requires majority voter approval at an election in San Diego County in March or November 2002.
Similar legislation was AB 2389 (Longville), which died in Assembly Local Government Committee.
Revises AB 2928, the transportation "trailer bill" for the 2000-01 Budget Act. Replaces and adjusts expenditure amounts in a section of AB 2928 that contains the list of projects that are eligible for Traffic Congestion Relief Fund expenditure and adds item number 159, which is a new project. Implements the Governor's Transportation Congestion Relief Plan, dedicates gasoline sales tax revenues to transportation for five years, and provides additional funding for local streets and roads, the State Transportation Improvement Program and the Public Transportation Account.
Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority, in directing the development and implementation of intercity high-speed rail service, to work with local governments to assist in the community development projects most in need of intercity high-speed rail service, as determined by the authority.
Exempts the sale and use of transit vehicles sold to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority from the state portion of the sales and use tax. Provides that the exemption does not apply to the local Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax or to Transactions and Use taxes.
Deletes the requirement that a local applicant for a grant for an off-highway vehicle (OHV) facility provide a matching grant of 25 percent. Provides that this applies to those facilities that are not considered regional OHV facilities.
Creates seven subregional transportation planning boards within the area of jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which would have exclusive authority for setting transportation priorities and selecting capital projects within their respective subregions. Specifies the membership of the boards and their responsibilities and provide for their staffing and funding.
Requires, if the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), serving as the Bay Area Toll Authority, grants toll-free and reduced-rate passage on toll bridges under MTC's jurisdiction to any vehicle pursuant to law, MTC to grant the same toll-free and reduced-rate passage to vehicles displaying a valid ultra low emission vehicle or super ultra low emission vehicle identifier issued pursuant to the above.
Transforms the High Speed Rail Authority, currently scheduled to terminate on June 30, 2001, into the High-Speed Rail Infrastructure Authority with a new sunset date of December 31, 2003.
Creates the Exposition Boulevard Fixed Guideway Authority for the purpose of awarding and administering all design and construction contracts for completing an unspecified fixed guideway project in Los Angeles in the vicinity of Exposition Boulevard. Specifies the membership, rights, duties and other responsibilities of the authority.
Redirects, from the General Fund, a portion of the sales tax on motor vehicle fuel to fund highway capital projects.
Relieves the commuter ferry service on San Diego Bay from complying with certain specified requirements.
Establishes, until January 1, 2002, a specified advisory committee for the purpose of evaluating current highway and related transportation issues and conditions within the state's Transportation District 4 (Bay Area). Requires a report and recommendation to the Legislature by July 1, 2001.
Enacts technical revisions to the transportation trailer bills (AB 2928 and SB 406, Chapters 91 and 92, respectively, Statutes of 2000) and specified transportation-related provisions of the 2000-01 State Budget Act.
Reappropriates and appropriates monies to augment the State Budget of 2000. Revises, among other things, specified appropriations made to the State Department of Transportation for local assistance. Appropriates funds appropriated to the State Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) for the City of Westminster for the purchase of passenger vans to serve Vietnamese seniors, to DPR for the City of Santa Ana for the purchase of passenger vans to serve Vietnamese seniors.
Enacts the Balanced Transportation for Livable Communities Act of 2000. Requires that at least ten percent of the State's federal minimum guarantee funds be programmed for transportation enhancement activities and prescribes the method of apportioning such funds among local transportation agencies and grant applicants.
Modifies the structure and the duties of the High Speed Rail Authority.
Requires the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to prepare a comprehensive congestion reduction plan, prepare a plan for implementing an integrated transportation system management program, and enter into specified contracts for the development of performance measures and an independent analysis of MTC's planning activities and methods.
Appropriates $127 million to establish rapid commuter rail service between San Francisco and San Jose.
Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority to prepare a feasibility study for a magnetic levitation (maglev) train connecting airports and major urban centers in the Los Angeles-San Bernardino area. Authorizes agreements with private entities or consortia for the project's construction and operation by, and lease to, such private entities. Authorizes the use of state highway rights-of-way and easements for the maglev project, and requires all proposed agreements to be submitted for review by the Senate and Assembly Transportation Committees, as well as the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
Includes, specifically, bicyclist and pedestrian education within the scope of the components comprising the California Traffic Safety Program.
Requires every annual State Budget to include an appropriation of $60 million, rather than the current $15 million, for allocation for railroad grade separation projects.
Creates the California Competes Transportation Task Force for the purpose of enhancing the state's ability to compete for that federal funding. Prescribes the composition of the task force and its functions. Requires the State Department of Transportation to provide technical and staff support to the task force.
Authorizes transit districts to enter into design-build contracts in which a single contractor or entity is responsible for both the design and construction phases of a project. Establishes extensive qualifying, procedural and performance requirements and criteria governing the use of the design-build authority.
Makes short line railroad systems eligible for state funding through the State Transportation Improvement Program. Creates the Short Line Railroad Improvement Account within the State Transportation Fund.
Redirects federal funds from the State Transportation Improvement Program funding formula and allocates those revenues to the Regional Surface Transportation Program. 20 percent of those redirected funds allocated to certain counties must be set aside for environmental enhancement.
Requires the State Controller to make specified allocations of State Transit Assistance funds to member agencies of the Altamont Commuter Express Authority and the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, based on the operating revenues of the ACEA rail services and METROLINK rail services, respectively.
Repeals the High Speed Rail Act, which establishes the High-Speed Rail Authority to direct the development of intercity high-speed rail service.
Revises and expands the scope of regional transportation plans and adds to the elements required to be included in such plans, as specified.
Restricts the ability of the California Transportation Commission to redirect federal transportation funds that are not being used in a timely fashion.
Allows the State Department of Transportation to verify that all construction projects performed under its jurisdiction meet or exceed standards and specifications included in the project, as specified.
Clarifies the duties and powers of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), authorizing the VTA to administer a countywide transportation expenditure plan funded by a local sales tax if designated to do so in the plan, or if the authority and the entity that imposes the tax have entered into an agreement that so provides.
Requires the California Transportation Commission to establish a grant program to provide funds to eligible Service Authorities for Freeway Emergencies for one-time capital improvement projects for new freeway callboxes and callbox upgrades and retrofits.
Requires the allocation of all property tax revenues generated within a transit village development district to the city or county establishing the district.
Establishes a process by which the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission can overrule conditions placed by any local agency on any transportation project included in the regional transportation improvement programs.
Appropriates $600,000 from the Historic Property Maintenance fund to the State Department of Transportation (DOT) to pay for costs associated with the maintenance and operation of specified historic properties located within a freeway corridor. Deletes provisions which require DOT to meet and confer with the City of South Pasadena and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Authority with respect to the design of the proposed extension of the 710 Freeway that will be located within those jurisdictions.
Increases funding for local road maintenance projects. Redirects, from the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account to a new Local Government Road Maintenance Account, the revenue generated by two cents of the 18-cent motor vehicle fuel (gas) tax.
Directs the Office of Traffic Safety to establish a traffic intersection safety program, within the California Traffic Safety Program, that administers grants to local agencies for safety improvements at traffic intersections. Eligible projects are limited to specific safety control measures and physical improvements, and may not be used for photoenforcement systems of certain types of studies.
