SB 1279, as introduced, Hancock. California Transportation Commission: funding prohibition: coal shipment.
Existing law creates the California Transportation Commission, with various duties and responsibilities relative to the programming and allocation of funds for transportation capital projects.
This bill would prohibit the commission from programming or allocating any public funds for any project at a port facility that is located at, or adjacent to, a disadvantaged community and that exports or proposes to export coal from the state.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 14525.3 is added to the Government
2Code, to read:
The commission shall not program or allocate any
4public funds, including proceeds from the sale of general obligation
5bonds, under its jurisdiction for any project at a port facility that
6is located in, or adjacent to, one or more disadvantaged
7communities identified pursuant to Chapter 4.1 (commencing with
P2 1Section 39710) of Part 2 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety
2Code and that exports or proposes to export coal from the state.
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