BILL NUMBER: SB 333	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 28, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 25, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 23, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator La Malfa

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Section 22406.2 of the Vehicle Code,
relating to vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 333, as amended, La Malfa. Vehicles: speed limits.
   (1) Existing law prohibits a person from driving a motortruck or
truck tractor having 3 or more axles, or a motortruck or truck
tractor drawing any other vehicle, or a passenger vehicle or bus
drawing another vehicle, on a highway at a speed in excess of 55
miles per hour.
   This bill would, until January 1, 2016, permit a person to drive
those specified motor vehicles at a speed not to exceed 5 miles less
per hour than the posted speed limit for a passenger vehicle on a
specified portion of Interstate 5. The bill would require the
Department of Transportation and the Department of the California
Highway Patrol, on or before  December   March
 31, 2015, to submit a report to the Legislature on traffic flow
and traffic safety on that portion of Interstate 5.
   (2) The bill would declare that, due to the unique geographic and
demographic characteristics of the Counties of  Shasta
 Tehama, Glenn, Colusa,  and Yolo, a general
statute within the meaning of specified provisions of the California
Constitution cannot be made applicable and a special statute is
necessary.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 22406.2 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   22406.2.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 22406, a person may drive a
motor vehicle described in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 22406 at
a speed not to exceed five miles per hour less than the posted speed
limit for a passenger vehicle on Interstate 5 north of the City of
Woodland, in the County of Yolo, and south of Cottonwood, in the
County of Shasta.
   (b) On or before  December   March  31,
2015, the Department of Transportation and the Department of the
California Highway Patrol shall submit to the Legislature, pursuant
to Section 9795 of the Government Code, a report on the effects of
subdivision (a) on traffic flow and traffic safety on the portion of
Interstate 5 as specified in subdivision (a).
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends
that date.
  SEC. 2.  Due to the unique geographic and demographic
characteristics of the Counties of  Shasta  
Tehama, Glenn, Colusa,  and Yolo, the Legislature finds and
declares that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution.
Therefore, the special legislation contained within Section 1 of this
act is necessarily only applicable to those counties.