RECEIVE update on state legislative activities.

Staff will present a legislative update and a bill list for consideration and recommendation to the Board.

Some of the bills on the draft list would have funding impacts on the agency if enacted.

Attachment 1 is a summary of recent legislative activities from Agency legislative analyst Gus Khouri. Attachment 2 is an updated bill list. Changes to the list compared to the TAMC Board meeting of June 26 are indicated in cross-out and underline. There are no new support/oppose recommendations in this list. Bills of interest that are still moving this legislative session include:

• Assembly Bill (AB) 252 (Daly): Environmental review: federal program, which removes the sunset date for National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) delegation authority to Caltrans. A support letter was sent April 5.
• AB 1486 (Ting): Surplus land, which requires special districts and public agencies to offer a right of first refusal to affordable housing developers before conveying agency land. A letter of opposition was submitted May 8.
• Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 (Aguiar-Curry): Affordable housing and public infrastructure bond: voter threshold, which lowers to 55% the voter approval threshold for a housing or transportation bond. A support letter was sent July 1.
• Senate Bill (SB) 5 (Beall): Affordable housing and community development investment, which establishes an investment program for housing and transit-oriented development. A support letter was sent May 8.
• SB 127 (Weiner): Transportation funding: active transportation: complete streets, which incorporates bicycle and pedestrian safety considerations into the State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP). A support letter was sent April 5; an "oppose unless amended" letter was sent July 1. The bill was amended on July 1 to remove the language that would have prioritized vehicle miles traveled over maintenance projects. As a result, the Agency is back in the previous "support" position.
• SB 277 (Beall): Road maintenance and rehabilitation program: Local Partnership Program (LPP), which changes the apportionment of this $200 million/year program from the 50% formula, 50% competitive approved by the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to an 85% formula, 15% competitive allocation. A "support if amended" bill was sent on July 1 pursuant to discussion at the June 26 TAMC Board meeting, and Executive Director Hale testified at a hearing on the bill.
• SB 628 (Caballero): Prunedale Bypass: disposition of excess properties: relinquishment: State Route (SR) 183, which would reserve the proceeds from the sale of excess properties for Monterey County priority highway projects, and would relinquish SR 183 to the City of Salinas. Support/sponsor letters were sent March 14 and June 11.
• SB 742 (Allen): Intercity passenger rail services: motor carrier transportation of passengers, which would enable non-rail passengers to travel in the Amtrak Thruway buses that traverse the state. A support letter was sent May 1.

Mr. Khouri and staff will present a verbal update at the meeting.