California 2015-2016 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 940 — High-Speed Rail Authority: eminent domain: right of first refusal.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 169, Statutes of 2016.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 03, 2016. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 6 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with specified powers, including the power to acquire rights-of-way through purchase or eminent domain, and duties relating to the development and implementation of an intercity high-speed rail system. Existing law, pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, authorizes $9.95 billion in general obligation bonds for high-speed rail development and other related purposes. Under existing law, if the authority determines that real property or an interest therein acquired by the state for high-speed rail purposes is no longer necessary for those purposes, the authority is authorized to sell or exchange the real property or interest therein at fair market value as specified. This bill would require the authority, if selling the real property or interest therein, to send notification by certified mail to the last known owner of the real property or interest therein at his or her last known address, advising him or her that the real property or interest therein will be offered for sale. The bill would require the authority to wait at least 30 days after the notification has been sent to sell the real property or interest therein. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 169, Statutes of 2016.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.

  4. In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5719.) Ordered to the Senate.

  6. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

  7. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 29).

  8. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  9. Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD.

  10. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  11. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3927.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  12. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  13. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

  14. Set for hearing May 16.

  15. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3766.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  16. Set for hearing May 3.

  17. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3615.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  18. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H.

  19. Set for hearing April 19.

  20. April 12 hearing postponed by committee.

  21. Set for hearing April 12.

  22. Re-referred to Coms. on T. & H. and JUD.

  23. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  24. Referred to Com. on RLS.

  25. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5.

  26. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Vidak · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Vidak

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

Whip count is in markup. Polling the chamber and every recorded vote this session. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Calling the roll · Tallying · Engrossing

Votes

SB 940 Vidak Consent Calendar Second Day

Passed 77 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 67003
Democratic 5000
Republican 5000
Total 77003
% of votes cast 96%0%0%4%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Yea
Brown — Yea
Holden — Yea
Kim — Yea
Linder — Yea
Low — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Mathis — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Chau — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Cooley — Not Voting
Daly — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Harper — Yea
Salas — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Chu — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Weber — Yea
Williams — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Burke — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Levine — Yea
Gray — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Chang — Yea
Baker — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Dodd — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Medina — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Steinorth — Yea
Thurmond — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Lopez — Yea
Hadley — Yea
Campos — Yea
Chávez — Not Voting
Mullin — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Ting — Yea
Wood — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Not Voting
Travis Allen — Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

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Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

Passed 18 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 14002
Democratic 2000
Republican 2000
Total 18002
% of votes cast 90%0%0%10%
How each member voted (20)
Member Party Vote
Bigelow — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Weber — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Bonilla — Not Voting
Holden — Yea
Chang — Yea
Daly — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Wood — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Not Voting
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

Passed 15 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 15001
Total 15001
% of votes cast 94%0%0%6%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Baker — Yea
Brown — Yea
Mathis — Not Voting
Frazier — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Chu — Yea
Daly — Yea
Kim — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Linder — Yea
Medina — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea

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3rd Reading (Urgency Clause)

Passed 38 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 35002
Democratic 3000
Total 38002
% of votes cast 95%0%0%5%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Hill — Yea
Roth — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Allen — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
De León — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Runner — Not Voting
Hall — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Huff — Yea
Bates — Yea
Beall — Not Voting
Block — Yea
Lara — Yea
Leno — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Liu — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Monning — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Pan — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 940 do?
Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with specified powers, including the power to acquire rights-of-way through purchase or eminent domain, and duties relating to the development and implementation of an intercity high-speed rail system. Existing law, pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, authorizes $9.95 billion in general obligation bonds for high-speed rail development and other related purposes. Under existing law, if the authority determines that real property or an interest therein acquired by the state for high-speed rail purposes is no longer necessary for those purposes, the authority is authorized to sell or exchange the real property or interest therein at fair market value as specified. This bill would require the authority, if selling the real property or interest therein, to send notification by certified mail to the last known owner of the real property or interest therein at his or her last known address, advising him or her that the real property or interest therein will be offered for sale. The bill would require the authority to wait at least 30 days after the notification has been sent to sell the real property or interest therein. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors SB 940?
SB 940 is sponsored by Vidak.
What is the current status of SB 940?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 03, 2016. Enacted.
Where can I track SB 940?
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