BILL NUMBER: AB 522	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blumenfield

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to add Section 8879.501 to the Government Code, relating to
transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 522, as introduced, Blumenfield. Transportation: bond funds.
   Existing law, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality,
and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, establishes the Highway Safety,
Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Fund of 2006 in the
State Treasury and requires the proceeds of bonds deposited in the
fund to be used for specified mobility, safety, and air quality
improvements.
   This bill would require the California Transportation Commission
to ensure that bond funds previously committed to a project from the
Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security
Fund of 2006 remain available to the sponsoring agency of the project
for another qualifying project, if funds from any federal economic
recovery legislation enacted in 2009 are used to fund the project, as
specified.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8879.501 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   8879.501.  To the extent that any funds from any federal economic
recovery legislation enacted in 2009 are used to fund any project to
which bond funds were previously committed under Section 8879.23 or
this chapter, with the effect of displacing the need for those bond
funds on the project, the Commission shall ensure that the sponsoring
agency of that project is entitled to use the same amount of bond
funds on another qualifying project within its jurisdiction.