Enacts the Pedestrian Safety Act of 2000, which enacts a number of provisions related to improving roadway safety for bicycles and pedestrians.
Requires the California Transportation Commission, when programming and allocating funds appropriated from the General fund for transportation capital improvement projects, except when those funds are appropriated in response to a natural disaster, to allocate those funds as transportation funds, through an amendment to the State Transportation Improvement Program, and considering the specified formulas.
Requires that municipal bus operators in Los Angeles County receive a proportionate share of all bus operating and capital funds budgeted, allocated or expended by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Requires the State Board of Equalization (BOE), in consultation with the State Department of Finance, to estimate, on a quarterly basis the revenues, less refunds, derived during the previous fiscal quarter from application of sales and use tax to that portion of the price of motor vehicle fuel resulting from imposition of the federal tax on gasoline and imposition of the tax on motor vehicle fuel under the Motor Vehicle Fuel License Tax Law. Provides that the estimate will not include the revenues derived from the application of sales and use tax to that portion of the price of motor vehicle fuel resulting from the increase after December 31, 1989, in the rate of state motor vehicle fuel taxes. Requires the BOE to inform the State Controller, in writing, of the amount estimated, as specified.
Authorizes the Governor to create an advisory committee on urban traffic congestion.
Makes changes in existing law relating to general government to implement provisions of the Budget bill for the 2000-01 fiscal year, including, requiring the State Department of Transportation (DOT), with the approval of the State Department of Finance, to set rates for rental of mobile services. Creates the Equipment Services Fund to pay for mobile equipment services. Requires DOT, in consultation with the Office of Planning and Research, to conduct a statewide rail transportation assessment and report to the Legislature by January 2002.
Implements the Governor's Transportation Congestion Relief Plan. Dedicates gasoline sales tax revenues to transportation for five years and provides additional funding for local streets and roads, the State Transportation Improvement Program and the Public Transportation Account.
Prohibits the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District from extending service outside the existing district until service commitments have been made to specified cities and prohibits the extension of service to a county outside the district, unless that county agrees to provide funding for specific service extensions within the existing district.
Lengthens the State Transportation Improvement Program and the associated estimate of funds available for transportation improvement projects from a four-year to a seven-year cycle.
Sets forth membership of and goals of a specified Traffic Relief Panel for the purpose of holding town hall meetings in specified areas of California.
Motor Vehicle EmissionsStates legislative intent to encourage companies, on or before October 1, 2000, to produce gasoline which does not contain Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE). Requires the State Department of Health Services to expend an unspecified amount of funds from the Unallocated Account in the Cigarette and Tobacco product Surtax Fund to fund public service announcements in cities, counties, or regions where MTBE has been eliminated from gasoline prior to October 31, 1999.
Requires the Bureau of Automotive Repair, within the State Department of Consumer Affairs, to implement an enhanced vehicle inspection program (Smog Check) in an area classified as a nonattainment area for ozone and which has been designated as an overwhelming or significant contributor to downwind ozone air pollutants in another nonattainment district.
Repeals existing provision imposing smog impact fees on vehicles previously registered out-of-state and makes a related change. Transfers $665,261,000 from the General Fund to the Smog Impact Fee Refund Account in the State Transportation Fund, which is created by this bill as a continuously appropriated account in the Special Deposit Fund, for the purpose of funding refunds of the smog impact fee and for certain other purposes.
Similar legislation was SB 230 (Johannessen-R), which died at the Assembly Desk, SB 1325 (Karnette-D), which died in Senate Transportation Committee, AB 1702 (McClintock-R), which died on the Assembly Floor, and AB 1726 (Reyes-D), which died in Assembly Transportation Committee.
Makes changes in the inspection programs for heavy-duty diesel motor vehicles.
Requires the State Air Resources Board to modify its accelerated light-duty vehicle retirement program, a program designed to improve air quality by removing older, higher-polluting vehicles from operation, to require options for vehicle disposition other than retirement.
Requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations on vehicles manufactured in 1994 or newer, to the extent not limited or barred by federal law, to require automobile manufacturers to disclose specified information for the repair or manufacture of emissions-related motor vehicle parts to any person engaged in the business of servicing or repairing motor vehicles or engaged in the manufacture or remanufacture of emissions-related motor vehicle parts.
Allows a vehicle owner, who is required to have the smog check on his/her vehicle performed at a test-only facility, to have the test performed at a gold shield test-and-repair facility when certain conditions related to availability and proximity of test facilities are present.
Makes changes to the Smog Check II program regarding "specially constructed vehicles," and certain other vehicles that are scheduled to be exempt from the program.
Makes minor changes in the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program.
Establishes the Clean Alternative School Bus Program to purchase clean alternative fueled buses, infrastructure, school bus maintenance, and technology advancement efforts relative to alternative fuels for school buses.
Subjects motor vehicle owners, in "upwind" air districts that contribute overwhelming or significant levels of transported air pollutants to a "downwind" nonattainment air district, to the enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program (Smog Check II).
Makes it a misdemeanor to add methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) to gasoline during the manufacturing or refining process or to sell or offer for sale gasoline that contains MTBE.
Provides that a certificate of compliance or noncompliance is not required for a motor vehicle that was driven 12,000 miles or less during the preceding two-year period. Provides for the issuance of a waiver by a referee at a test-only station upon the request of the vehicle owner for a vehicle that qualifies for the waiver and imposes a civil penalty, as specified, on any person who obtains, or attempts to obtain, a waiver by means of fraud.
Provides that if the seller is an automobile dealer, the seller may obtain a certificate of compliance or certificate of noncompliance from an appropriate smog check station located within the dealership's inspection area.
Requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles to identify all persons who paid the smog impact fee on certain used vehicles, notify those persons of their eligibility for a refund of the fee, and then provide a payment and a full explanation document to those persons for the amount of smog impact fee, any late payment penalties that were paid, plus interest.
Repeals proposed increase requirement on the smog impact fee from $4 to $6.
Establishes a limited-term grant program to encourage consumers and businesses to lease or buy zero-emission vehicles instead of more polluting cars. Provides that those who are eligible, are to receive a grant of up to $3,000 per year, limited to the first 36 months of lease or purchase. Appropriates $18 million for the grant program. Includes an appropriation of $500,000 for offsetting the incremental costs of alternative diesel fuel used in heavy-duty vehicles.
Requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require motor vehicle manufacturers to disclose specified emission-related motor vehicle information.
Enacts the Sacramento Emergency Clean Air and Transportation Program and the San Joaquin Valley Emergency Clean Air Attainment Program for the purpose of making grants for the replacement or retrofit of heavy-duty diesel engines as a means of reducing emissions and complying with state and federal air quality standards. Specifies that monies allocated from the Traffic Congestion Relief Fund, as appropriated for various projects, shall be used to fund the program established by this bill.
Exempts a vehicle that is four or fewer model years old from the requirement that it be smog tested and a certificate of compliance or of noncompliance be issued at the time of initial registration or when it is transferred to a new owner.
Eliminates the smog abatement fee increase on vehicles less than four years of age, but provides that $2 of the fee shall be deposited in the High Polluter Repair or Removal Account and $2 shall be deposited in the Vehicle Inspection and Repair Fund.
