Transportation

Development and Financing
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Highways
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Development and Financing

SB 9 (Lowenthal-D) Transportation: trade corridors
Establishes a process by which the California Transportation Commission selects and funds projects, using the $2 billion of Proposition 1B transportation bonds earmarked for projects that reduce congestion and air pollution along trade corridors in California.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 88* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Highway Safety Bond Act of 2006
Enacts statutory changes necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2007 relating to Proposition 1B - the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006.
Chapter 181, Statutes of 2007

SB 167 (Negrete McLeod-D) Regional planning programs
Appropriates $1 million in bond funds authorized by "The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006" (Proposition 84) to the Governor's Office of Planning and Research for the establishment of specified planning grant and loan programs.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 184 (Alquist-D) Transportation projects
Revises the process and conditions by which a local entity may be reimbursed by the state for advance expenditures on a transportation project contained in the State Transportation Improvement Program.
Chapter 462, Statutes of 2007

SB 195 (Calderon-D) Construction projects: wrap-up insurance: disclosures
Allows a subcontractor, after receipt of a wrap-up insurance policy, or if they have not been made to the subcontractor prior to the time for commencement of work on the construction project, to rescind and declare any subcontract agreement null and void, or to negotiate for an adjustment to the contract.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 262 (Runner-R) Transportation: trade corridors improvement
Requires the California Transportation Commission to consider the potential of infrastructure projects at inland ports to relieve congestion at or near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 264 (Alquist-D) Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Authorizes the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to submit to the voters a sales tax ordinance imposing a 0.125% (1/8%) sales tax for specified purposes, provided the ordinance is approved by two-thirds of the voters.
Chapter 430, Statutes of 2007

SB 286 (Lowenthal-D) Transportation bonds: implementation
Prescribes distribution of $2 billion in the Local Streets and Road Improvements, Congestion Relief, and Traffic Safety Account of 2006 (local street bond funds), as provided for by passage of Proposition 1B in November 2006.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 372 (Steinberg-D) High-speed rail: educational and vocational training program
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to prepare, in conjunction with the High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA), an inventory of future educational and vocational courses necessary for the high-speed train project. Requires the SPI, in cooperation with HSRA and the California Community Colleges, to develop courses of study necessary to meet the need for skills associated with building and operating the project.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
This bill becomes operative the date of the election in which the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Act is approved by the voters.

SB 375 (Steinberg-D) Transportation planning
Makes numerous changes with respect to regional transportation and land use planning, with the overall goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions attributable to the transportation sector in California. Key provisions require the larger regional transportation planning agencies to develop more sophisticated transportation planning models, and to use them for the purpose of creating a sustainable communities strategy in their regional plans that limit greenhouse gas emissions. Also provides incentives for local governments to incorporate a sustainable communities strategy into the transportation elements of their general land use plans.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 442 (Ackerman-R) Public contracts: transit projects: design-build contracting
Authorizes the Orange County Transit District, a subdivision of the Orange County Transportation Authority, to enter into a design-build contract for the construction of high-occupancy vehicle lanes and connector ramps.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 445 (Torlakson-D) Road User Task Force
Establishes, until 1/1/09, a 14-member Road User Task Force for the purpose of studying alternatives to the current system of taxing road users through per-gallon fuel taxes and reporting its findings to the Legislature by 1/1/09.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

SB 593 (Margett-R) Department of Transportation: retention proceeds
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to withhold retention proceeds under specified circumstances and in a limited amount, as provided.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 613 (Simitian-D) Traffic congestion: San Mateo County
Allows the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County to reauthorize, through 1/1/19, an existing fee of up to $4 on motor vehicles registered within the county for a program for the management of traffic congestion and storm water pollution.
Vetoed

SB 640 (Simitian-D) Circulation and transportation element
Renames the circulation element in local general plans as the "circulation and transportation element." Makes the same change in seven other statutes that contain cross-references to the circulation element.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 684 (Cox-R) Intercity rail services: feeder buses
Authorizes the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to amend its contract with Amtrak to allow Amtrak to provide bus service between the City of Sacramento and the City of South Lake Tahoe to passengers who are traveling solely by bus, provided that there is no bus company currently operating along the route. Requires Caltrans to undertake a two-year study and report back to the Legislature on the number of passengers who use this service.
Chapter 200, Statutes of 2007

SB 716 (Perata-D) Transit operators
Establishes procedures for the allocation of up to $3.6 billion of bond proceeds from the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 (SB 1266, [Perata], Chapter 25, Statutes of 2006), that are deposited in the Public Transportation Modernization Improvement and Service Enhancement Account, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 717 (Perata-D) Transportation Investment Fund
Continuously authorizes the transfers of sales tax revenue derived from the sale of motor vehicle fuels to the Transportation Investment Fund, beginning in fiscal year 2008-09.
Chapter 733, Statutes of 2007

SB 745 (Oropeza-D) Transportation funding: part security
Requires the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to develop criteria based on certain factors for allocating the bond funds pursuant to Proposition 1B, which enacted the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, and authorizes the issuance of $19.925 billion of general obligation bonds for various transportation purposes, including $100,000,000 to OES for allocation for port, harbor, and ferry terminal security improvements.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 748 (Corbett-D) Transportation: state-local partnerships
Establishes a process at the California Transportation Commission for allocating the $1 billion earmarked for State-Local Partnership Program projects by the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act, approved by voters as Proposition 1B at the November 2006 statewide election.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 803 (Lowenthal-D) Transportation enhancements
Requires regional transportation planning agencies, county transportation commissions, and congestion management agencies to adopt criteria giving priority to the selection of Transportation Enhancement Projects whose sponsors partner with, or commit to use, the services of a qualified community conservation corps or the California Conservation Corps.
Vetoed

SB 861 (Wiggins-D) North Coast Railroad Authority
Authorizes the reallocation of $5.5 million of previously designated Traffic Congestion Relief Program revenues to the North Coast Railroad Authority for the repayment of a federal loan, which has been forgiven, to be used by the agency for environmental clean-up, establishment of quiet zones in the City of Novato, and administrative purposes.
Vetoed

SB 872 (Ackerman-R) Transportation financing
Creates the State-Local Partnership Program for financing specified transportation improvement projects, and states legislative intent to appropriate $200 million annually, beginning in 2010-11.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 881 (Runner-R) Santa Paula Airport
Requires the Department of Transportation to provide the matching funds for acquisition of the development rights for the Santa Paula Airport, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, pursuant to the pilot program established by the Secretary.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 947 (Hollingsworth-R) Transportation facilities
Improves the early consultation and scoping processes for transportation projects by requiring lead agencies to provide notice of at least one scoping meeting to transportation planning agencies that are consulted, and requires the project's effect of overpasses, on-ramps, and off-ramps to be included in that consultation.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 974 (Lowenthal-D) Ports: containerized cargo
Imposes, beginning 1/1/09, a fee on containerized cargo passing through the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland, the revenue from which will fund projects that improve the movement of containerized cargo to and from these ports and projects that mitigate pollution caused by the movement of all cargo to and from these ports.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 976 (Torlakson-D) San Francisco Bay Area: transportation planning
Repeals the San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority and establishes a new replacement entity, the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority, to consolidate and operate ferry services in the San Francisco Bay Area and to plan and respond to emergencies or disasters affecting the transportation system in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chapter 734, Statutes of 2007

AB 61 (Nava-D) Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District
Increases the membership of the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District from five to seven members. One of the new members will be appointed by the City Council of Carpinteria and the City Council of Goleta.
Chapter 103, Statutes of 2007

AB 193* (Assembly Budget Committee) Transportation revenues
Makes changes to the trailer bill in accordance with the Governor's veto message to better ensure the legality of the redirection of public transportation spillover revenues to provide the following General Fund (GF) relief: $339 million for 2007-08 transportation-related general obligation (GO) bond payments (GO debt), $200 million to reimburse the GF for prior-year GO debt, and $83 million for 2007-08 payment of Proposition 42 loans. Also makes technical changes consistent with legislative intent that the Local Streets and Road category be guided by the program requirements specifically adopted for that category.
Chapter 313, Statutes of 2007

AB 196* (Assembly Budget Committee) Transportation bond funds: cities and counties
Makes technical changes related to the Local Streets and Roads category of Proposition 1B, and specifies that the $950 million appropriated for local streets and roads is allocated $400 million for counties and $550 million for cities.
Chapter 314, Statutes of 2007

AB 201* (Assembly Budget Committee) Transportation bonds: implementation
Provides the necessary statutory changes to SB 88 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), the Proposition 1B budget trailer bill, to enact the 2007 Budget Act, by deleting the provisions of SB 88 that prohibit bonds funds from being used on a railroad project already included in a memorandum of understanding, as specified.
Chapter 187, Statutes of 2007

AB 387 (Duvall-R) Transit contracts: design-build
Revises public contracting requirements related to transit district contracts for technology or surveillance projects designed to enhance safety, disaster preparedness, and homeland security.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 412 (Smyth-R) Transportation: project deadlines
Requires each agency designated by the Port Security Bond Act of 2006 to allocate bond funds to establish guidelines that specify deadlines for commencing construction or implementation for each program it administers under the bond act.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 444 (Hancock-D) Congestion management: motor vehicle registration fees
Authorizes the county congestion management agencies of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, Solano, and Santa Cruz counties to impose, upon a majority vote of the electorate, an annual fee of up to $10 on motor vehicles registered in the counties for transportation programs and projects.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 574 (Torrico-D) High-occupancy toll lanes
Allows the Sunol Smart Carpool Lane Joint Powers Authority, Alameda County Congestion Management District, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, and the San Diego Association of Governments to issue bonds payable using toll revenues from high-occupancy toll lane facilities for the purpose of constructing and operating high-occupancy toll lane facilities. Deletes the sunset date that limits how long the Sunol Smart Carpool Lane Joint Powers Authority, Alameda County Congestion Management District, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, and the San Diego Association of Governments may collect tolls on high-occupancy toll lanes.
Chapter 498, Statutes of 2007

AB 620 (Portantino-D) Transportation bonds
Requires the California Transportation Commission, or a regional transportation agency, as the allocating agency, to adopt guidelines and policies to ensure timely use of Proposition 1B bond funds by requiring construction on a project to begin no later than 12/31/12, and to conduct regular evaluations of those projects.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 665 (DeSaulnier-D) Transportation: growth management
Requests the University of California to produce a report on the best practices of transportation-land use planning and growth management. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to work in collaboration with the Office of Planning and Research to produce, by 1/1/09, and once every five years thereafter, a Growth Management Information Report, to the extent funding is available.
Vetoed

AB 784 (Karnette-D) Transportation bonds
Provides that applicants for bond funds allocated to the Office of Emergency Services (i.e., $100 million for port, harbor, and ferry terminal security) are not required to award contracts based on the lowest bidder.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 842 (Jones-D) Traffic reduction: regional plans
Provides implementing language for the expenditure of funds from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account and the Transit-Oriented Development Account created pursuant to Proposition 1C and from the money in Proposition 84 earmarked for local regional planning.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 867 (Davis-D) Traffic analysis zones
Requires specified regional transportation plans to account for certain environmental justice issues in travel demand forecasting models.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 889 (Lieu-D) Metro Green Line Construction Authority
Establishes the Metro Green Line Construction Authority for the purpose of overseeing and awarding final design and construction of the Los Angeles Metro Green Line light rail project.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 899 (Parra-D) Transportation facilities
Allows the Department of Transportation and regional transportation agencies to enter into comprehensive development lease agreements with public and private entities, or consortia of those entities.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 901 (Nunez-D) Transportation funding
Establishes procedures for the allocation of up to $3.6 billion of bond proceeds from the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Act of 2006 that are deposited in the Public Transportation Modernization Development and Services Enhancement Account, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 945 (Carter-D) Transportation needs assessment
Requires the California Transportation Commission to prepare a transportation needs assessment every five years.
Vetoed

AB 981 (Ma-D) Vehicles: abatement of abandoned vehicles: costs recovery
Requires a public agency that abates an abandoned vehicle to mail or serve the registered owner with a notice of reimbursement of outstanding costs that contains specified information, allows a public agency to file the notice of reimbursement with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for collection, and prohibits the DMV from renewing the registration for any vehicle if the owner has failed to pay amount owed under the notice of reimbursement filed with the DMV.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 992 (Brownley-D) Roads: stormwater containment
Provides direction for project selection for the expenditure of bond funds made available by the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 995 (Nava-D) Trade corridors
Establishes criteria for prioritizing projects funded by the Trade Corridors Improvement Fund, established by the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 1B).
(On Senate Third Reading)

