The second year of the legislature's two-year cycle is moving into action, with deadlines looming in the next few months for bills to pass their committees. There is still a lot of negotiating and amending coming up, but here are a few bills to keep an eye on.
Senator Wiener's bill, aimed at making it easier to build housing at a time when the state is suffering from a debilitating shortage, has, to put it mildly, ignited a robust debate in activist circles.
Dead are bills on allowing bikes to yield at stop signs, a pilot program to study speed enforcement cameras, and equity requirements for transportation funding.
As originally written, S.B. 760 would have required Caltrans to consider all users of its streets and roads when building, maintaining, or rehabilitating those facilities—and the bill had some teeth.