Development and Financing
Motor Vehicle Emissions
Highways
Miscellaneous
Development and Financing
SB 208 (Alquist-D) Transportation: Traffic Congestion Relief Program
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to develop full funding agreements for Traffic Congestion Relief Program projects that have large unallocated balances.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 335* (Maldonado-R) Airport security, safety, and capacity grants
Provides for an annual appropriation from 2005-2009 of an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund for the purpose of funding grants for airport security and safety.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 760 (Lowenthal-D) Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach: container fees
Imposes a $30 fee on each shipping container processed at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and specifies the allocation and expenditure of the container fee revenues for rail system improvements, port security, and environmental pollution mitigation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1026 (Kuehl-D) Highway construction contracts: design-build projects
Authorizes, until January 1, 2010, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to conduct a demonstration program to enter a design-build contract for the construction of a northbound high-occupancy vehicle lane on the Interstate 405 freeway.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2006
Other design-build bills include AB 372 (Nation-D), Chapter 262, Statutes of 2006, AB 2025 (Niello-R) which died in Assembly Transportatio Committee and SB 1494 (McClintock-R) which died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee.
SB 1132* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Transportation
Serves as the omnibus transportation bill to make the statutory changes necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2006. Provides the repayment of $920 million of the 2004-05 Proposition 42 suspension. Provides the repaynent of $495 million of the 2003-04 Proposition 42 suspension. Keeps all gas tax "spillover" funds in transportation and allocates nearly $248 million for local transit agencies, $62 million for the State Transportation Improvement Program and other Public Transportation Account needs, $33 million for budget allocations which include $20 million for farmworker transportation and $3 million for the High Speed Rail Authority.
Chapter 56, Statutes of 2006
SB 1135 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Agricultural Worker Transportation Program
Establishes protocols to expend $20 million made available in the 2006-07 Budget Act for an agricultural worker transportation grant program.
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2006
SB 1266* (Perata-D) Bond act
Places a $19.975 billion General Obligation Bond on the November 2006 ballot, known as the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006.
Chapter 25, Statutes of 2006
Other bond related bills include SB 601 (Soto-D) which died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, SB 1024 (Perata-D) which died at the Assembly Desk, and SB 1165 (Dutton-R) which died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee.
SB 1384 (Kuehl-D) Los Angeles-Exposition Metro Line light rail project
Clarifies the duties of the Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority.
Chapter 808, Statutes of 2006
SB 1493* (McClintock-R) Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act
Repeals all of the bond act provisions of Chapter 697 of the Statutes of 2002, as amended by Chapter 71 of the Statutes of 2004.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1939 (Bogh) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.
SB 1494 (McClintock-R) Top priority transportation projects
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission to designate transportation projects of statewide significance as top priority projects. Exempts these projects from the California Environmental Quality Act and authorizes the Department of Transportation or other implementing agency to use design-build and design-sequencing procedures for the project, notwithstanding any other provision of law.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1587 (Lowenthal-D) Transportation planning: federal funds
Increases the planning cycle for regional transportation planning agencies submitting updated regional transportation plans. Allows the Monterey Bay and Santa Barbara regions to temporarily continue to receive certain federal funds. Allows the Department of Transportation to use a nontraditional candidate screening process.
Chapter 673, Statutes of 2006
SB 1611 (Simitian-D) Congestion management fees
Allows county transportation congestion management agencies or boards of supervisors to impose, subject to majority vote approval of county voters, a maximum $25 surcharge on the annual renewal of vehicles registered in their respective jurisdictions to fund transportation-related projects and programs, including pollution prevention programs carries out by a congestion management agency, a regional water quality control board, or a local air district.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1671 (Ashburn-R) Spaceports: Mojave Spaceport
Appropriates $11 million from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation to provide a 30-year loan to the East Kern Airport District to construct the Mojave Spaceport Terminal.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1812 (Runner-R) Surface transportation project delivery pilot program
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to consent to the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts with regard to the assumption of certain federal responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act, and waives the state's Eleventh Amendment protection against lawsuits brought in federal court for as long as the state participates in the federal surface transportation project delivery pilot program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCA 7 (Torlakson-D) Transportation Investment Fund
Deletes the requirement that the Governor issue a proclamation declaring that the transferring of funds to the Transportation Investment Fund will have a "significant negative fiscal impact on the range of functions of government funded by the General Fund of the State" and, instead, requires the Governor's proclamation declare that the suspension is necessary "due to a severe state fiscal hardship," and authorizes Proposition 42 funds to be loaned to the General Fund under specified conditions.
Resolution Chapter 49, Statutes of 2006
SCR 123 (Florez-D) Joint Legislative Committee on High-Speed Trains
Establishes, until December 31, 2008, the Joint Legislative Committee on High-Speed Trains. The Committee will be comprised of five members of the Senate and five members of the Assembly, as specified, and hold public hearings to receive public comment and review the work of the High-Speed Rail Authority and the plans for a high-speed train system in California. Authorizes the Senate Rules Committee and the Assembly Rules Committee to make money available to the Joint Legislative Committee on High-Speed Trains from the Senate and Assembly Operating Funds, as specified.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 267 (Daucher-R) Transportation project
Revises the reimbursement process and conditions for advance expenditures for the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) projects as follows: (1) limits the reimbursement provisions to projects programmed in the current year of the STIP; (2) requires the local or regional entity to request an allocation from the California Transportation Commission (CTC) within 12 months of its first advance expenditure on a qualified project; (3) requires CTC to approve a future allocation of funds if the project meets all of the requirements for reimbursement but funds are insufficient for a current allocation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 311 (Baca-D) City of San Bernardino: parking structure funding
Appropriates $1,200,000 in federal Petroleum Violation Escrow Account funds to the Department of Transportation for allocation to the City of San Bernardino for the purposes of constructing a six level parking structure at the Santa Fe Depot.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 343* (Huff-R) Transportation: public officers
Allows Foothill Transit to let contracts for the enforcement of Penal Code provisions relating to prohibited behaviors on public transportation systems, if the persons providing the service complete training requirements specified in existing law.
Chapter 260, Statutes of 2006
AB 372 (Nation-D) Public contracts: transit design-build contracts
Extends the sunset date by two years, until January 1, 2009, for transit districts to enter into design-build contracts. Requires the establishment of a labor compliance program for design-build contracts and reduces the threshold project cost level of projects able to use the authority.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2006
AB 509 (Richman-R) Regional transportation agencies
Authorizes regional transportation agencies to enter into agreements to finance regional user-fee based transportation projects.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 521 (Sharon Runner-R) Transportation facilities: public-private partnerships
Allows lease agreements for certain transportation projects to go into effect unless rejected by the Legislature.
Chapter 542, Statutes of 2006
AB 697* (Oropeza-D) Transportation revenue: continuous appropriation
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 713* (Torrico-D) Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act
Postpones, until 2008, the scheduled November 7, 2006 vote on the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century and makes corrective changes to the language.
Chapter 44, Statutes of 2006
AB 969 (Karnette-D) Business, Transportation and Housing Agency: trans planning
Requires the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to develop a strategy to accomplish specified transportation objectives.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1020 (Hancock-D) Transportation planning: improved travel models
Requires the California Transportation Commission to develop guidelines for the use of travel demand models for the preparation of regional transportation plans. Establishes a review process involving the Department of Transportation and specified regional transportation planning agencies for evaluating transportation planning computer models and requires selected transportation planning agencies to incorporate measures pertaining to land use transit service levels into these models.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1039 (Frommer-D) Government: environment: bonds: transportation
Exempts specified levee and highway and bridge seismic retrofit projects from the California Environmental Quality Act, authorizes a master environmental impact report, as specified, for a plan adopted by the Department of Transportation (DOT) for improvements to regional segments of Highway 99, and authorizes DOT to participate in a self-certification process for transportation projects.
Chapter 31, Statutes of 2006
AB 1157 (Frommer-D) Rail Safety and Traffic Mitigation Bond Act of 2006
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation providing for a general obligation bond act in the amount of $500 million to be submitted to the voters for approval in order to provide funding for a program to eliminate the most dangerous railroad-highway grade crossings in the state, as identified by the Public Utilities Commission, with funds to be allocated by the California Transportation Commission.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
A similar bill is AB 1838 (Oropeza-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.
AB 1173 (Tran-R) Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act
Extends the southern terminus of the initial segment of the high-speed system from Los Angeles to Anaheim.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1276 (Oropeza-D) Intermodal corridors of economic significance
Requires the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with regional transportation planning agencies, to establish a task force for the purposes of developing a strategy for avoiding congestion along the state's intermodal corridors of economic significance, and to develop and apply freight oriented performance measures on those corridors.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1467 (Nunez-D) Transportation projects: facilities
Provides for four public-private partnership projects and for up to four high occupancy toll lane projects.
Chapter 32, Statutes of 2006
AB 1552 (La Suer-R) San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency
Expands the governing board of the San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency by one additional supervisor to be appointed to the governing board, based on specified requirements for representation from both incorporated and unincorporated parts of the county.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1649 (Liu-D) Metro Foothills Gold Line Construction Authority`
Changes the name of the Pasadena Metro Blue Line Construction Authority to the Metro Foothills Gold Line Construction Authority and revises the composition of its governing board's membership. Authorizes the appointing entity to remove members of the board at any time and appoint a replacement, specifies a schedule for construction of the light rail project, and requires the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to submit a financial plan to the Legislature for this construction.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1699 (Frommer-D) Commuter and intercity passenger trains: push-pull operation
Requires the Department of Transportation to contract with the University of California at Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies to conduct a study on specified passenger rail operations in California.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1702 (Frommer-D) State finances: economic recovery and transportation
Appropriates five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) from the amount made available to the General Fund from the Economic Recovery Bond Act to specified transportation purposes and pledges to backfill an equivalent amount to the General Fund from the net proceeds of bonds sold from the state's tribal gaming bonds.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1805* (Assembly Budget Committee) Vehicle License Fee
Implements the local government portion of the 2006 Budget Act which, among other provisions, reinstates the allocation mechanism for excess Vehicle License Fee compliance revenue.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2006
AB 1811* (Laird-D) Transportation: budget trailer bill
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 2006 which, among other provisions, appropriates $260 million for the remainder of the Governor's proposed Proposition 62 loan prepayment and $495 million for the remainder of interest-bearing Proposition 42 loans.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2006
AB 1878 (Parra-D) Advisory council
Creates the Southern San Joaquin Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council, with specified powers and duties, and specifies the membership of the council to consist of certain board members of councils of governments.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2025 (Niello-R) Design-build contracts
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to utilize an alternative procurement method of services called design-build.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
Other design-build bills include AB 372 (Nation-D), Chapter 262, Statutes of 2006, SB 1026 (Kuehl-D), Chapter 1, Statutes of 2006 and SB 1494 (McClintock-R) which died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee.
AB 2295 (Arambula-D) Transportation capital improvement projects
Clarifies the eligibility of local and rehabilitation projects for regional improvement program funding through the State Transportation Improvement Program process managed by regional transportation planning agencies.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2361 (Huff-R) Transportation: federal funds: border infrastructure funds
Exempts federal funding for border infrastructure projects from the State Transportation Improvement Program formula.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2444 (Klehs-D) Congestion management
Allows Bay Area county congestion management agencies and the Bay Area Quality Management District each to impose annual vehicle registration fee surcharges of up to $5 to fund congestion management and environmental mitigation activities.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2492 (Benoit-R) Transportation: transportation infrastructure emergency
Broadens the definition of a state of emergency with regard to conditions within the state, by adding a transportation infrastructure emergency.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2538 (Wolk-D) Transportation funds: planning and programming
Increases the maximum amount of funds that local transportation agencies may spend on project planning, programming, and monitoring from one percent to five percent of regional transportation improvement program funds.
Chapter 821, Statutes of 2006
AB 2647 (Oropeza-D) Vehicular air pollution: truck retrofit assistance program
Expands the California Capital Access Loan Program to help purchase emission reduction technologies and equipment for heavy-duty diesel trucks.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2991 (Karnette-D) Port infrastructure financing
Allows any harbor agency to receive any counter-terrorism or anti-terrorism funds to pay for port or harbor infrastructure.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 3010 (Niello-R) Surface transportation programs
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to select surface transportation projects for credit assistance from federal sources.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
ACA 4 (Plescia-R) Transportation Investment Fund
Deletes the provision authorizing the Governor and the Legislature to suspend the transfer of revenues from the General Fund to the Transportation Investment Fund for a fiscal year during a fiscal emergency.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACA 9 (Bogh-R) Motor vehicle fuel sales tax revenue
Changes the vote requirement to four-fifth of the membership of each house of the Legislature in order to enact a statute suspending in whole or in part the transfer of sales taxes on motor vehicle fuel from the General Fund to the Transportation Investment Fund.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACA 10 (Nunez-D) Transportation Investment Fund
This is a spot bill dealing with transportation investment funding.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
ACA 11 (Oropeza-D) Transportation funds: loans
Requires interest to be paid on a loan of revenues subject to either Article XIX or XIX A of the California Constitution if the loan is not repaid during the same fiscal year in which it was made, requires the loan made pursuant to Article XIX or XIX A to be made pursuant to a statute establishing the terms for repayment and prohibits the enactment of a statute making a new loan pursuant to Article XIX or XIX A prior to the full repayment of each previous loan under Article XIX or XIX A, respectively, and prohibits a loan from being authorized by a statute during more than two fiscal years within any period of 10 consecutive fiscal years. Authorizes tax revenues subject to Article XIX or XIX A to be loaned to other state funds or accounts in addition to the General Fund.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACR 151 (Matthews-D) Grade separation projects
Requests the Public Utilities Commission, when revising the formula used to prioritize grade separation projects, to add a factor for delays that disproportionately affect emergency vehicles, especially in rural areas.