Allows the sale of federally-approved reformulated gasoline in California, subject to a state excise fee, and asks the University of California to study aspects of allowing its use.
Prohibits the State Air Resources Board, an air pollution control district, or an air quality management district from regulating public or private fleets in a manner that will likely result in a significant change in the type of specifications of the fuel that is used in those fleets, unless that regulation and a multimedia evaluation are reviewed by several agencies.
Urges the State Air Resources Board, in conjunction with the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to report to the Legislature, by January 1, 2000, the costs and benefits of continuing to require Californians to use California-only fuel. Requests the report to include the consequences of that policy for long-term supply, price, and air quality, and the effect of allowing the use of non-California reformulated gasoline for various periods and in specified percentages, and the effects when other types of reformulated gasoline are used. Asks the University of California to report to the Legislature, by January 1, 2000, the economic impact on gasoline prices resulting from the required use of California-only reformulated fuel.
Urges the State Air Resources Board to conduct public hearings in Los Angeles and the Bay Area on the potential effects of the California Phase 3 Reformulated Gasoline regulations.
Memorializes the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency to adopt the most stringent national diesel fuel sulfur standards technologically and economically feasible, as specified, and adopt a national cap on sulfur in diesel fuel of no more than 30 ppm as expeditiously as possible and to implement that standard on or before January 1, 2004.
HighwaysRequires the State Department of Transportation to erect certain highway signs for state park facilities.
Requires the preparation of a plan by the State Department of Transportation for the implementation of a highway milepost marking system and freeway exit numbering system.
Allows the State Department of Transportation to establish a demonstration program that provides for a 55 mile-per-hour maximum speed on coastal highways meeting certain criteria.
Makes various technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing law.
Provides for the permanent implementation of the freeway service patrol program by repealing the program's January 1, 2002, "sunset" date, and makes conforming and technical cleanup changes to provisions governing the program.
Removes the authority of the State Department of Transportation to construct a freeway without first entering into an agreement with affected cities within the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Requires the State Department of Transportation (DOT) to develop an additional double fine pilot project for a designated portion of State Highway Route 74, between the junction with Route 15 and the intersection with Seventh Street in the City of Perris, which will be administered, in part, by certain local authorities. Requires DOT to develop an additional double-fine pilot project for the portion of Route 2 between the city limits of La Canada Flintridge and the intersection with Route 19.
Similar legislation was AB 386 (Scott-D), which died in Senate Public Safety Committee.
Includes a specified portion of Route 140 in the state scenic highway system.
Requires the perpetration by specified means of the location of monuments that control the location of boundaries and improvements when a highway, right-of-way, or easement is maintained or resurfaced and specifies that it applies only if the monument could be destroyed, damaged, covered, or otherwise obliterated as a result of these activities.
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish a specified segment of State Highway Route 110 to the City of Pasadena, according to terms and conditions in the best interests of the state.
Enacts the Good Roads for the 21st Century Act. Requires increased pedestrian and bicycle access on state and local roadways.
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to relinquish to the City of Oakland a specified portion of the former right-of-way of State Highway Route 880, upon terms and conditions the CTC finds to be in the best interests of the state, including a requirement that the State Department of Transportation and the City of Oakland enter into a cooperative agreement to improve the portion of right-of-way that is to be relinquished in accordance with plans to be developed by DOT, as specified. Specifies that the relinquishment will become effective immediately following the CTC's approval of the terms and conditions of the relinquishment.
Increases the funding for the Bicycle Transportation Account for bicycle-related purposes. Increases, commencing on July 31, 2001, and on the last day of each month after that date, to and including June 30, 2006, the amount required to be transferred to the Bicycle Lane Account to $600,000 per month. Requires, after June 30, 2006, the sum of $416,667 per month be transferred to the account, on the last day of each month after that date.
Requires that at least ten percent of the state's federal minimum guarantee funds be programmed for transportation enhancement activities, and prescribes the method of apportioning such funds among local transportation agencies and grant applicants. Enacts the Balanced Transportation for Livable Communities Act of 2000.
Exempts from the prohibition against placing advertising displays adjacent to landscaped freeways, up to six advertising structures or signs used to support the Oakland-Alameda County Arena and Coliseum.
Allows county supervisors to issue bonds, notes, and other debt instruments for ten-year terms, backed by revenues from special taxes or parcel charges. Provides that the procedures for collecting taxes and imposing lines for these debts follow the Mello-Roos Act.
Authorizes the El Dorado County Transportation Planning Agency to contract with a public or private entity to conduct a study to examine the feasibility of financing the construction of improvements on Route 50 in El Dorado County. Transfers an unspecified amount from an unspecified source to the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund and appropriates those funds from that account to the Director of the State Department of Transportation for allocation by the director to the agency for the purpose of funding the study.
Exempts from the specified restrictions on intercity motor carrier/feeder bus service those services provided for disabled passengers who rely substantially on the use of wheelchairs and travel by motor carrier over any regular route that operates on a specified portion of State Route 17. Requires the State Department of Transportation to encourage certain transportation entities to develop and execute a memorandum of understanding that addresses long-term solutions to the transportation needs of passengers traveling by bus on the specified route.
Requires the State Department of Transportation to better focus on the problem of truck traffic congestion on urban state highways.
Similar legislation was AB 2199 (Pescetti-R), which was vetoed by the Governor.
Designates a portion of Interstate Highway Route 10 near Indio to the memory of Doctor June McCarroll.
Designates a portion of Interstate Highway Route 680 the "Officer John Paul Monego Memorial Freeway."
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 140 near the southeastern city limits of Merced to Yosemite National Park near El Portal as the John Muir Highway.
Urges the State Department of Transportation, the Governor, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to continue to work on the design and construction process of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge using the proposed northern alignment, without further delay.
Designates a portion of Interstate Highway Route 80 that passes through Vallejo to the memory of Vallejo Police Officer Jeffrey Lynn Azuar.
Designates the future Twin Oaks Valley Road Bridge the Vince Andrade Memorial Bridge. Requests the State Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those plaques and markers.
Designates the portion of State Highway 215 between Murrieta Hot Springs Road and McCall Boulevard in the County of Riverside as the Deputy Sheriff Eric Andrew Thach Memorial Highway.
Designates the westbound span of the Carquinez Bridge as the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge in honor and recognition of Alfred "Al" Zampa. Requests the State Department of Transportation to determine the cost for appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.
Designates the Nason Street Interchange as the Sonny Bono Memorial Interchange in honor and recognition of Sonny Bono. Requests the State Department of Transportation to determine the cost for appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.
Requires the State Department of Transportation and appropriate local agencies to redesignate all existing exclusive-use or preferential-use lands for high-occupancy vehicles (HOV) lanes that are within their jurisdiction as mixed-flow lanes. Prohibits the construction of new HOV lanes unless a specified study is conducted and certain conditions are met.
Prohibits a court from ordering a person to attend traffic school in place of adjudicating an offense for speeding on certain highways with high accident rates. Requires the State Department of Transportation to prepare a list of highways with accident rates above the statewide average and provide that information to all traffic courts.
Requires every annual state budget to include an appropriation for $60 million, rather than the current $15 million, for allocation for railroad grade separation projects.
