Bill Text: CA AB1982 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California Transportation Commission: membership.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB1982 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB1982-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1982 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 12, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bloom
( Coauthors: Assembly Members
Eduardo Garcia and Holden )
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
An act to amend Section 2581 of the Streets and Highways
Code, relating to greenhouse gases. An act to amend
Section 14502 of the Government Code, relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1982, as amended, Bloom. Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund: traffic signal synchronization. California
Transportation Commission: membership.
Existing law creates the California Transportation Commission,
with various powers and duties relative to the programming of
transportation capital projects and allocation of funds to those
projects pursuant to the state transportation improvement program and
various other transportation funding programs. Existing law provides
that the commission consists of 13 members, including 11 voting
members, of which 9 are appointed by the Governor subject to Senate
confirmation and 2 are appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules and
the Speaker of the Assembly. In addition, 2 members of the
Legislature are appointed as nonvoting ex officio members.
This bill would expand the membership of the commission to 15
members by providing for the Senate Committee on Rules and the
Speaker of the Assembly to each appoint an additional member, who
shall be a person who works directly with communities that are most
significantly burdened by, and vulnerable to, high levels of
pollution, including, but not limited to, communities with diverse
racial and ethic populations and communities with low-income
populations.
Existing law authorizes the allocation of moneys from the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for the purpose of reducing greenhouse
gas emissions through specified investments, including sustainable
infrastructure projects. Existing law authorizes the allocation of
moneys in the fund for investment in a traffic signal synchronization
project as a sustainable infrastructure project if the project is
designed and implemented to achieve cost-effective reductions in
greenhouse gas emissions and includes specific reduction targets and
metrics to evaluate the project's effect.
This bill would additionally require that an eligible traffic
signal synchronization project be timed to move vehicles at an
average speed of 12 to 15 miles per hour.
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. The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:
(a) According to the Office of Environmental Health Assessment,
approximately 8,000,000 Californians (21 percent) live in ZIP Code
areas that are considered "highly impacted" by environmental, public
health, and socioeconomic stressors.
(b) Nearly half of Californians live within six miles of a
facility that is a significant greenhouse gas emitter (46 percent)
and those persons are disproportionately people of color (62
percent).
(c) Transportation investment, historically, has been a factor in
segregating communities and exacerbating health disparities.
(d) Between 1948 and 1973, urban renewal projects displaced
1,000,000 people in 2,500 communities in 993 American cities.
SEC. 2. Section 14502 of the Government
Code is amended to read:
14502. The commission consists of 13 15
members appointed as follows:
(a) Nine members shall be appointed by the Governor with the
advice and consent of the Senate. One member
Two members shall be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly
and one member two members shall be
appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, with neither
none of these members subject to confirmation by
the Senate. One member each appointed by the Senate Committee
on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly shall be a person who works
directly with communities in this state that are most significantly
burdened by, and vulnerable to, high levels of pollution, including,
but not limited to, communities with diverse racial and ethnic
populations and communities with low-income populations. A
member appointed pursuant to this subdivision shall not
simultaneously hold an elected public office, or serve on any local
or regional public board or commission with business before the
commission.
(b) One Member of the Senate appointed by the Senate Committee on
Rules and one Member of the Assembly appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly shall be ex officio members without vote and shall
participate in the activities of the commission to the extent that
such participation is not incompatible with their positions as
Members of the Legislature.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a voting member of
the commission may serve on the High-Speed Rail Authority as
established in Division 19.5 (commencing with Section 185000) of the
Public Utilities Code.
SECTION 1. Section 2581 of the Streets and
Highways Code is amended to read:
2581. (a) Investments in traffic signal synchronization, timed to
move vehicles at an average speed of 12 to 15 miles per hour, may be
eligible for an allocation of moneys pursuant to Section 39712 of
the Health and Safety Code as a component of an eligible sustainable
infrastructure project if both of the following conditions are met:
(1) The sponsoring agency's legislative or governing body makes a
finding that the traffic signal synchronization component is designed
and implemented to achieve cost-effective reductions in greenhouse
gas emissions.
(2) The traffic signal synchronization component includes specific
emissions-reduction targets and metrics to evaluate the traffic
signal synchronization component's effect.
(b) A traffic signal synchronization component of a sustainable
infrastructure project receiving an allocation of moneys pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall meet the requirements of Section 16428.9 of the
Government Code and Section 39712 of the Health and Safety Code.
