SB 169: Transportation budget trailer bill.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

(1)Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to work in partnership with the California Workforce Development Board to support California’s high road construction careers program. Existing law requires the department to reserve a minimum aggregate total of $50,000,000 of federal funds from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to be allocated over 4 years in support of the program.

This bill would instead require the department to reserve a minimum aggregate total of $30,000,000 of state transportation funds to be allocated in support of California’s high road construction careers program.

(2)Existing law establishes priorities and procedures that any state agency disposing of surplus residential property is required to follow. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to deposit proceeds from the sale of a surplus residential property from the department to a new owner into the SR-710 Rehabilitation Account. Existing law continuously appropriates the funds in the account to the department for the purpose of providing required repairs to certain surplus residential properties that are offered for sale, as provided. Existing law requires that the total funds maintained in the account not exceed $1,200,000 and that funds exceeding that amount, less any reimbursements due to the federal government, be transferred to the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund, to be used for allocation by the California Transportation Commission exclusively to fund projects located in specified cities and in the 90032 postal ZIP Code.

This bill would authorize an increase in the amount of the total funds maintained in the account to instead be up to $15,000,000. By authorizing an increase in the funds held in a continuously appropriated account, the bill would make an appropriation.

(3)Under the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act, also known as the Transportation Development Act, transit operators are required to maintain specified ratios of fare revenue to operating costs in order to receive funds under the act. If a transit operator does not maintain the prescribed ratio of fare revenues to operating costs, the act requires a reduction in the amount of funding for which the transit operator would otherwise be eligible, as specified. The act suspends the imposition of those penalties on transit operators during the 2019–20 to 2025–26 fiscal years, inclusive.

This bill would suspend the imposition of those penalties through the 2026–27 fiscal year.

Sponsors

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. July 13, 2026Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 82, Statutes of 2026.
2. July 13, 2026Approved by the Governor.
3. June 30, 2026Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
4. June 29, 2026Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 5064.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
5. June 29, 2026Unanimous consent granted to take up without reference to file.
6. June 29, 2026In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
7. June 29, 2026Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 15. Page 5898.) Ordered to the Senate.
8. June 29, 2026Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 14. Page 5891.)
9. June 29, 2026Withdrawn from committee pursuant to Asssembly Rule 96.
10. June 26, 2026From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.
11. March 24, 2025Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
12. March 20, 2025In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.