SB506 - Transportation: omnibus bill.

Senate Bill No. 506 CHAPTER 417 An act to amend Section 132655 of the Public Utilities Code, to amend Sections 1967.3 and 1967.5 of the Streets and Highways Code, and to amend Sections 12815, 26708, 34501.2, and 34501.5 of the Vehicle Code, relating to transportation. [ Approved by Governor October 06, 2025. Filed with Secretary of State October 06, 2025. ] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 506, Committee on Transportation. Transportation: omnibus bill. (1) Existing law establishes the Tri-Valley-San Joaquin Valley Regional Rail Authority for purposes of planning, developing, and delivering cost-effective and responsive transit connectivity between the Bay Area Rapid Transit District’s rapid transit system and the Altamont Corridor Express commuter rail service in the Tri-Valley that meets the goals and objectives of the community, as specified. Existing law requires the authority’s governing board to be composed of 15 representatives. The bill would replace the Mountain House Community Services District with the City of Mountain House on the authority’s governing board. (2) Existing law, the Treasure Island Transportation Management Act, authorizes the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to designate a board or agency to act as the transportation management agency for Treasure Island, defined to also include Yerba Buena Island. Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, by a 2 / 3 majority vote of both bodies, to adopt a program of imposing congestion pricing fees for motor vehicles exiting and entering Treasure Island and an initial congestion pricing fee structure, as specified. Existing law requires that, once adopted, the congestion pricing program may only be terminated by the recommendation of both the Treasure Island Development Authority and the Treasure Island Mobility Management Agency followed by a 2 / 3 majority vote of both the board of supervisors and the transportation authority. Prior to imposing the initial congestion pricing fees, existing law requires the board of supervisors and transportation authority to each make a finding of fact by a 2 / 3 majority vote that the congestion pricing fees have a relationship or benefit to the motor vehicle drivers who are paying the fee. This bill would delete references to the San Francisco County Transportation Authority from the provisions described above, thereby removing those duties from the transportation authority. The bill would also make conforming changes. (3) Existing law requires that each application for an original or a renewal of a driver’s license contain certain information, including the applicant’s true full name, age, mailing address, and gender. Existing law also provides that if a driver’s license is lost, destroyed, or mutilated, or if a new true full name is acquired, the person to whom the driver’s license was issued shall obtain a duplicate if the person provides satisfactory proof of the loss, destruction, or mutilation. A violation of these provisions is an infraction. This bill would authorize a person who submits a change of address, as specified, to apply for a duplicate driver’s license. The bill would require the applicant who receives a duplicate through this process to immediately destroy the license containing the prior mailing address. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) Existing law generally prohibits any person from driving any motor vehicle with any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied in or upon the vehicle that obstructs or reduces the driver’s clear view through the windshield or side windows. Existing law provides exceptions to this prohibition, including, among other things, a video event recorder in a commercial motor vehicle with the capability of monitoring driver performance to improve driver safety, as specified. This bill would revise the above-described exception to instead apply to vehicle safety technology, as defined, installed on specified vehicles, including, among others, motortrucks of 3 or more axles that are more than 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, that are otherwise in compliance with federal regulations, as specified. (5) Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to adopt reasonable rules and regulations that, in the judgment of the department, are designed to promote the safe operation of vehicles, including hours-of-service regulations for drivers of those vehicles that are consistent with specified federal hours-of-service regulations applicable to motor carriers. Existing law establishes exceptions to these regulations for vehicles engaged in intrastate commerce that are not transporting hazardous substances or hazardous waste, including a driver of a truck or truck tractor, except for a driver of a tank vehicle with a capacity of more than 500 gallons transporting flammable liquid, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to create an exception for a driver, by regulation, of a tank vehicle with a capacity of more than 500 gallons to exceed the maximum driving time, provided that those regulations are consistent with federal laws and regulations, during a state of emergency declared by the Governor and for the purpose of refueling aircraft used in emergency-related activities. This bill would remove the requirement that this exception be consistent with federal laws and regulations and would remove the requirement that the exception be limited to the driver of a tank vehicle with a capacity of more than 500 gallons. The bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive changes. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YES Bill Text The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 132655 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: 132655. The governing board of the authority shall be composed of one representative from each of the following entities to be appointed by the governing board, mayor, or supervisor of each entity: (a) The Bay Area Rapid Transit District. (b) The City of Dublin. (c) The City of Lathrop. (d) The City of Livermore. (e) The City of Manteca. (f) The City of Pleasanton. (g) The City of Stockton. (h) The City of Tracy. (i) The County of Alameda. (j) The County of San Joaquin. (k) The Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority. (l) The City of Mountain House. (m) The San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission. (n) The City of Danville. (o) The City of San Ramon. SEC. 2. Section 1967.3 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read: 1967.3. The authority is formulating a transportation program in connection with the authority’s redevelopment activities on Treasure Island. The board of supervisors directed that the transportation program ensure adequate and reliable funding for transit service for Treasure Island, including bus transit service provided by the city’s municipal transportation agency, or its successor agency. In formulating the transportation program, the authority shall make recommendations for the governance structure of the transportation management agency. Based on the authority’s recommendations, the board of supervisors may designate a board or agency that shall act as the transportation management agency. The board of supervisors may revise or revoke this