Resolution Chapter 151, Statutes of 2006
AJR 9 (Shirley Horton-R) Transportation infrastructure finance
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that will ensure that California receives a more equitable distribution of federal tax dollars for transportation funding and a higher rate of return in terms of money received per dollar of federal tax paid.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
Motor Vehicle Emissions
SB 225 (Soto-D) Carl Moyer program
Adjusts the cost-effectiveness standard used as a minimum threshold for Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program grants. Makes changes to the funding formula that distributes funds to the air quality management districts, as well as increases funds for administrative overhead costs to them.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 2006
SB 1252 (Florez-D) Air pollution: penalties: particulate matter
Codifies existing air quality regulations and increases civil penalties for violating state standards.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
SB 1286 (Ducheny-D) Binational air pollution
Establishes a binational council to address air quality issues for the air basin encompassing the Cities of Calexico, California and Mexicali, Baja California, contingent on the execution of a memorandum of understanding between any California state agency, the County of Imperial, the State of Baja California and the City of Mexicali.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1416 (Battin-R) Air resources: gasoline supply
Requests the University of California to conduct a study on the impact of allowing gasoline that does not comply with reformulated fuel standards established by the Air Resources Board and authorizes any gasoline that does not meet California standards, but is approved for sale by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, to be imported into and sold in the state.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1505 (Lowenthal-D) Fuel: hydrogen alternative fuel
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt regulations, by July 1, 2008, that ensure that the production and use of hydrogen fuel contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, criteria air pollutants, and toxic air contaminants.
Chapter 877, Statutes of 2006
SB 1511 (Ducheny-D) Renewable fuels: regulations
Requires the Air Resources Board to amend its existing regulations to increase the use of renewable fuels.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 1601 (Lowenthal-D) Air pollution: marine ports: emissions
Requires the marine ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland to include, as a condition of any new lease or significant renegotiated existing lease between the marine port and any entity to lease any part of port property or any right-of-way, an express condition that the lessee use best available control technology for reducing particulate matter and nitrous oxide emissions form specified sources (i.e., ocean-going vessels, harbor craft, cargo handling equipment, on-road heavy-duty vehicles and certain locomotives).
(Died on Senate Floor)
SB 1675 (Kehoe-D) Vehicular air pollution: renewable diesel fuel
Requires all diesel fuel sold or offered for sale in the state to contain at least two percent biodiesel, and two years thereafter, five percent biodiesel.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
SB 1718 (Perata-D) Air pollution
Limits expenditures, as they relate to unregulated agricultural sources of air pollution, to the new purchase, retrofit, repower, or add-on of equipment for previously unregulated internal combustion engines that are agricultural sources of air pollution, as specified.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1829 (Lowenthal-D) Marine terminals: air emissions
Tightens restrictions on truck idling at marine container terminals and shifts enforcement authority from individual local air districts to the Air Resources Board.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1839 (Perata-D) Smog check: Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee
Deletes the requirement that the Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee (Committee) review the protocol for the pilot program which exempts certain vehicles from the biennial certification requirements and provides that the Committee and its various functions and responsibilities remain in effect only until December 31, 2005. Makes conforming changes with regard to the functions of the Committee.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 184 (Cogdill-R) Air quality: high polluter vehicles
Establishes a vehicle replacement program at the Department of Consumer Affairs through which vehicles that meet certain air emissions standards can be donated to the program to be made available to replace high-polluter vehicles voluntarily turned in to the program by the other person.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 679 (Calderon-D) Air resources: diesel fuel
Prohibits the Air Resources Board (ARB) from adopting any regulation that excludes the importation of compliant diesel fuel, as defined, by entities that do not have refineries in California, requires the ARB to convene a panel of interested parties to develop a test protocol for the evaluation of the ARB diesel fuel, and to recommend a subsequent test program that measures the emissions benefits of ARB diesel fuel, and requires ARB to complete the test program and submit results to the Legislature by December 31, 2007.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2006
AB 898 (Maze-R) Air pollution: smog check: technicians
Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs, with respect to the qualification tests for smog check technicians, to do the following: (1) review the qualification requirements imposed on smog check technicians in other states and make the requirements imposed in this state as consistent as possible with those in other states; (2) establish prerequisite training for smog check technicians and permit an individual who completes 60 hours of that training to take a qualification examination, and (3) revise the qualification requirements to permit an applicant to become a smog check technician by completing the prerequisite training and passing the smog check qualification examination that would be required to be as consistent as possible with those in other states and appropriate for a smog check technician.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1012 (Nation-D) Vehicular air pollution control: clean alternative fuels
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to ensure that one-half of new passenger and light-duty trucks, beginning in 2020, sold in California are clean alternative vehicles.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1101 (Oropeza-D) Air pollution: diesel magnet sources
Defines diesel magnet sources and establishes the requirements these facilities must meet in order to comply with the Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Information and Assessment Act of 1987.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 1223 (Leno-D) Internet: vehicle sales: low-emission vehicles
Allows vehicle manufacturers to sell low-emission vehicles directly to consumers.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1678 (Saldana-D) Ports and harbors: vessels: air pollution
Requires the Port of San Diego, on or before, January 1, 2007, to provide a report to the San Diego Air Pollution Control District, including: (1) an inventory of air emissions from stationary and mobile sources; (2) an assessment of the number of vessel port visits per year; (3) a standard for ship electrification, as defined, and (4) an economic feasibility study of various air pollution reduction measures, including, cold-ironing, as defined, and a timeline for implementing these measures.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1870 (Lieber-D) Air pollution: motor vehicle inspection and maintenance
Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs, Bureau of Automotive Repair, to include a visual smog check test to determine presence of smoke in automobile exhaust. Makes changes to the consumer assistance programs available to motor vehicle owners whose vehicles fail smog check.
Chapter 761, Statutes of 2006
AB 1901 (Shirley Horton-R) Air pollution: truck retrofit revolving loan program
Establishes the Truck Retrofit Revolving Loan Program at the Energy Resources, Conservation and Development Commission to provide loans to businesses to retrofit large trucks with a SmartWay Upgrade Kit designed to improve the trucks' energy efficiency and reduce emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1997 (Cogdill-R) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Requires the Bureau of Automotive Repair to develop and administer a voluntary program to replace high polluter vehicles with donated low-emission motor vehicles and donated vehicles that meet existing smog inspection and maintenance regulations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2151 (Villines-R) CalEPA: rules: scientific peer review
Adds that a policy adopted by the Air Resources Board or local air district pursuant to the California Clean Air Act, that has the effect of a regulation and that is adopted in order to implement a statute, is subject to peer review.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2249 (Coto-D) Smog check: test-only technicians
Requires separate training and qualification requirements for test and repair smog check technicians and test-only smog check technicians. Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to establish minimum qualification requirements for test-only smog check technicians in keeping with the services performed at licensed test-only smog check stations.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2557 (Huff-R) Transportation
Requires the air pollution emission label to be placed on a side window to the rear of the driver.
Chapter 419, Statutes of 2006
AB 2788 (Arambula-D) Voluntary Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program
Revises the formula used to calculate emissions reduction credits generated by the voluntary accelerated vehicle retirement program for the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution District until January 1, 2012. Specifies payment amounts for low-income participants who retire high polluting and gross polluting vehicles.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 2791 (Ruskin-D) Vehicle emissions
Requires a study of the costs and benefits of the Clean Vehicle Discount Program.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2823 (Ruskin-D) Air pollution: district compliance programs
Requires a local air pollution control district, which serves a population of one million or more, to provide public notification of a notice of violation for public nuisance laws or regulations.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2824 (Ruskin-D) Air pollution: air toxics emissions inventory
Enhances Internet access to air toxics emissions data available to state and local agencies and the general public.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 2843 (Saldana-D) Air pollution
Eliminates the sunset date on the statute that requires at least 50 percent of certain air pollution funds to be allocated to disproportionately affected communities.
Chapter 798, Statutes of 2006
ACR 167 (Pavley-D) Nonpetroleum, clean alternative fuels
Expresses the Legislature's commitment to achieve a clean transportation future based upon the use of nonpetroleum, clean alternative fuels.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
Highways
SB 3 (Torlakson-D) Highways: Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zones
Creates a double-fine zone on a segment of road within Contra Costa County.
Chapter 179, Statutes of 2006
SB 172 (Torlakson-D) Toll bridge seismic retrofit program
Reforms the management of the toll bridge seismic retrofit program and provides funding for identified cost overruns.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 371 (Torlakson-D) Design-build contracting: transportation entities
Declares the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that develops an alternative and optional procedure for bidding on highway, bridge, tunnel, or public transit construction projects in the jurisdiction of any county, local transportation authority, or local or regional transportation entity, as provided, and authorizes the Department of Transportation to develop an alternative bidding procedure for highway, bridge, or tunnel projects on the state highway system.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SB 463 (Ducheny-D) Toll roads: State Highway Route 125
Allows a 10-year extension (45 years total) to the franchise agreement between the state and the private entity constructing and operating the State Route 125 toll road in San Diego.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 2006
SB 468 (Campbell-R) State highways: safety roadside rest areas
Allows the Department of Transportation to construct, maintain and operate 15 highway rest areas, including new units and existing units, as a joint public-private economic development demonstration project.
(Died on Senate Inactive file)
SB 519 (McClintock-R) Highways: exclusive-use or preferential-use lanes
Requests the University of California to conduct a study to evaluate the effectiveness of preferential use traffic lanes for high occupancy vehicles by January 1, 2007.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 561* (Runner-R) Toll Roads
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to enter into agreements with public and private entities for toll or user fee based financing of transportation projects.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 988 (Migden-D) Safety Awareness Zones: Golden Gate Bridge
Establishes criteria for designating highway segments as Safety Awareness Zones and specifies the Golden Gate Bridge as being eligible for designation as a Safety Awareness Zone.
Chapter 593, Statutes of 2006
Similar to AB 2398 (Yee-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.
SB 1026 (Kuehl-D) Highway construction contracts: design-build projects
Authorizes, until January 1, 2010, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to conduct a demonstration program to enter a design-build contract for the construction of a northbound high-occupancy vehicle lane on the Interstate 405 freeway.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2006Other design-build bills include AB 372 (Nation-D), Chapter 262, Statutes of 2006, AB 2025 (Niello-R) which died in Assembly Transportation Committee and SB 1494 (McClintock-R) which died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee.
SB 1161 (Alarcon-D) State highways: design-sequencing contracts
Expands and extends, by two years to January 2012, the pilot program at the Department of Transportation (DOT) that allows DOT to award design-sequencing contracts for the design and construction of transportation projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Similar to AB 1266 (Niello-R) which died in Assembly Transportation Committee.
SB 1282* (Ducheny-D) Transportation: federal funds: border infrastructure program
Exempts specified federal funds from the State Transportation Improvement Program's distribution formulas.
Chapter 451, Statutes of 2006
SB 1694 (Aanestad-R) Transportation: federal funds: allocation to counties
Dedicates 15 percent of the state's discretionary portion of federal equity bonus transportation funds for use by counties for transportation projects until October 1, 2009.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1841 (Migden-D) Yerba Buena Island ramp connections
Requires ownership of the Bay Bridge ramps connecting the current eastern span to Yerba Buena Island to be conditionally transferred to the Department of Transportation (DOT), requires these ramps to become part of the state highway system, and specifies DOT's responsibilities regarding reconstruction of the ramps as part of the new eastern span.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SCR 7 (Denham-R) Officer Stephan Gene Gray Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of State Route 99 as the "Officer Stephan Gene Gray Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 56, Statutes of 2006
SCR 19 (Chesbro-D) Robert G. Mondavi Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 29 in Napa County as the "Robert Mondavi Highway."
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SCR 20 (Soto-D) CHP Officer Thomas J. Steiner Memorial Highway
Designates a section of State Highway Route 60 in the City of Pomona as the "CHP Officer Thomas J. Steiner Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2006
SCR 28 (Murray-D) Nathan Shapell Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 405 in Los Angeles as the "Nathan Shapell Highway."
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SCR 37 (Florez-D) Donald E. DeMers Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 41 in the City of Fresno as the "Donald E. DeMers Highway."
Resolution Chapter 138, Statutes of 2006
SCR 52 (Margett-R) Mayor James Thalman and Mayor Michael Wickman Memorial Hwy
Designates, as the "Mayor James Thalman and Mayor Michael Wickman Memorial Highway," a 1.5 mile segment of Highway 71 in the City of Chino Hills (San Bernardino County).
Resolution Chapter 26, Statutes of 2006
SCR 53 (Ashburn-R) Mark C. Salvaggio Interchange
Designates. as the "Mark C. Salvaggio Interchange," the White Lane Interchange on Highway 99 in the City of Bakersfield (Kern County).
Resolution Chapter 39, Statutes of 2006
SCR 55 (Ashburn-R) Paul H. Pino Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of Highway 395 in Inyo County as the "Paul H. Pino Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 50, Statutes of 2006
SCR 57 (Cox-R) Robert M. Jackson Memorial Highway
Designates, as the "Robert M. Jackson Memorial Highway," a segment of Highway 89 in eastern Alpine County.
Resolution Chapter 27, Statutes of 2006
SCR 66 (Cox-R) Historic Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40
Designates historic segments of former Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40 as the "Historic Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40."
Resolution Chapter 51 Statutes of 2006
SCR 68 (Florez-D) The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of State Highway Route 119 in the County of Kern as the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 95, Statutes of 2006
SCR 72 (Maldonado-R) Memorial highway and memorial interchange
Designates a segment of State Highway Route 101 in San Luis Obispo County, between Spring Street in Paso Robles and Santa Barbara Road in Atascadero, as the "Vernon L. Sturgeon Memorial Highway" and designates the Interstate 10 and Interstate 405 Interchange, also known as the San Diego-Santa Monica Freeway Interchange, in the City of Los Angeles, as the "Marilyn Jorgenson Reece Memorial Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 2006
SCR 93 (Runner-R) Memorial highway
Designates, as the "California Highway Patrol Officers James E. Pence, Jr., Roger D. Gore, Walter C. Frago, and George M. Alleyn Memorial Highway," a one-mile segment of Interstate 5 in the City of Newhall (Los Angeles County).