AB 1107* (Arambula-D) Goods movement: small businesses and microenterprises
Requires the California Small Business Board, within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, in collaboration with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and the Department of Food and Agriculture, to assess and report on the role of small businesses and microenterprises in goods movement. Requires recommendations offered to be thenceforth incorporated into the California Economic Development Strategic Plan and the California Transportation Plan.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1228 (Solorio-D) Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act
Changes, from Los Angeles to Anaheim, the southern terminus of the initial segment of the high-speed train system.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1240 (Benoit-R) Riverside County Transportation Commission
Authorizes Riverside County Transportation Commission, until 1/1/11, to enter into design-build contracts to construct commuter rail lines.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1306 (Huff-R) Sales taxes on gasoline
Repeals the transportation "spillover" formula, and requires those revenues to be subsequently transferred to the Transportation Investment Fund.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1326 (Houston-R) San Francisco Bay Area/Los Angeles Transportation
Deletes a requirement for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to adjust annually the maximum value of sole source contracting authority consistent with a price index maintained by the Federal Transit Administration.
Chapter 116, Statutes of 2007

AB 1350 (Nunez-D) Transportation bond funds
Establishes procedures for the allocation of up to $1 billion of bond proceeds from the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 (SB 1266 [Perata], Chapter 25, Statutes of 2006), that are deposited in the Transit System Safety, Security and Disaster Response Account.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1351 (Levine-D) Transportation: state-local partnerships
Establishes criteria for implementing the State-Local Partnership Program for financing specified transportation improvement projects, and state legislative intent to appropriate $200 million annually, beginning in 2010-11.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1358 (Leno-D) Transportation planning
Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, by 1/1/09, to prepare or amend general plan guidelines to advise local governments on accommodating specified users of streets, roads, and highways. Requires local governments, upon any revision of a circulation element beginning 1/1/10, to account for specified users of streets, roads, and highway, and defines "users of streets, roads, and highways."
(On Senate Third Reading File)

AB 1543 (Leno-D) Treasure Island Transportation Management
Creates the Treasure Island Transportation Management Act to develop and fund an innovative and sustainable transportation plan for Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay.
Vetoed

AB 1611 (Leno-D) San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation
Establishes the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority with specified powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the authority to, among other things, coordinate the emergency activities of all water transportation and related facilities within the Bay Area region.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1637 (DeSaulnier-D) Public transportation: subsidies for low-income riders
Authorizes a transit operator to use Transportation Development Act (TDA) and State Transit Assistance Program (STA) funds specifically to provide discount fares for qualifying low-income riders. Allows STA funds used by an operator for this purpose to count as fare revenue for the purpose of determining the operator's allocation that is based on a fare revenue formula. Also authorizes operators to file claims for TDA funds for special transit services for low-income persons, such as shuttles.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1672 (Nunez-D) California Transportation Commission
Requires the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to provide written notification to the chairs of the appropriate legislative policy and budget committees not less than 30 days prior to adopting changes to guidelines related to the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006. Adds two members to the CTC, one appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and one appointed by the Senate Rules Committee.
Chapter 717, Statutes of 2007

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SB 19 (Lowenthal-D) Vehicle emissions: trade corridor
Establishes criteria for funding projects from funds available under Proposition 1B to reduce air emissions associated with goods movement.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 23 (Cogdill-R) High pollution vehicles: San Joaquin Valley
Requires the San Joaquin Valley Pollution Control District to develop and administer, in consultation with the Air Resources Board, a vehicle exchange program to replace high polluting vehicles with donated, smog-compliant vehicles according to specified conditions. Only becomes operative if SB 719 (Machado) is enacted on or before 1/1/09.
Chapter 634, Statutes of 2007

SB 70 (Florez-D) Biodiesel
Authorizes the State of California, cities, counties, mass transit districts, and school districts to use a biodiesel fuel blend of greater than 20% biodiesel to operate all their diesel-powered vehicles, if certain conditions are met.
Vetoed

SB 71 (Florez-D) Alternative fuels: biodiesel
Requires that all diesel vehicles owned by the State of California, a city, county, or mass transit district use diesel that is at least 20% biodiesel made from nonpetroleum constituents.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 73* (Florez-D) Biodiesel: income tax credit
Allows a tax credit to be refunded in an amount equal to a specified amount for each gallon of biodiesel fuel produced or manufactured by a qualified taxpayer at any refinery located in this state.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 74* (Florez-D) Biodiesel: tax exemption
Exempts from specified taxes the gross receipts from the sale and the storage of, use or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person in the manufacturing, processing, or production of biodiesel fuel.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 75 (Florez-D) Alternative fuels: biodiesel
Deems diesel vehicles and engines using biodiesel to be in compliance with applicable state toxic air control measures, and requires that vehicles sold or leased by the State of California be warranty-certified to use at least 20% biodiesel fuel.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 140 (Kehoe-D) Fuels: renewable diesel fuel
Requires, within one year after the Air Resources Board makes a specified determination, at least 2% of the total volume diesel fuel sold or offered for sale in the state contain renewable diesel fuel (RDF), and two years thereafter, that at least 5% of the total volume diesel fuel sold or offered for sale in the state contain RDF.
On Assembly Third Reading File

SB 210 (Kehoe-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: fuel standard
Enacts the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fuel Standards Law. Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt, implement, and enforce a low-carbon fuel standard by regulation to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels in California.
Vetoed

SB 240 (Florez-D) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Allows the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District to increase, from $6 to $36, the annual fee imposed on a motor vehicle registered within the district's jurisdiction to support programs designed to reduce motor vehicle emissions and to achieve and maintain state and federal air quality standards in the district.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 494 (Kehoe-D) Vehicular air pollution control: clean alternative fuels
Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB), in consultation with certain other state entities, to adopt regulations by 6/30/09, that become operative by 1/1/10, to ensure that commencing 1/1/15, 25% of new passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks sold in California are clean alternative vehicles, and that commencing 1/1/20, 50% are clean alternative vehicles. Requires the ARB, in developing the regulations, to consider technological and economic feasibility of the regulations, develop and enforce compliance options for eligible clean alternative vehicles, and ensure that clean alternative fuel is made available at retail outlets whenever the ARB determines that the sufficient number of vehicles capable of using that fuel has been reached.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

SB 876 (Calderon-D) Vehicle emission standards
Requires the Air Resources Board to consider the economic impacts on small business owners of vehicle replacement and retrofit requirements when establishing in-use emission standards and regulations of heavy-duty motor vehicles in private fleets.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 895 (Florez-D) Air quality
Increases the reserve amount in the Carl Moyer Air Quality Statewide Attainment Program from 10% to 20% of program funds. Requires a scoring system to be used to determine which multidistrict projects to fund. Projects that achieve the lower cost per ton of emission reduction will be assigned more points for priority.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1028 (Padilla-D) Ambient air quality standards: vehicles
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt rules and regulations governing motor vehicle emissions that are necessary, cost-effective, and technologically feasible that together with other measures will achieve federal ambient air quality standards.
Chapter 669, Statutes of 2007

AB 6* (Houston-R) Greenhouse gases: market-based compliance mechanisms
Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to adopt market-based compliance mechanisms rather than allowing the ARB to adopt market-based compliance mechanisms in its effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 99 (Feuer-D) Vehicular air pollution control
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to ensure that 50% of new passenger and light-duty trucks, beginning in 2012, sold in California are clean alternative vehicles, and that all such vehicles sold in 2020 be clean alternative vehicles. Defines "clean alternative fuel" as a nonpetroleum fuel, including electricity, hydrogen, natural gas, propane, and any other fuel derived from renewable resources, that on a full fuel-cycle and energy-equivalent basis does not increase the emissions of greenhouse gases, toxic air contaminants, criteria air pollutants, water pollutants, or any other substances known to damage human health or the environment, in comparison to the production and use of a petroleum-derived fuel. Defines "clean alternative vehicle" as any new passenger vehicle or light-duty truck capable of running on a clean alternative fuel. These shall include hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, flexible-fuel vehicles, compressed natural gas vehicles, liquid gas propane vehicles, and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 118 (Nunez-D) Alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: funding programs
Creates the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program, under which the Air Resources Board, in consultation with the Bureau of Automotive Repair, shall, by 1/1/10, commence a program for the voluntary retirement of passenger vehicles and light- and medium-duty trucks that are high polluters. The program guidelines shall ensure that vehicles are permanently removed from operation, that local air districts may retain their own vehicle retirement programs, and that vehicles retired shall have been registered in California for at least two years prior to being scrapped. This program shall be funded through a $1 increase in the annual vehicle registration fee over the next seven and one-half years (raising approximately $30 million a year).
Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007

AB 233 (Jones-D) Diesel vehicles and engines: Healthy Heart and Lung Act
Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to develop a strategic plan for consistent, comprehensive, and fair enforcement of the ARB's diesel emission control regulations. Increases the minimum civil penalty, from $100 to $300, for a violation of the ARB's idling restriction on diesel-fueled commercial motor vehicles, and prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from registering or renewing the registration of a commercial vehicle, if the owner or operator has been found in violation of air pollution control laws and regulations, until the violation has been cleared by the ARB.
Chapter 592, Statutes of 2007

AB 255 (De Leon-D) Smog abatement fee
Increases, from $12 to $16, the annual Smog Abatement Fee imposed on newer motor vehicles exempt from biennial inspection under the state Smog Check program, and earmarks the additional revenue to provide subsidies for the development and use of alternative fuels.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 294 (Adams-R) Air pollution: manganese
Requires the Air Resources Board, no later than 1/1/10, to conduct a study of ambient air concentrations of manganese to determine if there are areas in the state that have unhealthy concentrations, and to submit a report to the Legislature that describes the conclusions of this study and provides recommendations for reducing manganese exposures as needed.
Chapter 680, Statutes of 2007

AB 493 (Ruskin-D) Motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions: incentive program
Establishes the Clean Vehicle Incentive Program to be administered by the Air Resources Board.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)

AB 575 (Arambula-D) Emission reductions
Requires the Air Resources Board to develop guidelines for the allocation of $1 billion worth of the proceeds of state general obligation bonds, authorized by Proposition 1B, earmarked for air pollutant emissions reductions from activities related to the movement of freight along the state's trade corridors.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 616 (Jones-D) Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program
Expands the vehicle inspection and maintenance (Smog Check) program to include vehicles 15 or greater model years old by 7/1/08.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 630 (Price-D) Air emissions standards: EPA waiver
Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB), if the South Coast Air Quality Management District proposes an emission standard for mobile sources requiring a federal Clean Air Act waiver or authorization from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, to expeditiously adopt the standard and, unless the ARB makes certain findings, submit it for the federal waiver or authorization.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 631 (Horton-R) Gasoline fueling stations: ethanol pumps
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require that, on and after 1/1/10, all new fueling stations constructed in this state be able to provide E85 fuel to vehicles that use that fuel.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 712 (De Leon-D) Off-road solid waste: clean air
Creates, until 1/1/16, the Off-Road Solid Waste Composting and Recycling Vehicle Clean Air Program.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 747 (Levine-D) Greenhouse gas emissions
Codifies the Governor's Executive Order that establishes a low-carbon fuel standard for transportation funds through a market-based approach, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 829 (Duvall-R) Motorcycles: aftermarket products
Allows aftermarket products and performance parts with valid Air Resources Board Executive Orders to be installed and sold prior to, or concurrent with, the purchase of a motorcycle.
Chapter 325, Statutes of 2007

