BILL ANALYSIS �
SB 791
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 791 (Steinberg)
As Introduced February 18, 2011
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :37-0
TRANSPORTATION 13-0
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|Ayes:|Bonnie Lowenthal, | | |
| |Jeffries, Achadjian, | | |
| |Blumenfield, Bonilla, | | |
| |Buchanan, Eng, Furutani, | | |
| |Galgiani, Miller, Norby, | | |
| |Portantino, Solorio | | |
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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)Establishes 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)Requires, until 2008, CTC's annual report to include summaries and
discussions related to loans, cashflow, expenditures, fund
conditions, and other financial transactions involving the TCRP.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
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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 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.
Analysis Prepared by : Janet Dawson / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093 FN:
0001301