Resolution Chapter 92, Statutes of 2006
SCR 95 (Soto-D) Officer Richard Hyche Memorial Freeway
Designates, as the "Officer Richard Hyche Memorial Highway," a one-mile segment of Interstate 10 in the City of Ontario (San Bernardino County).
Resolution Chapter 93, Statutes of 2006
SCR 96 (Ortiz-D) Deputy Sheriff Sandra Powell-Larson Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of Interstate 5 in the City of Sacramento as the "Deputy Sheriff Sandra Powell-Larson Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2006
SCR 98 (Florez-D) Curt Carter Sr. Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 58 in the City of Bakersfield as the "Curt Carter Sr. Memorial Highway."
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SCR 114 (Chesbro-D) Mignon "Minnie" Stoddard Lilley Memorial Bridge
Designates the new South Fork Eel Bridge, located on State Highway Route 101 in the County of Mendocino near Confusion Hill, as the "Mignon 'Minnie' Stoddard Lilley Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 140, Statutes of 2006
SCR 120 (Denham-R) Michael (Flea) Feliciano Memorial Highway
Designates that portion of State Highway Route 101, north of Chualar between Payson Street and Esperanza Road in Monterey County, as the "Caltrans Highway Maintenance Lead Worker Michael 'Flea' Feliciano Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 141, Statutes of 2006
SCR 124 (Lowenthal-D) National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
Recognizes the 50th anniversary of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
Resolution Chapter 142, Statutes of 2006
SCR 128 (Cedillo-D) Bill Keene Memorial Interchange
Redesignates the interchange of State Highway Routes 101 in the City of Los Angeles from the "Bill Keene Interchange" to the "Bill Keene Memorial Interchange."
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SCR 129 (Cedillo-D) Los Angeles Police Officer Steven Gajda Memorial Highway
Designates a specified segment of State Highway Route 60 in the City of Los Angeles as the "Los Angeles Police Officer Steven Gajda Memorial Highway."
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SCR 130 (Florez-D) Officer John Palacios Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 269 in Fresno County as the "Officer John Palacios Memorial Highway."
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SCR 133 (Cox-R) James E. Roberts Memorial Bridge
Designates the Tuolumne River Bridge on State Highway Route 120 in Tuolumne County as the "James E. Roberts Memorial Bridge."
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 189 (Shirley Horton-R) Highway projects: coordinated environmental review
Establishes the Highway Capacity Enhancement Project Delivery Demonstration Act, a pilot program to evaluate the potential benefits of an alternate approach during the environmental phase of project delivery, with a report due back to the Legislature by July 1, 2010.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 426 (Bogh-R) High occupancy vehicle lanes: Riverside County
Requires until January 1, 2009, the Department of Transportation to convert all high-occupancy vehicle lanes on state highways in Riverside County that currently operate on a 24-hour basis to operate as mix-flow lanes except during peak periods, subject to any required approvals of the federal government.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 508 (Richman-R) Department of Transportation: design-build contracting
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to use the design-build procurement process for state highway construction contracts.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 540 (Liu-D) State highway projects: meetings
Requires the Department of Transportation, prior to finalizing construction and commencing design for a project on a state highway project, to first meet and confer with the governing body of the local jurisdiction where the project is to be located.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 850 (Canciamilla-D) Toll road agreements
Allows the Department of Transportation to contract with public and private entities to expand the number of toll roads, toll facilities and high-occupancy toll lanes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1025 (Walters-R) Driving in excess of 100 mph
Makes driving in excess of 100 miles per hour a misdemeanor, rather than an infraction.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1087 (DeVore-R) Vehicles: loads: spill prevention
Modifies the fine imposed on drivers of trucks and other vehicles from which objects fall out onto the roadway, and instead bases the fine on the size, volume, or weight of each object.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1118* (Umberg-D) State highways: airspace leases
Permits the Department of Transportation to lease the real property consisting of the airspace parcel below the Broadway off-ramp from northbound Interstate 5 in Santa Ana to a nonprofit agency for $1 per month.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1277 (Evans-D) Highway Users Tax Account: State Highway Account
Provides that all monies in the Highway Users Tax Account, Transportation Tax Fund and the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund are continuously appropriated and may be encumbered in any year in which a Budget Act has not been enacted by July 1 for the fiscal year beginning on July 1.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1281* (Maze-R) State scenic highway system
Designates specific segments of State Highway Route 198 as a state scenic highway and requires the Department of Transportation to establish special designating signs on those segments.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1449 (Bermudez-D) Graffiti abatement
Provides that upon discovery of graffiti on publicly and privately owned permanent structures, which are located within 100 feet of a highway owned and maintained by the Department of Transportation (DOT), city or county officials, as applicable, shall notify DOT, which shall take specified actions.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1499 (Benoit-R) Outdoor advertising: City of Riverside
Exempts, from the prohibition against placing advertising displays adjacent to landscaped freeways, an advertising structure (billboard or sign) used to advertise development projects or private commercial centers in the City of Riverside. The exemption will be subject to several conditions.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1518 (Jerome Horton-D) Outdoor advertising
Exempts, from the prohibition against placing advertising displays adjacent to landscaped freeways, any billboard located on property owned by the Lennox School District, subject to certain conditions.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1781 (Mountjoy-R) Highways: victim signs
Deletes the January 1, 2007, sunset date for the requirement that the Department of Transportation place memorial signs at the request of family members for victims of accidents caused by individuals under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Chapter 81, Statutes of 2006
AB 1785 (Bermudez-D) Grade separation projects
Increases the budgeted allocation for grade separation projects from $15 million to $70 million annually.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1853 (Matthews-D) Railroad-highway crossings: grade separation projects
Requires the Public Utilities Commission, in establishing the priority list for grade separation projects, to specifically assess a grade separation or alteration project for crossing blocking delays that disproportionately affect emergency services.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1858 (McCarthy-R) State Highway Routes 58, 178, and 204: relinquishment
Authorizes the relinquishment of portions of State Routes 58, 178 and 204 to the City of Bakersfield and Kern County.
Chapter 315, Statutes of 2006
AB 1875 (Daucher-R) State highways: landscape services
Requires the Department of Transportation to enter into cooperative agreements, at the request of cities and counties, for landscape maintenance and litter removal on any portion of a state highway within a city or county.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1938 (Bogh-R) State highways: relinquishment
Authorizes the relinquishment of portions of State Highway Route 79 in the City of San Jacinto.
Chapter 318, Statutes of 2006
AB 1974 (Walters-R) High-occupancy vehicle lanes
Allows counties to allow the use of state highway lanes by single-occupant vehicles.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2002 (La Malfa-R) Highway signs: veterans
Allows county boards of supervisors to place a "Where We Honor Veterans" sign at or near the county line on any state highway with the permission of the Department of Transportation, or on any county highway under the county's jurisdiction.
Chapter 204, Statutes of 2006
AB 2143 (Parra-D) Transportation: interregional road system
Adds State Highway Route 43 to the list of eligible interregional and intercounty highway routes.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 2234 (Strickland-R) Highway signs: World War II Aviation Museum
Requires the Department of Transportation to authorize the placement of directional signs for a museum in Camarillo.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2290 (DeVore-R) User fees
Allows the construction of transportation projects on state highways designated for exclusive use of commercial trucks.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2441* (Klehs-D) Outdoor advertising
Authorizes an advertising display in the redevelopment zone of the City of San Leandro, subject to specified conditions.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2483 (Baca-D) State highways: sale of excess property
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to first make available its excess property to cities, counties, or redevelopment agencies for redevelopment purposes.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 2600 (Lieu-D) Vehicles: HOV lanes
Allows an additional 10,000 high-mileage hybrid vehicles to obtain stickers allowing them to drive in high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes regardless of the number of occupants. Extends the sunset date on the authorization for these and other "Clean Air" vehicles to operate in HOV lanes.
Chapter 614, Statutes of 2006
AB 2604 (Emmerson-R) Highway construction contracts: design-build method
Authorizes the San Bernardino Associated Governments to use a design-build procurement method for the construction of improvements for a specific project within San Bernardino County.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2625 (Pavley-D) California Heritage Corridor Act
Creates a program to link "significant" locations in the state which share "concepts," including "industry," "philosophy" or "achievement."
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2630 (Benoit-R) Grade separation project funding
Revises procedures on allocate state funds for grade separation projects. Allows a local entity to receive funding within the 10-year period of prohibition if funds are sufficiently available for allocation, as determined by the Department of Transportation.
Chapter 420, Statutes of 2006
AB 2661 (Strickland-R) Vehicle inspection facilities
Requires the Department of Transportation to establish a commercial vehicle inspection facility on State Highway Route 118 to enable the Department of the California Highway Patrol to determine whether commercial vehicles using that route are safely loaded or that the height, width, length, or weight of those vehicles is lawful.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2733 (Leslie-R) State Highway Route 193
Authorizes the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to relinquish a specified portion of State Highway Route (SR) 193 to the City of Lincoln, upon terms and conditions the CTC finds to be in the best interest of the state. Provides that the relinquished portion of SR 193 cease to be part of the state highway system.
Chapter 362, Statutes of 2006
AB 3030 (Emmerson-R) State Highway Routes 66 and 83
Relinquishes portions of State Highway Routes 66 and 83 in the City of Upland.
Chapter 507, Statutes of 2006
AB 3031 (Houston-R) State highways: seismic retrofit and replacement projects
Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act the Fifth Avenue Overhead and High Street Overhead seismic retrofit or replacement projects, located in Alameda County on Interstate 880 in Oakland.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3047 (Canciamilla-D) Toll facilities
Authorizes the Department of Transportation or a regional transportation agency to construct high-occupancy vehicle and other preferential lanes on the state highway system and authorizes a regional transportation agency to construct and operate those lanes as toll facilities subject to specified requirements.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
ACR 47 (La Suer-R) Ramon Ojeda Memorial Highway
Designates State Highway 78, between Third Street and State Highway 76, as the "Ramon Ojeda Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2006
ACR 52 (Levine-D) Sergeant Evan A. Ashcraft Memorial Interchange
Designates, as the "Sergeant Evan A. Ashcroft Memorial Interchange," the junction of Highway 118 (Simi Valley Freeway) and Interstate 405 (San Diego Freeway).
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
ACR 65 (Cogdill-R) Kristopher's Crossing
Designates the Department of Transportation Bridge 4122 in Madera County as "Kristopher's Crossing."
Resolution Chapter 82, Statutes of 2006
ACR 97 (Blakeslee-R) Alex Madonna Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Highway Route 101 from the Madonna Road exit in San Luis Obispo to the Santa Barbara Road exit in South Atascadero as the Alex Madonna Memorial Highway.
Resolution Chapter 83, Statutes of 2006
ACR 104 (Chavez-D) West Covina Police Officer Kenneth Wrede Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 10 in the City of West Covina as the "West Covina Police Officer Wrede Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2006
ACR 105 (Chavez-D) State Highway Route 210
Requests the Department of Transportation to restripe the 18 miles of the State Highway Route 210 freeway extension through San Bernardino County to provide a continuous four travel lanes in each direction.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
ACR 108 (La Malfa-R) Cynthia and Erling Hjertager Memorial Highway and Bridge
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 3 in Siskiyou County as the "Cynthia and Erling Hjertager Memorial Highway" and designates the Wildcat Creek Bridge, also in Siskiyou County, as the "Erling Hjertager Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 84, Statutes of 2006
ACR 111 (McCarthy-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."
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
ACR 123 (La Suer-R) Historic U.S. Highway Route 80
Recognizes the remaining sections of the original U.S. Highway Route 80 in San Diego and Imperial Counties for their historical significance.
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2006
ACR 124 (Leslie-R) Harry Crabb Tunnel
Designates the dedicated access-way entering eastbound Interstate 80 from Sunrise Boulevard in Placer County as the "Harry Crabb Tunnel."
Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2006
ACR 132 (Cogdill-R) Deputy David P. Grant Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 49 in Tuolumne County as the "Deputy David P. Grant Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 105, Statutes of 2006
ACR 134 (Cogdill-R) CHP Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Highway Route 99, one mile before and after its intersection with Hammett Road, in the County of Stanislaus, as the "California Highway Patrol Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway."
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
ACR 156 (Emmerson-R) Martin A. Matich Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 210, between the City of Fontana and the City of Redlands, as the "Martin A. Matich Highway."
Resolution Chapter 144, Statutes of 2006
ACR 157 (Vargas-D) Filipino-American Highway
Dedicates a portion of State Highway Route 54 in San Diego County as the "Filipino-American Highway."
Resolution Chapter 145, Statutes of 2006
ACR 160 (Keene-R) Lt. Larry B. Estes and Dep. Bill R. Hunter Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of Highway 149 in Butte County as the "Lt. Leonard B. 'Larry' Estes and Deputy William R. 'Bill' Hunter Memorial Highway."
(Died on Senate Floor)
ACR 162 (Bogh-R) CDF Firefighter Chris Kanton Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 10 from the Beaumont Avenue/Highway Route 79 exit to the Sunset Avenue exit, in the County of Riverside, as the "CDF Firefighter Chris Kanton Memorial Highway."
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
Miscellaneous
SB 44 (Torlakson-D) Vehicles: dealer document preparation charges
Increases, from $45 to $55, the maximum fee that a vehicle dealer may charge a purchaser for document preparation.
Chapter 623, Statutes of 2006
SB 95 (Murray-D) Vehicles: ignition interlock device
Provides that a person who has a restricted driver's license which includes a statutorily imposed condition that the person only operate a motor vehicle that is equipped with a functioning ignition interlock device and who operates a motor vehicle in violation of that condition is guilty of a misdemeanor or felony.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 98 (Murray-D) Auto insurance: repairs
Allows a policyholder to receive a reduced auto insurance premium if the policyholder agreed to have his or her insured vehicle repaired at one of at least three auto body shops that are within 25 miles of the insured's home or the accident scene and that are recommended by the insurer.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
SB 114 (Bowen-D) Vehicles: safety-related recalls: procedure
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to notify any vehicle owner on the annual registration notice that the vehicle that is subject to registration renewal is also the subject of a vehicle recall by the manufacturer.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 212 (Lowenthal-D) Lapses of consciousness: reports to DMV
Modifies the state's existing driver safety law relating to a physician's duty to report any patient the physician has diagnosed as having a disorder characterized by lapses of consciousness that might result in traffic accidents.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 283* (Maldonado-R) Vehicles: combination length
Extends the sunset date for an exemption from restrictions on legal tractor-trailer lengths for agricultural tractor-trailer combinations.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2006
Similar to SB 1237 (Maldonado-R), Chapter 450, Statutes of 2006.
