BILL NUMBER: AB 2620	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dababneh

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 99684.5 to the Public Utilities Code,
relating to transportation, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2620, as amended, Dababneh. Passenger rail projects: funding.
   Proposition 116, an initiative measure, enacted the Clean Air and
Transportation Improvement Act of 1990, which establishes the Clean
Air and Transportation Improvement Fund,  allocates 
 continuously appropriates  specified amounts from the fund
for, among other things, rights-of-way for rail purposes and capital
expenditures deemed necessary for a specified rail service, and
requires the California Transportation Commission to adopt guidelines
for the approval of grants for transit projects which are essential
to the implementation of safe and reliable transit services.
   The act authorizes, if any of the funds are not expended or
encumbered prior to July 1, 2010, the Legislature to reallocate the
funds for any other passenger rail project in the state by a statute
passed in each house by a 2/3 vote.
   This bill would reallocate funds allocated pursuant to the act
that are not expended or encumbered by July 1, 2020, to any other
existing passenger rail project  in the state.  
with existing rail service.  The bill would require the
commission to determine the  existing passenger rail projects
in the state and implement the reallocation on a pro-rata basis.
 projects pursuant to this reallocation.  By
reallocating unexpended or unencumbered funds to any other existing
passenger rail project, the bill would make an appropriation.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 99684.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
to read:
   99684.5.  (a) Funds allocated pursuant to this part that are not
expended or encumbered by July 1, 2020, are hereby reallocated
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 99684 to any other existing
passenger rail  project.   project with existing
rail service. 
   (b) The California Transportation Commission shall determine
 the existing passenger rail projects in the state and
implement the reallocation described in subdivision (a) on a pro-rata
basis.   the projects pursuant to the reallocation as
described in subdivision (a).