Amended in Assembly April 25, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2730

Introduced by Assembly Member Alejo

February 19, 2016

An act to add Section 14528.9 to the Government Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2730, as amended, Alejo. Department of Transportation: Prunedale Bypass: County of Monterey: disposition of excess properties.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system and associated property. Existing law generally requires proceeds from the sale of excess state highway property to be made available for other highway purposes. 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 begin delete state transportation improvement program end delete begin insert State Transportation Improvement Program end insert process, with available funds subject to various fair share distribution formulas. Existing law, in certain cases, requires the commission to instead reallocate funds from canceled state highway projects to other projects within the same county and exempts those funds from the fair share distribution formulas that would otherwise be applicable.

This bill would begin delete classify certain properties acquired by the department for a replacement alignment for State Highway Route 101 in the County of Monterey, known as the former Prunedale Bypass, and no longer required by the department for the alternative improvements undertaken by it in place of the bypass, known as the Prunedale Improvement Project, as excess property and would require the department to expeditiously dispose of those excess properties. The bill would end delete require the net proceeds from the sale of begin delete the end delete begin insert any end insert excess properties begin insert originally acquired for a replacement alignment for State Highway Route 101 in the County of Monterey, known as the former Prunedale Bypass, end insert to be reserved in the State Highway Account for programming and allocation by the commission, with the concurrence of the Transportation Agency for Monterey County, to other begin delete transportation end delete begin insert state highway end insert projects begin insert in the State Highway Route 101 corridor end insert in that county. The bill would exempt these funds from the distribution formulas otherwise applicable to transportation capital improvement funds.

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 14528.9 is added to the Government
Code, to read:

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14528.9.  

Properties originally acquired by the department for
a replacement alignment for State Highway Route 101 in the
County of Monterey, known as the former Prunedale Bypass, and
no longer required by the department for the alternative
improvements undertaken by it in place of the bypass, known as
the Prunedale Improvement Project, are hereby classified as excess
properties. The department shall expeditiously dispose of these
excess properties.

end delete

begin insert

begin insert 14528.9. end insert   

end insert

Proceeds from the sale of begin delete the excess properties, end delete begin insert any
excess properties originally acquired by the department for a
replacement alignment for State Highway Route 101 in the County
of Monterey, known as the former Prunedale Bypass, end insert less any
reimbursements due to the federal government and all costs
incurred in the sale of those excess properties, shall be reserved
in the State Highway Account for programming and allocation by
the begin delete commission, end delete begin insert commission through the State Transportation
Improvement Program, end insert with the concurrence of the Transportation
Agency for Monterey County, to other state highway projects begin delete in
the State Transportation Improvement Programin the County of
Monterey, or to other transportation projects in that county
consistent with Article XIX of the California Constitution. end delete begin insert in the
State Highway Route 101 Corridor in the County of Monterey. end insert
Sections 188 and 188.8 of the Streets and Highways Code do not
apply to these proceeds.