SB 335* (Maldonado-R) Airport security, safety, and capacity grants
Provides for an annual appropriation from 2005-2009 of an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund for the purpose of funding grants for airport security and safety.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 351 (Soto-D) Derailment evacuation plans and training
Requires the Office of Emergency Services, with the assistance of the Public Utilities Commission, to lead and coordinate a joint exercise simulating a train derailment within the County of San Bernardino in the 2008 calendar year.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 372 (Margett-R) Vehicles: size, weight, and load: local authorities
States that a local government may not charge permit fees for oversized or overweight loads in excess of the rates set by the Department of Transportation.
Chapter 242, Statutes of 2006
SB 419 (Simitian-D) Hazardous materials: transportation: railroad tank cars
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to create and maintain a hazardous rail tank car (RTC) database, containing specified information, including a current certificate of compliance provided by the legal owner or lessee of the RTC stating that the RTC meets certain industry and federal standards.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 433 (Simitian-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: personal information
Prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing, renewing, duplicating, or replacing a driver's license or identification card, if the license or card uses remotely readable radio waves to transmit personal information or if personal information stored on the card could be read remotely.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 451 (Poochigian-R) Identification: thumb and finger
Provides that an applicant for a driver's license shall give a legible print or prints of the thumb or finger, or both, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 466 (Kuehl-D) Mobile photo radar enforcement system
Authorizes the City of Beverly Hills to use a mobile photo radar enforcement system for local speed enforcement under specified conditions until January 1, 2010.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)A similar bill was SB 1300 (Kuehl-D) which died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee.
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SB 590 (Cedillo-D) Vehicles: evidence of financial responsibility: penalty
Allows the court, at its discretion, to lower the mandatory fine for undocumented immigrants who are unable to provide proof of automobile insurance.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 591 (Cedillo-D) Impounding: vehicles
Exempts from the 30-day impound the vehicle of a person who did not have a license because he or she could not meet the requirement that his/her presence in the United States was authorized by law.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 612 (Dutton-R) Vehicles: fees: exemption: deployed military personnel
Extends, to vehicles owned by members of the Armed Forces, Armed Forces Reserve, or National Guard who are temporarily deployed outside the state, the exemption from vehicle registration fees, weight fees, and vehicle license fees provided to disabled veterans, former American prisoners of war, and Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Similar to SB 1498 (Dutton-R) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee, AB 160 (Cogdill-R) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee, and AB 1477 (DeVore-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 626 (Soto-D) Impounding vehicles
Provides for a 24-hour impoundment of a vehicle that has been seized due to its driver being unlicensed.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
SB 637 (Speier-D) Motor vehicle sales
Prohibits a car dealer from advertising or selling a used vehicle as "certified" or any other similar descriptive term that implies that the vehicle has been certified to meet the terms of a used vehicle certification program, unless specified conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 651 (Torlakson-D) Vehicles: special interest license plates
Transfers, from the Legislature to the Department of Motor Vehicles, the responsibility for authorizing production and issuance of special interest license plates.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 681 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: wireless telephones
Prohibits the Department of Transportation or local governments from barring pedestrian and bicycle access to expressways.
(Died on Senate Floor)
SB 691 (Speier-D) Vehicles: special interest license plates: fees: allocation
Requires that all fee revenues raised from the issuance of a special interest license plate for the California Arts Council be directed to the Council.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 705 (Runner-R) Design-build contracts
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to use design-build contracts to complete transportation projects, under specified qualifying, selection, and other requirements.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 762 (Lowenthal-D) Ports: regulation
Allows harbor agencies to establish permit systems to authorize drivers and motor carriers to enter their ports.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 806 (Speier-D) Provisional licensing program
Increases restrictions placed on teenage drivers operating a motor vehicle under a provisional driver's license (PDL) and increases punitive measures taken against those drivers, and their parents, who violate PDL restrictions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 810 (Speier-D) Parking: driveways
Authorizes a city or county by ordinance, to permit parking on a portion of a sidewalk, or with the body of the vehicle extending over a portion of a sidewalk, if the ordinance allows a vehicle to park only in a residential driveway, applies only to parking of vehicles between darkness, as defined, and 8:00 a.m., except that a vehicle displaying special license plates or a distinguishing placard is not subject to the time limitation, and limits the parking in a manner that maintains at least five feet of uninterrupted and straight sidewalk either behind or in front of the vehicle, as prescribed.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 823 (Margett-R) Provisional licensing program: speed contest
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, prior to issuing a provisional license to a person pursuant to the provisional licensing program, to inform the applicant of the hazards and penalties relating to engaging in an unlawful motor vehicle speed contest on a highway.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 920 (Cox-R) Public contracts: retentions
Authorizes in any contract entered into with the Department of Transportation after January 1, 2006, that utilizes federal funds to an original contractor, to withhold a five percent retention when making payments to any subcontractor for work performed, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 924 (Speier-D) Driving schools: motortrucks
Establishes minimum training requirements and advertising standards for truck driver training schools that provide instruction intended to lead to the issuance of a Class A commercial driver's license.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 927 (Lowenthal-D) Ports: congestion relief: security enhancement
Imposes a fee on containers that are discharged at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles in order to fund rail system improvements, pollution mitigation measures, and port security enhancements.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 953 (Romero-D) Vehicles: registration: amnesty: replica vehicles
Establishes a registration amnesty program for specially constructed vehicles, and replica vehicles, as defined, that have been previously registered or classified incorrectly, and requires participants in the program to file a completed amnesty application, signed under penalty of perjury. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), when registering the specified vehicles and replica vehicles, to make an initial inspection of the vehicle to determine its identity, and authorizes the DMV to refer the vehicle to the Department of the California Highway Patrol for an additional inspection.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 969 (Ducheny-D) Vehicles: motorcycles: safety helmets: exceptions
Makes compliance with the mandatory motorcycle helmet law voluntary for the motorcycle operator, providing certain minimal licensing and other requirements are met, and the motorcycle passenger if certain medical insurance coverage is maintained.
(Failed passage in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
Similar to AB 2427 (Canciamilla-D) which failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee.
SB 1000 (Senate Agriculture Committee) Vehicles: special interest license plates: agriculture
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, in consultation with the California Future Farmers of America Foundation, the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom, and the California Agricultural Leadership Foundation, to issue special agricultural interest license plates, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1010 (Florez-D) Rail service: City of Shafter
Authorizes the City of Shafter to assign the functions of an intermodal rail facility to an intermodal rail commission.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1029 (Hollingsworth-R) Special interest license plates: sportspersons
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, subject to a statutory procedure, to issue sportspersons' special interest license plates, and prescribes the fees to be paid for the issuance, renewal, retention, transfer, and substitution of the license plates. Requires that the additional fees collected for the issuance of those license plates, other than fees for the issuance of environmental license plates, be deposited in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund for expenditure on various projects, other than land acquisition, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1162 (Cedillo-D) Drivers license and identification cards
Allows drivers licenses that may be used only for driving purposes to be issued to persons without proof of legal presence in the United States.
Vetoed by the Governor
This bill is substantially similar to SB 1160 (Cedillo-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 1224 (Chesbro-D) Vehicles: limitations of access
Extends a provision of law that exempts specified livestock carriers on portions of Highway 101 from vehicle length limitations until January 1, 2012, and extends the requirement that the Department of the California Highway Patrol study the effect of this law on public safety until January 1, 2011.
Chapter 499, Statutes of 2006
SB 1225 (Chesbro-D) Service authority: registration and service fees
Allows counties with abandoned vehicle abatement service authorities to impose additional surcharges.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1237 (Maldonado-R) Vehicles: combination length
Extends the sunset of an exemption to the maximum length limitation of longer combination vehicles and adds additional criteria and safety measures under which the exemption is authorized.
Chapter 450, Statutes of 2006
Similar to SB 283 (Maldonado-R), Chapter 5, Statutes of 2006.
SB 1246 (Cox-R) Vehicles: authorized emergency vehicles
Allows the Commissioner of the Department of the California Highway Patrol to issue an emergency vehicle permit for a vehicle operated by specified county emergency medical services personnel of a county with a population of 15,000 or fewer.
(Failed passage in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1296 (Kehoe-D) San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency: governance
Revises the definition of the San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency's governing board to include the Mayor of San Diego as a one of two City of San Diego representatives to its governing board and increases the governing board from 20 to 21 members by adding a second member from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
Chapter 142, Statutes of 2006
SB 1378 (Cox-R) Harbors and navigation: dive flag
Prohibits the operation of vessels in excess of five miles per hour within 100 feet of a dive flag, as specified.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1404 (Machado-D) Vehicles: parking violations: street cleaning
Specifies that there is no parking violation for a person who is parked on a street during the designated street sweeping times if that sweeping did not occur. Delays the start of this provision until January 1, 2008.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1408 (Cedillo-D) Police: notice of recovered vehicle
Requires a specified mailing to police be made within 48 hours after the reporting police agency receives the notice of the recovery of the vehicle.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
Similar to SB 612 (Dutton-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee, AB 160 (Cogdill-R) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee and AB 1477 (DeVore-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 1498 (Dutton-R) Vehicles: fee and tax exemption: military
Exempts deployed military personnel from paying a vehicle license fee and vehicle registration fees on a single vehicle.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1503 (Poochigian-R) Vehicle theft: probation
Creates a one year sentence enhancement for vehicle theft or taking, or being an accessory to this offense, under certain circumstances.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1507 (Margett-R) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Increases the number of sectors represented by individuals appointed by the Los Angeles County City Selection Committee from four to five and reduces the number of public members of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority appointed by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles from two to one.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1542 (Migden-D) Vehicles: key information access
Establishes a statutory scheme whereby a motor vehicle owner or family member could, through the use of a registered locksmith, access the needed information from the motor vehicle manufacturer to enable the locksmith to reproduce a replacement key that will enable the vehicle owner to enter, start, and operate the motor vehicle.
Chapter 433, Statutes of 2006
Similar to AB 714 (Ridley-Thomas-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 1553 (Murray-D) Registration fee
Replaces, beginning January 1, 2008, the $31 annual vehicle registration fee with a schedule of annual registration fees, based on vehicle weight, ranging from $31 to $191, and earmarks the increased annual revenue to highway repair under the State Highway Operation and Protection Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1559* (Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: low-speed vehicles
Changes the definition of a low-speed vehicle to conform with federal law.
Chapter 66, Statutes of 2006
SB 1583 (Kuehl-D) Marvin Braude Bikeway
Names a bicycle path within Los Angeles County in honor of former City Council member Marvin Braude and requires signage at appropriate locations along the path.
Chapter 177, Statutes of 2006
SB 1586 (Lowenthal-D) Eminent domain and inverse condemnation: vehicles
Makes various technical, non-substantive charges to the Code of Civil Procedure and the Vehicle Code.
Chapter 311, Statutes of 2006
SB 1593 (Runner-R) Vehicles: removal: private property
Requires a private property owner to verify that the towing company used to remove a vehicle from private property has a valid motor carrier permit.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 1608 (Simitian-D) Transportation: landscaping projects
Requires the Department of Transportation and local entities that receive state funds for transportation capital projects that include a landscaping element to use regionally appropriate indigenous plants.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1610 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: emergency vehicles
Prescribes actions drivers must take on a highway when passing a stopped emergency vehicle or tow truck with its warning lights flashing and makes a violation of this prescription punishable by a fine and a penalty assessment.
Chapter 375, Statutes of 2006
SB 1613 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: wireless telephones
Prohibits a driver from using a wireless phone while operating a vehicle, unless the phone is specifically designed and configured to allow hands-free operation and is used in that manner.
Chapter 290, Statutes of 2006
SB 1628 (Perata-D) San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority
Allows each member of the eleven-member board of directors of the Water Transit Authority to appoint an alternate who may serve in that member's absence and grants to the alternate all the powers and duties of the member by whom he or she is appointed.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 1645* (Denham-R) Vehicles: driver's license revocation
Requires that the driver's license of a person who drove a motor vehicle during the commission of a lewd and lascivious act on a child under 12 years of age, or who drove the vehicle to or from the location of that act, be revoked for the period of his or her probation, incarceration and parole.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1681 (Cox-R) Off-Highway motor vehicle
Makes several changes to the Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Recreation Program, including transferring the authority to approve grants made from the OHV Trust Fund from the OHV Commission to the OHV Division of the Department of Parks and Recreation, removing and extending several sunset date, and requiring the appropriate county sheriff to be the coordinating law enforcement agency for OHV activities.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1687 (Murray-D) Transportation
Revises the procurement process for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
Chapter 814, Statutes of 2006
SB 1703 (Lowenthal-D) California Transportation Commission
Grants one California Transportation Commission appointment each to the Senate and Assembly.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1726 (Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: transit system buses: illuminated signs
Authorizes buses, operate by a publicly owned transit system on regularly scheduled service, to be equipped with certain illuminated signs and requires that the illuminated signs adhere to certain specifications.
Chapter 881, Statutes of 2006
SB 1735 (Cox-R) Vehicles: police pursuits
Makes it an alternate felony/misdemeanor to flee or attempt to elude a pursuing peace officer by driving a vehicle upon a highway in the wrong direction.
Chapter 688, Statutes of 2006
SB 1749 (Migden-D) Transit fare evasion
Allows for administrative enforcement of transit-related violations which are currently infractions in the City and County of San Francisco and in Los Angeles County.
Chapter 258, Statutes of 2006
SB 1756 (Migden-D) Vehicles: driving under the influence
Increases the period of driver's license suspension, from six months to 10 months, for a person convicted of a first-time DUI without causing bodily injury, whose blood alcohol concentration was 0.20 percent or greater, and who is referred to a rehabilitation program.