AB 846* (Blakeslee-R) Clean Marine Fuels
Exempts from the sales and use tax the sale or use of low-sulfur fuel when sold to water common carriers.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1077 (Lieber-D) State Air Resources Board: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
Enacts the California Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Leadership Act of 2007, and establishes a coordinating council to develop and carry out a strategy of coordination between various entities engaged in activities relating to PHEVs.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1119 (Fuller-R) Air pollution: diesel emission control devices
Requires the Air Resources Board, in developing eligibility criteria for emission control devices funded under emission reduction grant programs, to take all reasonable steps to consider the number of manufacturers capable of providing verified devices in order to ensure adequate competition among manufacturers and lower prices for the devices.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 1209 (Karnette-D) Emission reduction projects and measures
Establishes criteria that the Air Resources Board (ARB) shall use to allocate funds authorized by Proposition 1B for the purpose of reducing goods movement-related emissions. Specifies that all projects and measures must result in emission reductions not otherwise required by law or regulation in effect when the ARB notices funding availability. Limits the ARB's administrative expenditures to 1.5% of these Proposition 1B funds.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1440 (Wolk-D) Hybrid trucks: grants
Requires the Air Resources Board, until 01/01/11, to provide grants to medium- and heavy-duty truck manufacturers to demonstrate the commercial performance of hydraulic-assist and hybrid electric propulsion systems that reduce reliance on petroleum-derived fuel and reduce emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1455 (Arambula-D) California Air Quality Zones
Establishes the California Air Quality Zones Program to provide incentives for owners of mobile and stationary sources of air pollution to invest in air pollution control equipment that produces surplus and quantifiable emission reductions exceeding applicable federal, state, and regional air standards and regulations.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1488 (Mendoza-D) Air pollution: smog check program: diesel-powered vehicles
Includes diesel-powered vehicles manufactured after the 1997 model year and diesel-powered vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 8,501 pounds into the biennial smog check program, starting 1/1/10.
Chapter 739, Statutes of 2007

AB 1651* (Arambula-D) Greenhouse gases: tax credits
Provides that for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/08, and ending before 1/1/13, there shall be allowed as a credit against the net tax of a "qualified taxpayer" an amount, as specified, for "qualified costs" paid or incurred for "qualified capital equipment" placed in service in California, certified by the California Climate Action Registry or the Air Resources Board, to result in measurable reductions in greenhouse gases.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 40 (De Leon-D) South Coast Air Basin: ozone and fine particulate matter
Memorializes the President of the United States to declare the existing conditions related to PM 2.5 exposure in the South Coast Air Basin a state of emergency, and urges that immediate steps be taken to rectify the emergency.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

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SB 53 (Ducheny-D) State highways: performance measures
Requires the Department of Transportation to calculate specific performance measures for the purpose of evaluating the physical integrity of the state highway system.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 56 (Runner-R) Highway construction contracts: design-build
Authorizes the Department of Transportation and local transportation entities to use the design-build public contracting method for the construction of 10 transportation projects.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 61 (Runner-R) Transportation: high-occupancy toll lanes and toll roads
Expands the authority for regional transportation agencies and the Department of Transportation to establish and operate high-occupancy toll lanes and toll roads.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

SB 163 (Migden-D) Yerba Buena Island ramp connections
Provides for the transfer of ownership of the highway ramps on the east side of Yerba Buena Island, connecting the Island to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, from the Treasure Island Development Authority to the Department of Transportation, based upon specified conditions, including that the reconstruction of the ramps must be completed prior to transfer.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 2007

SB 204 (Dutton-R) Transportation funds
Requires revenue generated from the sale of property, the sale of documents, and other transactions by the Department of Transportation to be credited to the State Highway Account for expenditures for state highways.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 224 (Battin-R) State Highway Routes 79 and 111: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to relinquish a portion of State Route (SR) 79 to the City of Hemet and a portion of SR 111 to the City of La Quinta, pending approval by CTC and other conditions.
Chapter 718, Statutes of 2007

SB 279 (Yee-D) State highways: public nuisance
Clarifies that all police officers, including local law enforcement agencies, may cite and tow any vehicle parked or placed within state highways under their respective jurisdiction if the vehicle is parked or placed for the purpose of sale.
Chapter 89, Statutes of 2007

SB 377 (Aanestad-R) Highways: information signs
Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules and regulations to allow the placement of information signs near exits on freeways in rural areas identifying roadside businesses offering approved 24-hour pharmacy services.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 652 (Lowenthal-D) Highway names
Establishes an administrative process for the naming of highway segments or structures.
Vetoed

SB 773 (Wiggins-D) Vehicles: limitations of access
Changes a provision in state law that exempts, until 1/1/12, specified livestock carriers on portions of Highway 101 from vehicle length limitations, so that longer vehicles can travel on that state highway, and requires the Director of the Department of Transportation to notify the Secretary of State if the Director makes certain determinations relative to the affected portions of State Highway 101.
Chapter 440, Statutes of 2007

SB 791 (Corbett-D) State highway property: City of Hayward
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to lease real property in the City of Hayward, adjacent to State Highway Route 580, to a public entity for feeding program purposes, and requires the lease to be for an amount equal to 24% of the property's fair market value.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 856 (Runner-R) Highway signs
Requires the Department of Transportation to post and maintain, or authorize the county to post and maintain, county-designed street name signs on state highways in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, if the posting of the sign is not in violation of mandatory design standards.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 889 (Maldonado-R) Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes
Requires the Department of Transportation to establish, until 1/1/11, the Carpool Education Pilot Program to educate the public on the proper use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes and ramps to encourage the reporting of alleged violations.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 910 (Scott-D) Highway Route 164: Temple City
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish a portion of State Route 164 to the City of Temple City, under certain conditions.
Chapter 218, Statutes of 2007

SB 912 (Negrete McLeod-D) Highway safety: flares
Requires a vehicle used in the transportation of explosives to carry at least three reflective triangles or electronic beacons and makes it unlawful to traverse an electronic beacon pattern.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SCR 3 (Cedillo-D) The Wall Las Memorias Project AIDS monument: highway signs
Requests the installation on State Route 5 of directional signs for The Wall Las Memorias Project AIDS monument.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2007

SCR 4 (Cox-R) James E. Roberts Memorial Bridge
Designates the Highway 120 (Tioga Pass Road) bridge over the Tuolumne River in Tuolumne County, as the "James E. Roberts Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 83, Statutes of 2007

SCR 10 (Aanestad-R) Officer Matthew J. Redding Memorial Interchange
Designates the interchange of Stanford Ranch Road and Galleria Boulevard at Highway 65 in Placer County, as the "Officer Matthew J. Redding Memorial Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 84, Statutes of 2007

SCR 11 (Negrete McLeod-D) Correctional Officer Manuel A. Gonzalez, Jr. Memorial Hwy
Designates a five-mile segment of Highway 71 near the City of Chino (San Bernardino County), as the "Correctional Officer Manuel A. Gonzalez, Jr. Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2007

SCR 14 (Florez-D) Officer John Palacios Memorial Highway
Designates an 11-mile segment on State Highway Route 269, between State Highway Route 198 and the City of Five Points in Fresno County, as the "Officer John Palacios Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 92, Statutes of 2007

SCR 15 (Aanestad-R) Nomlaki Highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 5, between Gyle Road and Flores Avenue in Tehama County, as the "Nomlaki Highway."
Resolution Chapter 93, Statutes of 2007

SCR 16 (Negrete McLeod-D) Gary Moon Memorial Interchange
Designates the future interchange between Interstates 210 and 215 in the City of San Bernardino, as the "Gary Moon Memorial Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 86, Statutes of 2007

SCR 20 (Kuehl-D) Ricardo A. Crocker Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 10 in the City of Santa Monica as the "Ricardo A. Crocker Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 94, Statutes of 2007

SCR 21 (Ducheny-D) James D. Schultz Memorial Freeway
Designates a segment of Interstate 8 in eastern Imperial County, as the "James D. Schultz Memorial Freeway."
Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2007

SCR 22 (Cox-R) Stephanie Marie Frazier Memorial Highway
Designates a two-mile segment of Highway 50 east of the town of Pollock Pines in El Dorado County, as the "Stephanie Marie Frazier Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 2007

SCR 32 (Hollingsworth-R) Army Sergeant Brud Joseph Cronkrite Memorial Bridge
Designates an overpass on State Highway Route 8 in Pine Valley in San Diego County as the "Army Sergeant Brud Joseph Cronkrite Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 95, Statutes of 2007

SCR 33 (Hollingsworth-R) Nello Irwin Greer Memorial Bridge
Designates the Interstate 8 bridge over Pine Valley Creek in eastern San Diego County, as the "Nello Irwin Greer Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 89, Statutes of 2007

SCR 37 (Simitian-D) Lewis E. Platt Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of State Highway Route 87, in the City of San Jose, as the "Lewis E. Platt Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 2007

SCR 38 (Cedillo-D) Los Angeles Police Officer Steven Gajda Memorial Highway
Designates a two-mile segment of Highway 60 in the community of Boyle Heights in the City of Los Angeles, as the "Los Angeles Police Officer Steven Gajda Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 90, Statutes of 2007

SCR 41 (Corbett-D) Nels Dan Niemi Memorial Highway
Designates a 1.5-mile segment of Interstate 880 in the City of San Leandro (Alameda County), as the "Nels Dan Niemi Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2007

SCR 51 (Maldonado-R) CHP Lieutenant Michael Elvin Walker Memorial Highway
Names a portion of State Route 17 in Santa Cruz County as the "CHP Lieutenant Michael Elvin Walker Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2007

SCR 53 (Denham-R) CHP Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 99 in the County of Stanislaus as the "California Highway Patrol Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway."
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 57 (Maldonado-R) Officer Loren D. Scruggs Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 101 in the City of Santa Maria, in Santa Barbara County, as the "Officer Loren D. Scruggs Memorial Highway."
(At Assembly Desk)

AB 57 (Soto-D) Highways: federal funds: Safe Routes to School
Deletes the sunset date of the Safe Routes to School program and provides that any annual state budget allocation shall be in addition to any federal funding received which is designated for "Safe Routes to School" projects.
Chapter 673, Statutes of 2007

AB 112 (Wolk-D) Highways: Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zones
Modifies the conditions for designating road segments as "Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zones" (DFZs) and requires the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to certify that a road segment meets specified criteria. Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 12, between the SR 80 junction in Solano County and the SR 5 junction in San Joaquin County, as a DFZ, if specified criteria are met.
Chapter 258, Statutes of 2007

AB 256 (Huff-R) Highway Users Tax Account: appropriation of funds
Provides that monies in the Highway Users Tax Account for the prior fiscal year are continuously appropriated and may be encumbered for their constitutional and statutory purposes in any year in which a Budget Act has not been enacted by July 1, or until such a time that the Budget Act is enacted.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 291 (Jeffries-R) State Highway Route 74: relinquishment
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish a portion of State Highway Route 74 to the City of Lake Elsinore.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 401 (Benoit-R) Transportation infrastructure emergencies
Authorizes the Governor to declare a transportation infrastructure emergency for the purpose of relieving traffic congestion on any specific highway or segment of a highway for which the Department of Transportation has determined that the average daily vehicle hours of delay, excluding weekends, exceeds 3,000. Upon declaration of the emergency, provides for the Governor to direct the Department of Transportation to immediately create and implement an expedited process and establish deadlines for the construction of new highways or additional lanes on existing highways.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 427 (Hancock-D) Transportation: state highway nuisances
Provides that specified provisions regarding state highways do not prohibit a business adjacent to a state-owned sidewalk from placing tables and chairs on the state-owned sidewalk for the purpose of selling and serving food and drinks.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 484 (Nava-D) Landfill disposal: concrete
Prohibits a contractor, under contract with the Department of Transportation, from disposing of asphalt concrete or Portland cement concrete in a solid waste landfill, unless the contractor determines that no other means of using or disposing the material is feasible or the concrete will be reused in the construction and operation of the solid waste landfill.
Vetoed

AB 633 (Galgiani-D) Grade separation projects
Requires the Public Utilities Commission and the Department of Transportation to jointly prepare a report on the railroad-highway at-grade separation program.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 660 (Galgiani-D) Railroad-highway grade separations
Revises the railroad-highway grade separations program to delete funding eligibility for a grade separation at a proposed new grade crossing, thereby limiting the program to existing grade crossings.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 669 (Parra-D) State Highway Route 269
Facilitates the building of a transportation facility on State Route 289 near the City of Huron.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 744 (Parra-D) Off-highway motor vehicles
Allows an off-highway motor vehicle that is in compliance with statutory identification and equipment requirements to be operated upon a highway that is not a freeway and consists of no more than two lanes.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 830 (Ma-D) Outdoor advertising
Allows a sign (billboard) along landscaped highways to be converted to a digital advertising display, subject to specified conditions.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 893 (Walters-R) Vehicles: speeding
Makes it an infraction to drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed of 100 miles per hour and requires a minimum fine of $300 upon any conviction of that offense.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1055 (Blakeslee-R) State Route 990: environment: mitigation
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to develop a regional plan to meet the environmental mitigation requirements related to highway improvements on State Route 99.
Chapter 503, Statutes of 2007

