BILL NUMBER: SB 1135	CHAPTERED  09/28/06

	CHAPTER  516
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 28, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 28, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 29, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 24, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

                        JANUARY 10, 2006

   An act to add and repeal Section 99320 of the Public Utilities
Code, relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1135, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review  Agricultural
Worker Transportation Program.
   Existing law, pursuant to Proposition 116 of 1990, establishes the
Public Transportation Account in the State Transportation Fund as a
trust fund, with revenues derived from a portion of the sales tax on
fuels, to be used for mass transportation and transportation planning
purposes authorized by the Legislature. Existing law, the Budget Act
of 2006, appropriates $20 million from the Public Transportation
Account for an agricultural worker transportation program to be
enacted by the Legislature.
   This bill would, until July 1, 2010, establish the Agricultural
Worker Transportation Program to be administered by the Department of
Transportation. The bill would allocate available funding to public
agencies for the provision of agricultural workers transportation
services and associated capital expenditures. The bill would require
the department to establish a specified committee and to report to
the Legislature on implementation of the program.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 99320 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   99320.  (a) From funds made available pursuant to Item
2660-101-0046 of the Budget Act of 2006, the department shall make
competitive grants to public agencies for the Agricultural Worker
Transportation Program, which is hereby established. These funds may
be used for transportation services directly provided by or
contracted for by those agencies and to match federal or local funds
for the purchase, lease, or operation of vans and buses. Funds shall
be allocated consistent with the guidelines adopted by the department
pursuant to subdivision (b).
   (b) The department shall establish a committee of not more than 12
members comprised of representatives of farmworkers, growers, farm
labor contractors, social service agencies, transit operators, the
Department of the California Highway Patrol, and other state or
federal agencies, as appropriate, to consult with the department
relative to the program and the needs the program is intended to
serve. The department, in consultation with the committee, shall
adopt guidelines for the program.
   (c) The department shall report to the Legislature within 120 days
of the effective date of the statute adding this section in the
2005-06 Regular Session on the establishment of the program and
committee, on a schedule for awarding grants to agencies for projects
and services to be funded during the 2006-07 fiscal year from funds
made available in Item 2660-101-0046 of the Budget Act of 2006, and
on the process for distributing remaining grant funds in subsequent
years. The department shall submit a final report to the Legislature
on or before January 1, 2010, which shall, at a minimum, detail
program expenditures from state, federal, and local funds, and
include measures of program effectiveness.
   (d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2010, and, as
of January 1, 2011, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that
is enacted before January 1, 2011, deletes or extends the dates on
which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.