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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 486
Author: DeSaulnier (D), et al.
Amended: 8/21/14
Vote: 21
PRIOR VOTES NOT RELELVANT
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 79-0, 8/25/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Department of Transportation: goals and performance
measurers
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill modifies processes for developing and
adopting the Department of Transportation's (Caltrans)
long-range transportation planning and programming documents.
Assembly Amendments delete the Senate version of the bill
creating the Office of Legal Compliance and Ethics to oversee
Caltrans, and insert the current language.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
1. Provides that Caltrans has full possession and control of
the state highway system and specifies the duties and
responsibilities of Caltrans on various other transportation
matters.
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2. Requires Caltrans to prepare the interregional
transportation improvement program (ITIP) which, along with
the regional transportation improvement programs adopted by
regional transportation agencies, becomes part of the state
transportation improvement program and identifies most
transportation capital improvements to be undertaken over a
multiyear period with state and federal funds.
3. Requires Caltrans to separately prepare the state highway
operation and protection program, which identifies capital
projects limited to maintenance, safety, and rehabilitation
work necessary to preserve and protect the state highway
system.
4. Requires the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to,
among other things, adopt the state transportation
improvement program and approve the state highway operation
and protection program, and further provides for CTC to
allocate transportation capital funds to specific projects
contained in the state transportation improvement program,
but not the state highway operation and protection program,
which is managed by Caltrans.
This bill:
1. Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding a
recent external assessment of Caltrans that called for
reforms to update Caltrans's mission, strengthen its
performance, and align its work with broad state policy
goals; and the need to develop a long-term, inclusive
planning process for Caltrans, similar to the
already-established regional transportation planning process.
2. Authorizes CTC to establish guidelines for Caltrans to
follow in developing the California Transportation Plan
(CTP), commencing with the 2020 update of the plan.
3. Directs Caltrans, by June 30, 2015, to submit to CTC an
interregional transportation strategic plan (ITSP) directed
at achieving a high-functioning and balanced interregional
transportation system; requires the ITSP to be consistent
with the CTP.
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4. Requires projects included in the ITIP to be consistent with
the ITSP.
5. Requires CTC, when approving the final ITIP, to evaluate the
extent to which the program is consistent with statutorily
established funding priorities.
6. Requires Caltrans, in consultation with the CTC, to prepare
an asset management plan to guide development of the State
Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP) and requires
CTC to adopt related targets and performance measures that
reflect state policy goals and objectives.
7. Vests CTC with authority to review and approve the final
asset management plan, as described.
8. Requires Caltrans to provide specific project information in
the SHOPP, including the capital and support budget for each
project and the projected delivery date by project component.
9. Imposes requirements on Caltrans to report to CTC quarterly
on the support budget and expenditures of major SHOPP
projects.
Background
The California Transportation Agency recently contracted with a
management consultant, the State Smart Transportation Initiative
(SSTI), to conduct an external assessment of Caltrans and
provide recommendations for improving Caltrans's performance.
The SSTI review found that Caltrans has not kept pace with
changes in transportation policy and calls for reforms to
modernize Caltrans's mission, strengthen its performance, and
help align Caltrans with the state's policy goals.
Existing law requires the regional transportation planning
agencies to construct an inclusive, exhaustive transportation
planning process that moves from a longer-term vision,
represented by the regional transportation plan, to a short-term
list of specific projects in the regional transportation
improvement program in order to implement the long-term vision.
Caltrans, responsible for the maintenance and operation of the
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state highway system and for the state's interregional
transportation system, does not currently have in place a
similarly inclusive planning process that moves from vision to
implementation.
Developing a process for Caltrans to follow in development of
the state's interregional and highway maintenance and operations
programs similar to the regional transportation planning process
can create a framework for Caltrans
to begin to address the flaws identified in the SSTI report and
allow the state to catch up with the changes in transportation
policy such that Caltrans can once again align its work with the
state's policy goals.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/25/14)
California Association of Councils of Government
Self-Help Counties Coalition
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office, this
bill improves the state's transportation planning process by
requiring Caltrans to develop the state's transportation plans
from a strategic vision document to a more specific
implementation plan similar to the process required for
California's metropolitan regions.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 79-0, 8/25/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández,
Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi,
Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A.
Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Vacancy
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MW:k 8/26/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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