AB 1084 (Galgiani-D) Highway signs
Requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to pay for all costs to erect signs along the state highways that memorialize CHP officers killed in the line of duty.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1140 (Strickland-R) Department of Transportation: report
Requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol, on or before 7/1/08, to submit a report to the Legislature on locating a commercial vehicle inspection facility on State Highway Route 118.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 1161 (Tran-R) Eminent domain
Requires the Department of Transportation to dispose of real property obtained through eminent domain that the department does not use as intended after a specified time period.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1162 (Tran-R) State highway property: personal services contracts
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to enter into personal services contracts for long term property management activities on real property over which a right-of-way for state highway purposes has been or is to be acquired.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1258 (Caballero-D) Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zones
Designates, until 1/1/12, as a Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zone the following: (1) the segment of State Highway Route 101, between the junction with Boronda Road and the San Benito-Monterey County Line; and (2) the segment of County Road 16, also known as Carmel Valley Road, between the Junction with State Highway Route 1 and the junction with Camp Stefani Road.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1295 (Spitzer-R) Transportation facilities: tolls
Establishes a structure for developing toll facilities, primarily toll lanes, along the Highway 91 (Riverside Freeway) and Interstate 15 (Corona Freeway) transportation corridors in Riverside County.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1337 (Nava-D) State highway system: construction inspection functions
Requires Department of Transportation state employees to perform the inspection and related essential public functions for the state highway system.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1373 (Emmerson-R) Highway construction contracts
Authorizes the San Bernardino Associated Governments to use a design-build procurement method for highway improvements that provide access to health facilities that offer emergency medical services within San Bernardino County.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1495 (La Malfa-R) Information signs for roadside businesses in rural areas
Authorizes the placement of recreational vehicle-friendly symbol informational signs near freeway exits in rural areas of the state.
Chapter 119, Statutes of 2007

AB 1499 (Garrick-R) Department of Transportation: design-build contracting
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to use the design-build procurement process for its state highway construction contracts.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1566 (Niello-R) Rest areas: joint economic development demonstration project
Requires the Department of Transportation to plan and design highway improvements to facilitate rest area development.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

ACR 4 (Benoit-R) Esperanza Firefighters Memorial Highway
Designates State Highway Route 243 as the "Esperanza Firefighters Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 99, Statutes of 2007

ACR 7 (Wolk-D) Officer David Lamoree Memorial Highway
Designates a specified segment of State Highway Route 12 in Solano County as the "Officer David Lamoree Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 121, Statutes of 2007

ACR 10 (Cook-R) CDF Firefighter Chris Kanton Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Highway Route 10, from the Beaumont Avenue/State Highway Route 79 exit to the Sunset Avenue exit, in the County of Riverside, as the "CDF Firefighter Chris Kanton Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 64, Statutes of 2007

ACR 17 (Horton-R) Mary Augustine Bridge
Encourages San Diego County to post appropriate markers on county property designating the horse bridge that crosses State Highway Route 125 and is located in Bonita, west of the Summit Park Campground in San Diego County, as the "Mary Augustine Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 59, Statutes of 2007

ACR 20 (Cook-R) Deputy Greg A. Gariepy Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Highway Route 247, between State Highway Route 62 and the town limit of Yucca Valley, in the County of San Bernardino, as the "Deputy Greg A. Gariepy Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2007

ACR 22 (Benoit-R) Armed Forces Freeway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 215 in Riverside County as the "Armed Forces Freeway."
Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2007

ACR 25 (Lieber-D) Norman Y. Mineta Highway
Designates State Route 85, except for a specified segment, in Santa Clara County as the "Norman Y. Mineta Highway."
Resolution Chapter 66, Statutes of 2007

ACR 26 (Sharon Runner-R) Historic U.S. Highway Route 6
Requests the Department of Transportation, upon application by an interested local agency or private entity, to identify any section of former U.S. Highway Route 6 that is still a publicly maintained highway and that is of interest to the applicant, and to designate that section as "Historic U.S. Highway Route 6."
Resolution Chapter 67, Statutes of 2007

ACR 27 (Charles Calderon-D) L.A. County Deputy Sheriff Jerry Ortiz Memorial Highway
Designates the segment of State Highway Route 60, between State Highway Route 605 and Rosemead Boulevard, in Los Angeles County, as the "Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Jerry Ortiz Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2007

ACR 30 (Berg-D) Elizabeth Jane Rosewarne Memorial Bridge
Designates the northern span of the Eel River Bridge, located on State Highway Route 101 in the County of Mendocino, as the "Elizabeth Jane Rosewarne Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 69, Statutes of 2007

ACR 31 (Berg-D) CHP Officer Ernest R. Felio Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 101 in Del Norte County as the "CHP Officer Ernest R. Felio Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 2007

ACR 39 (Keene-R) Wick's Corner Interchange
Designates the junction between State Highway Routes 70 and 149 near the City of Oroville, in the County of Butte, as the "Wick's Corner Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 71, Statutes of 2007

ACR 41 (Emmerson-R) Officer James M. Goodman Memorial Highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 10 in San Bernardino County as the "Officer James M. Goodman Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 72, Statutes of 2007

ACR 57 (Berg-D) Veterans' Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 101 in Humboldt County as the "Veterans' Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2007

ACR 58 (Fuller-R) CHP Officer Erick S. Manny Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 5 in Kern County as the "CHP Officer Erick S. Manny Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 114, Statutes of 2007

ACR 59 (Cook-R) Lieutenant Jared M. Landaker Memorial Highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 38 in San Bernardino County as the "Lieutenant Jared M. Landaker Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2007

ACR 62 (DeSaulnier-D) Congressman George Miller Benicia-Martinez Bridge
Designates the new northbound Benicia-Martinez Bridge as the "Congressman George Miller Benicia-Martinez Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2007

ACR 63 (Keene-R) Estes and Hunter Memorial Highway
Designates Highway 149 in Butte County as the "Lt. Leonard B. 'Larry' Estes and Deputy William R. 'Bill' Hunter Memorial Highway."
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

ACR 73 (Bass-D) Nathan Shapell Memorial Highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 405 in the County of Los Angeles as the "Nathan Shapell Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 148, Statutes of 2007

ACR 75 (Coto-D) Chumash Highway
Designates State Highway Route 154 in Santa Barbara County as the "Chumash Highway."
Resolution Chapter 149, Statutes of 2007

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SB 10 (Kehoe-D) San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
Changes the governance and responsibilities of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority's governing board and replaces it with a new nine-member board of directors.
Chapter 287, Statutes of 2007

SB 28 (Simitian-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: personal information
Prohibits, until 1/1/11, the Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing, renewing, duplicating, or replacing a driver's license or identification card if the license or card uses radio waves to either transmit personal information remotely or to enable personal information to be read from the license or card remotely.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 33 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: wireless telephones and mobile service devices
Prohibits, starting 7/1/08, a person under 18 years of age from driving a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone equipped with a hands-free device or while using a mobile service device.
Chapter 214, Statutes of 2007

SB 60 (Cedillo-D) Vehicles: driver's licenses
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driver's licenses that are compliant with the federal Real ID Act within a specified time frame.
(On Assembly Third Reading)

SB 67* (Perata-D) Vehicles: speed contests and reckless driving
Reinstates law that sunsetted on 12/31/06 which provided that when a person is arrested for reckless driving, reckless driving in a parking facility, exhibition of speed, or a speed contest, the officer may seize and impound the vehicle for 30 days.
Chapter 727, Statutes of 2007

SB 79* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Transportation
Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2007 relating to transportation.
Chapter 173, Statutes of 2007 -- Item Veto

SB 124* (Ducheny-D) Registered vehicle owners: evasion of tolls
Adds vehicles that are registered out of state to the definition of "registered vehicles" for the purpose of toll evasion.
Chapter 150, Statutes of 2007

SB 128 (Margett-R) California Highway Patrol
Authorizes the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to deny, adjust, or pay a claim arising out of CHP activities without the prior approval of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board if the claim involves vehicle damage, an impound dispute, or minor property damage, the amount claimed is $5,000 or less, and the Director of the Department of Finance certifies that a sufficient appropriation for the payment of the claim exists.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 150 (Florez-D) Governmental liability: railroad quiet zones
Provides that neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by the establishment of a quiet zone, as specified.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 177 (Migden-D) Driver's license: DUI: ignition interlock
Revises and recasts suspension, revocation, and restriction provisions on a driver's license of a person whose license is suspended or revoked under a driving under the influence (DUI) violation. Requires the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish standards and criteria for implementing and maintaining an ignition interlock device assistance program. Establishes the Ignition Interlock Device Assistance Fund in the State Treasury. Requires a person who is convicted of specified DUI offenses to pay a fee of $100, to be deposited in the Fund.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 229 (Margett-R) Vehicles: large or heavy loads
Requires a local authority to use certain specified criteria in determining whether extra insurance or other financial security is required by a vehicle that is unusually large or heavy load that poses a substantial risk to public facilities.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 266 (Steinberg-D) Motor vehicle speed contest: forfeiture
Provides that when a person is arrested for reckless driving, reckless driving in a parking facility, exhibition of speed, or a speed contest, the officer may seize and impound the vehicle for 30 days and allow for forfeiture of the vehicle if a person convicted of one of these offenses has two prior convictions for speed contest.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 285 (Runner-R) Provisional licensing program
Beginning 7/1/08, increases the operating restrictions for drivers operating a vehicle with an instructional permit, and imposes stronger sanctions on young drivers who violate the restrictions of the provisional driver's license.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

SB 287 (Denham-R) Vehicles: special license plates
Authorizes a family member of a member of the Armed Forces who was killed while serving on active duty in the military to apply for special license plates. Exempts the person from the additional fees.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 308* (Margett-R) Taxation: deductions: qualified vehicle transaction
Allows a $3,000 deduction for each purchase or initial lease of a 2007 model year or newer hybrid motor vehicle eligible for the federal credit. Provides that the vehicles qualify the taxpayer for the deduction until 2011, or after 100,000 have been sold and registered in the state, whichever is earlier. The deduction sunsets on 12/1/11.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 386 (Cogdill-R) Vehicles: special license plates
Exempts from various fees vehicles owned by the surviving spouse of a former prisoner of war (POW) or Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. In addition, it allows the family of a deceased former POW or Congressional Medal of Honor recipient to keep a special interest license plate as a remembrance.
Chapter 357, Statutes of 2007

SB 422 (Ashburn-R) Vehicles: commercial vehicles
Allows the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to acquire real property that is subject to a conservation easement or other deed restriction if the Director of DPR determines that the restriction is consistent with the purposes for which the property is to be acquired.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 432 (Lowenthal-D) Streets and highways: description and traffic control
Changes statutory references to the manual that the Department of Transportation uses for sign and signal standards from the "Traffic Manual of the Department of Transportation" to the "California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices." Updates the statutory descriptions of State Routes (SR) 1, 2, 39, 66, 79, 84, and 160, makes a technical change to the route description of SR 151, and corrects a previous error in which a portion of SR 275 that was not relinquished to a local agency was inadvertently deleted from its statutory description.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 476 (Hollingsworth-R) Crime: vehicular manslaughter
Provides that prosecution of voluntary manslaughter, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, or a violation felony vehicular manslaughter, under Penal Code Section 192(c)(3), shall be commenced within 10 years of the offense. Provides that the prosecution for involuntary manslaughter or a violation vehicular manslaughter, punishable as a wobbler under Penal Code Section 192(c)(1), shall be commenced within 10 years after the commission of the offense, and provides that prosecution for a violation misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, under Penal Code Section 192(c)(2), shall commence within three years after the commission of the offense.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 492 (Maldonado-R) Vehicles: abandonment: fines
Increases the minimum base fine for abandoning a vehicle from $100 to $1,000.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 498 (Oropeza-D) Vehicles: total loss salvage vehicles
Prohibits a person who determines a vehicle to be a total loss salvage, due to saltwater damage, from selling, or otherwise transferring, the vehicle to any person or entity in California, and prohibits a person or entity from knowingly buying, selling, consigning, or otherwise transferring vehicles salvaged due to saltwater damage, except to a licensed dismantler to be destroyed.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 525 (Lowenthal-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: administrative hearings
Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to order victim restitution as part of the department's action to revoke or suspend a motor vehicle dealer's license.
Chapter 93, Statutes 2007

