Amended in Assembly March 15, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2542

Introduced by Assembly Member Gatto

February 19, 2016

An act to begin delete amend Section 1800 of end delete begin insert add Section 100.15 to end insert the Streets and Highways Code, relating to streets and highways.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2542, as amended, Gatto. begin delete City streets and highways. end delete begin insert Streets and highways: reversible lanes. end insert

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Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation is in full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law generally provides for the California Transportation Commission to program available funding for transportation capital projects, other than state highway rehabilitation projects, through the State Transportation Improvement Program, which includes projects recommended by regional transportation planning agencies through the adoption of a regional transportation improvement program and projects recommended by the department through the adoption of an interregional transportation improvement program, as specified.

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This bill would require the department or a regional transportation planning agency, when submitting a capacity-increasing project or a major street or highway lane realignment project to the commission for approval, to demonstrate that reversible lanes were considered for the project.

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Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city to do any and all things necessary to lay out, acquire, and construct any section or portion of any street or highway within its jurisdiction as a freeway and to make any existing street or highway a freeway.

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This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 100.15 is added to the end insert begin insert Streets and
Highways Code end insert begin insert , end insert immediately following Section 100.1 begin insert , to read: end insert

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begin insert 100.15. end insert   

Before the commission approves a capacity-increasing
project or a major street or highway lane realignment project, the
department or a regional transportation planning agency
submitting the project for approval shall demonstrate that
reversible lanes were considered for the project.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 1800 of the Streets and Highways Code
is amended to read:

1800.  

The legislative body of a city may do any and all things
necessary to lay out, acquire, and construct a section or portion of
a street or highway within its jurisdiction as a freeway and to make
an existing street or highway a freeway.

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