Prohibits specified vehicles weighting more than 9,000 pounds, with specified exceptions, from operating on a specified segment of Interstate Highway Route 580.
Diverts revenue from sales and use taxes that are currently imposed on gasoline from the General Fund and dedicates that revenue for the maintenance and construction of highways.
Changes the minimum occupancy level from two to three for high-occupancy vehicles using the "El Monte Busway" during peak commuting hours and expands the guidelines of the study required to be made and submitted to the Legislature by the State Department of Transportation.
Authorizes the State Department of Transportation to enter into a contract with a federally-recognized Indian tribe to provide services related to the development and installation of freeway on-ramps and off-ramps to state highways and related access roads, provided that specified conditions are met.
Requires the State Department of Transportation to authorize the placement of information signs, at the expense of the San Juan Oaks Golf Club, on State Highway Route 156, directing motorists to that club.
Authorizes the County of Orange, the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Transportation Corridor Agency, and any city whose jurisdiction includes territory that is included in the described corridor to enter into a joint powers agreement to acquire, construct, and operate a toll road along a specified corridor.
Requires the State Controller, from funds in the General Fund that are attributable to revenue collected for the sale, storage, use, or other consumption in this state of motor vehicle fuel, as defined, to transfer the sum of $375 million to the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund for programming and expenditure for transportation capital improvement projects, as specified, the sum of $62.5 million to the counties, including a city and county, apportioned as specified, and the sum of $62.5 million to cities, including a city and county, apportioned as specified.
Provides for the transfer of specified Hatton Canyon right-of-way property to the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District.
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to relinquish State Highway Route 209 to the City of San Diego upon terms and conditions the CTC finds to be in the best interest of the state, if the CTC and the City of San Diego enter into an agreement providing for that relinquishment. Provides that the relinquishment becomes effective immediately following the CTC's approval of the terms and conditions of the relinquishment.
Increases local share of project costs for seismic safety retrofit programs if the State Department of Transportation (DOT) is required to construct the new east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at a site other than the one proposed by DOT in 1998.
Allows the Governor to declare a state of emergency in the state based on a "transportation gridlock emergency," which the bill defines.
Imposes certain operational requirements for high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes on a specified section of State Highway Route 14. Requires the Legislative Analyst to report to the Legislature on the impact to traffic by limiting the use of HOV lanes as provided in the bill.
Repeals provisions in current law which authorize the State Department of Transportation to construct a freeway that would pass through or divide an existing residential community without obtaining an agreement from the affected city or county.
Extends, by four years, the expiration date for a demonstration program which allows signs and other forms of recognition to be placed along freeways for organizations which provide materials or services for highway roadside maintenance or enhancement. Prohibits the demonstration program signs from advertising certain products, adult entertainment and gambling.
Provides statutory authority to implement the California Transportation Commission's decision to eliminate tolls on the Vincent Thomas Bridge and transfers funds in the Bridge account to the State Highway Account and the Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Account.
Authorizes the Orange County Transportation Authority and the Riverside County Transportation Commission to mutually recommend an independent appraiser to conduct an appraisal of the fair market value of a toll facility constructed on State Highway Route 91, as specified. Specifies that the recommendation must be conveyed to the Legislature and the Governor not later than November 1, 2000.
Authorizes the State Department of Transportation and local authorities, with respect to highways under their jurisdiction, to rededicate any specified high-occupancy vehicle or preferential-use highway lane as a mixed-flow lane, if specified conditions are met.
Requires the State Department of Transportation to redesignate the existing high-occupancy vehicle lane on a specified portion of State route 118 as a mixed flow lane.
Establishes a uniform process by which the State Department of Transportation and local transportation agencies determine the future status of existing and proposed high-occupancy vehicle lanes.
Expands the "Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zones" pilot project to include Route 132 between the intersection with Route 99 and the intersection of Route 580. Adds "traffic citations" to the items that shall be included in the report to the Legislature on the double-fine zone pilot projects.
Requires the State Department of Transportation (DOT) to report to the Legislature on the utilization of DOT's authority under the Adopt-a-Highway Program, as specified.
Permits sale and operation of 45-foot motor homes on certain highways.
Requires the County of Sacramento, in conjunction with the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, to study State Highway 99 between Elk Grove and Sacramento to determine (1) the factors which have contributed to an increase in collisions, (2) if high-occupancy vehicle lanes on the highway have contributed to congestion, and (3) the impact on air quality, traffic congestion, and cost, if Highway 99 is expanded or not expanded.
Designates a portion of Route 180 near Fresno as part of the interregional road system and makes it eligible for a share of the State's portion of highway construction funds.
Requires the California Transportation Commission to establish a grant program to provide funds to eligible Service Authorities for Freeway Emergencies for one-time capital improvement projects for new freeway callboxes and callbox upgrades and retrofits.
Deletes the July 1, 2004 inoperative date of the design-sequenced contract demonstration program for highway construction established by AB 405 (Knox), Chapter 378, Statutes of 1999 and extends the sunset until January 1, 2005, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2005 declares or extends that date. Increases the number of permissible transportation projects from six to 12.
Requires the Director of the State Department of Transportation, on or before January 15, 2001, to submit a report to the Legislature identifying emergency improvements involving either negligible or no expansion of highway capacity, that may be constructed prior to specified scheduled improvements, with the intent to prevent or mitigate an emergency situation on a specified portion of State Highway Route 65.
Restricts the ability of a county road commissioner to require the removal or relocation of facilities that have been placed within a county right-of-way.
Allows local authorities to consider residential density and bicycle and pedestrian safety as additional factors in engineering and traffic surveys conducted for purposes of setting speed limits.
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transpiration Commission to conduct a major capital improvement study to evaluate the growth of traffic congestion on the portion of State Highway Route 101 that is between State Highway Route 170 and State Highway Route 23 (the U.S. 101 Corridor) to provide alternative solutions to mitigate the congestion impact, to assess the impact of that congestion on persons using the corridor to commute to work and on traffic in local communities and residential streets, and to undertake certain functions relating to traffic congestion on that corridor.
Designates that portion of State Highway Route 101, between the Ralston Avenue Exit in Belmont, California, to State Highway Route 92, as the Civilian Women Volunteers All Wars Memorial Freeway.
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 1, between Long Beach and Huntington Beach, as the U.S. Submarine Veterans of WWII Memorial Highway.
Designates, on and after the date on which David G. Kelley ceases his service in the Legislature, the portion of State Highway Route 86 that is between 82nd Avenue and 66th Avenue in the County of Riverside as the "Senator David G. Kelley Highway." Requests that the State Department of Transportation, upon receiving sufficient donations from nonstate sources, erect the appropriate markers.
Designates the northbound and southbound portions of Interstate Highway Route 15, between Kenwood Avenue and Sierra Avenue in San Bernardino County, as the "CHP Officer Reuben F. Rios, Sr., Memorial Freeway." Requests that the State Department of Transportation, upon receiving sufficient donations from nonstate sources, erect the appropriate markers.
Designates that portion of State Highway Route 1 located in Los Angeles County as the "Los Angeles County Vietnam Memorial Highway."
Designates the State Highway Route 267 bypass in Truckee as the "CHP Officer Glenn Carlson Memorial Bypass." Requests that the State Department of Transportation, upon receiving sufficient donations from nonstate sources, erect the appropriate markers.
