BILL NUMBER: AB 1284	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 8, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Baker

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 30952.1 of the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to toll bridges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1284, as amended, Baker. Bay Area state-owned toll bridges:
Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee.
   Existing law specifies the powers and duties of the Department of
Transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and the
Bay Area Toll Authority with respect to the collection and
expenditure of toll revenue from the 7 state-owned toll bridges
within the geographic jurisdiction of the commission. Existing law
requires the department and the authority to form the Toll Bridge
Program Oversight Committee, consisting of the Director of
Transportation, the Executive Director of the authority, and the
Executive Director of the California Transportation Commission to
review and provide program direction for seismic retrofit and
replacement projects on those toll bridges. Existing law provides
that the committee is not a state body or a local agency for the
purposes of the open meeting laws applicable to either state bodies
or local agencies known as the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act and the
Ralph M. Brown Act, respectively.
   This bill would delete that provision and would  thereby
make   provide that  the Toll Bridge Program
Oversight Committee  is  subject to the Bagley-Keene Open
Meeting Act.
   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.  Section 30952.1 of the Streets and Highways Code is
amended to read:
   30952.1.  (a) The authority and the department shall establish a
Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee, which shall consist of the
director, the authority's executive director, and the Executive
Director of the California Transportation Commission. The committee
may establish a project management team to assist it in performing
the duties required of it under this section and Section 30952.05.
   (b) The Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee shall review
project status, program costs, and schedules; resolve project issues;
evaluate project changes; develop and regularly update cost
estimates, risk assessments, and cashflow requirements for all phases
of the toll bridge projects; and provide program direction.
   (c) In addition to the duties described in subdivision (b), the
committee shall review project staffing levels and structures, and
consultant and contractor services related to the Benicia-Martinez
Bridge construction project, as described in Section 30917, and the
state toll bridge seismic retrofit program, as described in Section
188.5.
   (d) Expenses incurred by the department, the authority, and the
California Transportation Commission for costs directly related to
duties required by this section, Section 30952, and Section 30952.05
shall be reimbursed by toll revenue collected pursuant to Section
30916, 31010, or 31011. 
   (e) The Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee shall be subject
to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with
Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the
Government Code).