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Dems, Repubs Far Apart on Solving CA Transportation Funding

By Melanie Curry | Jul 6, 2015 | 1 Comment

The California legislature held its first joint special session on transportation funding just before the holiday weekend. The session was called by Governor Jerry Brown when he and the legislature punted some big decisions so they could sign a budget before the June 30 deadline. The first extraordinary session of the Transportation and Infrastructure Development […]

Amended Hit-and-Run Alert System Bill Sails Through Committee

By Damien Newton | Jun 30, 2015 | 1 Comment

After last week’s warning that Assemblymember Mike Gatto’s legislation to create a “Yellow Alert” system was imperiled by Senate Transportation and Housing Committee staff and the California Highway Patrol’s (CHP) objections, there was a feeling of a looming showdown before today’s committee hearing. Assembly Bill 8 would create a system to use electronic road signs and the emergency alert […]

CHP Opposes Gatto’s Yellow Alert for Hit-and-Run Legislation

By Damien Newton | Jun 26, 2015 | No Comments

Earlier this week, news slowly leaked out that the California Highway Patrol (CHP) was opposing Assembly Bill 8, legislation by Asm. Mike Gatto that would create a “yellow alert” system after deadly hit-and-run crashes. The system would use electronic road signs and the emergency alert system to notify people when a deadly hit-and-run crash occurred […]

Legislative Update: Limiting Cap-and-Trade Transit Funds to Large Projects

By Melanie Curry | Jun 19, 2015 | No Comments

Last week, the California legislature put off making a decision on how to spend the portion of cap-and-trade revenue that hasn’t already been allocated. Meanwhile Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose) is shepherding through a bill, S.B. 9, that seeks to limit funds from one of the existing cap-and-trade programs to large, expensive transit projects. The […]

Legislative Update: Budget, Cap-and-Trade, LOS, Gas Tax

By Melanie Curry | Jun 12, 2015 | No Comments

This week the California legislature was mostly focused on the budget, since the Assembly and the Senate must by law present a budget bill to the governor by midnight on Monday, June 15. The joint Budget Conference Committee succeeded in producing an agreement [PDF] well before the deadline; their budget bill, A.B. 93, should be […]

California Legislative Update

By Melanie Curry | Jun 5, 2015 | 3 Comments

This week Sacramento saw long hearings in the Senate and Assembly, as both houses pushed to meet their deadline to pass bills. Any bill that doesn’t pass its house of origin by the end of this week is dead–for this year at least. Herein, our highly selective look at this week’s activities in the California […]

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