BILL NUMBER: SB 9	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lowenthal

                        DECEMBER 4, 2006

   An act relating to transportation, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 9, as introduced, Lowenthal. Trade corridor improvement:
transportation project selection.
   Existing law, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality,
and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of
$19,925,000,000 of state general obligation bonds for specified
purposes, including high-priority transportation corridor
improvements.
   The act requires the sum of $2,000,000,000 to be transferred to
the Trade Corridors Improvement Fund, which is established under the
act. The money in the fund is required to be available, upon
appropriation in the annual Budget Act by the Legislature, and
subject to such conditions and criteria as the Legislature may
provide by statute, for allocation by the California Transportation
Commission for infrastructure improvements along federally designated
"Trade Corridors of National Significance" in this state or along
other corridors within this state that have a high volume of freight
movement, as determined by the commission.
   This bill would set forth the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that establishes a process for the selection of
transportation projects to be funded from the Trade Corridors
Improvement Fund.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated
local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that establishes a process for the selection of
transportation projects to be funded from the Trade Corridors
Improvement Fund established under paragraph (1) of subdivision (c)
of Section 8879.23 of the Government Code.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to provide at the earliest possible time a process for
the selection of trade corridor improvement transportation projects
to be funded under the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air
Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, it is necessary that
this act take effect immediately.