Chapter 692, Statutes of 2006
SCA 29 (Morrow-R) Ports: California Port Security Enhancement Act
Amends the California Constitution to prohibit a state or local governmental entity that owns, controls, or operates a harbor or port facility within the state from authorizing or permitting, by contract or otherwise, an entity that is owned or controlled by a government of or in a foreign country to manage or operate that harbor or port.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SCR 101 (Battin-R) Motorcycle Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of May 2006 as Motorcycle Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 30, Statutes of 2006
SCR 132 (Lowenthal-D) Hybrid Vehicle Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of November 2006 as Hybrid Vehicle Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 126, Statutes of 2006
SJR 13 (Escutia-D) Railroad safety
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to amend the Federal Railroad Safety Act to increase the authority of state and local governments to enact railroad safety regulations.
Resolution Chapter 112, Statutes of 2006
SJR 26 (Morrow-R) Port security
Memorializes the President and Congress of the Unites States to exercise the utmost scrutiny and judgment in any decision affecting the port and maritime security of the United States and her citizens, specifically with regard to the potential Dubai Port World contract.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SJR 31 (Lowenthal-D) Clean ports
Urges federal action to reduce emissions from marine vessels, locomotives and aircraft.
Resolution Chapter 99, Statutes of 2006
SR 8 (Torlakson-D) Transportation and housing
States that the Senate places a high priority during the 2005-06 Regular Session of the Legislature on improving access to housing and reducing traffic congestion by promoting affordable housing, infill development, and other policies that allow people to live closer to their workplaces.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SR 25 (Perata-D) Relative to the Department of the California Highway Patrol
Thanks the members of the Department of the California Highway Patrol and their families for the sacrifices they make on behalf of all Californians.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 33 (Migden-D) Relative to Pacific Maritime Routes
Recognizes the historical significance and impact of the Pacific Maritime Routes on the State of California.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 4 (Bogh-R) Vehicles: driver's license: permanent revocation: DUI
Permanently revokes the driver's license of a person convicted of a third or subsequent violation of specified driving under the influence (DUI) provisions. Requires an ignition interlock device be installed for persons convicted of a DUI with blood-alcohol concentration of 0.16 percent if they have been convicted of a previous DUI within 10 years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 26* (Mountjoy-R) Vehicles: commercial requester accounts: access
Establishes, for two years, a mechanism at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to provide special expedited telephone access to name and vehicle registration information to persons and organizations who have commercial requester accounts with the DMV.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 79 (Calderon-D) Automotive repair dealers
Defines the term "motor vehicle" to include vehicles used to transport passengers that are powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other alternative energy sources. Revises the definition of the term "customer" to include an insurer if certain conditions are satisfied.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 84 (Leslie-R) Vehicles: specialized license plates
Establishes a specialized license plate program for plates that promote state agencies.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2006
AB 130* (Assembly Budget Committee) Off-highway vehicle fees: allocation
Requires the funds collected from the imposition of the $4 fee to for renewal of identification for each off-highway motor vehicle to be allocated to cities, counties, and cities and counties based on population proportions, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 158* (Bermudez-D) Railroads: safety study
Creates a special task force to identify threats from vandalism or terrorism that are not adequately addressed by existing rail safety programs and to make recommendations to the Public Utilities Commission for changes.
Chapter 697, Statutes of 2006
AB 160 (Cogdill-R) Vehicles: special license plates
Exempts the surviving spouse of a former American prisoner of war or Congressional Medal of Honor recipient from paying a vehicle license fee and vehicle registration fees.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Similar to SB 612 (Dutton-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee, SB 1498 (Dutton-R) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee and AB 1477 (DeVore-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 206 (Haynes-R) Vehicles: special interest license plates
Transfers, from the Legislature to the Department of Motor Vehicles, the responsibility to authorize the production and issuance of special interest license plates.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 303 (Calderon-D) Automotive repair dealers: insurers
Allows a vehicle owner to authorize his/her insurer to act on his/her behalf to arrange repair of the owner's motor vehicle, as specified.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
AB 372 (Nation-D) Public contracts: transit design-build contracts
Extends the sunset date by two years, until January 1, 2009, for transit districts to enter into design-build contracts. Requires the establishment of a labor compliance program for design-build contracts and reduces the threshold project cost level of projects able to use the authority.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2006
AB 377 (Maze-R) Sales and use tax: exemption: examination
Establishes a three-year pilot program requiring the Department of the California Highway Patrol to test the fuel of diesel-powered highway vehicles for the presence of unauthorized, tax-exempt diesel fuel. Specifies that the program is to be conducted in the Counties of Fresno, Kern, and Tulare.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 379 (Koretz-D) Smoking in vehicles with minor passengers
Makes it unlawful to smoke a pipe, cigar, or cigarette in a motor vehicle, whether in motion or at rest, in which there is a child who is required, under current law, to be secured in a child passenger restraint system.
(Died in Conference)
AB 397 (Chavez-D) Provisional licensing program
Revises the educational and training alternatives by requiring a person to complete 10 hours, rather than six hours, of behind-the-wheel training.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 406 (Haynes-R) Distinctive DUI license plates
Allows the court, in the case of a person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of driving under the influence and where at least one of these convictions involved a concentration of alcohol in the person's blood of 0.16 percent or more, by weight, at the time of the arrest to order the person to have distinctive license plates issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles in a described design and color format, including containing the letters "DUI" mounted on each motor vehicle, except as specified, driven by that person for a period imposed by the count, but not to exceed the term of life of the current probation period.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
Similar to AB 2099 (Haynes-R) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee.
AB 435 (Liu-D) Registration fees: exemptions: paratransit vehicle operators
Exempts specified private non-profit paratransit vehicles from registration and registration-related fees.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 526 (Harman-R) Uninsured motorists coverage exclusion
Allows an auto liability insurance policy to exclude uninsured motorist coverage for any injury or wrongful death sustained while operating a described class of motor vehicle.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 555 (La Malfa-R) Vehicles: off-highway vehicles
Extends, by five years to January 1, 2012, the January 1, 2007, the sunset on the state's Off-Highway Motor Vehicle (OHV) Program administered by the OHV Division of the Department of Parks and Recreation, and the sunset on a related special fee, the revenue from which partially supports the program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 556 (Gordon-D) Airports: noise impacts
Imposes more stringent public notice requirements than is presently required for the Los Angeles International Airport regarding noise variance hearings and prohibits the airport from requiring recipients of funding for noise mitigation purposes to waive certain easement rights.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 570 (Villines-R) Vehicles: fleeing a peace officer
Revises definitions of offenses relating to fleeing from a peace officer in a motor vehicle.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 718 (Calderon-D) Personal data: driver's licenses
Expands the ability of businesses to electronically collect information from a driver's license or identification card.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 804 (La Suer-R) Dept. of the California Highway Patrol: freeway signs
Permits the Commissioner of the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to request the Legislature to adopt a concurrent resolution directing the Department of Transportation to install freeway signs memorializing CHP officers killed in the line of duty.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 838* (Saldana-D) Income and corporation taxes: credits: qualified vehicles
Provides a tax credit equal to a specified percentage of the vehicle license fee paid for the initial registration of a hybrid or alternative fuel vehicle.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 914 (Cogdill-R) Authorized emergency vehicles
Recasts the provisions of law concerning vehicles used by privately-owned ambulance operators to allow those vehicles to be used primarily, rather than exclusively, for emergency transportation services.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 963 (Garcia-R) Vehicles: provisional driver's license: cellular telephone
Prohibits a person issued a provisional driver's license from using a cellular telephone and other similar devices while operating a motor vehicle for the first six months of the license period.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1103 (Karnette-D) Bicycle sales: notice
Requires a bicycle retailer and bicycle dealer who sells, furnishes, or gives a bicycle to any person to provide a disclosure to the purchaser or recipient that states a bicycle may be recycled and state law permits a tax deduction for qualified charitable contributions of bicycles, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1148 (Nakanishi-R) Vehicles: ice cream trucks: parking
Prohibits a person from vending from an ice cream truck on a public street, alley, or highway unless the truck is lawfully parked adjacent to the curb, as required under existing law for other vendor's vehicles.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1149 (La Suer-R) Vehicles: driving reexamination
Deletes the requirement in existing law that the Department of Motor Vehicles include a behind-the-wheel driving test when reexamining drivers reported to it by local health officers and members of the drivers' families, except for a driver who has been reported because of an Alzheimer's diagnosis.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1163 (Yee-D) Motor vehicle replacement parts
Requires an insurer or repair facility to notify a consumer of the use of crash parts supplied by the manufacturer of the vehicle, certified aftermarket crash parts, as defined, or other crash parts.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1189 (Bermudez-D) Vehicles: motorcycles: rider training programs
Removes the maximum fee charged for the Department of the California Highway Patrol motorcyclist safety premier program as of January 1, 2008.
Chapter 711, Statutes of 2006
AB 1197 (Gordon-D) Aviation: Southern California Regional Aviation Commission
Establishes the Southern California Regional Aviation Commission with responsibility for the development of strategies and policies to be employed by state and local governmental entities to facilitate the regional distribution of aviation services to existing airports throughout southern California, as provided in the aviation component of the Southern California Regional Transportation Plan, and responsibility for providing independent policy analyses and recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor consistent with these duties.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1324 (Vargas-D) Vehicles: school pedestrian-bicyclist safety program
Extends the school pedestrian-bicyclist safety program until January 1, 2010 and, in addition, applies the above provisions to Los Angeles County and San Diego County.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
Similar to AB 1976 (Nava-D) which died in Senate Public Safety Committee and AB 2465 (De La Torre-D) which was held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 1407 (Lieber-D) State-owned Bay Area toll bridges: HOV lanes
Provides for construction cost savings from certain toll bridge projects to be reprogrammed for other projects in the same corridor. Requires Bay Area vehicle owners of hybrids with Clean Air stickers to meet high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane occupancy requirements in order to utilize toll-free or reduced-toll lanes on Bay Area toll bridges. Allows Clean Air vehicles to utilize HOV lanes on county expressways.
Chapter 606, Statutes of 2006
AB 1447 (Garcia-R) Vehicles: provisional driver's license: restrictions
Increases the penalties that a court may impose for a violation of the restrictions on a provisional driver's license to a fine of not more than $100 for a first offense, and permanent revocation of the provisional driver's license for a second offense.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1475 (Maze-R) Provisional licensing program
Creates an additional exception to the provisional driver's licensing program by allowing a provisional licensee to drive between midnight and 5:00 a.m. or transport an immediate family member without the supervisorial restrictions when involved in activities of a tax-exempt nonprofit charitable or religious organization under specified conditions. In addition, requires the imposition of a six-month or a two-year suspension of driving privileges where an accident occurs involving an injury or death at the time of the violation of a provisional driving license restrictions and a value of one point or more was assigned to the licensee's driving record as a result of that incident.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1477 (DeVore-R) Vehicles: state militia exemptions
Exempts active members of the California National Guard, State Military Reserve, or State Naval Militia from the imposition of the vehicle registration fee and vehicle weight fee.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Similar to SB 612 (Dutton-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee, SB 1498 (Dutton-R) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee and AB 160 (Cogdill-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 1504 (La Suer-R) Vehicles: driver's licenses: registered sex offenders
Limits, to one year instead of the standard five years, the period of time before a driver's license issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to a registered sex offender (RSO) must be renewed, and requires an RSO who applies for or renews a driver's license to provide to the DMV verification of the applicant's address, and allows the DMV to photograph and fingerprint or thumbprint the applicant.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1621* (Klehs-D) Electrical corporations: Bay Area Rapid Transit
Provides that electricity provided to the Bay Area Rapid Transit, that is purchased from a federal power marketing agency or its successor or from a local publicly owned electric utility, is not subject to fixed recovery amounts and fixed recovery tax amounts.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)
AB 1627 (Koretz-D) Provisional licensing program
Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to disclose the record of convictions for provisional drivers license (PDL) violations and to allows a violation to constitute a point against the teenager's driving record. Imposes a 30-day suspension, rather than a restriction, when a PDL licensee's record shows a point imposed in any 12-month period and imposes a six-month suspension and a one-year suspension when two or more points are indicated, rather than three or more points, in 12 months. Requires a court to impose one or both sanctions available to it, rather than selecting one and imposes it for violations of PDL restrictions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1706 (Strickland-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: records
Adds state employees who are members of State Bargaining Unit 7 of the California Union of Safety Employees, and the spouses and children of those members, to the statutory list of classes of persons whose home addresses contained in Department of Motor Vehicles records must be withheld from public inspection.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1728 (Houston-R) Vessels: registration fees: boating safety
Requires applications for obtaining vessel numbers from the Department of Boating and Waterways to include an additional $2 fee, the proceeds of which will be deposited into the Boating Safety and Law Enforcement Services Account in the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund, and requires requests for renewal of a certificate of vessel number to be accompanied by an additional fee of $2, the proceeds of which will also be deposited into the Account in the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1788 (Cohn-D) Driver's licenses: issuance and renewal
Establishes more restricted driver's license requirements for registered sex offenders.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1850 (Mountjoy-R) Vehicles: trunk
Makes it a misdemeanor for a person to knowingly drive a motor vehicle while a person riding in the trunk of that vehicle and an infraction for a person to ride in the trunk of a motor vehicle.
Chapter 900, Statutes of 2006
AB 1854 (Oropeza-D) Vehicles: total loss salvage vehicles
Prohibits the selling, consigning, or transferring of a vehicle to a salvage pool if the vehicle is a total loss salvage vehicle as a result of salt water damage and prohibits a salvage pool from knowingly buying, selling, consigning or transferring such a vehicle.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1856 (Walters-R) Vehicles: speeding
Increases the penalty for driving in excess of 100 miles per hour and requires the court to suspend a person's driving privilege upon a first conviction.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1903 (Benoit-R) Driving: controlled substance
Increases driving privilege penalties imposed on a motorist who is found to be driving with a measurable amount of an illegal controlled substance in his or her blood.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1909 (Vargas-D) Motor vehicle insurance coverage
Clarifies that a policy covering an insured who, in the course of his or her business, rents or leases motor vehicles for either commercial purposes or for at least a six-month term is considered excess to other insurance policies covering the same loss.