SB 585* (Lowenthal-D) Recycled concrete: Department of Transportation
Requires the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), by 12/31/08, and annually thereafter, to report on the amount of recycled concrete materials used by Caltrans in the prior fiscal year. Additionally requires Caltrans to contract with the Institute of Transportation Studies to conduct workshops for public works professionals on using recycled concrete materials.
(In Senate Transportation Committee)

SB 715 (Lowenthal-D) Advertising displays: noncommercial, protected speech
Prohibits the Department of Transportation from regulating noncommercial protected speech contained within any advertising display authorized by, or exempted from, the Outside Advertising Act.
Chapter 81, Statutes of 2007

SB 729 (Padilla-D) Vehicles: dealers: consumer protection
Effective 7/1/08, creates the Consumer Motor Vehicle Recovery Corporation and the Consumer Recovery Fund, with a board of directors with certain powers and duties, in order to provide payments to consumers on specified eligible claims when a vehicle dealer: (1) fails to remit license or registration fees; (2) fails to pay off a trade-in's sale or lease balance owed; or (3) fails to make payment on a consignment sale agreement. Eligible claims include claims where the dealer/lessor has ceased selling or leasing vehicles or is in bankruptcy.
Chapter 437, Statutes of 2007

SB 735 (Wiggins-D) Recycling: paving materials: tracking
Requires the Department of Transportation and its contractors to track information regarding the use of recycled and virgin materials used for subbase, base, and lean concrete base.
Vetoed

SB 754 (Kehoe-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: property
Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), to lease or exchange, for a term of years as determined by the Director, three existing state-owned parcels on which DMV field offices are situated so that new DMV offices and other commercial, retail, and residential construction can occur.
Chapter 681, Statutes 2007

SB 798 (Battin-R) State Aeronautics Act: flight schools
Requires flight schools in California to run background checks through the Department of Justice for all applicants.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 810* (Corbett-D) Green vehicles: tax credit
Provides for a manufacturer's investment tax credit to companies that produce green cars over conventional cars.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 841 (Calderon-D) Vehicles: driver improvement
Allows mature driver improvement courses to be offered over the Internet.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 848 (Corbett-D) Vehicles: speed trap
Excludes from the definition of the term "speed trap" instances when an arresting officer is able to demonstrate that the driver's speed exceeded the prima facie speed limit by at least 15 miles per hour and the speed is greater than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for certain highway factors, or at a speed that endangers the safety of persons or property.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 956 (Correa-D) Neighborhood electric vehicles: Orange County
Allows the County of Orange to establish a neighborhood electric vehicle transportation plan for the Ranch Plan Planned Community.
Chapter 442, Statutes 442

SCR 7 (Battin-R) Motorcycle Awareness Month
Proclaims the Month of May 2007 as Motorcycle Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 21, Statutes of 2007

SR 17 (Florez-D) Airport Security-Surrendered Items Donation Program
Urges California's airports serving scheduled airlines and Transportation Security Administration officials at California's airports to implement a program to collect useful items confiscated at security screening stations and donate them to nonprofit organizations that support communities in need of those items.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 4 (Anderson-R) Department of Transportation: District 11
Requires the Transportation Management Center (TMC) in the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 11 to be staffed around the clock by employees of Caltrans and the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP), seven days a week, and requires the increased staffing needs to be accommodated by shifting Caltrans and CHP employees, that normally monitor and dispatch, from their respective stations to TMC.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 11 (DeVore-R) Vehicles: special license plates
Establishes a process at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) by which an eligible vehicle owner can apply for, and receive, special license plates that indicate he/she is an active member of the California National Guard (CNG). Requires the CNG plates to run in a separate numerical series and to have inscribed on them the words "Member, California National Guard." Requires DMV to issue these plates to any applicant who presents a certificate from the Adjutant General that confirms the applicant's status as an active CNG member, and exempts the applicant for CNG plates from the $41 application fee, the annual $30 renewal fee, and the $30 transfer fee imposed for a personalized license plate.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 15 (Houston-R) Vasco Road: median barriers
Requires the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to conduct a study and submit a report to the Legislature pertaining to the construction and maintenance of a median barrier on Vasco Road in Contra Costa County.
Chapter 484, Statutes of 2007

AB 23* (Ma-D) Department of Transportation: marked crosswalk
Requires the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to place and maintain pedestrian signals and displays, if certain conditions are met. Requires Caltrans to place and maintain an accessible pedestrian signal with an audible indicator and an official control signal that emits a countdown display if that crosswalk crosses a state highway and is within 2,000 feet of either a school building or the grounds of that school building, or a senior center.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 24 (Richardson-D) Vehicles: police pursuit
Requires that high school driver education classes include a component regarding the consequences of using a motor vehicle to evade a peace officer, including the frequency and likelihood of injuries and fatalities to the driver, other drivers, peace officers, and innocent bystanders. Adds, for penalty purposes, to the definition of willful and wanton disregard for the safety or property of others while fleeing a peace officer the act of driving through a school zone or within a residential district for more than one mile.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 60 (Nava-D) Vehicles: bicycles
Requires the driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle that is proceeding in the same direction to pass to the left at a safe distance, at a minimum clearance of three feet, without interfering with the safe operation of the overtaken bicycle. Makes a violation of this provision an infraction punishable by a $250 fine, and makes it a misdemeanor, or felony, if a person operates a motor vehicle in violation of the above requirement and that conduct proximately causes a significant or substantial physical injury or death to the bicycle operator.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 101 (Ma-D) Vehicles: parking enforcement: video image evidence
Allows the City and County of San Francisco to install automated forward-facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit for the purpose of taking video images of parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes, as defined. Citations will only be given for violations captured during posed hours of operation for a transit-only traffic lane. Requires the devices to be angled and focused so as to capture video images of parking violations and not capture images of other drivers, vehicles, and pedestrians.
Chapter 377, Statutes of 2007

AB 117 (Beall-D) Traffic offenses: assessment
Provides that Santa Clara County may, by ordinance, levy an additional assessment of $2 for every $10, or fraction thereof, upon each base fine imposed and collected by the courts for an offense involving the unsafe operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways in violation of the Vehicle Code or a local ordinance adopted pursuant to the Vehicle Code, not including parking violations. Provides that the assessments shall be collected only if the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors provides that the increased assessments do not offset or reduce the funding of other local traffic safety programs from other sources, and these additional revenues result in increased funding to local traffic safety programs and courthouse construction.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 138 (Bass-D) Vehicles: veterans: parking
Allows veterans with license plates honoring Pearl Harbor Survivors, Legion of Valor recipients, former American Prisoners of War, Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, or Purple Heart recipients to park their vehicles without charge in state and local parking facilities, time-restricted parking zones, and metered spaces.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 217 (Beall-D) Vehicle license fee and registration: biennial
Provides that the annual amount of the license fee imposed under the Vehicle License Fee (VLF) Law shall be payable on a biennial basis, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Directs DMV to coordinate payment of the VLF with the concurrent changes made to the registration period, and directs DMV to develop and implement a process for any noncompliance by taxpayers due to financial hardship.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 218 (Saldana-D) Vehicles: fees
Specifies that a renewal of vehicle registration is not made until a smog check certificate, if required for renewal, is received by the Department of Motor Vehicles, thus imposing late fees if a smog check certificate is not received by the date that renewal registrations are due.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 226 (Huff-R) Vehicles: removal
Allows a peace officer to remove a vehicle if he/she issues a notice of reexamination to a driver and there is no other person readily available to operate the vehicle, and provides a process for the release of the vehicle, including requiring that the registered owner be reimbursed by the agency ordering the removal for any "additional reasonable expenses" incurred by the owner for up to five days.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 236 (Lieu-D) Governmental motor vehicle fleets
Requires the Department of General Services (DGS), in conjunction with the Air Resources Board and Energy Commission, by 12/31/08, to revise the purchasing methodology used to rank the environmental and energy benefits and costs of motor vehicles for potential procurement by state and local governments. Requires DGS to evaluate vehicles for potential addition to the state and local fleets on an annual basis reflecting annual new vehicle availability, and procure only vehicles for use in the state fleet that meet certain federal requirements and have been ranked best in their class by the state's purchasing methodology. Provides that if the fueling infrastructure, for the fuel used to rank a vehicle best in class, is not available, or planned to be available within two years, DGS shall procure the vehicle ranked next best in class for which fueling infrastructure is, or will be, available.
Chapter 593, Statutes of 2007

AB 248 (Gaines-R) Vehicles: violations: punishment
Clarifies that a violation related to a motor vehicle speed contest is punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 254 (Gaines-R) Vehicles: total loss salvage vehicles
Includes within the definition of "total loss salvage vehicle" one that has been damaged as the result of a flood to the extent that the owner, leasing company, financial institution, or insurance company that insured or is responsible for repair of the vehicle considers it uneconomical to repair the vehicle and, because of this, the vehicle is not repaired by or for the person who owned the vehicle at the time of the event resulting in damage.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 303 (Spitzer-R) Vehicular: manslaughter
Increases the penalty for vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated from a wobbler, punishable by up to one year in county jail or by 16 months, two or four years in state prison, to a straight felony, punishable by 16 months, two or four years in state prison; and clarifies that gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated is a violent felony, thereby making the offense a strike for sentencing purposes, double the base term with a prior violent or serious offense, and reducing potential sentence credits from 50% to 15%.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 305 (Ma-D) Vehicles: sale: used vehicles
Amends the Car Buyer's Bill of Rights to provide that for a person who leased a vehicle immediately preceding purchasing the vehicle, the limit on the amount of any restocking fee required to be paid by the buyer who exercises the two-day contract cancellation option will be increased by the amount the buyer will be obligated (under the lease) to pay for charges for excess mileage, unrepaired damage, or excess wear and tear.
Chapter 219, Statutes of 2007

AB 307* (Hayashi-D) Fuel passenger transit buses
Exempts from the sales and use tax a fuel-cell vehicle, as defined, or a fuel-cell system, as defined, sold or leased to a public agency, public transit district, or a public local or regional transportation entity. Defines "fuel-cell vehicle" as a heavy-duty public transit bus, of no less than 40 feet in length, whose primary source of power is derived from a fuel-cell system, and "fuel-cell system" as a fuel-cell system that chemically combines hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity to energize electric drive motors.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 321 (Nava-D) Vehicles: speed limits: schools
Allows a local government to declare a speed limit of 15 miles-per-hour in school zones and to expand the distance a 25 miles-per-hour school zone may be in force to 1,000 feet from the school.
Chapter 384, Statutes of 2007

AB 353 (Carter-D) Vehicles: railroad crossings: traffic control signals
Authorizes the Department of Transportation or a local authority to erect stop signs on highways to require the traffic to stop before crossing a designated railroad grade crossing. Authorizes the placement of a traffic control signal at specified locations, thereby expanding the scope of an existing crime and imposing a state-mandated local program.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 418 (Saldana-D) Vehicles: fees: exemption: deployed National Guard member
Exempts deployed California National Guard personnel from paying a vehicle license fee and vehicle registration fee on a single vehicle. Appropriates $250,000 from the Motor Vehicle Account to the Department of Motor Vehicles for implementation of this program.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 421 (Benoit-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: abstract of record of court
Requires the court to report to the Department of Motor Vehicles an abstract of judgment within five days, instead of within 10 days, thereby complying with a federal requirement.
Chapter 746, Statutes of 2007

AB 425 (Adams-R) Motorcycle helmets
Exempts from the motorcycle helmet law any rider or driver who is 18 years of age or older and has either completed a motorcycle rider training program that meets the standards of the Department of the California Highway Patrol or has been issued a class M1 license or endorsement, or a comparable license from another jurisdiction, for two years or more.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 430 (Benoit-R) Vehicles: speed contests and reckless driving
Makes conforming changes to provisions relating to reckless driving and speed contests to include recently enacted provisions with enhanced penalties for specified injuries.
Chapter 682, Statutes of 2007

