BILL NUMBER: AB 2690	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mullin
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Hill)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 66509 of the Government Code, relating to
transportation planning.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2690, as introduced, Mullin. Regional transportation plan.
   Existing law creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as
the transportation planning agency for the 9-county Bay Area, with
various transportation planning and programming responsibilities.
Existing law requires each transportation planning agency to develop
and adopt a regional transportation plan. Existing law requires the
commission, when developing the regional transportation plan for the
Bay Area region, to consider various matters as well as the plans of
other agencies.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these 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 66509 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   66509.  In developing the regional transportation plan, the
commission shall consider:
   (a) The plan recommended by the Bay Area Transportation Study
Commission, with  such  modifications  as 
recommended by the Regional Transportation Planning Committee.
   (b) The ecological, economic, and social impact of existing and
future regional transportation systems upon various facets of the
region, including, but not limited to, housing, employment,
recreation,  environment  environmental quality
 , land-use policies, and the economically disadvantaged.
   (c) The regional plans prepared and adopted by organizations
concerned with policies and programs designed to meet the near- and
long-term planning needs of the region.  Such  
That  consideration by the commission shall include, but not be
limited to, plans prepared and adopted by the Association of Bay Area
Governments, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development
Commission, and the  State   state  Office
of Planning  and Research  .