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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2250
Author: Daly (D)
Amended: 6/26/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 11-0, 6/24/14
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Beall, Cannella, Galgiani, Hueso,
Lara, Liu, Pavley, Roth, Wyland
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 5/15/14 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT : Toll revenue expenditures
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires that any toll revenue generated by
a managed lane on the state highway system which is administered
by a local agency be expanded only in the corridor containing
that managed lane.
ANALYSIS : Existing law authorizes the San Diego Association
of Governments, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority,
and the Alameda County Transportation Commission to construct
high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes. An agency operating a HOT lane
essentially sells excess capacity in under-subscribed
high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes to single-occupant vehicle
drivers by charging a toll.
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HOT lanes typically employ a pricing method known as value
pricing or congestion pricing. Under this scheme, the amount of
the toll varies in accordance with the level of congestion in
that particular lane such that as congestion increases so too
will the toll amount. As the price to use the lane goes up,
fewer people presumably will choose to use it, thereby reducing
demand for the facility and maintaining free-flow travel
conditions. With this mechanism, an agency can attempt to
ensure that operation of the toll facility does not undermine
the intended benefits of promoting carpooling with access to the
faster HOV lane.
Until 2012, existing law authorized regional transportation
agencies, in cooperation with the Department of Transportation,
to apply to the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to
develop and operate HOT lanes. Before this authority expired,
the CTC approved HOT lane facilities in the San Francisco Bay
Area, Los Angeles County, and Riverside County.
This bill:
1.Requires that any toll revenue generated by a managed lane on
the state highway system which is administered by a local
agency be expanded only in the corridor containing that
managed lane.
2.Defines a managed lane as either of the following:
A. A HOT lane.
B. An express toll lane, which is a dedicated lane that
requires all vehicles to pay a toll, but may provide for a
discounted toll for HOVs.
Comments
In 2013, Governor Brown directed the California State
Transportation Agency to convene a workgroup of stakeholders to
explore, among other things, long-term transportation funding
options to help address the state's growing transportation
needs. From that work, the Transportation Agency concluded that
one option to consider includes expanding the use of pricing and
express lanes to better manage congestion and generate revenues
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for preservation of the current system. According to the
author's office, some stakeholders have concerns that the state
may move toward using locally generated toll revenues to fund
highway maintenance and preservation on other parts of the state
highway system outside the managed lane corridor. The author
intends, with this bill, to ensure that locally operated toll
lane revenues can only be spent within the corridor in which
they are generated.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/5/14)
California Asphalt Pavement Association
Orange County Transportation Authority
Self-Help Counties Coalition
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : The Orange County Transportation
Authority states in support, "As the owner of the 91 Express
Lanes, a four-lane ten-mile toll road in Orange County, OCTA can
attest to the host of benefits these lanes offer including
congestion mitigation, expanded travel options, and providing a
means to allow for increased investment within the corridors of
the managed lanes facility through the investment of excess
revenues for such things as transit and rail service, along the
highway improvements within the corridor. This bill will ensure
such benefits are provided for in future facilities. Otherwise,
local agencies may be deterred from investing in these
facilities due to the risk that the revenue they generate may be
diverted for state purposes that are not necessarily within the
same corridor. With local sales tax funding often being used to
advance the construction of these facilities, the decision as to
how excess revenues should be used is a decision that should
remain with the local agency that leads the project development
and assumes the risk for the construction of the facility."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 5/15/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez,
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Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. P�rez, V.
Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,
Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,
Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Mansoor, Vacancy
JA:e 8/6/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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