BILL NUMBER: AB 441	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 4, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 23, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Monning
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alejo, Bradford, Davis, and Hueso)

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

   An act to add  Sections   Section 
14522.3  and 14522.4  to the Government Code,
relating to  state  planning.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 441, as amended, Monning.  State  
Transportation  planning.
   Existing law requires certain transportation planning activities
by the Department of Transportation and by designated regional
transportation planning agencies, including development of a regional
transportation plan. Existing law authorizes the California
Transportation Commission, in cooperation with regional agencies, to
prescribe study areas for analysis and evaluation and guidelines for
the preparation of a regional transportation plan.
   This bill would require  that  the commission
 , by no later than 2014, include voluntary   to
attach a summary of the policies, practices, or projects that have
been employed by metropolitan planning organizations that promote
 health and health equity  factors, strategies, goals,
and objectives in the   to the commission's next
revision of specified regional transportation planning 
guidelines  promulgated by the commission for the preparation
of regional transportation plans  .
   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.    The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:  
   (a) Transportation planning has important implications for the
maintenance and promotion of the health of all Californians. 

   (b) California faces critical problems that will shape the future
of our state and its population, including, but not limited to, an
aging population, climate change, and increasing health inequities.
California and the nation are experiencing unprecedented levels of
chronic disease, that now accounts for over 75 percent of all deaths
in California and 75 percent of health care expenditures in the
United States. The health of California's population is largely
determined by the social, physical, and economic environments where
people live, work, and are active, as well as their opportunities and
resources for health.  
   (c) Local cities, counties, and some metropolitan planning
organizations and regional transportation planning agencies, have
adopted groundbreaking and innovative transportation plans,
strategies, and goals that can serve as models for other cities and
counties, as well as the state, in transportation planning and
development that promotes the health and well-being of all residents.
 
   (d) The Legislature intends that projects, programs, and practices
that promote health and health equity in regional transportation
plans that are employed by metropolitan planning organizations be
shared in the voluntary state guidance on regional transportation
planning. The Legislature, however, acknowledges that projects,
programs, or policies that have been feasible in one region may not
be feasible in other regions. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Section 14522.3
is added to the Government Code, to read:
   14522.3.  The commission shall  , in consultation with the
appropriate state agencies and departments as needed, include
voluntary health and health equity factors, strategies, goals, and
objectives in the guidelines prescribed by the commission for the
preparation of the regional transportation plans  
include in an attachment to the next revision of its guidelines
prescribed  pursuant to Section  14522. The commission
shall include the voluntary health and health equity factors,
strategies, goals, and objectives in the next revision of the
guidelines.   14522 a summary of the policies,
practices, or projects that have been employed by metropolitan
planning organizations that promote health and health equity. The
summary attachment may include, but is not limited to, projects that
implement any Safe Routes to Schools program, established pursuant to
Section 2333.5 of the Streets and Highways Code, multiuse
recreational trails, pedestrian and bicyclist pathways, and programs
that serve transportation needs in rural communities.  All
matter omitted in this version of the bill appears in the bill as
amended in the Assembly, January 23, 2012. (JR11)