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          Date of Hearing:   June 13, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                SB 791 (Steinberg) - As Introduced:  February 18, 2011

           SENATE VOTE  :  37-0  
           
          SUBJECT  :  California Transportation Commission:  annual report 
          requirements  

           SUMMARY  :  Repeals obsolete reporting requirements of the 
          California Transportation Commission (CTC) relative to the 
          Traffic Congestion Relief Program (TCRP).  

           EXISTING LAW:   

          1)Establishes the CTC to advise and assist the Secretary of the 
            Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and the 
            Legislature in formulating and evaluating state policies and 
            plans for transportation programs in the state.  

          2)Established the TCRP to provide roughly $5 billion to relieve 
            traffic congestion, provide additional funding for local 
            street and road deferred maintenance, and provide additional 
            transportation capacity in high growth areas of the state.  

          3)Requires the CTC to adopt and submit to the Legislature, by 
            December 15 of each year, an annual report summarizing the 
            commission's prior-year decisions in allocating transportation 
            capital outlay appropriations and identifying timely and 
            relevant transportation issues facing California.  

          4)Required, until 2008, CTC's annual report to include summaries 
            and discussions related to loans, cash flow, expenditures, 
            fund conditions, and other financial transactions involving 
            the TCRP.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  None  

           COMMENTS :  In 2000, the Traffic Congestion Relief Act committed 
          roughly $5 billion to 141 specified transportation projects 
          intended to provide congestion relief, increase connectivity, 
          and speed goods movement.  Originally, TCRP was to be funded by 
          a combination of General Fund and gasoline sales tax revenues 








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          between 2000-01 and 2005-06.   Soon after the program's 
          enactment, however, the General Fund ran into a deficit and 
          funding for the program had to be postponed.  AB 438 (Budget 
          Committee) Chapter 113, Statutes of 2001, postponed funding for 
          the program for two years and remedied the postponement by 
          extending the program for two years, through 2007-08.  AB 438 
          also added requirements that the CTC include in its annual 
          report, until 2008, information regarding the impact of the 
          funding changes to the program.  

          This bill deletes this obsolete reporting requirement.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :  

           Support  
           
          None on file  
           
            Opposition  
           
          None on file  

           
          Analysis Prepared by  :   Janet Dawson / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093