SB 951: Transportation: Golden State Patriot Passes Program.
- Session Year: 2015-2016
- House: Senate
Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the State Air Resources Board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism relative to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing law continuously appropriates 10% of the annual proceeds of the fund to the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program and 5% of the annual proceeds of the fund to the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program.
Existing law creates various state transportation agencies, including the Department of Transportation, with specified powers and duties, including, but not limited to, coordinating and assisting, upon request of, the various public and private transportation entities to strengthen their development and operation of balanced integrated mass transportation, highway, aviation, maritime, railroad, and other transportation facilities and services in support of statewide and regional goals.
This bill would appropriate $3,000,000 annually until the 202021 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for the Golden State Patriot Passes Program, which the bill would create, create the Golden State Patriot Passes Program to be administered by the Department of Transportation to provide veterans with free access to transit services. The bill would require the department, in coordination with the State Air Resources Board, department to develop guidelines that describe the methodologies that a participating transit operator would use to demonstrate that proposed expenditures would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase veteran mobility, mobility and fulfill specified requirements. The bill would require the department to select 3 transit operators to participate, and would require a transit operator selected to participate in the program to match any state moneys that it receives through the program with local moneys. The bill would require the participating transit operators and the department to report on the program. The bill would repeal the program on January 1, 2022.
Discussed in Hearing
3MINAssembly Standing Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media
18MINSenate Standing Committee on Transportation and Housing
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