BILL NUMBER: AB 845	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 10, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ma

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 2704.76 to the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 845, as amended, Ma. Transportation: bond funds.
   Existing law, the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond
Act for the 21st Century, provides for the issuance of $9.95 billion
in general obligation bonds for high-speed rail and related purposes,
including $950 million to be allocated by the California
Transportation Commission to eligible recipients for capital
improvements to intercity and commuter rail lines and urban rail
transit systems in connection with or otherwise related to the
high-speed train system. Of this amount, 80% is to be allocated to
eligible commuter and urban rail recipients based on track miles,
vehicle miles, and passenger trips pursuant to guidelines to be
adopted by the commission. A dollar-for-dollar match is to be
provided by a commuter and urban rail recipient for bond funds
received.
   This bill would require the guidelines adopted by the commission
to determine the funding share for each eligible commuter and urban
rail recipient to use the distribution factors gathered from the
 most current available data in   2007 Data
Tables of  the National Transit Database of the Federal Transit
Administration. The bill would require the commission to accept from
each eligible recipient a priority list of projects up to the target
amount expected to be available for the recipient and would require
matching funds provided by the recipient to be from nonstate funds.
The bill would define "nonstate matching funds" for purposes of these
bond fund allocations to mean local, federal, and private funds, as
well as state funds available to an eligible recipient that are not
subject to allocation by the commission.
   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 2704.76 is added to the Streets and Highways
Code, to read:
   2704.76.  (a) For the guidelines adopted by the commission
pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 2704.095, the
funding share for each eligible recipient shall be determined using
the distribution factors gathered from the  most current
available data in   2007 Data Tables of  the
National Transit Database of the Federal Transit Administration.
   (b) The commission shall accept from each eligible recipient a
priority list of projects up to the target amount expected to be
available for the recipient. Each project shall meet the criteria set
forth in subdivisions (c) to (j), inclusive, of Section 2704.095.
The commission shall require that the matching funds to be provided
by each eligible recipient pursuant to subdivision (f) shall be
nonstate funds. The nonstate matching funds shall be matched to the
phase programmed with bond funds made available pursuant to Section
2704.095. The match for commuter and urban rail projects shall begin
with the expenditures that date from the adoption of the program for
expenditure of these bond funds.
   (c) For the purposes of this section, "nonstate funds" means
local, federal, and private funds, as well as state funds available
to an eligible recipient that are not subject to allocation by the
commission.