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 49, as prescribed, as the John C. Begovich Memorial Highway.
Authorizes the State Department of Transportation to construct and dedicate, at no cost to the public, a black marble stone monument in honor of Agua Fria, the first county seat of Mariposa County, to be placed within the right-of-way of State Highway Route 140 at Agua Fria Road in Mariposa County.
Designates the portion of State Highway Route 70, from Pacific Heights/Georgia Way to the westbound ramp to Garden Drive in the City of Oroville, as the Post No. 1747 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Memorial Highway. Requests that the State Department of Transportation, upon receiving sufficient donations from nonstate sources, erect the appropriate markers.
Designates, as a "Blue Star Memorial Highway," the portion of Highway 70 between the Marysville (Yuba County) and Hallelujah Junction (Lassen County) and asks the State Department of Transportation to grant, free of charge, to the Kelly Ridge Garden Club, an encroachment permit allowing the installation of an appropriate marker at the roadside rest stop in Heldon (Plumas County).
Urges the State Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to pursue, on a high priority basis, the enforcement of all the laws relating to proper use of lanes by large commercial vehicles and other restricted vehicles and directs the CHP to provide an estimate, by January 15, 2001, of the uniformed field strength of officers that the CHP needs to effectively accomplish the enforcement of these laws.
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route l78 as the "Ronald Packard Parkway." Requests the State Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers for designating that portion of State Highway Route 78 and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect appropriate plaques and markers.
Requests the State Department of Transportation to grant, without charge, encroachment permits authorizing appropriate memorials, funded by nonstate sources, to be placed within the rights-of-way of northbound and southbound State Highway Route 395 at milepost marker 66.0 to honor State Department of the California Highway Patrol Officer Larry J. Jaramillo.
Requests the State Department of Transportation to grant, without charge, encroachment permits authorizing appropriate memorials, funded by nonstate sources, to be placed within the rights-of-way of State Highway Route 58 at mile post marker 18.3 to honor the memory of State Department of the California Highway Patrol Officers Kenneth L. Archer and Robert G. Carey.
Designates the portion of Interstate Highway Route 680 that is between the Benicia Bridge crossing in Contra Costa County and the State Highway Route 24 Interchange in the City of Walnut Creek as the Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway.
Designates a prescribed section of State Highway Route 99 as the "CHP Officer Walter Frago and Roger Gore Memorial Freeway." Requests the State Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers designating that specified section of State Highway Route 99 and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect appropriate plaques and markers.
Requests that the State Department of the California Highway Patrol and the State Department of Transportation include the construction of a commercial vehicle weight and inspection facility for southbound State Highway Route 99 in the current planned highway construction project for that highway.
Drivers' LicensesEnacts the Brandi Mitock Safe Drivers Act to require the State Department of Motor Vehicles to test specified drivers to determine ability to operate a motor vehicle safely. Establishes a minimum vision requirement for a driver's license and imposes additional behind-the-wheel testing requirements for persons 75 years of age or older.
Requires an application by a pupil under the age of 18 years for a driver's license to contain certification by the pupil's school of enrollment that the pupil is attending school and does not have more than ten consecutive days, or 15 total days, of unexcused absences in a single semester, and has not been expelled from school, as specified.
Requires specified equipment be placed on driver training vehicles by driving school owners and increases the age requirement of a driving school operator, as well as the bond requirement. Requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles to immediately suspend the license of a driver's training school, if specified events occur.
Requires a person, between the ages of 18 and 21, convicted of a first violation of driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.05 percent or higher to, in addition to any other penalties, complete the educational component of a driving-under-influence program, and requires completion of the entire program for a second or subsequent violation. Prohibits the State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) from reinstating that person's license until the DMV receives proof of completion of the program.
Provides that driver's license requirements for driver education and driver training courses may not be satisfied by correspondence course or any course that is not given under the direct, personal supervision of a properly certified instructor.
Makes several changes regarding the eligibility requirements for an original driver's license or identification card, including allowing persons that have submitted an application or petition for lawful immigration status to apply for a driver's license or identification card. Allows an applicant that does not possess a social security number to provide a taxpayer identification number, or other identifier, that is determined appropriate by the State Department of Motor Vehicles.
Provides that an applicant for a driver's license or identification card may provide any of three specified visas issued by the United States in order to demonstrate that the applicant's presence in the United States is authorized under federal law.
Permits sale and operation of 45-foot motor homes on certain highways. Provides that the authority to operate a house car over 40 feet in length, as specified, is conditioned on receiving an endorsement issued by the State Department of Motor Vehicles on a class C license, upon passing a written and skills examination and submitting a specified medical form.
Reinstates provisions of law that became inoperative June 30, 1999, which required a six-month driver's license suspension for any controlled substance conviction, regardless of whether the offense was related to driving.
Requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), when a person applies for a duplicate driver's license or identification card, to compare the current photograph and information the DMV has on file for the person to the likeness and information obtained from the person requesting the duplicate.
Makes a clarification pertaining to the home detention program option of the pilot project which allows such detention for persons who pled guilty, no contest, or convicted of drivers' license violations. Requires that persons participating in the pilot program complete a home detention program utilizing an electronic monitoring program and equipment that meets certain standards. Specifies that the electronic monitoring program be provided under the auspices of the county district attorney or his/her designee.
Prohibits any dealer or lienholder, who reacquires or assists in reacquiring a motor vehicle, whether by judgment, decree, arbitration award, settlement agreement, or voluntary agreement from (1) requiring, as a condition of the reacquisition of the motor vehicle, that a buyer or lessee who is a resident of this state agree not to disclose the problems with the vehicle experienced by the buyer or lessee or the nonfinancial terms of the reacquisitions, and (2) including in any release or other agreement, whether prepared by the dealer or lienholder, for signature by the buyer or lessee, a confidentiality clause, gag clause, or similar clause prohibiting the buyer or lessee from disclosing information to anyone about the problems with the vehicle, or the nonfinancial terms of the reacquisition of the vehicle by the dealer or lienholder.
Requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles, for every male applicant for driver's licenses or identification cards, who is between 18 and 25 years of age, to notify the applicant that he is required to register with the federal Selective Service System (SSS) for military service. Specifies that the applicant, by applying for a driver's license or identification card, acknowledges that he will be registering with the SSS to have his name removed from the SSS registry.
Makes several noncontroversial and/or technical changes to current statutes related to commercial vehicle modifications, a highway relinquishment to the City of Covina, a clarification for issuing driver licenses to persons under 18, driving on the left hand side of the road, repeals the California Commuter and Intercity Right of Way Preservation Act, and the Santa Clara County Transit District.
Vehicle License PlatesRequires the State Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a special breast cancer treatment license plate and to allocate a portion of the funds collected by the issuance of the plates to help fund breast cancer treatments for uninsured or underinsured persons. Sunsets January 1, 2003.
Provides that the Vehicle License Fee (VLF) reduction limit, as part of the 2000-01 Budget Act, is to be treated as offsets to the VLF payment due rather than rebates.
Authorizes the State Department of Motor Vehicles to issue special interest license plates that bear a full-plate graphic design depicting the official Boy Scouts of America logo, the fleur-de-lis, in the center of the plate and the words "Scouting Teaches Values" at the bottom of the plate.
