BILL NUMBER: AB 1243 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 14, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 29, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 1, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 14, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
An act to add and repeal Section 34503.5 of the Vehicle Code,
relating to vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1243, as amended, Bonnie Lowenthal. Strategic Area Freeway
Enforcement Task Force.
Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway
Patrol to adopt reasonable rules and regulations that, in the
judgment of the department, are designed to promote the safe
operation of specified commercial vehicles, regarding, among other
things, inspection and maintenance of vehicles and to adopt
procedures for the enforcement of these rules and regulations.
This bill would, until January 1, 2012, establish the Strategic
Area Freeway Enforcement Task Force in the Business, Transportation
and Housing Agency to develop a work program that will optimize the
effectiveness and efficiencies of the commercial vehicle enforcement
network in Southeast southeast Los
Angeles County through a multiagency collaborative effort focused on
addressing ongoing commercial vehicle enforcement issues and to
recognize the potential benefits from specified technologies.
The bill would require the task force to report annually, on or
before December 31 of each year, to the Governor, the Business,
Transportation and Housing Agency, and the Assembly Committee on
Transportation and the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing
on the progress made towards implementation of the recommendations
developed to improve commercial vehicle enforcement in
Southeast southeast Los Angeles County pursuant
to a specified list of 12 objectives, that include, among other
things, review of Vehicle Dimension-in-Motion (VDIM) and Automated
Vehicle Identification (AVI) devices as a legal enforcement tool.
The bill would require that the task force consist of 4 specified
members, that the members of the task force serve without
compensation, and that no state funds be used to compensate the
members for expenses incurred in the performance of their official
duties. The bill would also provide that the task force would not be
required to implement the provisions of the bill except to the extent
that nonstate funds are available for that purpose.
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 34503.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
34503.5. (a) There is hereby established in the Business,
Transportation and Housing Agency the Strategic Area Freeway
Enforcement Task Force, which shall be convened on or before April 1,
2010. The goal of the task force is to develop a work program that
will optimize the effectiveness and efficiencies of the commercial
vehicle enforcement network in Southeast
southeast Los Angeles County through a multiagency
collaborative effort focused on addressing ongoing commercial vehicle
enforcement issues and to recognize the potential benefits from
emerging technologies. The activities of the task force are intended
to contribute to maintaining the state's strategic advantage through
improved decisionmaking and prudent and adequate investment.
(b) The task force shall report annually on or before December 31
of each year to the Governor, the Business, Transportation and
Housing Agency, and the Assembly Committee on Transportation and the
Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing on the progress made
toward implementation of the recommendations developed to improve the
commercial vehicle enforcement in Southeast
southeast Los Angeles County pursuant to the objectives set
forth in subdivision (f).
(c) The task force shall consist of four members. The Secretary of
Business, Transportation and Housing shall appoint one member each
from nominations provided by the Gateway Cities Council of
Governments (COG), the Director of Transportation (Caltrans), the Los
Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the
Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The Secretary of
Business, Transportation and Housing shall designate a chair and
vice chair.
(d) Members of the task force shall serve without compensation,
and no state funds may be used to compensate the members for expenses
incurred in the performance of their official duties.
(e) The task force shall be responsible for development of a work
program and coordinating efforts of the participating agencies in
implementation efforts of the work program . The task force
shall from time to time consult stakeholders affected by the work
plans as they are developed. The stakeholders should include, at a
minimum, representatives from trucking organizations, labor
organizations, businesses engaged in commercial vehicle operations,
and the San Pedro Bay Ports.
(f) The task force shall consider the following activities, which
address areas to be emphasized, including, but not be limited to,
major policy issues related to commercial vehicle enforcement:
(1) Evaluate the current commercial vehicle fine structure and the
relative distribution of the resulting revenues.
(2) Evaluate the potential to standardize fine structure and
process.
(3) Make recommendations as to whether it is desirable to relate
the level of fines to the level of damage to infrastructure and the
risk of harm to people.
(4) Review current statutory authority for rerouting vehicles.
(5) Review role of transponders or other technology devices in
relation to registration of commercial vehicles.
(6) Review Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) devices as a legal enforcement
tool.
(7) Review Vehicle Dimension-in-Motion (VDIM) devices as a legal
enforcement tool.
(8) Review Automated Vehicle Identification (AVI) devices as a
legal enforcement tool.
(9) Review Automated Driver Identification (ADI) devices as a
legal enforcement tool.
(10) Review Automated Load Identification (ALI) devices as a legal
enforcement tool.
(11) Evaluate the siting of truck enforcement facilities in
Southeast southeast Los Angeles County.
(12) Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages in the development
of automated systems for truck enforcement and inspection for
Southeast southeast Los Angeles County.
(g) The task force shall provide a summary of its recommendations
regarding all action items to each member agency prior to submitting
the annual report required pursuant to subdivision (b).
(h) Initial tasks for the task force shall be the development of a
work program that results in the development of a series of specific
targeted actions in conformance with each of the following four
major action steps to address the areas to be emphasized as specified
in subdivision (f):
(1) Convening participants.
(2) Gathering and analyzing relevant data.
(3) Brainstorming of actions.
(4) Refinement of actions.
(i) The task force shall not be required to implement the
provisions of this section except to the extent that nonstate funds
are available to the task force for that purpose.
(j) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends
that date.