Chapter 345, Statutes of 2006
AB 1910 (Aghazarian-R) Disabled person and disabled veteran license plates
Allows disabled person license plates to be issued to agencies that transport disabled persons or disabled veterans for vehicles that are used solely for the purpose of transporting those persons.
Chapter 203, Statutes of 2006
AB 1915 (Villines-R) Vehicles: license plates
Expands eligibility for using Year of Manufacture plates to 1969 or older model year vehicles and to 1972 or older model year commercial vehicles and pickup trucks.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1932 (Benoit-R) Vehicles: traffic violator schools
Makes several changes to traffic violator school licensing, methods of instruction, surety bond requirements, Department of Motor Vehicles fees, completion certificates, and the traffic court referral process.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1935* (Bermudez-D) Railroads: maintenance and safety
Increases the frequency of railroad yard inspections and increases the penalties for railroad safety violations. Increases the amount that the Department of Transportation must set aside for allocations to the Public Utilities Commission to pay the railroad or street railroad costs to local agencies of maintaining automatic grade-crossing protection from $1 million to $4 million.
Chapter 885, Statutes of 2006
AB 1936 (DeVore-R) Vehicles: special license plates
Creates a California National Guard special license plate.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1941 (Nava-D) Vehicles: bicycles
Specifies a minimum distance that a vehicle must maintain between itself and a bicycle upon a highway.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1976 (Nava-D) Vehicles: school zone fines
Extends the sunset date by one year, to January 1, 2008, of the school pedestrian-bicyclist safety pilot program.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
Similar to AB 1324 (Vargas-D) which died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee and AB 2465 (De La Torre-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 1991 (Saldana-D) Vehicles: environmental license plates: disabled persons
Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue disabled license plates with personalized numbers.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2105 (Emmerson-R) Human remains: permits: transportation
Allows human remains to be transported to an adjacent state without a death certificate or permit for disposition under specified circumstances.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2006
AB 2108 (Evans-D) Vehicles: child passengers
Revises requirements associated with the transportation of children in child passenger restraint systems (car seats).
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2120 (Liu-D) Disabled persons: disabled veterans: parking placards
Allows nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants to certify disabilities for the purpose of obtaining disabled license plates or placards or temporary disabled placards so long a this authority does not cause a reduction in the amount of federal aid highway funds that are received by the state.
Chapter 116, Statutes of 2006
AB 2137 (Niello-R) Sacramento Regional Transit District
Creates a weighted voting system for the Sacramento Regional Transit District based on each voting entity's financial contribution, increases the compensation of the directors from $50 to $100 per meeting, and makes other various changes.
Chapter 272, Statutes of 2006
AB 2142 (Haynes-R) Vehicles: special interest license plates
Transfers to the Department of Motor Vehicles the responsibility for authorizing new special interest license plates.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2154 (Goldberg-D) Parking: car share vehicle
Allows a city or county, by ordinance or resolution, to designate a specific street or portion of a street for the exclusive parking privilege for vehicles participating in a vehicle car share program or ridesharing program.
Chapter 189, Statutes of 2006
AB 2175 (Liu-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: driver education
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop revised standards for driver education and training based on an evaluation of a model program developed through contracts with public or private entities.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2190 (Benoit-R) Vehicles: reckless driving and motor vehicle speed contests
Makes reckless driving and engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest that proximately causes great bodily injury to another person an alternate felony/misdemeanor.
Chapter 432, Statutes of 2006
AB 2201 (La Malfa-R) Vehicles: farm equipment: registration
Exempts, from vehicle registration requirements, a tractor truck owned by a farmer and operated on a highway exclusively for the purpose of transporting agricultural products, or implements of husbandry, from part of a farm to another part of that farm, or from one farm to another farm that is within a five-mile radius of each other, and a service truck, owned by a farmer and operated exclusively to transport parts, tools, and welding equipment in the servicing and repair of implements of husbandry, and that is driven on a highway incidentally to get from one farm to another that is within a five-mile radius of each other.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2210 (Goldberg-D) Tow trucks: regulating
Enhances protections provided to motorists from unfair vehicle towing practices and unauthorized vehicle towing from private property.
Chapter 609, Statutes of 2006
AB 2213 (Tran-R) Property transfer: City of Newport Beach
Allows the Department of Transportation to transfer a specified parcel of property to the City of Newport Beach for fair market value.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2220 (Vargas-D) Household goods carriers
Creates additional consumer protections against fraudulent practices of household goods carriers.
Chapter 763, Statutes of 2006
AB 2230 (La Suer-R) San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
Changes the make up of the executive committee of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2237 (Karnette-D) Harbors and ports: security
Requires the Director of the Department of Homeland Security to include, in its report submitted annually to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the budget committees of each house, an element pertaining to the protection of the state's harbor and port facilities.
Chapter 503, Statutes of 2006
AB 2239* (Emmerson-R) Vehicles: sales and use taxes
Allows an owner to present evidence to rebut the presumption that a vehicle purchased out of California, but brought into this state within 12 months of its purchase, is subject to California use tax.
Chapter 352, Statutes of 2006
AB 2253 (Hancock-D) Vehicles: illegal dumping
Authorizes the impoundment and, in specific instances, civil forfeiture of a motor vehicle when the registered owner has multiple convictions for misdemeanor illegal dumping of waste matter.
Chapter 765, Statutes of 2006
AB 2274 (Karnette-D) Harbors and ports: emergency response and evacuation plans
Requires local, regional, and statewide agencies with responsibilities for emergency preparation and response activities to work with harbors and port facilities to ensure coordination and integration of respective emergency response, preparation and evacuation procedures and activities.
Chapter 859, Statutes of 2006
AB 2291 (Evans-D) Vehicles: dealer: data security
Prohibits auto manufacturers and auto distributors from accessing, modifying, or extracting information from an auto dealer's computer system without providing safeguards to protect that information. Prohibits a computer vendor from accessing, modifying, or extracting information from an auto dealer's computer system without first obtaining the dealer's express consent and providing safeguards to protect that information.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2006
AB 2298 (Niello-R) Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund: grants
Authorizes the use of money from the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund for units of the state park system that are not classified as State Vehicular Recreation Areas, but where off-highway recreational vehicle use is allowed.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2322 (Parra-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: vehicles: registration
Requires that manufacturers, distributors, and dealers of motorized bicycles, mopeds, motorized scooters, motor-driven cycles, motorized quadricycles, and motorized tricycles must register with the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 2325* (Nation-D) Gas tax: income tax
Increases the motor vehicle fuel tax for the purpose of funding transportation projects and alternative fuel development.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2337 (Garcia-R) Vehicles: off-highway motor vehicles
Extends, by one year to January 1, 2008, the sunset on the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle (OHV) Recreation Division and the OHV Commission in the Department of Parks and Recreation and increases, from seven to nine, the membership of the OHV Commission by adding the Director of the Department of Finance and the Secretary for the Resources Agency.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2350 (Maze-R) Vehicles: character education: specialized license plates
Authorizes the issuance of a new "Character Education" special license plate to generate revenue to support school district character education programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2401 (Karnette-D) Vehicles: autoettes
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to register "autoettes" as identified by the City of Avalon.
Chapter 322, Statutes of 2006
AB 2407 (Salinas-D) Vehicles: mature driver program
Reduces the required length of a renewal mature driver improvement course from 400 minutes to 240 minutes and increases the maximum allowable fee for a course form $20 to $30.
Chapter 129, Statutes of 2006
AB 2427 (Canciamilla-D) Vehicles: motorcycles: safety helmets: exceptions
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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
Similar to SB 969 (Ducheny-D) which failed passage in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee.
AB 2465 (De La Torre-D) Pedestrian-bicyclist safety: vehicles: school zone fines
Extends, by one year to January 1, 2008, the sunset on a school pedestrian-bicyclists safety pilot program in the Counties of Alameda, Santa Barbara, and Ventura, and their cities, that receive funds from a portion of the local penalty revenue generated by increased fines imposed for various traffic violations occurring close to a school, and expands the pilot program to Los Angeles County and its cities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Similar to AB 1324 (Vargas-D) which died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee and AB 1976 (Nava-D) which died in Senate Public Safety Committee.
AB 2495 (Frommer-D) Transportation facilities: public-private partnerships
Clarifies that a public-private partnership lease agreement for the development of certain transportation projects shall automatically be deemed approved unless within 90 days, not counting days when the Legislature is in adjournment, either house of the Legislature specifically adopts a resolution rejecting it.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2520 (Assembly Transportation Committee) Transportation
Enacts the Assembly Transportation Committee's annual omnibus bill. Makes two nonsubstantive, technical changes to existing law.
Chapter 574, Statutes of 2006
AB 2542 (Daucher-R) Driver assessment
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to conduct a pilot study, contingent upon receipt of a specified grant, of a three-tier assessment system for driver who are renewing their driver's license or who were referred to DMV for reexamination.
Chapter 282, Statutes of 2006
AB 2558 (Benoit-R) Vehicles: license suspension and revocation: punishment
Creates an alternate misdemeanor/felony and mandatory jail time for a fourth offense driving on a suspended license.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2559 (Benoit-R) Vehicles: driving under the influence: manslaughter
Recasts Penal Code provisions relating to vehicular manslaughter in order to organize the sections in a more logical fashion while making no substantive changes to existing law.
Chapter 91, Statutes of 2006
AB 2593 (Keene-R) Compensation: meal periods: transportation industry
Permits parties in the transportation industry to establish, by a collective bargaining agreement, specified requirements concerning meal periods.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2599 (Benoit-R) Motor vehicle theft
Increases the penalty for grand theft auto, receiving stolen property, and auto theft by making these offenses punishable as felonies if the person has a prior specified misdemeanor offense conviction.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2605 (Bogh-R) Driving under the influence: sanctions
Increases the penalty for a person under the age of 21 who has a 0.05 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood to drive a vehicle from an infraction to a misdemeanor. Increases the penalty for a person convicted of a third driving under the influence offense within 10 years from a misdemeanor to an alternative misdemeanor/felony.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2616* (Nakanishi-R) Taxation: deductions: qualified vehicle transaction
Provides, for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2006, and before January 1 of a qualified year, a $3,000 deduction to a taxpayer for each qualified vehicle transaction during the taxable year.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2650 (Laird-D) Monterey Peninsula Airport District
Makes numerous changes to the Monterey Peninsula Airport District enabling statute to bring it in line with current processes and practices and eliminates outdated references and outmoded statutory limitations.
Chapter 359, Statutes of 2006
AB 2670 (Aghazarian-R) Property taxation: regulated railway companies
Changes the method of assessing regulated railway companies by creating a single countywide tax rate area within each county to which unitary assessed value is allocated and creates a modified situs-based system for allocating property tax revenues from certain new railroad facilities.
Chapter 791, Statutes of 2006
AB 2681 (Pavley-D) Vehicles: registration fees: fines
Increases the maximum value of vehicle registration fees that counties may impose in order to fund abandoned vehicle abatement programs.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2718 (Walters-R) Traffic violator school: instruction
Provides that the instruction in traffic safety may include a classroom-based method of instruction, and other Department of Motor Vehicles approved nonclassroom based methods of instruction, including, but not limited to, correspondence, handbook, video, or Internet-based method of instruction.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2736 (Niello-R) Vehicles: apportioned registration
Allows International Registration Plan vehicles to have renewal dates throughout the year.
Chapter 169, Statutes of 2006
AB 2752 (Spitzer-R) Driving under the influence
Makes it an infraction for a person under the age of 21 to drive with a measurable blood alcohol concentration.
Chapter 899, Statutes of 2006
AB 2755 (Blakeslee-R) All-terrain vehicles: operating violations
Makes parents responsible for illegal operation of all-terrain vehicles by children under the age of 14.
Chapter 195, Statutes of 2006
AB 2794 (Levine-D) Vehicles: brokering
Requires a motor vehicle dealer and an auto broker to disclose to a buyer any fees the dealer paid to the auto broker as part of the vehicle transaction.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 2808 (Strickland-R) Vehicles: driver's license: suspension or revocation
Creates two new state prison enhancements for the commission of specified crimes while driving a motor vehicle with a revoked or suspended license or without ever having a licensed issued.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2820 (Leslie-R) Automobile driver training: Teenage Driver Safety Program
Requires the Commissioner of the Department of the California Highway Patrol to, in consultation with each school district that maintains one or more high schools with pupils who receive instruction in automobile driver training, develop a three-dimensional film on the subject of the dangers of teenage driving, and procure, whether by purchase, lease or other agreement, at least eight mobile three-dimensional theaters available to tour the state and show the three-dimensional film.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2822 (Mullin-D) Railroad corporations: Hazardous substances: fee
Requires railroad corporations who transport hazardous materials to pay a fee to fund grants for local governments to develop and implement emergency response programs.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2896 (Karnette-D) Commercial Transportation Development Council
Creates a nine-member Commercial Transportation Development Council to provide advice on the needs of commercial transportation in California.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2903 (Huff-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: employees
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to make permanent a position-specific examination and selection process for its managerial and supervisory classifications.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2006
AB 2923 (Calderon-D) Crimes: graffiti and vandalism: driver's license
Increases the length of time that a court shall suspend the driver's license of a person convicted of graffiti.
Chapter 434, Statutes of 2006
AB 2939 (Wolk-D) Sacramento-Yolo Port District
Redraws the boundaries for the Sacramento-Yolo Port District and eliminates seats on the commission for the City of Sacramento and Sacramento County.