Requires organizations which seek special interest license plates to be tax-exempt charitable organizations and to submit a financial plan specifying how revenues generated from sales of the plates will be used, as specified.
Creates a special license plate to fund Boy Scout Councils in California.
Authorizes the California Masonic Federation to work with the State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to design a Masonic Student Assistance Program special license plate. Requires that proceeds of the plates, after DMV's administrative costs are deduced, be deposited into the California Masonic Foundation Account in the General Fund. Provides that funds are to be used to assist educators and school administrators in the identification of at-risk students.
Creates a special license plate for each county.
Requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a special interest license plate for the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
Requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a special interest license plate for Rotary International, as specified.
Extends existing law that exempts licensing fees on vehicles owned by a disabled veteran, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, or a former prisoner of war to include Pearl Harbor Survivors.
Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for motorcycles.
Extends authorization for the issuance of "year-of-manufacture" license plates to vehicles 1973 or older, and makes a technical clarification regarding the vehicle license fee.
Requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a special interest license plate to fund Internet educational programs.
Vehicle License FeesRepeals the proportionate offset reduction provision in existing law, thus "de-linking" future Vehicle License Fee (VLF) offsets from the influence of other tax reductions. Allows the 1998 VLF offset legislation to proceed ahead, independent of other tax legislation enacted, or to be enacted, since 1998.
Accelerates the triggered vehicle license fee (VLF) offsets so that (1) the 35 percent offset (instead of the 25 percent offset) becomes permanent, and (2) an offset of 46.5 percent will apply for 2001 without regard to the trigger (in the same manner that a one-year 35 percent offset was established for 2000 as part of last year's budget agreement). Provides that the revenue reduction resulting from accelerating the VLF offsets will not, itself, be included in the "proportionate reduction" formula, thus ensuring that the reduction in VLF tax will not, effectively, be forced to pay for itself through a VLF increase.
Replaces the existing vehicle license fee, registration and weight fees on trailers with a new weight fee system on commercial motor vehicles to comply with federal law.
Makes clarifying changes to AB 858 of 2000 which revises the vehicle license fee offset. Appropriates $2.052 billion from the State General Fund to a new Special Reserve Fund for Vehicle License Fee Tax Relief for payment of vehicle license fee rebates in 2000-01 and 2001-02. Allows the Governor to direct the State Controller to include a notice in each rebate payment.
Similar language was included in SB 632* (Brulte-R), which died at the Assembly Desk.
Increases the vehicle license fee offset to 67.5 percent, beginning in 2001. However, in 2001-2002, motorists will pay the fee based on a bill from the State v. Department of Motor Vehicles containing a 35 percent offset, and then would receive a rebate check for the difference between 35 percent and 67.5 percent.
Follow-up legislation was AB 511 (Alquist-D), which became Chapter 107, Statutes of 2000.
Provides an exemption from the Vehicle License Fee for vehicles owned by any Pearl Harbor survivor, recipient of the Purple Heart, or one of the nation's highest decorations of valor, as specified. Specifies that the exemption will sunset on December 31, 2005.
Enacts the Commercial Vehicle Registration Act of 2000 to end the current registration system (fees based on unladen weights and vehicle license fees) for commercial trucks and trailers. Replaces the system with a gross vehicle weight fee system for trucks and a permanent trailer plate identification program for trailers.
Limits the application of the vehicle license fee (VLF), on and after the operative date of this measure, to that portion of the cost price of a vehicle subject to registration in this state that exceeds $10,000. Provides that in subsequent fiscal years for which an increase in General Fund receipts is estimated, this measure will further reduce the VLF by increasing the exclusion amount to $20,000, and thereafter eliminate the VLF, except as provided by this measure. Provides that, on or after the date the vehicle license fee is eliminated in its entirety, eliminate the constitutional requirement that VLF revenues be allocated to counties and cities, and also exempt vehicles subject to registration in this state from ad valorem property taxation. Transfers, annually, state sales and use tax revenues to the Local Government Independence Fund, which this measure creates, in an amount determined upon the basis of the VLF revenues lost as a result of this measure. Appropriates these transferred revenues to the State Controller for allocation among counties and cities in the manner required by the VLF Law as of January 1, 2000.
MiscellaneousExcludes single county transit districts from property tax revenue shifts.
Requires that all freight trains operate with at least two persons, as specified, unless the California Public Utilities Commission grants an exemption based on specified criteria. Exempts, until January 1, 2002, any one-person operation of trains, as specified, in place before July 1, 2000 on any short-line railroad.
Establishes the California Automotive Repair Advisory Committee to review and report on certain aspects of the automotive repair industry.
Exempts experimental fuels from any fuel tax for a 24-month period. Provides that following this period, the fuel tax rate would be six cents per gallon.
Requires that, regarding vehicles abandoned on private property, the local ordinance must provide not less than a 10-day notice and, with regard to vehicles abandoned on public property, requires the ordinance to provide not less than a 72-hour notice of intention to abate and remove the vehicle.
Increases the fines for violations of child passenger restraint laws, and requires that children less than six years of age or weighing less than sixty pounds be properly restrained in a child passenger restraint system.
Requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles to establish a full-time office in the City of Tehachapi.
Expands the authorization to require a rental car company to collect a fee on behalf of an airport for the use of an airport mandated common use busing system to include cities, counties, joint powers authorities, and special districts that operate airports, specifies that the fee is a user fee, and includes within the authorization a fee collected for the use of a consolidated on-airport rental car facility.
Establishes a state fund to compensate motor vehicle consumers who have suffered economic losses resulting from certain motor vehicle dealer actions.
Enacts the Organ and Tissue Donor Registry Act of 2000 to register potential organ and tissue donors and requires a standardized form, as specified, for enrolling potential donors.
Prohibits a rental company from renting a passenger vehicle to any person unless that person provides evidence of financial responsibility applicable to the vehicle to be rented, or that person purchases a financial responsibility policy from the rental company or any authorized agent at the time of rental, as specified.
Authorizes persons who own or operate truck driver training schools to apply to the State Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education of the State Department of Consumer Affairs for grants to help defray the cost of tuition for students at the school.
Requires the adoption of a standardized curriculum for traffic violator schools.
Authorizes the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, in its capacity as the Bay Area Toll Authority, to allow designated low emitting vehicles to gain passage on high occupancy vehicle lanes on state-owned toll bridges within its jurisdiction, without regard to vehicle occupancy. Provides that, as an expansion to a currently authorized pilot program, the provisions of this act will sunset on January 1, 2008.
Revises the process and requirements for adopting local airport expansion plans.
Requires a transportation zone or similar organizational sub-unit of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), established on or after January 1, 1999, to assume the duties, obligations, and liabilities arising from any existing collective bargaining agreements or labor obligations of the MTA.
Repeals the requirement that motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, or motorized cycle drivers and passengers wear a safety helmet when riding these vehicles.
Prohibits the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) from expending funds from a specified source for any purpose other than implementing the consent decree related to bus purchases and service until the authority has identified a guaranteed and sufficient funding source to meet the mandates of the consent decree, with specified exceptions. Requires MTA to seek an independent fiscal analysis of options to purchase buses and hire drivers and requires the State Auditor to conduct a fiscal analysis to develop such options.
