California Assembly Bill AB2620 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2620AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 11, 2016 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 18, 2016 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Dababneh FEBRUARY 19, 2016 An act to add Section 99684.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation, and making an appropriation therefor. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2620, as amended, Dababneh. Passenger rail projects: funding. Proposition 116, an initiative measure, enacted the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Act of 1990, which establishes the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund,  allocates   continuously appropriates  specified amounts from the fund for, among other things, rights-of-way for rail purposes and capital expenditures deemed necessary for a specified rail service, and requires the California Transportation Commission to adopt guidelines for the approval of grants for transit projects which are essential to the implementation of safe and reliable transit services. The act authorizes, if any of the funds are not expended or encumbered prior to July 1, 2010, the Legislature to reallocate the funds for any other passenger rail project in the state by a statute passed in each house by a 2/3 vote. This bill would reallocate funds allocated pursuant to the act that are not expended or encumbered by July 1, 2020, to any other existing passenger rail project  in the state.   with existing rail service.  The bill would require the commission to determine the  existing passenger rail projects in the state and implement the reallocation on a pro-rata basis.  projects pursuant to this reallocation.  By reallocating unexpended or unencumbered funds to any other existing passenger rail project, the bill would make an appropriation. Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 99684.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read: 99684.5. (a) Funds allocated pursuant to this part that are not expended or encumbered by July 1, 2020, are hereby reallocated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 99684 to any other existing passenger rail  project.   project with existing rail service.  (b) The California Transportation Commission shall determine  the existing passenger rail projects in the state and implement the reallocation described in subdivision (a) on a pro-rata basis.   the projects pursuant to the reallocation as described in subdivision (a).