Chapter 284, Statutes of 2006
AB 2955 (Cogdill-R) Public safety: traversing traffic control devices
Makes it a misdemeanor to traverse a flare pattern, cone pattern, other traffic control device, or combination thereof, provided for the regulation of traffic, or provided in any situation where public safety personnel are engaged in traffic control or emergency scene management.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2991 (Karnette-D) Port infrastructure financing
Allows any harbor agency to receive any counter-terrorism or anti-terrorism funds to pay for port or harbor infrastructure.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2996 (Levine-D) Automobile Brake Pad Mitigation Program
Establishes the Automobile Brake Pad Mitigation Program, until January 1, 2015, and requires the State Water Resources Control Board to carry out the program and establishes the Automobile Brake Pad Mitigation Fund in the State Treasury. Requires retailers to collect a $1 fee from the purchase of a set of new automobile brake pads and to transmit all fee revenues to the Board of Equalization for deposit into the fund.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 3004 (Houston-R) Vehicles: enforcement
Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature and the Commissioner of the Department of the California Highway Patrol to a mend the California Code of Regulations regarding distinctively painted motor vehicles to ensure that all distinctively painted patrol vehicles and motorcycles used by police and traffic officers are authorized to enforce Vehicle Code provisions relating to driving under the influence.
Chapter 832, Statutes of 2006
AB 3010 (Niello-R) Surface transportation programs
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to select surface transportation projects for credit assistance from federal sources.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 3011 (Benoit-R) Vehicles
Conforms, by federal mandate, state regulation of intrastate and interstate commercial trucks and buses (motor carriers) to the requirements of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and designates the Department of the California Highway Patrol to enforce these provisions in California.
Chapter 288, Statutes of 2006
AB 3023 (Nunez-D) Railroads: safety
Requires railroad operators to conduct a risk assessment of their facilities and implement an infrastructure protection program.
Chapter 867, Statutes of 2006
AB 3045 (Koretz-D) License revocation: ignition interlock device
Prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) from reinstating the privilege to operate a motor vehicle of a person required to install an ignition interlock device (IID) until the DMV receives proof, as specified, that a certified IID has been installed as ordered.
Chapter 835, Statutes of 2006
AB 3047 (Canciamilla-D) Toll facilities
Authorizes the Department of Transportation or a regional transportation agency to construct high-occupancy vehicle and other preferential lanes on the state highway system, and authorizes a regional transportation agency to construct and operate those lanes as toll facilities subject to specified requirements.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
ACR 149 (Houston-R) The Isleton Bridge
Requests that the Department of Transportation grant, without charge, an encroachment permit so that E Clampus Vitus can place a plaque adjacent to the historic Isleton Bridge on State Highway Route 160 near the City of Isleton in Sacramento County.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
ACR 167 (Pavley-D) Nonpetroleum, clean alternative fuels
Expresses the Legislature's commitment to achieve a clean transportation future based upon the use of nonpetroleum, clean alternative fuels.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AJR 35 (Bermudez-D) Air travel: repeal of Wright Amendment
Urges the Congress of the United States to repeal that parties of the International Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979, commonly known as the Wright Amendment.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 3 |
Torlakson-D Highways: Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zones |
Highways |
| SB 44 |
Torlakson-D Vehicles: dealer document preparation charges |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 95 |
Murray-D Vehicles: ignition interlock device |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 98 |
Murray-D Auto insurance: repairs |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 114 |
Bowen-D Vehicles: safety-related recalls: procedure |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 172 |
Torlakson-D Toll bridge seismic retrofit program |
Highways |
| SB 208 |
Alquist-D Transportation: Traffic Congestion Relief Program |
Development and Financing |
| SB 212 |
Lowenthal-D Lapses of consciousness: reports to DMV |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 225 |
Soto-D Carl Moyer program |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 283* |
Maldonado-R Vehicles: combination length |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 335* |
Maldonado-R Airport security, safety, and capacity grants |
Development and Financing Miscellaneous |
| SB 351 |
Soto-D Derailment evacuation plans and training |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 371 |
Torlakson-D Design-build contracting: transportation entities |
Highways |
| SB 372 |
Margett-R Vehicles: size, weight, and load: local authorities |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 419 |
Simitian-D Hazardous materials: transportation: railroad tank cars |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 433 |
Simitian-D Department of Motor Vehicles: personal information |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 451 |
Poochigian-R Identification: thumb and finger |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 463 |
Ducheny-D Toll roads: State Highway Route 125 |
Highways |
| SB 466 |
Kuehl-D Mobile photo radar enforcement system |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 468 |
Campbell-R State highways: safety roadside rest areas |
Highways |
| SB 519 |
McClintock-R Highways: exclusive-use or preferential-use lanes |
Highways |
| SB 561* |
Runner-R Toll Roads |
Highways |
| SB 590 |
Cedillo-D Vehicles: evidence of financial responsibility: penalty |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 591 |
Cedillo-D Impounding: vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 612 |
Dutton-R Vehicles: fees: exemption: deployed military personnel |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 626 |
Soto-D Impounding vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 637 |
Speier-D Motor vehicle sales |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 651 |
Torlakson-D Vehicles: special interest license plates |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 681 |
Simitian-D Vehicles: wireless telephones |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 691 |
Speier-D Vehicles: special interest license plates: fees: allocation |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 705 |
Runner-R Design-build contracts |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 760 |
Lowenthal-D Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach: container fees |
Development and Financing |
| SB 762 |
Lowenthal-D Ports: regulation |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 806 |
Speier-D Provisional licensing program |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 810 |
Speier-D Parking: driveways |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 823 |
Margett-R Provisional licensing program: speed contest |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 920 |
Cox-R Public contracts: retentions |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 924 |
Speier-D Driving schools: motortrucks |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 927 |
Lowenthal-D Ports: congestion relief: security enhancement |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 953 |
Romero-D Vehicles: registration: amnesty: replica vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 969 |
Ducheny-D Vehicles: motorcycles: safety helmets: exceptions |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 988 |
Migden-D Safety Awareness Zones: Golden Gate Bridge |
Highways |
| SB 1000 |
Senate Agriculture Committee Vehicles: special interest license plates: agriculture |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1010 |
Florez-D Rail service: City of Shafter |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1026 |
Kuehl-D Highway construction contracts: design-build projects |
Development and Financing Highways |
| SB 1029 |
Hollingsworth-R Special interest license plates: sportspersons |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1132* |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Transportation |
Development and Financing |
| SB 1135 |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Agricultural Worker Transportation Program |
Development and Financing |
| SB 1161 |
Alarcon-D State highways: design-sequencing contracts |
Highways |
| SB 1162 |
Cedillo-D Drivers license and identification cards |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1224 |
Chesbro-D Vehicles: limitations of access |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1225 |
Chesbro-D Service authority: registration and service fees |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1237 |
Maldonado-R Vehicles: combination length |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1246 |
Cox-R Vehicles: authorized emergency vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1252 |
Florez-D Air pollution: penalties: particulate matter |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1266* |
Perata-D Bond act |
Development and Financing |
| SB 1282* |
Ducheny-D Transportation: federal funds: border infrastructure program |
Highways |
| SB 1286 |
Ducheny-D Binational air pollution |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1296 |
Kehoe-D San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency: governance |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1378 |
Cox-R Harbors and navigation: dive flag |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1384 |
Kuehl-D Los Angeles-Exposition Metro Line light rail project |
Development and Financing |
| SB 1404 |
Machado-D Vehicles: parking violations: street cleaning |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1408 |
Cedillo-D Police: notice of recovered vehicle |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1416 |
Battin-R Air resources: gasoline supply |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1493* |
McClintock-R Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act |
Development and Financing |
| SB 1494 |
McClintock-R Top priority transportation projects |
Development and Financing |
| SB 1498 |
Dutton-R Vehicles: fee and tax exemption: military |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1503 |
Poochigian-R Vehicle theft: probation |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1505 |
Lowenthal-D Fuel: hydrogen alternative fuel |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1507 |
Margett-R Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1511 |
Ducheny-D Renewable fuels: regulations |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1542 |
Migden-D Vehicles: key information access |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1553 |
Murray-D Registration fee |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1559* |
Lowenthal-D Vehicles: low-speed vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1583 |
Kuehl-D Marvin Braude Bikeway |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1586 |
Lowenthal-D Eminent domain and inverse condemnation: vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1587 |
Lowenthal-D Transportation planning: federal funds |
Development and Financing |
| SB 1593 |
Runner-R Vehicles: removal: private property |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1601 |
Lowenthal-D Air pollution: marine ports: emissions |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1608 |
Simitian-D Transportation: landscaping projects |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1610 |
Simitian-D Vehicles: emergency vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1611 |
Simitian-D Congestion management fees |
Development and Financing |
| SB 1613 |
Simitian-D Vehicles: wireless telephones |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1628 |
Perata-D San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1645* |
Denham-R Vehicles: driver's license revocation |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1671 |
Ashburn-R Spaceports: Mojave Spaceport |
Development and Financing |
| SB 1675 |
Kehoe-D Vehicular air pollution: renewable diesel fuel |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1681 |
Cox-R Off-Highway motor vehicle |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1687 |
Murray-D Transportation |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1694 |
Aanestad-R Transportation: federal funds: allocation to counties |
Highways |
| SB 1703 |
Lowenthal-D California Transportation Commission |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1718 |
Perata-D Air pollution |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1726 |
Lowenthal-D Vehicles: transit system buses: illuminated signs |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1735 |
Cox-R Vehicles: police pursuits |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1749 |
Migden-D Transit fare evasion |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1756 |
Migden-D Vehicles: driving under the influence |
Miscellaneous |
| SB 1812 |
Runner-R Surface transportation project delivery pilot program |
Development and Financing |
| SB 1829 |
Lowenthal-D Marine terminals: air emissions |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1839 |
Perata-D Smog check: Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| SB 1841 |
Migden-D Yerba Buena Island ramp connections |
Highways |
| SCA 7 |
Torlakson-D Transportation Investment Fund |
Development and Financing |
| SCA 29 |
Morrow-R Ports: California Port Security Enhancement Act |
Miscellaneous |
| SCR 7 |
Denham-R Officer Stephan Gene Gray Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 19 |
Chesbro-D Robert G. Mondavi Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 20 |
Soto-D CHP Officer Thomas J. Steiner Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 28 |
Murray-D Nathan Shapell Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 37 |
Florez-D Donald E. DeMers Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 52 |
Margett-R Mayor James Thalman and Mayor Michael Wickman Memorial Hwy |
Highways |
| SCR 53 |
Ashburn-R Mark C. Salvaggio Interchange |
Highways |
| SCR 55 |
Ashburn-R Paul H. Pino Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 57 |
Cox-R Robert M. Jackson Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 66 |
Cox-R Historic Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40 |
Highways |
| SCR 68 |
Florez-D The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 72 |
Maldonado-R Memorial highway and memorial interchange |
Highways |
| SCR 93 |
Runner-R Memorial highway |
Highways |
| SCR 95 |
Soto-D Officer Richard Hyche Memorial Freeway |
Highways |
| SCR 96 |
Ortiz-D Deputy Sheriff Sandra Powell-Larson Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 98 |
Florez-D Curt Carter Sr. Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 101 |
Battin-R Motorcycle Awareness Month |
Miscellaneous |
| SCR 114 |
Chesbro-D Mignon "Minnie" Stoddard Lilley Memorial Bridge |
Highways |
| SCR 120 |
Denham-R Michael (Flea) Feliciano Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 123 |
Florez-D Joint Legislative Committee on High-Speed Trains |
Development and Financing |
| SCR 124 |
Lowenthal-D National System of Interstate and Defense Highways |
Highways |
| SCR 128 |
Cedillo-D Bill Keene Memorial Interchange |
Highways |
| SCR 129 |
Cedillo-D Los Angeles Police Officer Steven Gajda Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 130 |
Florez-D Officer John Palacios Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| SCR 132 |
Lowenthal-D Hybrid Vehicle Awareness Month |
Miscellaneous |
| SCR 133 |
Cox-R James E. Roberts Memorial Bridge |
Highways |
| SJR 13 |
Escutia-D Railroad safety |
Miscellaneous |
| SJR 26 |
Morrow-R Port security |
Miscellaneous |
| SJR 31 |
Lowenthal-D Clean ports |
Miscellaneous |
| SR 8 |
Torlakson-D Transportation and housing |
Miscellaneous |
| SR 25 |
Perata-D Relative to the Department of the California Highway Patrol |
Miscellaneous |
| SR 33 |
Migden-D Relative to Pacific Maritime Routes |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 4 |
Bogh-R Vehicles: driver's license: permanent revocation: DUI |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 26* |
Mountjoy-R Vehicles: commercial requester accounts: access |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 79 |
Calderon-D Automotive repair dealers |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 84 |
Leslie-R Vehicles: specialized license plates |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 130* |
Assembly Budget Committee Off-highway vehicle fees: allocation |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 158* |
Bermudez-D Railroads: safety study |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 160 |
Cogdill-R Vehicles: special license plates |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 184 |
Cogdill-R Air quality: high polluter vehicles |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 189 |
Shirley Horton-R Highway projects: coordinated environmental review |
Highways |
| AB 206 |
Haynes-R Vehicles: special interest license plates |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 267 |
Daucher-R Transportation project |
Development and Financing |
| AB 303 |
Calderon-D Automotive repair dealers: insurers |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 311 |
Baca-D City of San Bernardino: parking structure funding |
Development and Financing |
| AB 343* |
Huff-R Transportation: public officers |
Development and Financing |
| AB 372 |
Nation-D Public contracts: transit design-build contracts |
Development and Financing Miscellaneous |
| AB 377 |
Maze-R Sales and use tax: exemption: examination |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 379 |
Koretz-D Smoking in vehicles with minor passengers |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 397 |
Chavez-D Provisional licensing program |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 406 |
Haynes-R Distinctive DUI license plates |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 426 |
Bogh-R High occupancy vehicle lanes: Riverside County |
Highways |
| AB 435 |
Liu-D Registration fees: exemptions: paratransit vehicle operators |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 508 |