Extends, until January 1, 2015, the authority for local entities to impose a $1 vehicle registration surcharge for abandoned vehicle abatement. Double-joined with SB 2084 (Polanco).
Requires, until January 1, 2006, state and local law enforcement officers to collect information regarding traffic stops and report such information to the State Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP). Requires the Commission of the CHP to annually report that information to the Legislature.
Makes various technical, nonsubstantive changes to the Insurance Code and the Vehicle Code.
Allows a specified tax credit for the costs incurred by an employer for providing subsidized public transit passes (defined as any pass, token, fare card, voucher, or similar item entitling a person to transportation on a publicly-owned mass transit vehicle) to an employee working in California.
Authorizes the State Public Utilities Commission to supervise the operation of pilot projects to evaluate proposed railroad crossing warning devices at designated crossings, with the consent of specified parties.
Declares the intent of the Legislature to enable the citizens of California to shop online for new automobiles and to protect the investment of franchised new motor vehicle dealers by ensuring that they remain the sole source of new vehicles sold by an online dealer over the Internet.
Grants a credit of an unspecified percentage, up to a maximum of $3,000 per vehicle per year for the lease or purchase of new motor vehicle dealers by ensuring that they remain the sole source of new vehicles sold by an online dealer over the Internet.
Establishes an extensive recreation vehicle dealership law governing the relationship between a recreation vehicle dealer, as defined, and manufacturer, as defined, in the operation of the recreation vehicle dealership business for the marketing of those vehicles or related services, or both.
Revises the process for resolving a dispute between the State Department of Transportation and its contractor or subcontractor, as specified, and makes related changes.
Clarifies provisions of law that prohibit an automobile manufacturer or distributor, or a business that it controls or that controls it, from owning auto dealerships within close proximity of independently owned dealerships.
Requires the State Department of General Services (DGS) to examine the feasibility of purchasing gasoline from outside the state for use by state agencies and requires that DGS, after July 1, 2001, seek to purchase gasoline from new sources within or outside the state.
Increases maximum vehicle gross weight for gasoline tanker trucks from 80,000 pounds to 86,000 pounds.
Appropriates $2.4 million for grants to transportation agencies to establish transportation services for agricultural workers.
Requires the California Energy Commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to develop a timetable to phase out and eliminate the use of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) in gasoline in or before December 31, 2000.
Allows the Director of the State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to approve the use of alternative reporting forms for verifying insurance coverage, increases the types of information that could be used as evidence of proof of insurance and requires certain dealers to provide written notification to transferees, in Spanish and in English, that they cannot legally drive without some form of liability insurance. Requires DMV to make the above mentioned notification available in any other languages used in the most recent statewide voter pamphlet.
Permits a city or county to authorize the registration and licensing of bicycles by the Internet.
Establishes a temporary program at the general aerial airport with largest total number of operations per year, for the purpose of determining the extent of noise impact on residents of the area.
Updates and expands advertisement requirements of a vehicle dealer when advertised in specified venues beginning July 1, 2001. Double-joined with AB 1912 (Torlakson).
Exempts from the state-imposed six percent sales and use tax buses powered by natural gas, electricity or fuel cells when purchased or leased for use exclusively in public transit or school bus service. Provides that the exemption would not apply if the purchase or lease is a required acquisition under zero-emission bus technology demonstration or acquisition requirements of the State Air Resources Board's recently-adopted transit bus regulations.
Changes the criteria for a person who is a victim of stalking or a threat of death or great bodily injury to continue to have his/her State Department of Motor Vehicles record suppressed.
Authorizes the construction of the State Department of the California Highway Patrol Museum with private funds, except for eligible federal funds, as specified.
Requires any ice cream truck, as defined, to be equipped at all times while engaged in vending in a residential area with sign, as prescribed. Prohibits a person from vending from an ice cream truck that is stopped, parked or standing on any public street, alley, or highway under specified conditions.
Similar legislation was AB 1715 (Soto-D), which died in Assembly Transportation Committee.
Specifically includes bicyclist and pedestrian education within the scope of the components comprising the California Traffic Safety Program.
Requests the State Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, the State Trade and Commerce Agency, the California Transportation Commission (CTC), local transportation agencies, ports and airports, and other appropriate parties, to prepare a proposal for a "Global Gateways Development Program" to enhance intermodal freight access. Encourages the department to consult and utilize information compiled by the CTC, among other sources, in response to a specified resolution of the Senate, and requests a progress report and a final report to the Legislature.
Exempts a pickup truck weighing 5,000 pounds or less from payment of commercial vehicle weight fees if the truck is used primarily for noncommercial purposes.
Authorizes the Southern California Rapid Transit District (i.e. the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority) to provide charter bus service during the Democratic National Convention in August 2000.
Requires every office of the State Department of Motor Vehicles that provides the specified services to assign an employee to assist each person standing in a line by determining whether the services sought by that person can be accomplished in that line and whether the person has in his/her possession the necessary documents to complete the transaction.
Provides that the prima facie vehicle 25 miles-per-hour speed limit with respect to school grounds is applicable when approaching or passing within 500 feet of the school grounds.
Includes district attorneys' staff, and the spouse and children of those persons, as specified, among those persons whose records are subject to the State Department of Motor Vehicles confidentiality provisions of existing law.
Establishes the California Transportation Career Program to train unemployed individuals in transportation careers.
Changes the excise tax on gasoline from the current 18 cents per gallon to an unspecified percentage based on the wholesale price per gallon.
Makes changes regarding the licensure, oversight, training of instructors, and the operation of traffic violator schools.
Makes it a felony to produce or sell any false, altered, forged, etc. document of evidence of automobile insurance and to make it a misdemeanor to possess such documents or to present them to a peace officer or State Department of Motor Vehicles.
Authorizes the State Department of Personnel Administration to consider the compensation of communications operators in comparable positions within the police departments in the Cities of Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, San Jose and the City and County of San Francisco when determining the compensation for communications operators within the California Highway Patrol.
Defines a retail vehicle fleet auctioneer, makes an auctioneer subject to specified vehicle dealer licensing requirements, and establishes a regulatory structure for such auctioneer governing the consignment and auction sale of motor vehicles to the public.
Expands the definition of "ownership of a vehicle" in forfeiture proceedings for a person arrested for driving without a valid license. Enables a peace officer to immediately impound a vehicle and initiate forfeiture proceedings against the person arrested for driving under the influence.
Authorizes a local authority to enact an ordinance increasing to $100 the base fine for failing to stop at a stop sign.
Increases the fines that may be imposed upon persons who are convicted of violations relating to the fraudulent use of a disabled person placard, and authorizes the temporary use of two adjacent public parking spaces of loading/unloading a disabled person under a specified condition.
Consolidates and expands provisions of the Vehicle Code that relate to denial, revocation, or suspension of a certificate to drive a schoolbus, pupil activity bus, a public paratransit vehicle, or a vehicle transporting developmentally disabled persons.
Permits drivers of tanker vehicles to operate for 12 hours within a single work period, if specified conditions are met, and requires the State Department of the California Highway Patrol to report on the accident, spill, and citation experience of these drivers.
