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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 115
Author: Assembly Budget Committee
Amended: 6/8/11 in Senate
Vote: 21
PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT
SUBJECT : Budget Act of 2011: Transportation
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill makes statutory changes that are
necessary to implement transportation-related provisions of
the Budget Bill.
Senate Floor Amendments of 6/8/11 delete the prior version
of the bill, which expressed intent of the Legislature to
enact statutory changes related to the 2011 Budget Act.
ANALYSIS : This is the Transportation Budget Trailer
Bill. It contains provisions necessary to implement the
2011-12 Budget, including these key changes:
Repayment of Transportation Loans . Modifies the provisions
for repayment of outstanding loans from transportation
special-fund loans to the General Fund. For loans derived
from truck weight fee revenue, the repayment would be
as-needed and directed to debt service for
transportation-related general obligation (GO) bonds -
approximately $970 million in weight fee loans will be
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repaid in this manner. For loans derived from
transportation sources other than truck weight fees, the
repayment will be as-needed and transferred back to the
transportation special fund of origin - about $357 million
will be repaid in this manner. All loans will be repaid
no later than June 30, 2021. These provisions provide
General Fund relief in the 2012-13 and subsequent fiscal
years totaling about $1.0 billion.
Caltrans - Supplemental Budget Reporting . For the
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans),
modifies existing statute for supplemental reporting each
May 1 on staffing and workload needs for the Department.
Each May 1, the Administration summits a budget request
that zero-bases the Caltrans Capital Outlay Support (COS)
budget, which is the program that performs the engineering
design and construction oversight work for highway
projects. The existing report provides detailed data, but
not summaries of the relevant information. This bill
revises the reporting requirements to incorporate some
suggestions by the Bureau of State Audits to make the
report more useful and informative.
California Highway Patrol - License Plate Reader
Technology . Adds to statute the California Highway
Patrol's (CHP) internal policies for the use of data from
automated License Plate Reader (LPR) technology. LPRs are
cameras that record the license plates of passing cars and
the information is retained in a database currently for a
period of 72 hours (as directed by internal CHP policy).
The CHP has indicated a desire to retain the data for a
longer period so the information could be accessed for
criminal investigations of felonies. This bill allows the
information to be retained up to 60 days, and to be
available for use in felony investigations. Consistent
with the CHP policy, this bill prohibits the CHP from
selling the data for any purpose. This language relates to
a budget action last year that approved a $2 million
federal grant to purchase LPRs.
High-Speed Rail Authority - Reporting Requirements . Amends
the existing reporting requirements established for the
High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA) in AB 105 (Assembly Budget
Committee), Chapter 6, Statutes of 2011 by adding three new
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reporting elements. The HSRA is required to provide: (1)
a public outreach plan for the Bakersfield to Los Angeles
segment; (2) a formal response and full analysis on options
for the San Francisco to San Jose segment as outlined in a
April 18, 2011, joint statement by congressional and state
officials; and (3) a formal response and full analysis of
the issues raised in the May 10, 2011, Legislative Analyst
report on the HSRA. These reports will be due October 14,
2011, the same date as for the current-law requirements for
an updated financial plan and a complete legal analysis of
the revenue guarantee for a future private partner.
Current law makes 25-percent of the HSRA 2011-12 budget
appropriation contingent on this reporting with 60-day
review, and this bill instead makes 50-percent of the HSRA
appropriation contingent on reporting.
Proposition 42 Maintenance of Effort . Provides an extended
period for the City of Santa Rosa to meet its Maintenance
of Effort (MOE) related to State funding provided in
2009-10 through the Proposition 42 distribution of sales
taxes on gasoline. Due to the recession and other factors,
the City of Santa Rosa does not expect to meet its full MOE
requirement in the two-year time required to spend local
funds on highways and road investments. This bill provides
four additional years to meet the MOE for 2009-10 without
the city having to return any State funds. Similar
flexibility was provided to the County of Fresno last year
in SB 524 (Cogdill), Chapter 716,Stuatutes of 2010. Due to
the fuel tax swap that was part of the February 2010 budget
action, the sales tax on gasoline was replaced with excise
tax and the Proposition 42 MOE is not in effect for the
2010-11 allocations or in future years.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
JJA:do 6/9/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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