AB 1145: State highways: safety: State Highway Route 74: report.

Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and the California Transportation Commission and vests the department with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law requires the department to improve and maintain state highways, including all traversable highways that have been adopted or designated as state highways by the commission.

This bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2027, to conduct a study on highway safety on the state highway system, including, but not limited to, State Highway Route 74. The bill would require the study to collect specified data, disaggregated by state highway, data over the preceding 10 years, as provided, and to develop recommendations to improve highway safety on the state highway system, State Highway Route 74, including recommendations on how to address enforcement facility bypassing, bypassing on roadways other than State Highway Route 74, as specified. The bill would require the department to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2027. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2029.