designation of the transportation management agency and designate a new board or agency to act as the transportation management agency at any time. The board of supervisors may also designate itself as the transportation management agency. Notwithstanding Chapter 898 of the Statutes of 1997, any subsequent amendments to that chapter, but subject to Section 1967.5, the transportation management agency shall have the exclusive power to do any or all of the following pursuant to the terms of a resolution or ordinance adopted by the board of supervisors: (a) Adopt and administer the transportation program and implementing rules and regulations. (b) Recommend to the board of supervisors an initial fee structure for the imposition of congestion pricing fees applicable to residents and other motorists as they enter or exit Treasure Island in the amount deemed necessary and proper by the transportation management agency to implement the transportation program. (c) Adopt amendments to the congestion pricing fee structure initially adopted by the board of supervisors pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1967.5, as the transportation management agency deems necessary and appropriate from time to time to implement the transportation program, based upon a finding that the amendments to the fee have a relationship or benefit to the motor vehicle drivers who are paying the fee. (d) Administer and collect congestion pricing fees on Treasure Island. (e) Adopt on-street and off-street parking regulations for Treasure Island, including regulations limiting parking, stopping, standing, or loading and establishing parking privileges and locations, parking meter zones, and other forms of parking regulation similar to those adopted for other areas of San Francisco. (f) Adopt on-street and off-street parking fees, fines, and penalties for Treasure Island and administer and collect all on-street and off-street parking fees, fines, penalties, and other parking-related revenues on Treasure Island. (g) Adopt a transit pass fee structure applicable to residents and other users of Treasure Island and administer and collect all Treasure Island transit pass fees. (h) Fix the rates and charges for services provided or functions performed by the transportation management agency and administer and collect those rates and charges. (i) Apply for, accept, and administer state, federal, local agency, or other public or private grant funds for transportation purposes. (j) Administer and collect all other revenues generated by the transportation program. (k) Undertake studies, performance evaluations, and other mechanisms as it deems necessary and proper to adopt and amend the transportation program with the purpose of relieving transportation-related impacts. (l) Expend its revenues for any purpose related to the transportation program, including costs of implementation, operation, collection and enforcement, maintenance, construction, and administration under the transportation program. (m) Enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, and direct funding agreements with private parties and governmental agencies, including city departments, to the extent deemed necessary and proper by the transportation management agency to implement the transportation program, including for any of the following: (1) The construction and maintenance of transportation facilities serving Treasure Island that are directly related to the transportation program, including design, preconstruction, and other related costs. (2) Transit capital improvements and operations for services that directly serve Treasure Island. (3) Notwithstanding Section 40717.9 of the Health and Safety Code, implementation of transportation impact mitigation measures as adopted from time to time to improve or encourage the use of transit and other nonmotor vehicle means of access to Treasure Island. (n) Adopt rules and regulations governing high-occupancy vehicles pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 1967.5. (o) Take all other steps as the transportation management agency deems necessary and proper to implement the transportation program. SEC. 3. Section 1967.5 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read: 1967.5. (a) The board of supervisors, by a two-thirds majority vote, shall have the authority to adopt a program imposing congestion pricing fees for motor vehicles exiting and entering Treasure Island from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and an initial congestion pricing fee structure after consideration of the recommendation of the transportation management agency. The congestion pricing fees shall not be imposed on local trips on Treasure Island streets that do not exit to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Once adopted, the congestion pricing program may only be terminated by the recommendation of both the authority and the transportation management agency, followed by a two-thirds majority vote of the board of supervisors. (b) (1) Prior to imposing the initial congestion pricing fees, the board of supervisors shall make a finding of fact by a two-thirds majority vote that the congestion pricing fees have a relationship or benefit to the motor vehicle drivers who are paying the fee. (2) In order to ensure that congestion pricing fees are not instituted prior to new residents establishing residence on Treasure Island, initial congestion pricing fees shall not be imposed prior to the effective date of the disposition and development agreement for the redevelopment of Treasure Island. (3) All fees, rates, and charges adopted in furtherance of the transportation program, including congestion pricing fees, on-street and off-street parking fees, fines and penalties, transit pass fees, and any other rates and charges that are adopted by the transportation management agency from time to time, be collected and used by the transportation management agency to implement the transportation program. (c) While congestion pricing fees remain in effect, the transferor of any sale or lease agreement of real property on Treasure Island shall be required to include a written disclosure to the potential purchaser or lessee that use of a motor vehicle to and from Treasure Island may be subject to congestion pricing fees. (d) At all periods of the day, whether or not the congestion pricing fees are in effect, high-occupancy vehicles shall be able to exit or enter Treasure Island free of charge. SEC. 4. Section 12815 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read: 12815. (a) If a driver’s license issued under this code is lost, destroyed or mutilated, or a new true, full name is acquired, the person to whom it was issued shall obtain a duplicate upon furnishing to the department (1) satisfactory proof of that loss, destruction, or mutilation and (2) if the licensee is a minor, evidence of permission to obtain a duplicate secured from the parents, guardian, or person having custody of the minor. Any person who loses a driver’s license and who, after obtaining a duplicate, finds the original license shall immediately destroy the original license. (b) A person in possession of a valid driver’s license who has been informed either by the department or by a law enforcement agency that the document is mutilated [Text truncated for display. Full text available on Congress.gov.]