Richman-R Department of Transportation: design-build contracting |
Highways |
| AB 509 |
Richman-R Regional transportation agencies |
Development and Financing |
| AB 521 |
Sharon Runner-R Transportation facilities: public-private partnerships |
Development and Financing |
| AB 526 |
Harman-R Uninsured motorists coverage exclusion |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 540 |
Liu-D State highway projects: meetings |
Highways |
| AB 555 |
La Malfa-R Vehicles: off-highway vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 556 |
Gordon-D Airports: noise impacts |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 570 |
Villines-R Vehicles: fleeing a peace officer |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 679 |
Calderon-D Air resources: diesel fuel |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 697* |
Oropeza-D Transportation revenue: continuous appropriation |
Development and Financing |
| AB 713* |
Torrico-D Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act |
Development and Financing |
| AB 718 |
Calderon-D Personal data: driver's licenses |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 804 |
La Suer-R Dept. of the California Highway Patrol: freeway signs |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 838* |
Saldana-D Income and corporation taxes: credits: qualified vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 850 |
Canciamilla-D Toll road agreements |
Highways |
| AB 898 |
Maze-R Air pollution: smog check: technicians |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 914 |
Cogdill-R Authorized emergency vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 963 |
Garcia-R Vehicles: provisional driver's license: cellular telephone |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 969 |
Karnette-D Business, Transportation and Housing Agency: trans planning |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1012 |
Nation-D Vehicular air pollution control: clean alternative fuels |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1020 |
Hancock-D Transportation planning: improved travel models |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1025 |
Walters-R Driving in excess of 100 mph |
Highways |
| AB 1039 |
Frommer-D Government: environment: bonds: transportation |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1087 |
DeVore-R Vehicles: loads: spill prevention |
Highways |
| AB 1101 |
Oropeza-D Air pollution: diesel magnet sources |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1103 |
Karnette-D Bicycle sales: notice |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1118* |
Umberg-D State highways: airspace leases |
Highways |
| AB 1148 |
Nakanishi-R Vehicles: ice cream trucks: parking |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1149 |
La Suer-R Vehicles: driving reexamination |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1157 |
Frommer-D Rail Safety and Traffic Mitigation Bond Act of 2006 |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1163 |
Yee-D Motor vehicle replacement parts |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1173 |
Tran-R Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1189 |
Bermudez-D Vehicles: motorcycles: rider training programs |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1197 |
Gordon-D Aviation: Southern California Regional Aviation Commission |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1223 |
Leno-D Internet: vehicle sales: low-emission vehicles |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1276 |
Oropeza-D Intermodal corridors of economic significance |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1277 |
Evans-D Highway Users Tax Account: State Highway Account |
Highways |
| AB 1281* |
Maze-R State scenic highway system |
Highways |
| AB 1324 |
Vargas-D Vehicles: school pedestrian-bicyclist safety program |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1407 |
Lieber-D State-owned Bay Area toll bridges: HOV lanes |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1447 |
Garcia-R Vehicles: provisional driver's license: restrictions |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1449 |
Bermudez-D Graffiti abatement |
Highways |
| AB 1467 |
Nunez-D Transportation projects: facilities |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1475 |
Maze-R Provisional licensing program |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1477 |
DeVore-R Vehicles: state militia exemptions |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1499 |
Benoit-R Outdoor advertising: City of Riverside |
Highways |
| AB 1504 |
La Suer-R Vehicles: driver's licenses: registered sex offenders |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1518 |
Jerome Horton-D Outdoor advertising |
Highways |
| AB 1552 |
La Suer-R San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1621* |
Klehs-D Electrical corporations: Bay Area Rapid Transit |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1627 |
Koretz-D Provisional licensing program |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1649 |
Liu-D Metro Foothills Gold Line Construction Authority |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1678 |
Saldana-D Ports and harbors: vessels: air pollution |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1699 |
Frommer-D Commuter and intercity passenger trains: push-pull operation |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1702 |
Frommer-D State finances: economic recovery and transportation |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1706 |
Strickland-R Department of Motor Vehicles: records |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1728 |
Houston-R Vessels: registration fees: boating safety |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1781 |
Mountjoy-R Highways: victim signs |
Highways |
| AB 1785 |
Bermudez-D Grade separation projects |
Highways |
| AB 1788 |
Cohn-D Driver's licenses: issuance and renewal |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1805* |
Assembly Budget Committee Vehicle License Fee |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1811* |
Laird-D Transportation: budget trailer bill |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1850 |
Mountjoy-R Vehicles: trunk |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1853 |
Matthews-D Railroad-highway crossings: grade separation projects |
Highways |
| AB 1854 |
Oropeza-D Vehicles: total loss salvage vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1856 |
Walters-R Vehicles: speeding |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1858 |
McCarthy-R State Highway Routes 58, 178, and 204: relinquishment |
Highways |
| AB 1870 |
Lieber-D Air pollution: motor vehicle inspection and maintenance |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1875 |
Daucher-R State highways: landscape services |
Highways |
| AB 1878 |
Parra-D Advisory council |
Development and Financing |
| AB 1901 |
Shirley Horton-R Air pollution: truck retrofit revolving loan program |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 1903 |
Benoit-R Driving: controlled substance |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1909 |
Vargas-D Motor vehicle insurance coverage |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1910 |
Aghazarian-R Disabled person and disabled veteran license plates |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1915 |
Villines-R Vehicles: license plates |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1932 |
Benoit-R Vehicles: traffic violator schools |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1935* |
Bermudez-D Railroads: maintenance and safety |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1936 |
DeVore-R Vehicles: special license plates |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1938 |
Bogh-R State highways: relinquishment |
Highways |
| AB 1941 |
Nava-D Vehicles: bicycles |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1974 |
Walters-R High-occupancy vehicle lanes |
Highways |
| AB 1976 |
Nava-D Vehicles: school zone fines |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1991 |
Saldana-D Vehicles: environmental license plates: disabled persons |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 1997 |
Cogdill-R San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2002 |
La Malfa-R Highway signs: veterans |
Highways |
| AB 2025 |
Niello-R Design-build contracts |
Development and Financing |
| AB 2105 |
Emmerson-R Human remains: permits: transportation |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2108 |
Evans-D Vehicles: child passengers |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2120 |
Liu-D Disabled persons: disabled veterans: parking placards |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2137 |
Niello-R Sacramento Regional Transit District |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2142 |
Haynes-R Vehicles: special interest license plates |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2143 |
Parra-D Transportation: interregional road system |
Highways |
| AB 2151 |
Villines-R CalEPA: rules: scientific peer review |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2154 |
Goldberg-D Parking: car share vehicle |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2175 |
Liu-D Department of Motor Vehicles: driver education |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2190 |
Benoit-R Vehicles: reckless driving and motor vehicle speed contests |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2201 |
La Malfa-R Vehicles: farm equipment: registration |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2210 |
Goldberg-D Tow trucks: regulating |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2213 |
Tran-R Property transfer: City of Newport Beach |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2220 |
Vargas-D Household goods carriers |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2230 |
La Suer-R San Diego County Regional Airport Authority |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2234 |
Strickland-R Highway signs: World War II Aviation Museum |
Highways |
| AB 2237 |
Karnette-D Harbors and ports: security |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2239* |
Emmerson-R Vehicles: sales and use taxes |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2249 |
Coto-D Smog check: test-only technicians |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2253 |
Hancock-D Vehicles: illegal dumping |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2274 |
Karnette-D Harbors and ports: emergency response and evacuation plans |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2290 |
DeVore-R User fees |
Highways |
| AB 2291 |
Evans-D Vehicles: dealer: data security |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2295 |
Arambula-D Transportation capital improvement projects |
Development and Financing |
| AB 2298 |
Niello-R Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund: grants |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2322 |
Parra-D Department of Motor Vehicles: vehicles: registration |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2325* |
Nation-D Gas tax: income tax |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2337 |
Garcia-R Vehicles: off-highway motor vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2350 |
Maze-R Vehicles: character education: specialized license plates |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2361 |
Huff-R Transportation: federal funds: border infrastructure funds |
Development and Financing |
| AB 2401 |
Karnette-D Vehicles: autoettes |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2407 |
Salinas-D Vehicles: mature driver program |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2427 |
Canciamilla-D Vehicles: motorcycles: safety helmets: exceptions |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2441* |
Klehs-D Outdoor advertising |
Highways |
| AB 2444 |
Klehs-D Congestion management |
Development and Financing |
| AB 2465 |
De La Torre-D Pedestrian-bicyclist safety: vehicles: school zone fines |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2483 |
Baca-D State highways: sale of excess property |
Highways |
| AB 2492 |
Benoit-R Transportation: transportation infrastructure emergency |
Development and Financing |
| AB 2495 |
Frommer-D Transportation facilities: public-private partnerships |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2520 |
Assembly Transportation Committee Transportation |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2538 |
Wolk-D Transportation funds: planning and programming |
Development and Financing |
| AB 2542 |
Daucher-R Driver assessment |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2557 |
Huff-R Transportation |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2558 |
Benoit-R Vehicles: license suspension and revocation: punishment |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2559 |
Benoit-R Vehicles: driving under the influence: manslaughter |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2593 |
Keene-R Compensation: meal periods: transportation industry |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2599 |
Benoit-R Motor vehicle theft |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2600 |
Lieu-D Vehicles: HOV lanes |
Highways |
| AB 2604 |
Emmerson-R Highway construction contracts: design-build method |
Highways |
| AB 2605 |
Bogh-R Driving under the influence: sanctions |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2616* |
Nakanishi-R Taxation: deductions: qualified vehicle transaction |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2625 |
Pavley-D California Heritage Corridor Act |
Highways |
| AB 2630 |
Benoit-R Grade separation project funding |
Highways |
| AB 2647 |
Oropeza-D Vehicular air pollution: truck retrofit assistance program |
Development and Financing |
| AB 2650 |
Laird-D Monterey Peninsula Airport District |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2661 |
Strickland-R Vehicle inspection facilities |
Highways |
| AB 2670 |
Aghazarian-R Property taxation: regulated railway companies |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2681 |
Pavley-D Vehicles: registration fees: fines |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2718 |
Walters-R Traffic violator school: instruction |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2733 |
Leslie-R State Highway Route 193 |
Highways |
| AB 2736 |
Niello-R Vehicles: apportioned registration |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2752 |
Spitzer-R Driving under the influence |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2755 |
Blakeslee-R All-terrain vehicles: operating violations |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2788 |
Arambula-D Voluntary Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2791 |
Ruskin-D Vehicle emissions |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2794 |
Levine-D Vehicles: brokering |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2808 |
Strickland-R Vehicles: driver's license: suspension or revocation |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2820 |
Leslie-R Automobile driver training: Teenage Driver Safety Program |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2822 |
Mullin-D Railroad corporations: Hazardous substances: fee |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2823 |
Ruskin-D Air pollution: district compliance programs |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2824 |
Ruskin-D Air pollution: air toxics emissions inventory |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2843 |
Saldana-D Air pollution |
Motor Vehicle Emissions |
| AB 2896 |
Karnette-D Commercial Transportation Development Council |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2903 |
Huff-R Department of Motor Vehicles: employees |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2923 |
Calderon-D Crimes: graffiti and vandalism: driver's license |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2939 |
Wolk-D Sacramento-Yolo Port District |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2955 |
Cogdill-R Public safety: traversing traffic control devices |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 2991 |
Karnette-D Port infrastructure financing |
Development and Financing Miscellaneous |
| AB 2996 |
Levine-D Automobile Brake Pad Mitigation Program |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 3004 |
Houston-R Vehicles: enforcement |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 3010 |
Niello-R Surface transportation programs |
Development and Financing Miscellaneous |
| AB 3011 |
Benoit-R Vehicles |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 3023 |
Nunez-D Railroads: safety |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 3030 |
Emmerson-R State Highway Routes 66 and 83 |
Highways |
| AB 3031 |
Houston-R State highways: seismic retrofit and replacement projects |
Highways |
| AB 3045 |
Koretz-D License revocation: ignition interlock device |
Miscellaneous |
| AB 3047 |
Canciamilla-D Toll facilities |
Highways Miscellaneous |
| ACA 4 |
Plescia-R Transportation Investment Fund |
Development and Financing |
| ACA 9 |
Bogh-R Motor vehicle fuel sales tax revenue |
Development and Financing |
| ACA 10 |
Nunez-D Transportation Investment Fund |
Development and Financing |
| ACA 11 |
Oropeza-D Transportation funds: loans |
Development and Financing |
| ACR 47 |
La Suer-R Ramon Ojeda Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| ACR 52 |
Levine-D Sergeant Evan A. Ashcraft Memorial Interchange |
Highways |
| ACR 65 |
Cogdill-R Kristopher's Crossing |
Highways |
| ACR 97 |
Blakeslee-R Alex Madonna Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| ACR 104 |
Chavez-D West Covina Police Officer Kenneth Wrede Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| ACR 105 |
Chavez-D State Highway Route 210 |
Highways |
| ACR 108 |
La Malfa-R Cynthia and Erling Hjertager Memorial Highway and Bridge |
Highways |
| ACR 111 |
McCarthy-R CHP Officer Erick S. Manny Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| ACR 123 |
La Suer-R Historic U.S. Highway Route 80 |
Highways |
| ACR 124 |
Leslie-R Harry Crabb Tunnel |
Highways |
| ACR 132 |
Cogdill-R Deputy David P. Grant Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| ACR 134 |
Cogdill-R CHP Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| ACR 149 |
Houston-R The Isleton Bridge |
Miscellaneous |
| ACR 151 |
Matthews-D Grade separation projects |
Development and Financing |
| ACR 156 |
Emmerson-R Martin A. Matich Highway |
Highways |
| ACR 157 |
Vargas-D Filipino-American Highway |
Highways |
| ACR 160 |
Keene-R Lt. Larry B. Estes and Dep. Bill R. Hunter Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| ACR 162 |
Bogh-R CDF Firefighter Chris Kanton Memorial Highway |
Highways |
| ACR 167 |
Pavley-D Nonpetroleum, clean alternative fuels |
Motor Vehicle Emissions Miscellaneous |
| AJR 9 |
Shirley Horton-R Transportation infrastructure finance |
Development and Financing |
| AJR 35 |
Bermudez-D Air travel: repeal of Wright Amendment |
Miscellaneous |
