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must rule against the contractor. In these actions, all payments made to the contractor must be returned to the owner. AB 1793 will allow a contractor to be paid for the time they are duly licensed and to not be paid for the period they are found to be unlicensed. Below are some of the other more


interesting legislative bills introduced so far this year.


Transportation SBx1-1 (Beall) & AB 1591


(Frazier) – Tese are the two major transportation funding proposals that would raise $6.5 billion and $7.5 billion respectively for state and local


road maintenance and repair. AB 2326 (Wagner) - States the


intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce the amount of the


gas tax. AB 2742 (Nazarian) – Extends


authorization for the state to enter into public-private partnerships until January 1, 2030.


SB 903 (Nguyen) - Would require


$879 million in outstanding loans of transportation revenues to be repaid from the General Fund back into the transportation accounts by June 30,


2016. AB 2126 (Mullin) & AB 2374


(Chiu) – Authorizes Construction Manager/General Contractor method of procurement for additional transpor-


tation projects. SB 1320 (Runner) - Excludes the


California Transportation Commission from the Transportation Agency and establishes it as an independent entity in state government.


Goods Movement/Freight AB 1780 (Medina) – Sustainable


Trade Corridors – Would continuously appropriate 25% of the annual proceeds of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the California Transportation Commission for the Sustainable Trade Corridors Program.


California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) AB 1569 (Stienorth) - Would


exempt the maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, replacement, or removal of existing transportation infra- structure from the provisions of the


California Environmental Quality Act. AB 1586 (Mathis) - Would


prohibit the court, in an action or proceeding alleging a violation of CEQA, from staying or enjoining the construction or operation of the


Temperance Flat Reservoir. AB 1647 (Waldron) - Exempts a


project to expand the storage capacity of an existing surface water storage facility from the California Environ-


mental Quality Act. AB 1833 (Linder) & SB 901


(Bates) - Creates the Advanced Mitigation Program in the Department of Transportation to implement environmental mitigation measures in advance of future trans- portation projects and requires the


There’s Never Been a Better Time to INVEST IN THE FUTURE


Rosendin Electric. Ahead of the Current . TM


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