BILL NUMBER: AB 1298	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blumenfield

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

    An act to amend Section 149 of the Streets and Highways
Code, relating to high-occupancy vehicle lanes.   An act
to add Section 22651.01 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1298, as amended, Blumenfield.  High-occupancy vehicle
lanes.   Vehicles: parking: 72-   hour 
 restriction.  
   Existing law authorizes the removal of a parked vehicle when that
vehicle is parked or left standing upon a highway for 72 or more
consecutive hours in violation of a local ordinance authorizing its
removal.  
   This bill would authorize a local jurisdiction, by ordinance, to
establish a minimum distance that a vehicle is to be moved for the
purpose of the above 72-hour parking restriction.  
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to
construct exclusive or preferential lanes for buses only or for buses
and other high-occupancy vehicles and requires that, prior to
constructing those lanes, the department conduct competent
engineering estimates of the effect of those lanes on safety,
congestion, and highway capacity.  
   This bill would require the department to conduct those
engineering estimates with respect to the effect on congestion
mitigation and would make grammatical, nonsubstantive changes to
those provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 22651.01 is added to the 
 Vehicle Code   , to read:  
   22651.01.  A local jurisdiction may, by ordinance, establish a
minimum distance that a vehicle is to be moved for the purposes of
subdivision (k) of Section 22651. A parked vehicle may be impounded
pursuant to subdivision (k) of Section 22651 if it is not moved more
than the established minimum distance for 72 or more consecutive
hours.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 149 of the Streets and
Highways Code is amended to read:
   149.  The department may construct exclusive or preferential lanes
for buses only or for buses and other high-occupancy vehicles, and
may authorize or permit that exclusive or preferential use of
designated lanes on existing highways that are part of the State
Highway System. Prior to constructing those lanes, the department
shall conduct competent engineering estimates of the effect of those
lanes on safety, congestion mitigation, and highway capacity.
   To the extent they are available, the department may apply for and
use federal aid funds appropriated for the design, construction, and
use of those exclusive or preferential lanes, but may also use other
State Highway Account funds, including other federal aid funds, for
those purposes where proper and desirable.
   This section shall be known and may be cited as the Carrell Act.