BILL NUMBER: AB 1318	CHAPTERED  10/10/99

	CHAPTER   628
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   OCTOBER 10, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   OCTOBER 5, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 30, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 25, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 23, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bates
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Ackerman, Baldwin, Baugh, Campbell,
Correa, Ducheny, Kaloogian, Maddox, and Wayne)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Alpert, Dunn, Johnson, Kelley, Lewis, and
Morrow)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to add Section 188.15 to the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1318, Bates.  Transportation:  federal-aid highway funds:
nonfederal share.
   Existing federal law requires the federal share payable on any
federal-aid highway project to be 90% of the total cost, except as
specified.  Certain federal provisions require states to provide a
nonfederal share.  States are authorized to use certain toll revenues
as a credit toward the nonfederal share.  California is also
authorized to use private entity expenditures for construction of
certain toll roads as a credit toward the nonfederal share.
   This bill would prohibit using the specified funds and
expenditures as a credit toward the nonfederal share for any project
that is not within the county or counties in which the toll facility
is located, unless the Department of Transportation determines that
there is no project within that county or counties for which the
credit may be used.  The bill would require the department to obtain
specific project proposals for use of the credit from the regional
transportation planning agencies and county transportation
commissions of the county or counties in which the toll facility is
located and contingency project proposals for use of the credit
outside the county or counties in which the toll facility is located
should the department make the determination specified above.
   The bill would prohibit certain county share allocations from
being increased or reduced as a consequence of any toll revenues or
private agency expenditures that are utilized as a credit toward the
nonfederal share of any federally funded project.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 188.15 is added to the Streets and Highways
Code, to read:
   188.15.  (a) Except as authorized under subdivision (b), toll
funds used as a credit toward the nonfederal share of any federal-aid
highway project, as authorized under Section 120(j) of Title 23 of
the United States Code, or private entity expenditures used for that
purpose, as authorized under Section 1217(i) of the Transportation
Equity Act for the 21st Century (P.L. 105-178), may not be used as a
credit for any project that is not within the county or counties in
which the toll facility is located.
   (b) The toll funds and private expenditures described in
subdivision (a) may be used as a credit toward a project located
outside the county or counties in which the toll facility is located
if the department determines that there is no project in the current
state transportation improvement program cycle within that county or
counties for which the credit may be used.
   (c) The department shall do both of the following:
   (1) Obtain specific project proposals for use of the credit
described in subdivision (a) from the regional transportation
planning agencies and county transportation commissions of the county
or counties in which the toll facility is located.
   (2) Obtain contingency project proposals for use of the credit
outside the county or counties in which the toll facility is located,
in preparation for the occurrence of the condition described in
subdivision (b).
   (d) The county share allocations, as computed under Section 188 or
188.8, may not be increased or reduced as a consequence of any toll
revenues or private agency expenditures that are utilized under this
section as a credit toward the nonfederal share of any federally
funded project.