Please Send Letters of Support on Priority Bills
The 2009-10 regular legislative session adjourned on August 31, 2010. The following California Transit Association priority bills are on their way to the governor to await his signature, so we ask that you please send a letter requesting the governor to sign these bills:
AB 987 (Ma) Transit village development districts.
Recasts the area in a transit village development district to include all land within 1/2 mile of a transit station entrance.
Sample letter
AB 2324 (Perez) Transit: public transit facilities.
Makes it a misdemeanor to carry weapons at a public transit facility, trespass in an unauthorized area of a public transit facility, destroy property at a public transit facility, and/or engage in other dangerous activities at transit facilities.
Sample letter
SB 82 (Hancock) Community colleges: transportation fees.
Increases the ceiling that community college districts are authorized to charge students and district employees for parking and transportation costs, in order to make transit service more accessible to students and staff. Any fee for transportation services would have to be approved by a vote of the students.
Sample letter
SB 1320 (Hancock) Transit fare evasion and passenger misconduct: administrative adjudication.
Authorizes the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, Sacramento Regional Transit District, Long Beach Transit, Foothill Transit, and the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District to adopt and enforce an administrative adjudication ordinance addressing fare evasion and passenger misconduct.
Sample letter
SB 1371 (Correa) Transportation: bond-funded projects: letter of no prejudice.
Authorizes an eligible recipient of the Proposition 1A High-speed Rail Bond Act connectivity pot ($950 million) to utilize the letter of no prejudice (LONP) process.
Sample letter
Please contact Legislative and Regulatory Assistant Sabrina Means
at sabrina@caltransit.org if you have any questions.
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