Alex Padilla
- Democratic
Author
Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to contract with Amtrak for intercity rail passenger services and provides funding for these services from the Public Transportation Account. Existing law, until December 31, 1996, authorized the department, subject to approval of the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing, to enter into an interagency transfer agreement under which a joint powers board assumes responsibility for administering the state-funded intercity rail service in a particular corridor. Existing law, with respect to a transferred corridor, requires the board to demonstrate the ability to meet performance standards established by the secretary. This bill would authorize the department, with approval of the secretary, to enter into interagency transfer agreements for additional intercity rail corridors, to be entered into between June 30, 2014, and June 30, 2015. The bill would require the agreements to cover the initial 3-year period after the transfer, and would authorize subsequent extensions by mutual agreement. If agreements are not entered into by the expiration of that period, the bill would require the secretary to report to the Governor and the Legislature by June 30, 2016, as specified. This bill would specifically authorize an additional interagency transfer agreement to be entered into with respect to the LOSSAN Corridor, defined to mean the intercity passenger rail corridor between San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Luis Obispo, if the LOSSAN Agency, an existing joint powers agency, is reconstituted through an amended joint powers agreement approved by the governing boards of its members to enable that agency to enter into an interagency transfer agreement with the secretary relative to the LOSSAN Corridor. Existing law requires the level of service to be funded by the state pursuant to a transfer agreement to not be less than the current number of intercity round trips operated in a corridor and serving the same endpoints. This bill would require the service funded by the state to remain the same during the first 3 years following the effective date of a transfer agreement, and would require the entity assuming responsibility for a corridor to provide that level of service. The bill would prohibit termination of feeder bus services except for specified reasons. Existing law provides for the allocation of state funds by the secretary to a joint powers board under an interagency transfer agreement based on the annual business plan for the intercity rail corridor and subsequent appropriation of state funds. Existing law states that the interagency transfer agreement may provide that any additional funds required to operate the intercity rail service during a fiscal year shall be provided by a joint powers board from jurisdictions that receive service. This bill, if local resources are made available for operating the intercity rail service, would require a vote of the local agency providing the resources, and would require the concurrence of the joint powers board in that regard. This bill would authorize the secretary to adopt new performance standards for intercity rail services. Existing law authorizes the department and any entity that assumes administrative responsibility for passenger rail services through an interagency transfer agreement to contract with specified entities for the use of tracks and other facilities and for the provision of passenger rail services. This bill would require a contractor under an agreement described above to agree that its labor relations shall be governed by a specified federal act relating to labor relations on railroads and would add similar provisions applicable to the LOSSAN Corridor, as specified. This bill would repeal now-obsolete provisions authorizing the Southern California Regional Rail Authority to be a party to an interagency transfer agreement for intercity rail services in specified counties.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 802, Statutes of 2012.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 13. Page 6773.) Ordered to the Senate.
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6750.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 5114.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29).
Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 27. Page 6468.)
Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 6357.)
Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
Read third time and amended. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 6261.)
Ordered to third reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 16).
Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Hearing postponed by committee.
Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Page 5340.)
Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 5340.)
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3710.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3593.) (May 24).
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Set for hearing May 24.
Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Set for hearing May 14.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3314.) (April 24).
Hearing postponed by committee.
Set for hearing April 24.
Hearing postponed by committee.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H.
Set for hearing April 17.
Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 10.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB1225 | HTML |
| 02/23/12 - Introduced | |
| 04/09/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/01/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/29/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/27/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/06/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/20/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/24/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/30/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/10/12 - Enrolled | |
| 09/29/12 - Chaptered |
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