BILL NUMBER: AB 2014	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Melendez

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to add Sections 2566 and 2566.1 to the Streets and Highways
Code, relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2014, as amended, Melendez. Freeway Service Patrol Program
Assessment.
   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, by June 20, 2018, and every 5 years thereafter,
require the Department of Transportation to publish and submit to the
Legislature and the Department of Finance, as specified, a statewide
Freeway Service Patrol Program Assessment that would, among other
things, identify, quantify, and analyze existing freeway service
patrols, identify opportunities to increase or expand service levels,
and analyze and provide recommendations regarding the current and
anticipated future financial condition of the program, as specified.
The bill would require the state budget to include a line item
identifying the amount of local assistance moneys and state
operations moneys  that were  provided in support of
freeway service patrols.
   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) By June 20, 2018, and every five years thereafter, the
department, in coordination with the Department of the California
Highway Patrol and regional and local entities, shall publish a
statewide Freeway Service Patrol Program Assessment. The program
assessment shall do all of the following:
   (1) Identify, quantify, and analyze existing freeway service
patrols, and identify opportunities to increase or expand service
levels.
   (2) Analyze and provide recommendations regarding the current and
anticipated future financial condition of the program, accounting for
various factors, including, but not limited to, operation costs,
available funding, and state personnel resources. 
   (3) Include, as attachments, supporting data provided to the
department by regional and local entities and by the Department of
the California Highway Patrol.  
   (3) 
    (4)  Examine all of the following:
   (A) The financial sustainability of maintaining current freeway
service patrols.
   (B) The route miles unserved or underserved by freeway service
patrols.
   (C) Historical, current, and future state and local funding for
freeway service patrols. 
   (4) 
    (5)  Analyze and quantify the public benefits received
or to be received from existing and potential new freeway service
patrols. 
   (5) 
   (6)  Discuss how freeway service patrols relate to other
state policies, plans, and goals.
   (b) The department shall submit the program assessment to the
Legislature, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code,
and to the Department of Finance, and shall include a recommendation
regarding the state moneys necessary to fund the recommendations
identified in the program assessment.
  SEC. 2.  Section 2566.1 is added to the Streets and Highways Code,
to read:
   2566.1.  The state budget shall include a line item for the
department and the Department of the California Highway Patrol to
identify the amount of local assistance moneys and state operations
moneys provided in support of freeway service patrols.