BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: July 8, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Jimmy Gomez, Chair
SB 64
(Liu) - As Amended June 24, 2015
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill requires the California Transportation Commission
(CTC) to:
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1)Review recommendations in the California Transportation Plan
(CTP)-prepared by Caltrans and updated every five years-and to
make its own specific recommendations for transportation
system improvements to the Legislature and the Governor by
December 31, 2016, and every five years thereafter.
2)Include recommendations for legislation to improve the
transportation system in its annual report to the Legislature.
FISCAL EFFECT:
Minor costs (up to $100,000) every five years for the CTC to
review the CTP and report its recommendations. The CTCs costs to
incorporate recommendations for legislation into its annual
report should be minor and absorbable. (State Highway Account)
Notwithstanding the above costs associated solely with this
bill, in the 2015-16 Budget Act, the CTC received funding for a
two-year limited-term Supervising Transportation Planner to
fulfill its responsibilities under SB 486(DeSaulnier)/Chapter
917, Statutes of 2014. The CTC indicates that, to fulfill the
requirements of both SB 64 and SB 486, it would seek to convert
this position to permanent status.
COMMENTS:
1)Background. SB 391 (Liu)/Chapter 585, Statutes of 2009,
directed Caltrans to develop the CTP, a long-range, statewide
transportation plan intended to identify the integrated
multi-modal transportation system needed to move people and
freight, and to achieve the state's greenhouse gas emission
reduction goals. SB 391 requires the CTP to be updated every
five years.
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SB 486 links the CTP with Caltrans' other planning and
programming processes in order to ensure that only those
transportation projects supporting the state's broad policy
objectives and strategies, as set forth in the CTP, are
planned, environmentally reviewed, designed, and funded. SB
486 also authorized the CTC, in cooperation with Caltrans, to
prescribe study areas for analysis and evaluation by the
department and to establish guidelines for the preparation of
the updates to the CTP.
2)Purpose. The author introduced SB 64 as a follow-up to her SB
391 of 2009 with the intent to solicit specific, focused
recommendations for the Governor and the Legislature from CTC
in response to each update of the plan.
Furthermore, because transportation is a complex, often very
technical subject matter, the Legislature leans on the CTC for
advice and counsel to guide transportation policies and to
provide oversight. SB 64 directs the CTC to provide to the
legislature, in addition to recommendations regarding the CTP,
specific recommendations for legislation in the CTC's annual
report to the Legislature.
Analysis Prepared by:Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916)
319-2081
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