California Senate Bill SB333 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 333AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 28, 2011 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 25, 2011 AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 23, 2011 INTRODUCED BY Senator La Malfa FEBRUARY 15, 2011 An act to add and repeal Section 22406.2 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 333, as amended, La Malfa. Vehicles: speed limits. (1) Existing law prohibits a person from driving a motortruck or truck tractor having 3 or more axles, or a motortruck or truck tractor drawing any other vehicle, or a passenger vehicle or bus drawing another vehicle, on a highway at a speed in excess of 55 miles per hour. This bill would, until January 1, 2016, permit a person to drive those specified motor vehicles at a speed not to exceed 5 miles less per hour than the posted speed limit for a passenger vehicle on a specified portion of Interstate 5. The bill would require the Department of Transportation and the Department of the California Highway Patrol, on or before  December   March  31, 2015, to submit a report to the Legislature on traffic flow and traffic safety on that portion of Interstate 5. (2) The bill would declare that, due to the unique geographic and demographic characteristics of the Counties of  Shasta  Tehama, Glenn, Colusa,  and Yolo, a general statute within the meaning of specified provisions of the California Constitution cannot be made applicable and a special statute is necessary. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 22406.2 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read: 22406.2. (a) Notwithstanding Section 22406, a person may drive a motor vehicle described in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 22406 at a speed not to exceed five miles per hour less than the posted speed limit for a passenger vehicle on Interstate 5 north of the City of Woodland, in the County of Yolo, and south of Cottonwood, in the County of Shasta. (b) On or before  December   March  31, 2015, the Department of Transportation and the Department of the California Highway Patrol shall submit to the Legislature, pursuant to Section 9795 of the Government Code, a report on the effects of subdivision (a) on traffic flow and traffic safety on the portion of Interstate 5 as specified in subdivision (a). (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends that date. SEC. 2. Due to the unique geographic and demographic characteristics of the Counties of  Shasta   Tehama, Glenn, Colusa,  and Yolo, the Legislature finds and declares that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution. Therefore, the special legislation contained within Section 1 of this act is necessarily only applicable to those counties.