BILL NUMBER: AB 819	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 14, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 6, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 8, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 11, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wieckowski

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 891 of, and to add and repeal Section
891.1 of, the Streets and Highways Code, relating to bikeways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 819, as amended, Wieckowski. Bikeways.
   Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, in
cooperation with county and city governments, to establish minimum
safety design criteria for the planning and construction of bikeways,
and authorizes cities, counties, and local agencies to establish
bikeways. Existing law requires all city, county, regional, and other
local agencies responsible for the development or operation of
bikeways or roadways where bicycle travel is permitted to utilize all
minimum safety design criteria and uniform specifications and
symbols for signs, markers, and traffic control devices established
pursuant to specified provisions of existing law.
   This bill would require the department to establish, by 
January 1   June 30  , 2013, procedures for cities,
counties, and local agencies to be granted exceptions from the
requirement to use those criteria and specifications for purposes of
research, experimentation, testing, evaluation, or verification. The
bill would require the department, by  April  
November  1, 2014, to report to the transportation policy
committees of both houses of the Legislature the steps that the
department has taken  during the 2013 calendar year 
to implement those requirements, including, but not limited to,
information regarding requests received and granted by the department
 from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014,   inclusive,
 for those exceptions, and the reasons the department rejected
any requests for those exceptions.
   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 891 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended
to read:
   891.  (a) All city, county, regional, and other local agencies
responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or roadways
where bicycle travel is permitted shall utilize all minimum safety
design criteria and uniform specifications and symbols for signs,
markers, and traffic control devices established pursuant to Sections
890.6 and 890.8, except as provided in subdivision (b).
   (b) The department, by  January 1   June 30
 , 2013, shall establish procedures to permit exceptions to the
requirements of subdivision (a) for purposes of research,
experimentation, testing, evaluation, or verification.
  SEC. 2.  Section 891.1 is added to the Streets and Highways Code,
to read:
   891.1.  (a) The department shall, by  April  
November  1, 2014, submit a report to the transportation policy
committees of both houses of the Legislature that describes the
steps the department has taken to implement the requirements of
subdivision (b) of Section 891 related to permitting exceptions to
the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 891. The report shall
include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
   (1) The number of requests the department has received from
cities, counties, and local agencies  during the 2013
calendar year   from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014,
inclusive  .
   (2) The number of exceptions the department granted during that
year.
   (3) If any requests were rejected, the reasons why those requests
were not approved. 
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2015, deletes or extends
that date.  
   (b)  This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2015, and,
as of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2016, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.