AB 443 (Wolk-D) California Highway Patrol: main office
Authorizes the Department of the California Highway Patrol to maintain its main headquarters operation within 20 miles of Sacramento, rather than restricting the site location to one within the city limits of Sacramento.
Chapter 9, Statutes of 2007

AB 445 (Nava-D) Vehicles: special license plates: disabled veterans
Establishes a process at the Department of Motor Vehicles by which an eligible vehicle owner can apply for and receive special license plates that indicate he/she is a disabled veteran.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 462 (Villines-R) Vehicle: license plates
Allows an owner of a 1969 or older model year passenger vehicle or a 1972 or older model year commercial vehicle, including a pick-up truck, to use license plates from the year when the vehicle was manufactured.
Chapter 497, Statutes of 2007

AB 463 (Huffman-D) Vehicles: disabled persons: parking
Allows a vehicle equipped with a lift, ramp, or assistive equipment used to load a disabled person to park across two stalls on a street or in a private off-street parking facility when no suitability-sized parking space is available.
Chapter 387, Statutes of 2007

AB 468 (Ruskin-D) Abandoned vehicle abatement
Expands the circumstances under which a county service authority for the abatement of abandoned vehicles may use the revenue it generates from imposing a $1 annual vehicle registration surcharge, requires that the use of the funds be audited each year, and modifies the statutory authority to abate abandoned vehicles.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2007

AB 470 (DeSaulnier-D) Electric personal assistive mobility devices
Repeals the 1/1/08 sunset date on provisions of law that regulate the use of electric personal assistive mobility devices, which are better known by their brand name "Segways."
Chapter 106, Statutes of 2007

AB 474 (DeVore-R) Vehicle registration: biennial
Allows the establishment of a two-year registration term for vehicles.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 478 (Wolk-D) Bicycle lamps and reflectors on shared-use pathways
Expands the types of facilities the use of which during darkness requires bicycles to be equipped with lamps and reflectors.
Chapter 232, Statutes of 2007

AB 490 (Hancock-D) Rapid transit districts
Allows the Bay Area Rapid Transit District Board of Directors to raise, by ordinance or resolution, their monthly compensation, as specified. Authorizes the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District's Board of Directors to provide, by ordinance or resolution, payments of up to $1,000 a month, as specified.
Chapter 213, Statutes of 2007

AB 505* (Plescia-R) Income and corporation taxes: credits: hybrid vehicles
Allows a tax credit up to $500 for costs incurred for a qualified vehicle, as defined.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 568 (Karnette-D) Port Community Advisory Committee
Requires the governing authorities of five specified ports to determine whether to set up a port community advisory committee within 90 days of receiving a petition from a community organization.
(In Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 602 (DeVore-R) Parking violations: hearings
Requires any contract between a local government and a private entity for the processing of notices of parking violations and notices of delinquent parking violations be based on either a fixed monthly rate or on the number of notices processed.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 605 (Walters-R) Speed contest: forfeiture procedure
Extends specified provisions to persons engaged in reckless driving on a highway, reckless driving in an offstreet parking facility, or an exhibition of speed on a highway. Requires the impounding agency to release the vehicle to the registered owner prior to the conclusion of the impoundment period if the registered owner was neither the driver nor a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the alleged violation, or was unaware that the vehicle was being used to engage in the prohibited activities.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 619 (Emmerson-R) Vehicle registration amnesty program
Establishes an amnesty program for the underreporting of vehicle value and the nonpayment of taxes or fees.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 645 (Feuer-D) Vehicles: traffic violations
Provides that convictions of specified Vehicle Code offenses not be withdrawn after probation or dismissed because of attendance at traffic school.
Chapter 161, Statutes of 2007

AB 695 (Karnette-D) Vessels: emissions
Requires that in order to register a boat in California, the boat must be shown to comply with California's marine engine emissions standards.
Chapter 609, Statutes of 2007

AB 700 (Lieu-D) Santa Monica Airport
Requires the City of Santa Monica to establish a technical advisory committee to evaluate all available studies and data regarding the airport, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 758 (Plescia-R) Traffic violators: schools
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to prepare a comprehensive plan, and report to the Legislature, regarding the licensing of all traffic violator schools, including both classroom-based and home study programs. Increases the fee that traffic violator schools may charge students to issue a duplicate certificate of completion. Establishes conditions under which a traffic violator school is not required to provide a program of instruction for a fee that is less than the standard fee.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2007

AB 769* (Aghazarian-R) Fuel to transport biomass
Exempts from the sales and use tax fuel that is used to transport biomass.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 801 (Walters-R) Vehicles: license plates
Prohibits the use or sale of a product or device that is used to obscure a license plate from being read by an electronic device operated by law enforcement or a toll road.
Chapter 273, Statutes of 2007

AB 808 (Parra-D) Vehicles: drivers' licenses
Requires, beginning 7/1/08, that an applicant for an original or renewal driver's license sign a specified declaration related to driving under the influence.
Chapter 748, Statutes of 2007

AB 866 (Davis-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: National Guard
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide priority customer service to qualified members of the California National Guard.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 878 (Davis-D) Vehicle registration fees
Allows a local agency to increase the fees, from $1 to $2 each, that it imposes on vehicle registrations in its jurisdictions to fund vehicle theft prevention, investigation, and prosecution programs.
Vetoed

AB 881 (Mullin-D) Vehicles: child passengers
Requires, beginning 6/30/08, children up to eight years of age to ride in a child safety seat.
Vetoed

AB 913 (Niello-R) Motor carrier permits
Waives a motor carrier permit reinstatement fee if it is demonstrated that a lapse in liability insurance or workers' compensation insurance coverage did not occur.
Chapter 58, Statutes of 2007

AB 916* (Niello-R) Airport and related construction: Sacramento County
Authorizes the County of Sacramento to use an airport-improvement construction method on airport-related construction projects until 1/1/13.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 957 (Spitzer-R) Department of Transportation records: state property
Revises the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) property inventory reporting requirements to the Department of General Services. Expands to airspace, excess lands, and properties acquired for highway purposes the types of Caltrans real property holdings that must annually be reported.
Chapter 59, Statues of 2007

AB 966 (Krekorian-D) Driver's license renewal: senior citizens
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include with every notice of renewal of a driver's license a notice that a person who is 62 years of age or older may be issued an identification card free of charge.
Vetoed

AB 1003 (Jeffries-R) Department of Transportation
Authorizes transportation agencies and cities within self-help counties to contract with the Department of Transportation for purposes of expediting environmental and design approvals on projects within their jurisdiction. (Self-help counties are those counties that have in place a voter-approved transportation sales tax program.)
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1008 (Charles Calderon-D) Insurance: vehicle service contracts
Authorizes the sale of vehicle service contracts for vehicle tires, wheels, glass, and non-paint dent repairs; and authorizes an "obligor" or its parent company to demonstrate to the Insurance Commissioner a net worth of $100 million in lieu of purchasing sufficient insurance to cover its vehicle service contracts obligations. "Obligor" means the entity legally obligated under the terms of a service contract.
Chapter 326, Statutes of 2007

AB 1083 (Huffman-D) Automotive insurance: mileage-based incentives
Declares legislative intent to allow insurance providers to use vehicle usage as a factor in setting rates and premiums.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 1092 (Emmerson-R) Recreational vehicles
Prohibits recreational vehicle manufacturers from failing to provide their franchisees with written dealer agreements.
Chapter 406, Statutes of 2007

AB 1099 (Portantino-D) Vehicles: traffic violator schools
Makes several changes to traffic violator school licensing, methods and duration of instruction, Department of Motor Vehicles fees, and course completion certificates.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1117* (Benoit-R) Local government: county services areas
Extends to Riverside County the authorization for a county services area to provide open-space and habitat conservation services.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1139 (Emmerson-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: display systems: advertising
Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to place advertising on its various public displays.
Chapter 407, Statutes of 2007

AB 1165 (Maze-R) Driving under the influence
Makes it unlawful for a person who is on probation for specified driving under the influence offenses to operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.01%, or greater, as measured by a preliminary alcohol screening.
Chapter 749, Statutes of 2007

AB 1186* (Karnette-D) Private Railroad Car Tax Law: assessment factors
Requires the Board of Equalization to exclude the average dwell time for cars awaiting loading, unloading, or loading and unloading, from the determination used to assess taxes on private railroad cars.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1200 (Saldana-D) Vehicles: hit-and-run: multiple convictions: penalties
Increases the penalties for hit-and-run with injury, serious bodily injury, or death if a person has two or more prior convictions within 10 years for specified prior convictions relating to the unsafe operation of a motor vehicle.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1215 (Benoit-R) Vehicles: DUI
Prohibits a person who has a measurable amount of specified controlled substance(s) in his or her blood from driving a vehicle.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1244 (Adams-R) Golf carts
Exempts the City of La Verne, in a golf cart transportation plan area, from the requirement that they provide separate lanes for the golf carts.
Vetoed

AB 1310 (Leno-D) Charter-party carriers
Streamlines and refocuses enforcement by the Public Utilities Commission of statutes regulating charter-party carriers (i.e., limousine-for-hire or passenger charter services).
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2007

AB 1311 (Berryhill-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: records
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to grant heightened confidentiality for their records that contain the home addresses of community service officers and public service officers.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1322 (Duvall-R) Transportation: eminent domain
Specifies that an owner of a property that the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is acquiring, or under threat of eminent domain, is to be provided copies of all appraisals performed or obtained by Caltrans. The appraiser is required to provide copies of the appraisals to Caltrans, if they are first provided to the property owner instead of Caltrans.
Chapter 411, Statutes of 2007

AB 1385 (Garrick-R) Vehicles: DUI: penalties
Increases, from an infraction (punishable by a fine of up to $250) to a misdemeanor (punishable by up to six months in county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000), the penalty for operating a motorized scooter while under the influence.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1396 (Laird-D) California Coastal Trail
Requires certain state and regional transportation planning agencies to coordinate with the State Coastal Conservancy, California Coastal Commission, and Department of Transportation regarding development of the California Coastal Trail and to include provisions for the Coastal Trail in its regional plan.
Chapter 375, Statutes of 2007

AB 1433 (Huff-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: identification
Seeks to bring the issuance of driver's license and identification (ID) cards into compliance with the federal Real ID Act.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1458 (Duvall-R) Boating: vessel operator certificates and funding
Establishes a process, until 1/1/21, at the Department of Boating and Waterways by which most operators of motorboats must obtain and possess a lifetime vessel operator certificate in order to legally operate a motorboat.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1464 (Benoit-R) Vehicles
Allows a court to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that a vehicle's owner has failed to respond to a citation issued for an owner-responsibility violation, and requires DMV to place a hold on the motor vehicle's registration upon receipt of that notice.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2007

AB 1483 (Carter-D) Automotive repair: crash parts
Requires an automotive repair dealer, once repairs are completed, to provide a written affirmation to the customer that the crash parts identified on the written estimate are the crash parts that were installed on the vehicle during repair; the written affirmation must appear on the first page of the final invoice.
Vetoed

AB 1492 (Laird-D) Vehicles: transit buses: right-of-way
Allows the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, if approved by resolution, to authorize a transit bus to be equipped with a right-of-way yield sign on the left rear of the bus.
Chapter 451, Statutes of 2007

AB 1513 (Niello-R) Motor carriers: permits
Updates state law to reference the correct federal law governing interstate and international motor carrier permits.
Chapter 66, Statutes of 2007

AB 1519 (Ma-D) Landing rights: revocation
Allows the state, or any subdivision of the state, that operates a harbor or port district to revoke, rescind, or suspend the landing rights of a person operating a vessel for commercial purposes on navigable waters if the person has violated a state or federal water pollution law.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1531 (DeSaulnier-D) Vehicles: disabled parking
Raises the fine for illegally parking in a space reserved for disabled persons. Requires disabled parking spaces to be signed indicating the minimum fine for violations. Allows temporary placards to be renewed no more than six times.
Chapter 413, Statutes of 2007

AB 1575 (Richardson-D) Vehicle liens
Increases the caps for repair and storage fees that may be recovered by the lienholder of a vehicle.
Chapter 121, Statutes of 2007

