In just the first year of the new Legislative session, Legislators introduced nearly 2700 bills. Below is a partial list of bills that CTA is actively tracking that we would like to share with you:

AB 301 (Rodriguez) - Seeks to reduce the severe backlog in availability of commercial Driver’s License (CDL) skills test appointments at the DMV by expanding current law to allow additional third parties, including training schools and government entities, to conduct skills tests. 

CTA Position: Sponsor

Location: Waiting to be heard in Assembly Transportation Committee

Action Item: Please take 5 minutes to send in a support letter from your company to show your support for AB 301.  Attached is a sample letter along with the support letter submitted by CTA.  Please send a completed letter to Shanna.Ezzell@asm.ca.gov.  

 

AB 301 CTA Sponsor Letter

 

SB 174 (Lara) – Will level the playing field for CARB compliant carriers by requiring proof of a valid Truck and Bus Rule exemption as a condition of registering non-compliant Trucks.

Location: Waiting to be heard in Senate Transportation Committee

Action Item: Please take 5 minutes to send in a support letter from your company to show your support for SB 174.  Attached is a sample letter along with the support letter submitted by CTA.  Please send a completed letter to Nikita.Koraddi@sen.ca.gov.

 

 

AB 5 (Gonzalez Fletcher) – Inserts the State into private businesses hiring practices by mandating an employer offer additional work to a part-time employee before hiring someone new opening up new legal liabilities for companies.

SB 53 (Hueso) – Will address the competitive disadvantage fleets operating natural gas fueled trucks face due to reduced payload.  In 2015 the federal highway bill allowed for a 2,000 lbs weight exemption for natural gas commercial vehicles on the national highway network, SB 53 will mirror that exemption on state and local routes.

 

SB 53 CTA Support Letter 

 

SB 158 (Monning) – Mandates that in order to receive a Commercial Drivers License one would have to complete 30 hours of behind the wheel training regardless of ability to pass the skills test or not.  The measure currently makes no exemptions for programs like the Employer Testing Program that have been very successful at training new drivers.  CTA is continuing discussions with Sen. Monning’s office on the measure and as such has not taken a position on the bill at this moment.