BILL NUMBER: SB 333	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 25, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 23, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator La Malfa

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Section 22406.2 of the Vehicle Code,
relating to vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 333, as amended, La Malfa. Vehicles: speed limits.
   (1) Existing law prohibits a person from driving 
specified vehicles, including  a motortruck or truck tractor
having 3 or more axles, or  any   a 
motortruck or truck tractor drawing any other vehicle,  or a
passenger vehicle or bus drawing another vehicle,  on a highway
at a speed in excess of 55 miles per hour.  A violation of
this requirement is a crime. 
   This bill would,  notwithstanding that prohibition,
 until January 1, 2016, permit a person to drive  a
truck tractor, commercial vehicle, or motor vehicle with an attached
trailer   those specified motor vehicles  at a
speed not to exceed 5 miles less per hour than the posted speed limit
for a  motor vehicle on a 4-lane freeway or highway in a
county located north of the County of Sacramento. Because the bill
would expand the scope of a crime, it would impose a state-mandated
local program   passenger vehicle on a specified portion
of Interstate 5. The bill would require the Department of
Transportation and the Department of the California Highway Patrol,
on or before December 31, 2015, to submit a report to   the
Legislature on traffic flow and traffic safety on t   hat
portion of Interstate 5 . 
   (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.  
   (3) 
    (2)  The bill would declare that, due to the unique
geographic and demographic characteristics of counties
located north of the County of Sacramento   the Counties
of Shasta and Yolo  , a general statute within the meaning of
specified provisions of the California Constitution cannot be made
applicable and a special statute is necessary.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
 no  . State-mandated local program:  yes
  no  .


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 22406.2 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

   22406.2.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 22406 or any other contrary
law, a person may drive a truck tractor, commercial vehicle, or motor
vehicle with an attached trailer at a speed not exceeding five miles
less per hour than the posted speed limit for a motor vehicle on a
four-lane freeway or highway located in a county located north of the
County of Sacramento. 
    22406.2.    (a) Notwithstanding Section 22406, a
person may drive a motor vehicle described in subdivision (a) or (b)
of Section 22406 at a speed not to exceed five miles per hour less
than the posted speed limit for a passenger vehicle on Interstate 5
north of the City of Woodland, in the County of Yolo, and south of
Cottonwood, in the County of Shasta.  
   (b) On or before December 31, 2015, the Department of
Transportation and the Department of the California Highway Patrol
shall submit to the Legislature, pursuant to Section 9795 of the
Government Code, a report on the effects of subdivision (a) on
traffic flow and traffic safety on the portion of Interstate 5 as
specified in subdivision (a).  
   (b) 
    (c)  This section shall remain in effect only until
January 1, 2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later
enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or
extends that date. 
  SEC. 2.    No reimbursement is required by this
act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local
agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a
new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or
changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of
Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a
crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution. 
   SEC. 3.   SEC. 2.   Due to the unique
geographic and demographic characteristics of  counties
located north of the County of Sacramento   the Counties
of Shasta and Yolo  , the Legislature finds and declares that a
general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of
Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution. Therefore,
the special legislation contained within Section 1 of this act is
necessarily only applicable to those counties.