BILL NUMBER: SB 616	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 27, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 6, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 1, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wright
   (Coauthor: Senator Fuller)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act relating to aviation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 616, as amended, Wright. Aeronautics Account: California Aid to
Airports Program.
   Existing federal law authorizes airport sponsors to submit
applications to the Secretary of Transportation for financial
assistance for airport improvement projects. Under federal law, upon
approval by the Secretary of Transportation, the United States
government may pay for certain project costs.
   Existing law establishes the Aeronautics Account in the State
Transportation Fund, and continuously appropriates the moneys in the
account for expenditure by the Division of Aeronautics within the
Department of Transportation and the California Transportation
Commission. Existing law requires that funds in the account be paid
to certain public entities owning and operating airports for projects
for airport and aviation purposes, as defined, or operation and
maintenance purposes, as defined. Existing law authorizes any balance
remaining in the account to be used as a portion of the local match
for federal Airport Improvement Program grants for certain airports.
Existing law prohibits the California Transportation Commission from
allocating funds until the federal grant offer is accepted by the
public entity and authorizes the division, upon allocation of the
funds by the commission, to pay a public entity 5% of the amount of a
federal Airport Improvement Program grant.
   Existing regulations implement the California Aid to Airports
Program, which includes airport improvement program matching grants
and acquisition and development grants. These regulations prohibit
payments from the account for the California Aid to Airports Program
for projects that the sponsor, as defined, has already started or
completed prior to allocation of airport improvement program matching
or acquisition and development funds, with the exception of projects
for land acquisition, as defined, and project services, as defined.
   This bill would, until July 1, 2015, authorize payments from the
account for the California Aid to Airports Program for projects that
the sponsor has started or completed in accordance with a federal
Airport Improvement Program grant , unless the project was
started or completed prior to January 1, 2014  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 4059 of the
California Code of Regulations, until July 1, 2015, payments from the
Aeronautics Account for the California Aid to Airports Program shall
be allowed for projects that the sponsor, as defined by subdivision
(y) of Section 4052 of the California Code of Regulations, has
started or completed in accordance with a federal Airport Improvement
Program grant  , unless the project was started or completed
prior to January 1, 2014  .