BILL NUMBER: AB 467	CHAPTERED  08/01/03

	CHAPTER  141
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 1, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 31, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 17, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 10, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 5, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dutra
   (Assembly Members Chavez, Frommer, Goldberg, Jerome Horton,
Koretz, Levine, Lowenthal, Maze, Pavley, Reyes, Vargas, Wiggins, and
Yee)
   (Senators Ducheny, Florez, Kuehl, Romero, and Soto)

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2003

   An act to add Section 99163 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 467, Dutra.  Transit operators:  ticket machines:  access for
visually impaired persons.
   Existing law imposes various requirements on transit operators and
provides funding for transit services and capital improvements.
   This bill, on and after January 1, 2005, would require a transit
operator that improves or replaces a ticket vending machine at a
public transit station in order to include video instructions to also
equip the ticket vending machine with audio instructions that will
enable visually impaired persons to follow the visual prompts.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 99163 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   99163.  On and after January 1, 2005, whenever a transit operator
improves or replaces a ticket vending machine at a public transit
station to include video instructions, the transit operator shall
also equip the ticket vending machine with audio instructions that
will enable visually impaired persons to follow the visual prompts.
State funds made available to the operator through the State
Transportation Assistance Program under Section 99312 shall be
available for the purposes of this section.