Amended in Assembly April 24, 2014

Amended in Assembly March 24, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2250

Introduced by Assembly Member Daly

February 21, 2014

An act to add Section 14106 to the Government Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2250, as amended, Daly. Toll facilities: revenues.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law authorizes tolls to be imposed on certain facilities that are part of the state highway system, including toll roads, toll bridges, and high-occupancy toll lanes. Existing law, in certain cases, provides for the toll facilities to be administered by local agencies.

This bill would require the department, when entering into a cooperative agreement with a local agency for a managed lane, as defined, on the state highway system, to ensure that any begin insert toll end insert revenues generated from begin delete a end delete begin insert the end insert managed lane that is administered by begin delete a end delete begin insert the end insert local agency begin delete remains end delete begin insert remain end insert available for expenditure within the respective corridor in which the managed lane is located.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 14106 is added to the Government Code,
to read:

14106.  

(a) The department, when entering into a cooperative
agreement with a local agency for begin delete toll facilities end delete a managed lane
on the state highway system, shall ensure begin delete thatmajority of end delete begin insert that end insert any
toll revenues generated from begin delete a end delete begin insert the end insert managed lane that is
administered by begin delete a end delete begin insert the end insert local agency begin delete remains end delete begin insert remain end insert available for
expenditure within the respective corridor in which the managed
lane is located.

(b) “Managed lane” means any of the following:

(1) A high-occupancy vehicle lane, which is a dedicated lane
for vehicles carrying a minimum number of occupants.

(2) A high-occupancy toll lane, which is a dedicated lane that
is free for vehicles carrying a minimum number of occupants, but
which allows vehicles containing less than the minimum number
of occupants to use the lane upon payment of a toll.

(3) An express toll lane, which is a dedicated lane that requires
all vehicles to pay a toll in order to use the lane, but may provide
for vehicles carrying a minimum number of occupants to pay a
discounted toll.