SB 278: Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
- Session Year: 2019-2020
- House: Senate
- Latest Version Date: 2019-03-28
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Date
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Status
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| Jun 18, 2020 | Referred to Com. on TRANS. |
| Jan 27, 2020 | In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. |
| Jan 27, 2020 | Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3154.) Ordered to the Assembly. |
| Jan 27, 2020 | Ordered to special consent calendar. |
| Jan 22, 2020 | Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. |
| Jan 21, 2020 | From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. |
| Jan 15, 2020 | Set for hearing January 21. |
| Jan 14, 2020 | From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3087.) (January 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Jan 8, 2020 | Set for hearing January 14. |
| Apr 10, 2019 | Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. |
| Mar 28, 2019 | From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. |
| Feb 21, 2019 | Referred to Com. on RLS. |
| Feb 14, 2019 | From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16. |
| Feb 13, 2019 | Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. |
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Date
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Description
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Location
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Votes
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| Jan 27, 2020 | Special Consent SB278 Beall | Senate Floor |
Passed |
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| Jan 14, 2020 | Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar | Senate Standing Committee on Transportation |
Passed |
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Office of Senate Floor Analyses (916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) 327-4478 | SB 278 |
CONSENT
Bill No: SB 278
Amended: 3/28/19
SENATE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE: 9-0, 1/14/20
AYES: Beall, Dahle, Dodd, Galgiani, McGuire, Morrell, Rubio, Umberg, Wieckowski
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bates, Roth, Skinner
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8
SUBJECT: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
DIGEST:
This bill requires the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to update guidelines for purposes of developing county transportation plans, as specified.
Existing law:
- Establishes MTC as a local area-planning agency to provide comprehensive regional transportation planning for the region comprised of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties.
- Requires MTC to continue to actively, on behalf of the entire region, seek to assist in the development of adequate funding sources to develop, construct, and support transportation projects that it determines are essential to the region.
- Requires each county in the region, together with cities and transit operators within the county, to develop or update a transportation plan for the county and the cities within the county every two years.
- Requires MTC to develop guidelines to be used in the preparation of county transportation plans and to adopt revised guidelines by January 1, 1995.
This bill:
- Requires MTC to, in the process of developing funding sources for transportation projects within the nine county region, prioritize transportation projects that provide the greatest regional benefit.
- Requires MTC to update guidelines for the development of county transportation plans by January 1, 2021, and further requires MTC to update the abovementioned guidelines every four years thereafter.
Comments
- Author’s statement. According to the author, “this bill makes the necessary changes to outdated provisions that govern local transportation planning requirements. Currently, MTC is not required to update its planning guidelines after 1995 for transportation plans prepared by the county or its county transportation commission. This bill directs MTC to update those planning guidelines and prioritize significant transportation projects for the region.”
- MTC. Created in 1970, MTC is the government agency responsible for regional transportation planning and financing in the San Francisco Bay Area. MTC was created primarily to coordinate transportation services in the Bay Area's nine counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. To that end, the Commission is designated as the regional transportation-planning agency for the region by the State of California and the metropolitan planning organization by the federal government.
Several of MTC’s core functions include administering transit funding through the Transportation Development Act, programming projects eligible for the State Transportation Improvement Program, and administering/ awarding funds from a number of federal grant programs. Additionally, MTC oversees the administration of toll revenues collected on the seven State-owned bridges in the Bay Area through the Bay Area Toll Authority and manages a number of regional operational programs, including but not limited to, the 511-call center, the Freeway Service Patrol, freeway call boxes, ridesharing, and regional signal timing programs.
- Transportation planning. With respects to transportation planning, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) notes, “transportation planning plays a fundamental role in a state, region, or community’s vision for its future. It includes a comprehensive consideration of possible strategies; an evaluation process that encompasses diverse viewpoints; the collaborative participation of relevant transportation-related agencies and organizations; and open, timely, and meaningful public involvement.”
FTA further notes, “transportation planning is a cooperative process designed to foster involvement by all users of the system, such as businesses, community groups, environmental organizations, the traveling public, freight operators, and the general public, through a proactive public participation process.”
As mentioned, state law requires MTC to prepare a regional transportation plan to identify and address the nine county region’s overall transportation goals and serves as the plan to meet a variety of state and federal transportation and environmental requirements. State law further requires each county within the Bay Area, in collaboration with cities and transit operators within the county, to develop and update a county transportation plan every two to four years. At the county level, these plans serve as the long-range planning and policy document that guides ongoing transportation decisions for all transportation modes and users within a county. As the regional public agency, MTC is required to adopt planning guidelines for county transportation plans by January 1, 1995. However, state law does not require MTC to update guidelines for county transportation plans after 1995.
