BILL NUMBER: AB 1889	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 21, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 17, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mullin

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2016

   An act to  repeal Division 16 (commencing with Section
160000) of the Public Utilities   add Section 2704.78 to
the Streets and Highways  Code, relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1889, as amended, Mullin.  Peninsula Rail Transit
District.   High-Speed Rail Authority: high-spe 
 ed train operation.  
    Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with specified
powers and duties relative to the development and implementation of
a high-speed train system. Existing law, pursuant to the Safe,
Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century,
approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008,
statewide general election, provides for the issuance of $9.95
billion for high-speed train capital projects and other associated
purposes. The bond act requires the authority to expend the proceeds
of the bond act pursuant to certain planning and reporting
requirements, which require the authority to approve that the
corridor or usable segment would be suitable and ready for high-speed
train operations.  
   The Budget Act of 2012 made appropriations for the support of
state government, including an appropriation for, among other things,
state operations, local assistance, or capital outlay for high-speed
rail projects, as specified.  
   This bill would provide for the purposes of that appropriation
that the approval by the authority that a corridor or usable segment
thereof would be suitable and ready for high-speed train operation is
conclusive.  
   Existing law, operative under certain conditions, redesignates the
Peninsula Corridor Study Joint Powers Board as the Peninsula Rail
Transit District, comprised of 9 members appointed from various
governing bodies situated in the City and County of San Francisco and
the Counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara, with specified powers.
 
   This bill would repeal obsolete provisions relating to the
Peninsula Rail Transit District. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
 yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION   1   .    Section 2704.78
is added to the   Streets and Highways Code   , to
read:  
   2704.78.  (a) For the purposes of expenditure or liquidation of
the appropriation made by Item 2665-104-6043 of Section 2.00 of the
Budget Act of 2012, as added by Section 3 of Chapter 152 of the
Statutes of 2012, the approval made by the High-Speed Rail Authority
pursuant to Section 2704.08 that a corridor or usable segment thereof
would be suitable and ready for high-speed train operation, within
the meaning Section 2704.08, shall be conclusive.
   (b) This section does not relieve the High-Speed Rail Authority of
its duties under Section 2704.08, including the report required by
subdivision (d) of that section.  
  SECTION 1.    Division 16 (commencing with Section
160000) of the Public Utilities Code is repealed.