BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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(Without Reference to File)
CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB
95 (Committee on Budget)
As Amended June 11, 2015
Majority vote. Budget Bill Appropriation Takes Effect
Immediately
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Original Committee Reference: BUDGET
SUMMARY: Makes statutory changes related to transportation that
are necessary to implement the 2015-16 budget package.
Specifically, this bill:
1)Extends the suspension for one year, to July 1, 2016, on a
provision that restricts transit agencies from using State
Transit Assistance funding on operations if their operational
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costs have exceed the consumer price index in the previous
year.
2)Abolishes three obsolete special funds that are no longer
active: the Transportation Investment Fund, the Pedestrian
Safety Account, and the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds
Subaccount in the Special Deposit Fund.
3)Simplifies High Speed Rail reporting requirements to align
with Business Plan's release, which is every other year, and
repeals the requirement for the staff management report.
4)Modifies the requirements of qualifications of specific High
Speed Rail Peer Review Group member positions to broaden
eligibility to include experience with large infrastructure
projects and experience governing intercity of commuter
passenger train services.
5)Provides authority for California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans) to relinquish the Tower Bridge to either or both
the Cities of Sacramento and West Sacramento, pending
agreement from the cities.
6)Requires Caltrans to report on potential benefits to safety,
greenhouse gas reduction, service levels, and operating costs
by improving certain grade separations along the state
intercity rail corridor.
7)Allows the County of Sacramento to expend local streets and
roads funding on a soundwall project along the Interstate 80
corridor in the vicinity of Walerga Park.
8)Appropriates $5 million State Highway Account funds for the
remediation of fish passage barriers caused by state highways
and requires Caltrans to report on the progress of remediating
barriers to fish passage.
FISCAL EFFECT: This bill includes an appropriation of $5
million State Highway Account for the remediation of fish
passage barriers caused by state highways.
COMMENT: This budget trailer bill implements statutory changes
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related to transportation that were adopted as part of the
2015-16 budget process.
Analysis Prepared by:
Christian F. Griffith / BUDGET / (916) 319-2099
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