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BILL NUMBER: AB 2399 AMENDED
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 3, 2006
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Garcia
California and Mexico border infrastructure.
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CHAPTER 8.3. CALIFORNIA AND MEXICO BORDER ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING STUDY
8710. (a) The Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing
shall prepare and provide to the Legislature, by January 1, 2009, a
study regarding infrastructure development along the border between
the state and Mexico and any need for alternative financing
mechanisms suited to the challenges of the border region. The study
shall be prepared within existing resources of the agency.
(b) The study shall include, but not be limited to, all of the
following:
(1) An examination of the financial, geographic, and political
challenges to infrastructure development along the border between the
state and Mexico.
(2) An examination of the state's ability to develop
infrastructure projects along the border between the state and
Mexico.
(3) Identification of the necessary level of interaction between
the appropriate local, state, federal, and Mexican agencies in
infrastructure development along the border between the state and
Mexico.
(4) Identification of current and potential state, federal, or
Mexican revenue sources and financing mechanisms for infrastructure
development along the border between the state and Mexico.
(5) Identification of the extent to which current state, federal,
or Mexican revenue sources and financing mechanisms for
infrastructure development are being utilized along the border
between the state and Mexico.
(6) Identification of any deficiencies or gaps in the available
financing mechanisms for infrastructure development along the border
between the state and Mexico.
(7) Identification of possible infrastructure development projects
along the border between the state and Mexico and an analysis of the
need for each project.
BILL NUMBER: SB 1282 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 2, 2006
INTRODUCED BY Senator Ducheny
SB 1282, as amended, Ducheny Transportation: federal funds: border infrastructure program.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 164.1 is added to the Streets and Highways
Code, to read:
164.1. (a) Federal funds derived from apportionments made to the
state under Section 1101(a)(11) of the federal Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
(SAFETEA-LU; P.L. 109-59) for the coordinated border infrastructure
program established under Section 1303 of that act shall be included
and separately identified in the fund estimates prepared pursuant to
Sections 14524 and 14525 of the Government Code, the interregional
transportation improvement program submitted by the department
pursuant to Section 14526 of the Government Code, and the state
transportation improvement program adopted by the commission pursuant
to Section 14529 of the Government Code. Except as otherwise
provided in subdivision (b), these funds shall be programmed,
allocated, and expended in the same manner as other federal funds
made available for capital improvement projects in the state
transportation improvement program.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law:
(1) The programming, allocation, and expenditure of the funds
described in subdivision (a) may be for any purpose authorized under
federal law, including projects in Mexico.
(2) The funds described in subdivision (a) shall not be subject to
the distribution formulas and limitations described in Section 164.
(3) The nonfederal match for the funds described in subdivision
(a) may be programmed from any available local source,
or any available state transportation funding source,
including other state transportation improvement program funding, if
the regional transportation planning agency concurs.
SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to establish a process for the programming and
expenditure of federal border infrastructure funds as quickly as
possible, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.