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          Date of Hearing:   May 4, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

            AB 957 (Committee on Transportation) - As Amended:  April 13, 
                                        2011 

          Policy Committee:                              
          TransportationVote:12-0 (Consent)

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          Yes    Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This omnibus committee bill contains various 
          transportation-related provisions, including:

          1)Deleting requirements that Caltrans provide quarterly reports 
            on bridge seismic retrofit projects.

          2)Requiring release of a vehicle impounded from operating as a 
            taxicab or other passenger vehicle for hire in violation of 
            the licensing requirements adopted by a local authority, if 
            the vehicle is a rental car.

          3)Exempting a person while driving a vehicle, when using a 
            voice-operated, hands-free device, from being charged with an 
            infraction when that person is activating or deactivating a 
            feature or function on an electronic wireless communications 
            device.

          4)Several provisions requested by the Sacramento Regional 
            Transit District.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible fiscal impact.

           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  . This is the Assembly Transportation Committee's annual 
          omnibus bill, combining various technical changes to current law 
          that are not controversial and have no opposition.








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           Analysis Prepared by  :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081