Transportation.

(1) Existing law provides for the payment of current year general obligation bond debt service for specified voter-approved transportation bonds from various revenues deposited in the Transportation Debt Service Fund, including revenues from vehicle weight fees in the State Highway Account that are subject to expenditure restrictions by Article XIX of the California Constitution. Beginning in fiscal year 2012–13, existing law requires all weight fee revenues to be transferred to the Transportation Debt Service Fund for this purpose. This bill would expand the use of weight fee revenues and other revenues deposited in the Transportation Debt Service Fund by authorizing their use to redeem or defease transportation bonds maturing in a subsequent fiscal year, as directed by the Director of Finance, and would make an appropriation in this regard. (2) Existing law provides for loans to the General Fund of certain State Highway Account revenues subject to expenditure restrictions under Article XIX of the California Constitution, with specified repayment dates. Specifically, a loan of $80,000,000 from the State Highway Account is to be repaid by June 30, 2014, a loan of $147,000,000 from the State Highway Account is to be repaid by June 30, 2014, and a proposed loan of $43,700,000 in SB 69 from the State Highway Account is to be repaid by June 30, 2015. This bill would eliminate the current repayment dates for these loans and instead provide for their repayment by June 30, 2021. The bill would provide for the Director of Finance to repay any portion of these loans to the State Highway Account if the director determines that those revenues are needed to reimburse the General Fund for debt service on general obligation transportation bonds, and would then require the Controller to immediately transfer those revenues from the State Highway Account to the Transportation Debt Service Fund, and subsequently to the General Fund, for that purpose. The bill would characterize the revenue in the State Highway Account that was used to make the above-referenced loans as vehicle weight fee revenue. (3) Existing law provides for a loan from the Public Transportation Account to the General Fund of $29,081,000 from revenues subject to expenditure restrictions under Article XIX A of the California Constitution, to be repaid by June 30, 2014. This bill would eliminate the current repayment date for this loan and instead provide for repayment by June 30, 2021. (4) Existing law provides for the sale of Indian gaming compact assets by the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, with net proceeds from the sale to be made available for various purposes, including repayment of a loan of $443,000,000 made to the General Fund from the State Highway Account through the Traffic Congestion Relief Fund. This bill would characterize the source of the revenue in the State Highway Account that was used to make the above-referenced loan as vehicle weight fee revenue. The bill, at the time the loan is repaid from the sale of Indian gaming compact assets to the State Highway Account, would require the Controller to transfer the funds from the State Highway Account to the Transportation Debt Service Fund for subsequent transfer to the General Fund for debt service on general obligation transportation bonds or to redeem or defease those bonds. (5) Existing law provides for a loan from fuel excise tax revenues subject to expenditure restrictions by Article XIX of the California Constitution from the Highway Users Tax Account to the General Fund, to be repaid by June 30, 2013. These revenues were loaned to the General Fund prior to adoption of Proposition 22 by voters on November 2, 2010, which, among other things, imposes new restrictions on the use of fuel excise tax revenues, including a prohibition on the borrowing of revenues in the Highway Users Tax Account. This bill would instead provide for this loan to be repaid to the Highway Users Tax Account by June 30, 2021. (6) Existing law provides for a loan of vehicle weight fees to the General Fund in the 2010–11 fiscal year, subsequent to voter approval of Proposition 22, in lieu of fuel excise tax revenues that are prohibited from being loaned after November 2, 2010, with $205,081,000 to be repaid to the State Highway Account by June 30, 2014, $144,444,000 to be repaid by June 30, 2015, and any remaining loan balance to be repaid by June 30, 2016. This bill would instead provide for these loans to be repaid by June 30, 2021. The bill would provide for the Director of Finance to repay the outstanding balances of these loans in any year in which the director determines that the funds are needed to reimburse the General Fund for current debt service on transportation general obligation bonds or to redeem or defease those bonds maturing in a subsequent fiscal year. Upon repayment of those loans to the State Highway Account, the bill would require the Controller to immediately transfer those funds to the Transportation Debt Service Fund. (7) Existing law designates the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol as the Statewide Vehicle Theft Investigation and Apprehension Coordinator and authorizes the commissioner to establish vehicle theft prevention, investigation, and apprehension programs and to assist local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in combating vehicle theft. Existing law requires the commissioner to submit a report to the Legislature, no later than 90 days following the end of the fiscal year, accounting for funds received and disbursed from the Motor Vehicle Account for the purposes of preventing and enhancing investigative efforts to deter economic automobile theft. This bill would authorize the Department of the California Highway Patrol to retain license plate data captured by a license plate reader (LPR) for not more than 60 days unless the data is being used as evidence or for investigation of felonies. The bill would prohibit the department from selling the data or from making the data available to an agency that is not a law enforcement agency or an individual that is not a law enforcement officer. The bill would authorize the use of the data for purposes of locating vehicles or persons reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of a public offense. The bill would require the department to monitor internal use of the data to prevent unauthorized use and to submit to the Legislature, as a part of the annual automobile theft report, information on the department's LPR practices and usage. (8) Existing law imposes certain reporting requirements on the High-Speed Rail Authority with respect to 25% of funds appropriated to the authority in the 2010 and 2011 Budget Acts, with reports to be submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. This bill would instead provide that 50% of the funds appropriated to the authority are subject to these reporting requirements. The bill would also add additional reporting requirements. (9) Existing law requires a specified portion of the state sales tax on gasoline, which has been abolished as of July 1, 2010, to be transferred from the General Fund to the Transportation Investment Fund for allocation to the state transportation improvement program, city and county streets and roads, and the Public Transportation Account. In order for a city or a county to receive a streets and roads allocation from the Transportation Investment Fund for a fiscal year, it is required to annually expend from its general fund for street, road, and highway purposes an amount not less than the annual average of its expenditures from its general fund for those purposes during the 1996–97, 1997–98, and 1998–99 fiscal years. Existing law provides that if a city or county fails to comply with this maintenance of effort requirement in a particular fiscal year, it may alternatively comply by expending in that year and the following fiscal year a combined total amount that is not less than the amount otherwise required to be expended in the 2 fiscal years. Existing law, notwithstanding these provisions, provides that the County of Fresno has until June 30, 2015, to meet the maintenance of effort requirement applicable to the allocation it received in the 2009–10 fiscal year. This bill would enact similar relief for the City of Santa Rosa. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Santa Rosa. (10) Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to annually submit to the Legislature certain supplemental information to substantiate the department's proposed capital outlay budget. This bill would include additional items to be included in that submittal and make other related changes. (11) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.