BILL NUMBER: AB 1780	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

   An act to amend Section 65086.5 of the Government Code, relating
to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1780, as introduced, Bonilla. Department of Transportation:
project studies reports.
   Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, in
consultation with transportation planning agencies, county
transportation commissions, counties, and cities, to carry out
long-term state highway planning. Existing law authorizes the
department, to the extent that it does not jeopardize the delivery of
projects in the adopted state transportation improvement program, to
prepare a project studies report for capacity-increasing state
highway projects. Existing law requires the department to review
project studies reports performed by an entity other than the
department. Existing law authorizes a local entity to request the
department to prepare a project studies report for a
capacity-increasing state highway project that is being proposed for
inclusion in a future state transportation improvement program. If
the department determines that it cannot complete the report in a
timely fashion, existing law authorizes the requesting entity to
prepare the report. Existing law makes specified guidelines adopted
by the California Transportation Commission applicable to project
studies reports commenced after October 1, 1991.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 65086.5 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   65086.5.  (a) To the extent that the work does not jeopardize the
delivery of the projects in the adopted state transportation
improvement program, the Department of Transportation may prepare a
project studies report for capacity-increasing state highway projects
that are not included in the state transportation improvement
program. Preparation of the project studies report shall be limited
by the resources available to the department for that work,
supplemented, as appropriate, by regional or local resources. The
project studies report shall include the project-related factors of
limits, description, scope, costs, and the amount of time needed for
initiating construction.
   (b) Whenever project studies reports are performed by an entity
other than the Department of Transportation, the department shall
review and approve the report.
   (c) The Department of Transportation may be requested to prepare a
project studies report for a capacity-increasing state highway
project  which   that  is being proposed
for inclusion in a future state transportation improvement program.
The department shall have 30 days to determine whether it can
complete the requested report in a timely fashion. If the department
determines that it cannot complete the report in a timely fashion,
the requesting entity may prepare the report. Upon submission of a
project studies report to the department by the entity, the
department shall complete its review and provide its comments to that
entity within 60 days from the date of submission. The department
shall complete its review and final determination of a report
 which   that  has been revised to address
the department's comments within 30 days following submission of the
revised report.
   (d) The Department of Transportation, in consultation with
representatives of cities, counties, and regional transportation
planning agencies, shall prepare draft guidelines for the preparation
of project studies reports by all entities. The guidelines shall
address the development of reliable cost estimates. The department
shall submit the draft guidelines to the California Transportation
Commission not later than July 1, 1991. The commission shall adopt
the final guidelines not later than October 1, 1991. Guidelines
adopted by the commission shall apply only to project studies reports
commenced after October 1, 1991.