Bill Text: CA AB2290 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Transportation: Class III bikeways: bicycle facilities: Bikeway Quick-Build Project Pilot Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-15 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2290 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2290-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
June 13, 2024 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 01, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Friedman |
February 12, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would prohibit the allocation of Active Transportation
Program funds for a project that creates a Class III bikeway unless the project is on a street with a design speed limit of 20 miles per hour or less or the project will reduce the design speed limit to 20 miles per hour or less.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 91.3 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:91.3.
(a) The Bikeway Quick-Build Project Pilot Program is hereby established, within the department’s maintenance program, to expedite development and implementation of bikeways on the state highway system. The department shall develop guidance for implementing bikeway quick-build projects. On or before December 31, 2027, the department shall identify and implement one bikeway quick-build project in each district under the maintenance program.SEC. 2.
Section 2030 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read:2030.
(a) The Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program is hereby created to address deferred maintenance on the state highway system and the local street and road system. Funds made available by the program shall be prioritized for expenditure on basic road maintenance and road rehabilitation projects, and on critical safety projects.(a)The Active Transportation Program shall be funded by state and federal funds from appropriations in the annual Budget Act. Funds for the program shall be appropriated to the department, for allocation by the commission. The amount to be appropriated shall include 100 percent of the federal Transportation Alternative Program funds described in Section 133(h) of Title 23 of the United States Code, except for any federal funds for recreational trails projects described in Section 133(h)(5) of Title 23 of the United States Code appropriated to the Department of Parks and Recreation; twenty-one million dollars ($21,000,000) of federal Highway Safety Improvement funds or other federal funds; and State Highway Account funds. Future funding may
be augmented if state or federal funds increase, or if other funding sources are
identified. Funds appropriated for the Active Transportation Program shall be distributed as follows:
(1)Forty percent to metropolitan planning organizations in urban areas with populations greater than 200,000, in proportion to their relative share of population. Funds allocated under this paragraph shall be obligated for eligible projects selected through a competitive process by the metropolitan planning organizations in consultation with the department and the commission and in accordance with guidelines established pursuant to this chapter.
(2)Ten percent to small urban and rural regions with populations of 200,000 or less, with projects competitively awarded by the commission to projects in those regions.
(3)Fifty percent to projects competitively awarded by the commission on a statewide basis.
(b)For the purpose of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a), the following shall apply in the region served by the multicounty designated transportation planning agency described in Section 130004 of the Public Utilities Code:
(1)The multicounty designated transportation planning agency shall consult with the county transportation commissions created pursuant to Sections 130050, 130050.1, and 132800 of the Public Utilities Code, the commission, and the department in the development of competitive selection criteria to be adopted by the multicounty designated transportation planning agency, which should include consideration of geographic equity, consistent with program objectives.
(2)The multicounty designated transportation planning agency shall place priority on projects that are consistent with plans adopted by local and regional governments within the county where the project is located.
(3)The multicounty designated transportation planning agency shall obtain concurrence from the county transportation commissions, adopt the projects selected in a comprehensive program of projects, and make funds available to selected project recipients.
(c)Funds appropriated for the Active Transportation Program shall not be allocated to a project that creates a Class III bikeway, as described in Section 890.4, unless the project is on a
street with a design speed limit of 20 miles per hour or less or the project will implement improvements to reduce the design speed limit to 20 miles per hour or less.
(d)The Legislature finds and declares that the program described in this chapter constitutes a highway purpose under Article XIX of the California Constitution and justifies the expenditure of highway funds therefor, and all expenditures of Article XIX funds under this program shall be consistent with Article
XIX.