Senate Standing Committee on Transportation

The Senate transportation, transportation committee will come to order. Good afternoon and welcome. We have nine measures on today's agenda. First, a few housekeeping rules items. We're going to allow two primary witnesses for each for support and opposition.

Each witness will have two minutes. An additional witnesses will ask to limit yourselves to name, affiliation, and your position on the bill. We'll be hearing the bills in agenda and file order, and we'll be entertaining motions on bills at the appropriate time once we have a quorum established. We have one measure proposed for consent today, item number three, SB 1213 by Reyes. And, with that, I see Senator Cabaldon is in here. Please come forward, and thank you for being here. It's a busy day.

Yes. Thank you

so much, mister chair. And so we're gonna start at item number two. Is that okay, Senator?

That's 1087? 1087. Okay.

Just for purposes of, making sure people are clear who might be watching from watching virtually. We'll formally recess, but just for a few minutes, we hope until the author comes in and immediately end the recess and reconvene. This is the first bill I'll preside over. Thanks to vice chair Strickland who's carried the day thus far. And, Senator Hurtado, whenever you're ready, if your witnesses are here, you may approach and, present. This is, our file item five, I believe, SB 1287.

Essentially, the the premise of this bill was now that SB 79 is law and it is coming into effect, there are a lot of areas like mine that are captured within that bill. Where you can't walk safely on the street or ride a bike without fear of getting run over. This is what I do.

I live along the Orange Line in Los Angeles and have to walk my kids in a stroller on streets without sidewalks where people are driving 70 miles an hour, and, it is scary. And yet we are technically transit oriented zone, even though we have no sidewalks, no bike lanes, somehow we're gonna be adding more density there.

I want to make that paradigm work. Even though I did not support the measure, I still wanna make 79 work. So this is really an effort to get more active transportation projects in those zones, so that the communities at least will start to trust these projects before they come in. So that I don't have to weave in and out of traffic with the stroller while thousands of new units come online in our region.

So anyhow, I'm I'm hoping this study does go somewhere and that we don't just leave it sitting on the shelf.

Okay. We're at 5-0. We'll keep the roll open on that bill. Thank you again. Okay. You wanna take you wanna switch I guess you can't do that. Go ahead.

You you could probably just move over. You wanna move over one and then let her take this one? Okay. Seems like you have enough spaces anyway. Remarkably for such a big committee.

Okay. We're just doing musical chairs up here to allow for microphone issues, and we'll come back to the assistant now, lift the call. First of all, actually, we can entertain a motion on the consent calendar. Alright. Do we have a motion? Moved by Senator Grayson, And we'll call the roll.

[Roll Call]

In the temporary temporarily recess again, we're waiting for one member to conclude a bill in another committee. As soon as she's here, we can wrap up our voting, and we'll adjourn the committee. Thank you. Okay. We are going to reconvene the Senate Committee on Transportation, and end the temporary recess we were into.

So we are fully back in session, and I'm gonna turn to the assistant and ask her to starting with consent to call through today's bills at this time for absent members. Thank you.

[Roll Call]