Creates the California Trucking Commission with prescribed membership and prescribes the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the commission in carrying out the provisions of the bill.
Deletes a 30-day notification period and, instead, authorizes sealers to immediately close inaccurate meters and states findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding parking meter agencies and operators.
Creates a data bank of the results of drug and alcohol tests of commercial drivers, to give civil immunity to employers who fail to comply with specified provisions and to allow for the suspension of an employer's license for failure to comply with specified employee background check requirements.
Extends the termination date of the High-Speed Rail Authority from June 30, 2001 to December 31, 2003, as specified, and makes related changes.
Authorizes a nonresident daily commuter to operate a vehicle in this state for other lawful purposes than business-related purposes.
Alters the appeals procedure for special benefit assessments that are currently under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Makes changes in the application process for disabled placards, increases the penalty for misuse of a placard, and authorizes the State Department of Motor Vehicles to conduct a specified audit of placard applications.
Requires the State Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to receive notice's of preparation, requires OPR to transmit State Department of Transportation (DOT) information to the lead agency, and requires certain reporting and monitoring programs to be submitted to DOT.
Requires the State Department of Health Services and the State Water Resources Control Board to submit, by January 1, 2002, a joint study on the effect on human health of the leakage of methyl tertiary-butyl ether into groundwater and its migration from groundwater into surface water.
Eliminates the requirement that a person operating an implement of husbandry over a highway be regularly employed by a farmer or farm corporation.
Requires that a traffic and engineering survey conducted for purposes of setting speed limits must include consideration of the impact on bicycle and pedestrian safety, and authorizes local agencies to also consider other unspecified factors not readily apparent to motorists. Clarifies that the authority to use automated traffic enforcement systems (red light cameras) does not authorize the use of photo radar for speed enforcement purposes.
Revises the definition of "park trailers" so that these vehicles conform to pertinent health and safety requirements related to "recreational vehicles." Double-joined with SB 2060 (Speier-D) and SB 1819 (Dunn-D), to resolve "chaptering out" problems.
Prohibits the advertisement of any alcoholic beverage on any outdoor billboard located within 1,000 feet of any public or private elementary school, junior high school, or high school.
Allows a car dealer to purchase a used vehicle on which the registration is overdue, and have the penalties that accrue after the purchase forgiven. Prorates the amount of license fees to be paid on that vehicle when purchased from a dealer.
Requires the State Department of Boating and Waterways (DBW) to approve boating safety courses and to develop a personal watercraft education course available on the DBW's website.
Establishes procedures and provides funds for six regional transportation agencies to use to improve transportation services available to persons participating in the CalWORKs program.
Prohibits a person from operating a farm labor vehicle, except under specified conditions, and makes it a misdemeanor in violation of this provision. Sets specific violation fines. Authorizes the State Department of the California Highway Patrol to impound a farm labor vehicle in violation of these provisions. Provides for forfeiture of a farm labor vehicle as a nuisance, as specified.
Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to study the feasibility of financing, constructing, and maintaining a new pipeline or using an existing pipeline to transport motor vehicle fuel and its components.
Authorizes, until January 1, 2004, the Orange County Transportation Authority and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to accept bids for construction contracts that are presented by means of electronic bidding through the Internet and under sealed cover, as specified. Requires the California Research Bureau, on or before January 1, 2003, after consultation with each of the authorities, to prepare and submit to the Legislature a separate report with regard to each authority on the effectiveness of the specified electronic bidding process.
Standardizes the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Fuel License Tax Law and the Aircraft Jet Fuel License Tax Law so that these provisions are more similar to those of the Diesel Fuel Tax Law.
Requires commercial transport vessels, with the capacity to transport 75 or more passengers and operating exclusively in California, to use only California formulated diesel fuel. Becomes operative January 1, 2003.
Establishes a process by which the State Department of Transportation seeks bids on construction contracts that call for accelerated completion schedules and a bonus for contractors that meet or beat the deadlines.
Extends indefinitely the authority to establish a golf cart transportation plan by a city or county.
Imposes a windfall profits tax on the gross receipts of a taxpayer that is engaged in petroleum refining.
Amends the California Airport District Act to authorize airport districts to provide and maintain spaceports and landing places for space reentry, and defines various terms.
Provides that three members of the New Motor Vehicle Board, who are not new motor vehicle dealers, constitute a quorum to consider petitions involving disputes between franchisers and franchisors. Deletes an obsolete cross-reference and reverses other cross-references in related provisions.
Authorizes the Fresno County Transportation Authority to be designated as a local transportation authority for purposes of administering a voter-approved transportation sales tax in the County of Fresno.
Requires that any person who is being towed behind a vessel, who is using a personal watercraft, or who is 11 years of age or younger, and who is on a boat, to wear a personal flotation device (life jacket).
Requires the result of any drug or alcohol testing undertaken in compliance with federal regulations upon a driver to be delivered to the driver and the motor carrier employing that driver within 24 hours of obtaining the results.
Removes the requirement that a seller of motor vehicle fuels or oils, in defending him/herself against a charge of price discrimination, show that the seller offered the same lower price to all purchasers.
Removes, for purposes of qualifying for the disabled veterans exemption from vehicle license fees and vehicle registration fees, the requirement that the 100 percent disability substantially impair or interfere with the person's mobility.
Changes how specified fees are assessed on commercial vehicles for the purpose of funding the Cargo Theft Interdiction Program. Double-joined with SB 2084 (Polanco-D).
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish a uniform fee for the passenger vehicle operators class on a basis other than revenue.
Requires continuing education every two years for used motor vehicle dealers.
Declares the intent of the Legislature that the State Department of the California Highway Patrol report annually to specified legislative committees the extent to which the sufficient staffing level of the department is being attained, seeks a minimum of 300 patrol officers per year for five years to meet a serious need for additional officers, and updates a staff report prepared in 1990 and reports the results to the legislative committees.
Makes various technical, noncontroversial and other policy changes to several transportation subjects and statutory provisions.
The second of two omnibus transportation bills for 2000, makes several noncontroversial and/or technical changes to current statutes related to commercial vehicle modifications, a highway relinquishment to the City of Covina, a clarification for issuing driver licenses to persons under 18, driving on the left hand side of the road, repeals the California Commuter and Intercity Right of Way Preservation Act, and the Santa Clara County Transit District.
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 101 as the Civilian Women Volunteers All Wars Memorial Freeway.
Urges the State Air Resources Board to conduct public hearings in Los Angeles and the Bay Area on the potential effects of the California Phase 3 Reformulated Gasoline regulations.
Declares the week of April 2-8, 2000, inclusive, to be Safety Seat Checkup Week.
Memorializes the President and Congress to repeal the 1993 federal tax increase on fuels.
Memorializes the President and Congress to take whatever measures are appropriate to facilitate the designation of Sacramento County International Airport and Mather Airport as a Port of Entry into the United States, which includes establishing customs, immigration, and agricultural services at both airports.
Index (in Bill Order)| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
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SB 10 |
Rainey-R Storm repair: local streets and highways |
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SB 65* |
Murray-D Public transit: CalWORKs recipients |
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SB 135 |
Kelley-R Highways: signs: state park unit |
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SB 170 |
Dunn-D Transit districts |
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SB 193 |