BILL NUMBER: SB 659	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 30100 of the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to transportation facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 659, as introduced, Hernandez. Toll bridges.
   Existing law authorizes the Transportation Commission to direct
the Department of Transportation to build or acquire toll bridges and
other transportation facilities related to toll bridges, as
specified.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive, grammatical change to those
provisions.
   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 30100 of the Streets and Highways Code is
amended to read:
   30100.  Whenever, in the opinion of the commission and of the
department, it is necessary or desirable to do so, the commission
shall authorize and direct the department to build or acquire for,
and in the name of, the state any or all of the following:
   (a) Toll bridges, tubes, or other toll highway crossings across
water, bays, arms of bays, straits, rivers, and streams in
California, both navigable and unnavigable, or across any stream that
is a boundary line between California and any other state, or toll
tunnels through mountains in California.
   (b) Transportation facilities of any toll bridges or toll highway
crossings constructed or acquired, or to be constructed or acquired,
pursuant to this chapter.
   (c) Additional transportation facilities connecting or coordinated
with any such toll bridge or other highway crossing or the
transportation facilities thereon.
   The commission may authorize and direct the department to pay for
any such construction or acquisition out of any funds provided or
made available by this chapter. Whenever a project consists of a tube
or tunnel  which   that  will accommodate
traffic served by a privately owned ferry, the commission may acquire
such ferry.