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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 415
Author: Price (D)
Amended: 8/21/12
Vote: 21
PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 7-0, 8/28/12
(pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10)
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Harman, Kehoe, Lowenthal, Rubio,
Simitian
NO VOTE RECORDED: Pavley, Wyland
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 79-0, 8/23/12 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : State highways: relinquishment
SOURCE : Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
Authority
DIGEST : This bill grants permission to the California
Transportation Commission (CTC) to relinquish to a county
transportation commission or to a regional transportation
planning agency (RTPA) park-and-ride lots within their
respective jurisdictions.
Assembly Amendments delete the Senate version of the bill,
which dealt with the Political Reform Act, and instead add
the current language.
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ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
1. Identifies, statutorily, state highway system routes;
defines "state
highway" as any roadway that is acquired, laid out,
constructed, improved, or maintained as a state highway
pursuant to constitutional or legislative authorization.
2. Provides for the expansion or deletion of the state
highway system through a process whereby CTC makes a
finding that it is in the best interest of the state to
include or delete a specified portion of roadway to the
system.
3. Provides for the relinquishment of a portion of state
highway to a city or county under an agreement between
the local jurisdiction and the Caltrans when an act of
the Legislature has deleted the portion of highway from
the state highway system.
This bill:
1. Grants permission to the CTC to relinquish to a county
transportation commission or to an RTPA park-and-ride
lots within their respective jurisdictions, on terms and
conditions that the CTC finds to be within the best
interests of the state if the Department of
Transportation (Caltrans) and the county transportation
commission or RTPA enter into an agreement providing for
the relinquishment.
2. Requires that a county transportation commission or an
RTPA that requests relinquishment of a park-and-ride lot
agree to maintain at least as many parking spaces in the
lot as there were when the property was relinquished by
Caltrans.
3. Provides that the relinquishment will become effective
on the date following the county recorder's recordation
of the relinquishment resolution containing the CTC's
approval of the terms and conditions of the
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relinquishment.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee,
Caltrans indicates that local jurisdictions frequently seek
concessions-typically future maintenance funds as well as
upfront rehabilitation from the department-as part of
relinquishment agreements. Depending on the number of
park-and-ride lots relinquished to local agencies and the
condition of those lots, potential one-time special fund
costs could exceed $150,000, depending on the outcome of
negotiations between Caltrans and local entities and a
determination that any relinquishment is in the state's
best interest. Furthermore, the bill could result in
ongoing savings to Caltrans from reduced maintenance and
rehabilitation costs for relinquished park-and-ride lots.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/23/12)
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
(source)
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 79-0, 8/23/12
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall,
Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos,
Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson,
Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani,
Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Gorell,
Grove, Hagman, Halderman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hill,
Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lara,
Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, Miller,
Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Norby,
Olsen, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Portantino, Silva,
Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, Torres, Valadao,
Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Roger Hernández
JJA:m1 8/29/12 Senate Floor Analyses
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SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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