Bob Wieckowski
- Democratic
Author
Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as an infraction, for a person to commit certain acts on or in a facility or vehicle of a public transportation system, including disturbing another person by loud or unreasonable noise on the facilities, vehicles, or property of the public transportation system, in specified circumstances. This bill would revise the unreasonable noise provision so that it would apply to a person failing to comply with the warning of a transit official related to disturbing another person by loud and unreasonable noise, and also to a person playing unreasonably loud sound equipment on or in a public transportation system facility or vehicle. The bill would also make it an infraction for a person on or in a facility or vehicle of a public transportation system to fail to yield seating reserved for an elderly or disabled person if the public transportation agency enacts an ordinance to that effect, after a public hearing. The bill would also expand the definition of a facility or vehicle of a public transportation system for these purposes to include a facility or vehicle of a rail authority, whether owned or leased, as specified. By expanding the definitions of existing crimes and creating new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law also authorizes a public transportation agency to adopt an ordinance to impose and enforce civil administrative penalties for certain passenger misconduct, other than by minors, on or in a transit facility or vehicle in lieu of the criminal penalties otherwise applicable, with specified administrative procedures for the imposition and enforcement of the administrative penalties, including an initial review and opportunity for a subsequent administrative hearing. This misconduct includes playing sound equipment on or in a system facility or vehicle. Existing law requires the ordinance to include the statutory provisions governing the administrative penalties. This bill would apply these administrative penalties to a person failing to comply with the warning of a transit official related to disturbing another person by loud and unreasonable noise, to a person playing unreasonably loud sound equipment on or in a system facility or vehicle, and to a person failing to yield seating reserved for an elderly or disabled person. The bill would authorize the administrative penalties to be applied to minors and would delete the requirement for the ordinance to include the statutory provisions. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 99580 of the Public Utilities Code, proposed by AB 869 and by AB 6 and SB 5 of the Second Extraordinary Session, that would become operative only if this bill and one or more of those bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2016, and this bill is enacted last. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 765, Statutes of 2015.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:30 a.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2665.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2949.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
Ordered to third reading.
From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Cristina Garcia.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 19).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 29).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
June 22 hearing postponed by committee.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1115.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Set for hearing May 18.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 825.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H.
Set for hearing April 28.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 28.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB413 | HTML |
| 02/25/15 - Introduced | |
| 04/16/15 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/22/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/01/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/03/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/10/15 - Enrolled | |
| 10/10/15 - Chaptered |
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