California Assembly Bill AB2542 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2542AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 15, 2016 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Gatto FEBRUARY 19, 2016 An act to  amend Section 1800 of   add Section 100.15 to  the Streets and Highways Code, relating to streets and highways. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2542, as amended, Gatto.  City streets and highways.   Streets and highways: reversible lanes.   Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation is in full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law generally provides for the California Transportation Commission to program available funding for transportation capital projects, other than state highway rehabilitation projects, through the State Transportation Improvement Program, which includes projects recommended by regional transportation planning agencies through the adoption of a regional transportation improvement program and projects recommended by the department through the adoption of an interregional transportation improvement program, as specified.   This bill would require the department or a regional transportation planning agency, when submitting a capacity-increasing project or a major street or highway lane realignment project to the commission for approval, to demonstrate that reversible lanes were considered for the project.   Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city to do any and all things necessary to lay out, acquire, and construct any section or portion of any street or highway within its jurisdiction as a freeway and to make any existing street or highway a freeway.   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.  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 100.15 is added to the   Streets and Highways Code   ,  immediately following Section 100.1  , to read:   100.15. Before the commission approves a capacity-increasing project or a major street or highway lane realignment project, the department or a regional transportation planning agency submitting the project for approval shall demonstrate that reversible lanes were considered for the project.   SECTION 1.   Section 1800 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read: 1800. The legislative body of a city may do any and all things necessary to lay out, acquire, and construct a section or portion of a street or highway within its jurisdiction as a freeway and to make an existing street or highway a freeway.