AB-1343 • 2026

Local alternative transportation improvement program: Feather River crossing.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Gallagher
Last action: 2026-02-02
Official status: From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify what happens if local agencies do not create a new plan by the deadline.

Feather River Crossing Transportation Program

This law allows local agencies in Yuba City and nearby counties to create a new plan for improving transportation after state plans for facilities over the Feather River were canceled.

What This Bill Does

Allows local agencies to make a new transportation improvement plan if state highway projects are no longer going ahead.
Requires these plans to be approved by the California Transportation Commission before July 1, 2030.
Says that money from selling extra land for canceled projects must go into this new plan and not follow usual rules about how funds should be shared.

Who It Names or Affects

Local agencies in Yuba City and Sutter and Yuba Counties
The California Transportation Commission

Terms To Know

California Transportation Commission: A group that decides how to spend money on transportation projects.
State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP): A plan for spending money on road and bridge improvements.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill only applies to the Feather River crossing area.
It does not say what happens if local agencies do not create a new transportation improvement program by July 1, 2030.

Bill History

2026-02-02 California Legislative Information
From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
2026-01-31 California Legislative Information
Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
In committee: Held under submission.
2025-05-14 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-29 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-22 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
2025-04-21 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-17 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
2025-03-13 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-13 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
2025-02-24 California Legislative Information
Read first time.
2025-02-22 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-21 California Legislative Information
Introduced. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1343, as amended, Gallagher.
Local alternative transportation improvement program: Feather River crossing.
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of the state highway system and associated property. Existing law generally requires proceeds from the sale of excess state highway property to be made available for other highway purposes. Existing law generally requires the California Transportation Commission to program available funding for transportation capital projects, other than state highway rehabilitation projects, through the State Transportation Improvement Program process, with available funds subject to various fair share distribution formulas. Existing law, in certain cases, requires the commission to instead reallocate funds from canceled state highway projects to a local alternative transportation improvement program within the same county and exempts those funds from the fair share distribution formulas that would otherwise
apply.
This bill, with respect to planned state transportation facilities over the Feather River in the City of Yuba City and the Counties of Sutter and Yuba, which facilities are no longer planned to be constructed, would authorize the affected local agencies, acting jointly with the transportation planning agency having jurisdiction, to develop and file with the commission a local alternative transportation improvement program that addresses transportation problems and opportunities in the area that was to be served by the planned state facilities.
The bill would require the commission to have the final authority regarding the content and approval of the local alternative transportation improvement program, and would prohibit the commission from approving the local alternative transportation improvement program after July 1, 2030.
The bill would require all proceeds from the sale
of excess properties acquired by the department for the canceled state facilities, less any reimbursements due to the federal government and costs incurred in the sale of those excess properties, to be allocated by the commission to
the approved local alternative transportation improvement program and would exempt those funds from the fair share distribution formulas that would otherwise apply to state transportation funds.
fund regional priorities.

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