AB 1581 (Fuller-R) Traffic-actuated signals: bicycles: motorcycles
Recognizes a traffic-actuated signal as an official traffic control device and requires upon its placement, or replacement of a loop detector of a traffic-actuated signal, for it to detect lawful bicycle or motorcycle traffic on the roadway.
Chapter 337, Statutes of 2007

AB 1589 (Duvall-R) Vehicles: reports: reexaminations: removal
Allows the removal of vehicles that display license plates that have either been issued to other vehicles, forged, counterfeited, or are otherwise being used inappropriately.
Chapter 453, Statutes of 2007

AB 1612 (Nava-D) Motor carriers: hazardous waste materials
Modifies provisions of the Biennial Inspections of Terminals Program for motor carriers of hazardous materials. Explicitly allows the Department of Transportation, or a local authority, to issue special permits authorizing the transportation of over-wide wall units and trusses.
Chapter 514, Statutes of 2007

AB 1661 (Cook-R) Drivers' license and identification cards
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to forward the personal information of male applicants for an original driver's license, or identification card, under 26 years of age, to the Selective Service System in an electronic format if the applicant indicates his agreement to be registered with the system. Provides that the information may include the applicant's social security number. Requires DMV to provide a notice on the application form regarding registration requirements and the penalties imposed for a failure to register. Makes legislative findings and declarations concerning compliance with the Military Selective Service Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1702 (Blakeslee-R) Caltrans: staffing
Provides the Department of Transportation permanent authority to consolidate the managerial candidate selection and hiring process tested in the five-year Managerial Selection Demonstration Project, and provides that state agencies or departments that make demonstration projects permanent must file an annual report for three years with the State Personnel Board on specified procedural aspects of the hiring process.
Chapter 284, Statutes of 2007

AB 1728 (Assembly Transportation Committee) Vehicles
Makes technical, non-controversial changes to the Vehicle Code. Double-jointed to AB 1689 (Lieber) to resolve chaptering conflicts.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2007

ACA 9 (DeVore-R) Department of Transportation: real property: property tax
Makes the property tax exemption for state-owned property inapplicable to real property owned by the Department of Transportation that has not been used for a transportation purpose for a five-year period. Begins the five-year period as of the operative date of this bill.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

ACR 37 (Mendoza-D) Automotive Career Month
Designates the month of April 2007 as Automotive Career Month.
Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2007

HR 13 (Hancock-D) California Bike Commute Week
Declares 5/14/ 07 to 5/18/07 as California Bike Commute Week, and encourages all citizens to recognize the importance of sharing our streets and highways with bicyclists and to participate in bicycling to work.
Adopted by the Assembly

