Bill Text: CA SB930 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Memorial highways: Memorial Highway Signage Fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-08-15 - August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB930 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB930-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  March 18, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 930

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Introduced by Senator Laird

January 16, 2024

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An act relating to streets and highways. An act to add Section 101.20 to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to highways.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 930, as amended, Laird. Streets and highways: memorial highways. Memorial highways: Memorial Highway Signage Fund.

Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law authorizes the department to do any act necessary, convenient, or proper for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or use of all highways that are under its jurisdiction, possession, or control.

This bill would establish the Memorial Highway Signage Fund in the State Treasury and would make moneys in the fund available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the department for the department’s costs in erecting signage for memorial highway designations approved by the department that memorialize individuals who have promoted racial and gender equity.

Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would promote equity in the naming of memorial highways.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 101.20 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:

101.20.

 (a) The Memorial Highway Signage Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury.

(b) All moneys in the fund, including state General Fund appropriations, public or private bequeaths, donations, gifts, or grants, and any federal funds, shall be available, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, to the department for the department’s costs in erecting signage for memorial highway designations approved by the department that memorialize individuals who have promoted racial and gender equity.

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would promote equity in the naming of memorial highways.