Since 1995, throughout the years, significant pieces of legislation directly impacting the transportation planning process have been enacted including, but not limited to, AB 32 (Nunez, Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006) and SB 375 (Steinberg, Chapter 728, Statutes of 2007). Meanwhile, planning guidelines for Bay Area county transportation plans have not been required to be updated since 1995. This bill simply aims to remedy outdated provisions by requiring MTC to update guideline requirements for county transportation plans and to continue updating these guidelines on an ongoing basis to ensure county transportation plans are in alignment with ever-changing state and federal regulations.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes Local: Yes
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified 1/22/20)
None received
Prepared by: Manny Leon / TRANS. / (916) 651-4121
1/22/20 15:23:43
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Senator Jim Beall, Chair
2019 - 2020 Regular
Bill No: SB 278 Hearing Date: 1/14/2020
Author: | Beall | ||
Version: | 3/28/2019 | ||
Urgency: | No | Fiscal: | Yes |
Consultant: | Manny Leon | ||
SUBJECT: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
DIGEST: This bill requires the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to update guidelines for purposes of developing county transportation plans, as specified.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
- Establishes MTC as a local area planning agency to provide comprehensive regional transportation planning for the region comprised of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties.
- Requires MTC to continue to actively, on behalf of the entire region, seek to assist in the development of adequate funding sources to develop, construct, and support transportation projects that it determines are essential to the region.
- Requires each county in the region, together with cities and transit operators within the county, to develop or update a transportation plan for the county and the cities within the county every two years.
- Requires MTC to develop guidelines to be used in the preparation of county transportation plans and to adopt revised guidelines by January 1, 1995.
This bill:
- Requires MTC to, in the process of developing funding sources for transportation projects within the nine county region, prioritize transportation projects that provide the greatest regional benefit.
- Requires MTC to update guidelines for the development of county transportation plans by January 1, 2021 and further requires MTC to update the abovementioned guidelines every four years thereafter.
COMMENTS:
- Author’s statement. According to the author, “this bill makes the necessary changes to outdated provisions that govern local transportation planning requirements. Currently, MTC is not required to update its planning guidelines after 1995 for transportation plans prepared by the county or its county transportation commission. This bill directs MTC to update those planning guidelines and prioritize significant transportation projects for the region.”
- MTC. Created in 1970, MTC is the government agency responsible for regional transportation planning and financing in the San Francisco Bay Area. MTC was created primarily to coordinate transportation services in the Bay Area's nine counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. To that end, the Commission is designated as the regional transportation planning agency (RTPA) for the region by the State of California and the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) by the federal government.
Several of MTC’s core functions include administering transit funding through the Transportation Development Act (TDA), programming projects eligible for the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), and administering/ awarding funds from a number of federal grant programs. Additionally, MTC oversees the administration of toll revenues collected on the seven State-owned bridges in the Bay Area through the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) and manages a number of regional operational programs, including but not limited to, the 511 call center, the Freeway Service Patrol (FSP), freeway call boxes, ridesharing, and regional signal timing programs.
- Transportation planning. With respects to transportation planning, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) notes, “transportation planning plays a fundamental role in a state, region, or community’s vision for its future. It includes a comprehensive consideration of possible strategies; an evaluation process that encompasses diverse viewpoints; the collaborative participation of relevant transportation-related agencies and organizations; and open, timely, and meaningful public involvement.”
FTA further notes, “transportation planning is a cooperative process designed to foster involvement by all users of the system, such as businesses, community groups, environmental organizations, the traveling public, freight operators, and the general public, through a proactive public participation process.”
As mentioned, state law requires MTC to prepare a regional transportation plan (RTP) to identify and address the nine county region’s overall transportation goals and also serves as the plan to meet a variety of state and federal transportation and environmental requirements. State law further requires each county within the Bay Area, in collaboration with cities and transit operators within the county, to develop and update a county transportation plan every two to four years. At the county level, these plans serve as the long-range planning and policy document that guides ongoing transportation decisions for all transportation modes and users within a county. As the regional public agency, MTC is required to adopt planning guidelines for county transportation plans by January 1, 1995. However, state law does not require MTC to update guidelines for county transportation plans after 1995.
Since 1995, throughout the years, significant pieces of legislation directly impacting the transportation planning process have been enacted including, but not limited to, AB 32 (Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006) and SB 375 (Chapter 728, Statutes of 2007). Meanwhile, planning guidelines for Bay Area county transportation plans have not been required to be updated since 1995. This bill simply aims to remedy outdated provisions by requiring MTC to update guideline requirements for county transportation plans and to continue updating these guidelines on an ongoing basis to ensure county transportation plans are in alignment with ever-changing state and federal regulations.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: Fiscal Com.: Local:
POSITIONS: (Communicated to the committee before noon on Wednesday,
January 8, 2020.)
SUPPORT:
None received.
OPPOSITION:
None received.
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