BILL NUMBER: AB 220	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  413
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 2, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 1, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 5, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 28, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 7, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Strom-Martin
   (Principal coauthor:  Senator Chesbro)
   (Coauthor:  Assembly Member Dickerson)

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2001

   An act to amend Section 35401.7 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 220, Strom-Martin.  Vehicles:  limitations of access.
   Existing law exempts from established limitations of access,
licensed carriers of livestock when engaged in travel necessary and
incidental to the shipment of livestock on specified portions of
State Highway Route 101.  This exemption is repealed on January 1,
2002.  Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway
Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, to
conduct a study of the effect that the exemption has on public safety
and report to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2001.
   This bill would extend the January 1, 2002, repeal date to January
1, 2004, thereby continuing the exemption until January 1, 2004.
   The bill would require the Department of the California Highway
Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, to
conduct a comprehensive study of the effect that the exemption has on
public safety during the entire effective period of the exemption,
and would require the findings of the study to be reported to the
Legislature on or before May 1, 2003.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 35401.7 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

   35401.7.  (a) The limitations of access specified in subdivision
(d) of Section 35401.5 do not apply to licensed carriers of livestock
when those carriers are directly enroute to or from a point of
loading or unloading of livestock on those portions of State Highway
Route 101 located in the Counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, and
Mendocino from its junction with State Highway Route 1 near Leggett
north to the Oregon border, if the travel is necessary and incidental
to the shipment of the livestock.
   (b) The exemption allowed under this section does not apply unless
all of the following conditions are met:
   (1) The length of the truck tractor, in combination with the
semitrailer used to transport the livestock, does not exceed a total
of 70 feet.
   (2) The distance from the kingpin to the rearmost axle of the
semitrailer does not exceed 40 feet.
   (c) The exemption allowed under this section does not apply to
travel conducted on the day prior to, or on the day of, any federally
recognized holiday.
   (d) (1) The Department of the California Highway Patrol, in
consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall conduct an
initial study of the effect that the exemption provided under this
section has on public safety.  The findings of that study shall be
reported to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2001.
   (2) The Department of the California Highway Patrol, in
consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall conduct a
comprehensive study of the effect that the exemption provided under
this section has on public safety during the entire effective period
of the exemption, commencing on January 1, 1999.  The findings of the
study required under this paragraph shall be reported to the
Legislature on or before May 1, 2003.
  (e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2004,
and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that is enacted before January 1, 2004, deletes or extends that date.