BILL NUMBER: AB 2014	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Melendez

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to add Section 2566 to the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2014, as introduced, Melendez. Freeway Service Patrol Act:
workload study.
   The Freeway Service Patrol Act authorizes and provides funding for
freeway service patrols, operated pursuant to an agreement between
the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Department of
Transportation, and a regional or local governmental entity, on
traffic-congested urban freeways throughout the state.
   This bill would require, no later than June 30, 2017, and every 2
years thereafter, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, in
coordination with the Department of Transportation and in
consultation with regional and local entities, to complete a workload
study to assess resource needs to supervise existing and expanded
freeway service patrols identified by regional and local entities and
to submit the study to the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal
Review and the Assembly Committee on Budget. The bill would also
require the departments to prepare their annual budget requests to
the Legislature to accommodate the Department of the California
Highway Patrol's oversight of increased freeway service patrols
identified in the study.
   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 2566 is added to the Streets and Highways Code,
to read:
   2566.  (a) No later than June 30, 2017, and every two years
thereafter, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, in
coordination with the Department of Transportation and in
consultation with regional and local entities, shall complete a
workload study to assess resource needs to supervise existing and
expanded freeway service patrols identified by regional and local
entities. The study shall do both of the following:
   (1) Identify potential additional freeway mileage that could be
served by new freeway service patrols, as recommended by regional and
local entities, that have a reasonable expectation of meeting the
eligibility requirements of this chapter and current program
guidelines.
   (2) Identify additional Department of California Highway Patrol
resources needed to supervise additional freeway mileage identified
in paragraph (1).
   (b) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall submit
the study to the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review and the
Assembly Committee on Budget.
   (c) The Department of the California Highway Patrol and the
Department of Transportation shall prepare their annual budget
requests to the Legislature to accommodate the Department of the
California Highway Patrol's oversight of increased freeway service
patrols identified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a), if regional
and local entities have proposed increased service, by a date
specified in the program guidelines.