California Assembly Bill AB1889 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1889AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 21, 2016 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 17, 2016 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Mullin FEBRUARY 11, 2016 An act to  repeal Division 16 (commencing with Section 160000) of the Public Utilities   add Section 2704.78 to the Streets and Highways  Code, relating to transportation. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1889, as amended, Mullin.  Peninsula Rail Transit District.   High-Speed Rail Authority: high-spe   ed train operation.   Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with specified powers and duties relative to the development and implementation of a high-speed train system. Existing law, pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, statewide general election, provides for the issuance of $9.95 billion for high-speed train capital projects and other associated purposes. The bond act requires the authority to expend the proceeds of the bond act pursuant to certain planning and reporting requirements, which require the authority to approve that the corridor or usable segment would be suitable and ready for high-speed train operations.   The Budget Act of 2012 made appropriations for the support of state government, including an appropriation for, among other things, state operations, local assistance, or capital outlay for high-speed rail projects, as specified.   This bill would provide for the purposes of that appropriation that the approval by the authority that a corridor or usable segment thereof would be suitable and ready for high-speed train operation is conclusive.   Existing law, operative under certain conditions, redesignates the Peninsula Corridor Study Joint Powers Board as the Peninsula Rail Transit District, comprised of 9 members appointed from various governing bodies situated in the City and County of San Francisco and the Counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara, with specified powers.   This bill would repeal obsolete provisions relating to the Peninsula Rail Transit District.  Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no  yes  . State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:  SECTION   1   .   Section 2704.78 is added to the   Streets and Highways Code   , to read:   2704.78. (a) For the purposes of expenditure or liquidation of the appropriation made by Item 2665-104-6043 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2012, as added by Section 3 of Chapter 152 of the Statutes of 2012, the approval made by the High-Speed Rail Authority pursuant to Section 2704.08 that a corridor or usable segment thereof would be suitable and ready for high-speed train operation, within the meaning Section 2704.08, shall be conclusive. (b) This section does not relieve the High-Speed Rail Authority of its duties under Section 2704.08, including the report required by subdivision (d) of that section.   SECTION 1.   Division 16 (commencing with Section 160000) of the Public Utilities Code is repealed.