BILL NUMBER: AB 2008	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act relating to transportation planning.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2008, as introduced, Quirk. Regional transportation plan:
sustainable communities strategy: urban freight.
   Existing law requires certain transportation planning activities
by designated regional transportation planning agencies, including
development of a regional transportation plan. Certain of these
agencies are designated by federal law as metropolitan planning
organizations. Existing law requires metropolitan planning
organizations to adopt a sustainable communities strategy, subject to
specified requirements, as part of a regional transportation plan,
which is to be designed to achieve certain targets established by the
State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region.
   This bill would state the intent of the legislature to enact
legislation that would require a sustainable communities strategy to
include consideration of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the
delivery of urban freight.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require a sustainable communities strategy to
include consideration of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the
delivery of urban freight.