BILL NUMBER: AB 1549	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 22, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 16, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 14, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 13, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wood

                        SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

   An act to add Section 14051 to the Government Code, relating to
highways.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1549, as amended, Wood.  Department of Transportation: state
highway rights-of-way: fiber optic cables.
   Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has
full possession and control of state highways and associated
property. Existing law provides for the department to issue
encroachment permits with respect to structures and activities in,
under, or over any portion of the right-of-way of a state highway.
   This bill would require the department to maintain an inventory
 on a centralized database  of all broadband conduits 
that house fiber optic communication cables and are  owned by
the  department that house fiber optic communication cables,
that are   department,  located on state highway
rights-of-way, and  that are  installed on or after
January 1, 2017, and to make that information available upon request
of  verified  companies or organizations working on
broadband deployment. The bill would require the department to notify
 verified   those  companies and
organizations  on its Intern   et Web site  of 
specified  department-led highway construction projects and
would authorize  verified   those 
companies or organizations to collaborate with the department to
install a broadband conduit as part of each project. The bill would
require the department, as part of each project, to install broadband
conduit capable of supporting fiber optic communication cables if no
 verified  company or organization  working on
broadband deployment  collaborates with the department and no
broadband conduit previously exists in a project area.
   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 14051 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   14051.  (a)  The   For purposes of this
section, "companies or organizations working on broadband deployment"
includes, but is not limited to, local governments, nonprofit
organizations, and telephone corporations, as defined in Section 234
of the Public Utilities Code. 
    (b)     The department shall maintain
an inventory  on a centralized database  of all broadband
conduits  that house fiber optic communication cables and are
 owned by the  department that house fiber optic
communication cables, that are   department, 
located on state highway rights-of-way, and  that are
 installed on or after January 1, 2017. The department shall
make the information available upon request of  verified
 companies or organizations working on broadband deployment.

   (b) 
    (c)  (1) During the design phase of a department-led
highway construction  project,   project that is
parallel to the highway, spans at least two overpasses, and involves
construction methods that are suitable for installing broadband
conduit,  the department shall notify  verified
 companies and organizations  working on broadband
deployment  of the project  on   its Internet Web
site  to encourage collaborative broadband installations.
   (2) For the purpose of supporting fiber optic communication
cables, after receiving notification from the department, a
verified  company or organization  working on
broadband deployment  may collaborate with the department to
install a broadband conduit as part of the project.
   (3) If no  verified  company or organization 
working on broadband deployment  collaborates with the
department and no broadband conduit previously exists in the project
area, the department, as part of the project, shall install a
broadband conduit capable of supporting fiber optic communication
cables.
   (4) Nothing in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, requires the
department to report on cables owned by other entities.