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Index (in bill order)
Bill	Author and Bill Title	Reference Links
SB 9	Lowenthal-D Transportation: trade corridors	Development and Financing
SB 10	Kehoe-D San Diego County Regional Airport Authority	Miscellaneous
SB 19	Lowenthal-D Vehicle emissions: trade corridor	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 23	Cogdill-R High pollution vehicles: San Joaquin Valley	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 28	Simitian-D Department of Motor Vehicles: personal information	Miscellaneous
SB 33	Simitian-D Vehicles: wireless telephones and mobile service devices	Miscellaneous
SB 53	Ducheny-D State highways: performance measures	Highways
SB 56	Runner-R Highway construction contracts: design-build	Highways
SB 60	Cedillo-D Vehicles: driver's licenses	Miscellaneous
SB 61	Runner-R Transportation: high-occupancy toll lanes and toll roads	Highways
SB 67*	Perata-D Vehicles: speed contests and reckless driving	Miscellaneous
SB 70	Florez-D Biodiesel	Motor Vehicle Emissions Miscellaneous
SB 71	Florez-D Alternative fuels: biodiesel	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 73*	Florez-D Biodiesel: income tax credit	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 74*	Florez-D Biodiesel: tax exemption	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 75	Florez-D Alternative fuels: biodiesel	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 79*	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Transportation	Miscellaneous
SB 88*	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Highway Safety Bond Act of 2006	Development and Financing
SB 124*	Ducheny-D Registered vehicle owners: evasion of tolls	Miscellaneous
SB 128	Margett-R California Highway Patrol	Miscellaneous
SB 140	Kehoe-D Fuels: renewable diesel fuel	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 150	Florez-D Governmental liability: railroad quiet zones	Miscellaneous
SB 163	Migden-D Yerba Buena Island ramp connections	Highways
SB 167	Negrete McLeod-D Regional planning programs	Development and Financing
SB 177	Migden-D Driver's license: DUI: ignition interlock	Miscellaneous
SB 184	Alquist-D Transportation projects	Development and Financing
SB 195	Calderon-D Construction projects: wrap-up insurance: disclosures	Development and Financing
SB 204	Dutton-R Transportation funds	Highways
SB 210	Kehoe-D Greenhouse gas emissions: fuel standard	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 224	Battin-R State Highway Routes 79 and 111: relinquishment	Highways
SB 229	Margett-R Vehicles: large or heavy loads	Miscellaneous
SB 240	Florez-D San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 262	Runner-R Transportation: trade corridors improvement	Development and Financing
SB 264	Alquist-D Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority	Development and Financing
SB 266	Steinberg-D Motor vehicle speed contest: forfeiture	Miscellaneous
SB 279	Yee-D State highways: public nuisance	Highways
SB 285	Runner-R Provisional licensing program	Miscellaneous
SB 286	Lowenthal-D Transportation bonds: implementation	Development and Financing
SB 287	Denham-R Vehicles: special license plates	Miscellaneous
SB 308*	Margett-R Taxation: deductions: qualified vehicle transaction	Miscellaneous
SB 372	Steinberg-D High-speed rail: educational and vocational training program	Development and Financing
SB 375	Steinberg-D Transportation planning	Development and Financing
SB 377	Aanestad-R Highways: information signs	Highways
SB 386	Cogdill-R Vehicles: special license plates	Miscellaneous
SB 422	Ashburn-R Vehicles: commercial vehicles	Miscellaneous
SB 432	Lowenthal-D Streets and highways: description and traffic control	Miscellaneous
SB 442	Ackerman-R Public contracts: transit projects: design-build contracting	Development and Financing
SB 445	Torlakson-D Road User Task Force	Development and Financing Highways
SB 476	Hollingsworth-R Crime: vehicular manslaughter	Miscellaneous
SB 492	Maldonado-R Vehicles: abandonment: fines	Miscellaneous
SB 494	Kehoe-D Vehicular air pollution control: clean alternative fuels	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 498	Oropeza-D Vehicles: total loss salvage vehicles	Miscellaneous
SB 525	Lowenthal-D Department of Motor Vehicles: administrative hearings	Miscellaneous
SB 585*	Lowenthal-D Recycled concrete: Department of Transportation	Miscellaneous
SB 593	Margett-R Department of Transportation: retention proceeds	Development and Financing
SB 613	Simitian-D Traffic congestion: San Mateo County	Development and Financing
SB 640	Simitian-D Circulation and transportation element	Development and Financing
SB 652	Lowenthal-D Highway names	Highways
SB 684	Cox-R Intercity rail services: feeder buses	Development and Financing
SB 715	Lowenthal-D Advertising displays: noncommercial, protected speech	Miscellaneous
SB 716	Perata-D Transit operators	Development and Financing
SB 717	Perata-D Transportation Investment Fund	Development and Financing
SB 729	Padilla-D Vehicles: dealers: consumer protection	Miscellaneous
SB 735	Wiggins-D Recycling: paving materials: tracking	Miscellaneous
SB 745	Oropeza-D Transportation funding: part security	Development and Financing
SB 748	Corbett-D Transportation: state-local partnerships	Development and Financing
SB 754	Kehoe-D Department of Motor Vehicles: property	Miscellaneous
SB 773	Wiggins-D Vehicles: limitations of access	Highways Miscellaneous
SB 791	Corbett-D State highway property: City of Hayward	Highways
SB 798	Battin-R State Aeronautics Act: flight schools	Miscellaneous
SB 803	Lowenthal-D Transportation enhancements	Development and Financing
SB 810*	Corbett-D Green vehicles: tax credit	Miscellaneous
SB 841	Calderon-D Vehicles: driver improvement	Miscellaneous
SB 848	Corbett-D Vehicles: speed trap	Miscellaneous
SB 856	Runner-R Highway signs	Highways
SB 861	Wiggins-D North Coast Railroad Authority	Development and Financing
SB 872	Ackerman-R Transportation financing	Development and Financing
SB 876	Calderon-D Vehicle emission standards	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 881	Runner-R Santa Paula Airport	Development and Financing
SB 889	Maldonado-R Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes	Highways
SB 895	Florez-D Air quality	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 910	Scott-D Highway Route 164: Temple City	Highways
SB 912	Negrete McLeod-D Highway safety: flares	Highways
SB 947	Hollingsworth-R Transportation facilities	Development and Financing
SB 956	Correa-D Neighborhood electric vehicles: Orange County	Miscellaneous
SB 974	Lowenthal-D Ports: containerized cargo	Development and Financing
SB 976	Torlakson-D San Francisco Bay Area: transportation planning	Development and Financing
SB 1028	Padilla-D Ambient air quality standards: vehicles	Motor Vehicle Emissions
SCR 3	Cedillo-D The Wall Las Memorias Project AIDS monument: highway signs	Highways
SCR 4	Cox-R James E. Roberts Memorial Bridge	Highways
SCR 7	Battin-R Motorcycle Awareness Month	Miscellaneous
SCR 10	Aanestad-R Officer Matthew J. Redding Memorial Interchange	Highways
SCR 11	Negrete McLeod-D Correctional Officer Manuel A. Gonzalez, Jr. Memorial Hwy	Highways
SCR 14	Florez-D Officer John Palacios Memorial Highway	Highways
SCR 15	Aanestad-R Nomlaki Highway	Highways
SCR 16	Negrete McLeod-D Gary Moon Memorial Interchange	Highways
SCR 20	Kuehl-D Ricardo A. Crocker Memorial Highway	Highways
SCR 21	Ducheny-D James D. Schultz Memorial Freeway	Highways
SCR 22	Cox-R Stephanie Marie Frazier Memorial Highway	Highways
SCR 32	Hollingsworth-R Army Sergeant Brud Joseph Cronkrite Memorial Bridge	Highways
SCR 33	Hollingsworth-R Nello Irwin Greer Memorial Bridge	Highways
SCR 37	Simitian-D Lewis E. Platt Memorial Highway	Highways
SCR 38	Cedillo-D Los Angeles Police Officer Steven Gajda Memorial Highway	Highways
SCR 41	Corbett-D Nels Dan Niemi Memorial Highway	Highways
SCR 51	Maldonado-R CHP Lieutenant Michael Elvin Walker Memorial Highway	Highways
SCR 53	Denham-R CHP Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway	Highways
SCR 57	Maldonado-R Officer Loren D. Scruggs Memorial Highway	Highways
SR 17	Florez-D Airport Security-Surrendered Items Donation Program	Miscellaneous
AB 4	Anderson-R Department of Transportation: District 11	Miscellaneous
AB 6*	Houston-R Greenhouse gases: market-based compliance mechanisms	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 11	DeVore-R Vehicles: special license plates	Miscellaneous
AB 15	Houston-R Vasco Road: median barriers	Miscellaneous
AB 23*	Ma-D Department of Transportation: marked crosswalk	Miscellaneous
AB 24	Richardson-D Vehicles: police pursuit	Miscellaneous
AB 57	Soto-D Highways: federal funds: Safe Routes to School	Highways
AB 60	Nava-D Vehicles: bicycles	Miscellaneous
AB 61	Nava-D Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District	Development and Financing
AB 99	Feuer-D Vehicular air pollution control	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 101	Ma-D Vehicles: parking enforcement: video image evidence	Miscellaneous
AB 112	Wolk-D Highways: Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zones	Highways
AB 117	Beall-D Traffic offenses: assessment	Miscellaneous
AB 118	Nunez-D Alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: funding programs	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 138	Bass-D Vehicles: veterans: parking	Miscellaneous
AB 193*	Assembly Budget Committee Transportation revenues	Development and Financing
AB 196*	Assembly Budget Committee Transportation bond funds: cities and counties	Development and Financing
AB 201*	Assembly Budget Committee Transportation bonds: implementation	Development and Financing
AB 217	Beall-D Vehicle license fee and registration: biennial	Miscellaneous
AB 218	Saldana-D Vehicles: fees	Miscellaneous
AB 226	Huff-R Vehicles: removal	Miscellaneous
AB 233	Jones-D Diesel vehicles and engines: Healthy Heart and Lung Act	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 236	Lieu-D Governmental motor vehicle fleets	Miscellaneous
AB 248	Gaines-R Vehicles: violations: punishment	Miscellaneous
AB 254	Gaines-R Vehicles: total loss salvage vehicles	Miscellaneous
AB 255	De Leon-D Smog abatement fee	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 256	Huff-R Highway Users Tax Account: appropriation of funds	Highways
AB 291	Jeffries-R State Highway Route 74: relinquishment	Highways
AB 294	Adams-R Air pollution: manganese	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 303	Spitzer-R Vehicular: manslaughter	Miscellaneous
AB 305	Ma-D Vehicles: sale: used vehicles	Miscellaneous
AB 307*	Hayashi-D Fuel passenger transit buses	Miscellaneous
AB 321	Nava-D Vehicles: speed limits: schools	Miscellaneous
AB 353	Carter-D Vehicles: railroad crossings: traffic control signals	Miscellaneous
AB 387	Duvall-R Transit contracts: design-build	Development and Financing
AB 401	Benoit-R Transportation infrastructure emergencies	Highways
AB 412	Smyth-R Transportation: project deadlines	Development and Financing
AB 418	Saldana-D Vehicles: fees: exemption: deployed National Guard member	Miscellaneous
AB 421	Benoit-R Department of Motor Vehicles: abstract of record of court	Miscellaneous
AB 425	Adams-R Motorcycle helmets	Miscellaneous
AB 427	Hancock-D Transportation: state highway nuisances	Highways
AB 430	Benoit-R Vehicles: speed contests and reckless driving	Miscellaneous
AB 443	Wolk-D California Highway Patrol: main office	Miscellaneous
AB 444	Hancock-D Congestion management: motor vehicle registration fees	Development and Financing
AB 445	Nava-D Vehicles: special license plates: disabled veterans	Miscellaneous
AB 462	Villines-R Vehicle: license plates	Miscellaneous
AB 463	Huffman-D Vehicles: disabled persons: parking	Miscellaneous
AB 468	Ruskin-D Abandoned vehicle abatement	Miscellaneous
AB 470	DeSaulnier-D Electric personal assistive mobility devices	Miscellaneous
AB 474	DeVore-R Vehicle registration: biennial	Miscellaneous
AB 478	Wolk-D Bicycle lamps and reflectors on shared-use pathways	Miscellaneous
AB 484	Nava-D Landfill disposal: concrete	Highways
AB 490	Hancock-D Rapid transit districts	Miscellaneous
AB 493	Ruskin-D Motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions: incentive program	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 505*	Plescia-R Income and corporation taxes: credits: hybrid vehicles	Miscellaneous
AB 568	Karnette-D Port Community Advisory Committee	Miscellaneous
AB 574	Torrico-D High-occupancy toll lanes	Development and Financing
AB 575	Arambula-D Emission reductions	Motor Vehicle Emissions Highways
AB 602	DeVore-R Parking violations: hearings	Miscellaneous
AB 605	Walters-R Speed contest: forfeiture procedure	Miscellaneous
AB 616	Jones-D Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 619	Emmerson-R Vehicle registration amnesty program	Miscellaneous
AB 620	Portantino-D Transportation bonds	Development and Financing
AB 630	Price-D Air emissions standards: EPA waiver	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 631	Horton-R Gasoline fueling stations: ethanol pumps	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 633	Galgiani-D Grade separation projects	Highways
AB 645	Feuer-D Vehicles: traffic violations	Miscellaneous
AB 660	Galgiani-D Railroad-highway grade separations	Highways
AB 665	DeSaulnier-D Transportation: growth management	Development and Financing
AB 669	Parra-D State Highway Route 269	Highways
AB 695	Karnette-D Vessels: emissions	Miscellaneous
AB 700	Lieu-D Santa Monica Airport	Miscellaneous
AB 712	De Leon-D Off-road solid waste: clean air	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 744	Parra-D Off-highway motor vehicles	Highways
AB 747	Levine-D Greenhouse gas emissions	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 758	Plescia-R Traffic violators: schools	Miscellaneous
AB 769*	Aghazarian-R Fuel to transport biomass	Miscellaneous
AB 784	Karnette-D Transportation bonds	Development and Financing
AB 801	Walters-R Vehicles: license plates	Miscellaneous
AB 808	Parra-D Vehicles: drivers' licenses	Miscellaneous
AB 829	Duvall-R Motorcycles: aftermarket products	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 830	Ma-D Outdoor advertising	Highways
AB 842	Jones-D Traffic reduction: regional plans	Development and Financing
AB 846*	Blakeslee-R Clean Marine Fuels	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 866	Davis-D Department of Motor Vehicles: National Guard	Miscellaneous
AB 867	Davis-D Traffic analysis zones	Development and Financing
AB 878	Davis-D Vehicle registration fees	Miscellaneous
AB 881	Mullin-D Vehicles: child passengers	Miscellaneous
AB 889	Lieu-D Metro Green Line Construction Authority	Development and Financing
AB 893	Walters-R Vehicles: speeding	Highways
AB 899	Parra-D Transportation facilities	Development and Financing
AB 901	Nunez-D Transportation funding	Development and Financing
AB 913	Niello-R Motor carrier permits	Miscellaneous
AB 916*	Niello-R Airport and related construction: Sacramento County	Miscellaneous
AB 945	Carter-D Transportation needs assessment	Development and Financing
AB 957	Spitzer-R Department of Transportation records: state property	Miscellaneous
AB 966	Krekorian-D Driver's license renewal: senior citizens	Miscellaneous
AB 981	Ma-D Vehicles: abatement of abandoned vehicles: costs recovery	Development and Financing
AB 992	Brownley-D Roads: stormwater containment	Development and Financing
AB 995	Nava-D Trade corridors	Development and Financing
AB 1003	Jeffries-R Department of Transportation	Miscellaneous
AB 1008	Charles Calderon-D Insurance: vehicle service contracts	Miscellaneous
AB 1055	Blakeslee-R State Route 990: environment: mitigation	Highways
AB 1077	Lieber-D State Air Resources Board: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 1083	Huffman-D Automotive insurance: mileage-based incentives	Miscellaneous
AB 1084	Galgiani-D Highway signs	Highways
AB 1092	Emmerson-R Recreational vehicles	Miscellaneous
AB 1099	Portantino-D Vehicles: traffic violator schools	Miscellaneous
AB 1107*	Arambula-D Goods movement: small businesses and microenterprises	Development and Financing
AB 1117*	Benoit-R Local government: county services areas	Miscellaneous
AB 1119	Fuller-R Air pollution: diesel emission control devices	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 1139	Emmerson-R Department of Motor Vehicles: display systems: advertising	Miscellaneous
AB 1140	Strickland-R Department of Transportation: report	Highways
AB 1161	Tran-R Eminent domain	Highways
AB 1162	Tran-R State highway property: personal services contracts	Highways
AB 1165	Maze-R Driving under the influence	Miscellaneous
AB 1186*	Karnette-D Private Railroad Car Tax Law: assessment factors	Miscellaneous
AB 1200	Saldana-D Vehicles: hit-and-run: multiple convictions: penalties	Miscellaneous
AB 1209	Karnette-D Emission reduction projects and measures	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 1215	Benoit-R Vehicles: DUI	Miscellaneous
AB 1228	Solorio-D Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act	Development and Financing
AB 1240	Benoit-R Riverside County Transportation Commission	Development and Financing
AB 1244	Adams-R Golf carts	Miscellaneous
AB 1258	Caballero-D Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zones	Highways
AB 1295	Spitzer-R Transportation facilities: tolls	Highways
AB 1306	Huff-R Sales taxes on gasoline	Development and Financing
AB 1310	Leno-D Charter-party carriers	Miscellaneous
AB 1311	Berryhill-R Department of Motor Vehicles: records	Miscellaneous
AB 1322	Duvall-R Transportation: eminent domain	Miscellaneous
AB 1326	Houston-R San Francisco Bay Area/Los Angeles Transportation	Development and Financing
AB 1337	Nava-D State highway system: construction inspection functions	Highways
AB 1350	Nunez-D Transportation bond funds	Development and Financing
AB 1351	Levine-D Transportation: state-local partnerships	Development and Financing
AB 1358	Leno-D Transportation planning	Development and Financing
AB 1373	Emmerson-R Highway construction contracts	Highways
AB 1385	Garrick-R Vehicles: DUI: penalties	Miscellaneous
AB 1396	Laird-D California Coastal Trail	Miscellaneous
AB 1433	Huff-R Department of Motor Vehicles: identification	Miscellaneous
AB 1440	Wolk-D Hybrid trucks: grants	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 1455	Arambula-D California Air Quality Zones	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 1458	Duvall-R Boating: vessel operator certificates and funding	Miscellaneous
AB 1464	Benoit-R Vehicles	Miscellaneous
AB 1483	Carter-D Automotive repair: crash parts	Miscellaneous
AB 1488	Mendoza-D Air pollution: smog check program: diesel-powered vehicles	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 1492	Laird-D Vehicles: transit buses: right-of-way	Miscellaneous
AB 1495	La Malfa-R Information signs for roadside businesses in rural areas	Highways
AB 1499	Garrick-R Department of Transportation: design-build contracting	Highways
AB 1513	Niello-R Motor carriers: permits	Miscellaneous
AB 1519	Ma-D Landing rights: revocation	Miscellaneous
AB 1531	DeSaulnier-D Vehicles: disabled parking	Miscellaneous
AB 1543	Leno-D Treasure Island Transportation Management	Development and Financing
AB 1566	Niello-R Rest areas: joint economic development demonstration project	Highways
AB 1575	Richardson-D Vehicle liens	Miscellaneous
AB 1581	Fuller-R Traffic-actuated signals: bicycles: motorcycles	Miscellaneous
AB 1589	Duvall-R Vehicles: reports: reexaminations: removal	Miscellaneous
AB 1611	Leno-D San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation	Development and Financing
AB 1612	Nava-D Motor carriers: hazardous waste materials	Miscellaneous
AB 1637	DeSaulnier-D Public transportation: subsidies for low-income riders	Development and Financing
AB 1651*	Arambula-D Greenhouse gases: tax credits	Motor Vehicle Emissions
AB 1661	Cook-R Drivers' license and identification cards	Miscellaneous
AB 1672	Nunez-D California Transportation Commission	Development and Financing
AB 1702	Blakeslee-R Caltrans: staffing	Miscellaneous
AB 1728	Assembly Transportation Committee Vehicles	Miscellaneous
ACA 9	DeVore-R Department of Transportation: real property: property tax	Miscellaneous
ACR 4	Benoit-R Esperanza Firefighters Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 7	Wolk-D Officer David Lamoree Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 10	Cook-R CDF Firefighter Chris Kanton Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 17	Horton-R Mary Augustine Bridge	Highways
ACR 20	Cook-R Deputy Greg A. Gariepy Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 22	Benoit-R Armed Forces Freeway	Highways
ACR 25	Lieber-D Norman Y. Mineta Highway	Highways
ACR 26	Sharon Runner-R Historic U.S. Highway Route 6	Highways
ACR 27	Charles Calderon-D L.A. County Deputy Sheriff Jerry Ortiz Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 30	Berg-D Elizabeth Jane Rosewarne Memorial Bridge	Highways
ACR 31	Berg-D CHP Officer Ernest R. Felio Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 37	Mendoza-D Automotive Career Month	Miscellaneous
ACR 39	Keene-R Wick's Corner Interchange	Highways
ACR 41	Emmerson-R Officer James M. Goodman Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 57	Berg-D Veterans' Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 58	Fuller-R CHP Officer Erick S. Manny Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 59	Cook-R Lieutenant Jared M. Landaker Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 62	DeSaulnier-D Congressman George Miller Benicia-Martinez Bridge	Highways
ACR 63	Keene-R Estes and Hunter Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 73	Bass-D Nathan Shapell Memorial Highway	Highways
ACR 75	Coto-D Chumash Highway	Highways
AJR 40	De Leon-D South Coast Air Basin: ozone and fine particulate matter	Motor Vehicle Emissions
HR 13	Hancock-D California Bike Commute Week	Miscellaneous

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